International Scholarships

The Institute for Heat and Fuel Technology at Technical University Braunschweig seeks a Research Assistant/Ph.D. student (E13 TV-L, formerly BAT IIa) The position is vacant in the Integrated Systems group (M. Mönnigmann). Our research focuses on the development and application of numerical methods for the modeling, simulation, and optimization of nonlinear dynamical systems in the … [More Info]

The Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (www.helmholtz-hzi.de) seeks: a PhD Student for the Department of Cell Biology Code No. 25/2007 Bioinformatics and experimental investigation of a Roseobacter bacterium (finisching and manual annotation of the genome sequence, cultivation in a chemostat, transcriptome and proteome analysis. The Ph.d. project is integrated into a joint research consortium in … [More Info]

Deadline for submission: September 30, 2006 UWB (ultrawide band) signals are particularly suited for positioning and imaging of indoor environments. For UWB based navigation of autonomous systems, methods and algorithms for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) as well as procedures for the reconstruction of floor plans shall be developed. At the Chair of Information Technologies, … [More Info]

The International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) for the “Exploration of Ecological Interactions with Molecular and Chemical Techniques” in Jena, Germany, offers 15 PhD positions in molecular biology, ecology, entomology, microbiology, (bio)-chemistry, neuroethology or bioinformatics beginning in January 2009. The Research School is the first graduate school worldwide where modern chemical and molecular techniques are … [More Info]

PhD. position 1: In-situ characterization of electrodes using novel SPM methods In-situ, high temperature scanning probe microscope (SPM) measurements on solid oxide fuel cell electrodes is a new method with many perspectives for a more profound understanding of the details of the fuel cell processes, including identifying the obstacles for the ion transfer. The CAHT-SPM … [More Info]

The Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt has established a German scholarship programme to promote promising young scientists in the field of environmental protection. About 60 scholarships for postgraduates from different disciplines – mostly in chemistry, biology and engineering – are offered per annum. Scholarship applications can be submitted twice a year by 15 Feb and 15 Aug. … [More Info]

A PhD studentship is available in the Emmy Noether Group of Dr. Matthias Arenz at the Technical University of Munich in the field of Electrocatalysis and Cluster Science. In this project the influence of the particle size and the electronic structure of size-selected, supported clusters on electrocatalytic reactions will be studied by means of FTIR, … [More Info]