International Scholarships

Information literacy and privacy: Combining context, mining and simulation for technology-enhanced learning Promotor: Pierre Verbaeten Description: We have a 4-year open position for a junior researcher working towards a Ph.D. degree in computer science. This research fits within the intersection of the research areas data and databases, knowledge discovery, privacy, and technology-enhanced learning. The objective … [More Info]

PhD position in (Applied) Statistics Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (Germany) The Courant Research Centre “Poverty, Equity and Growth in Developing and Transition Countries: Statistical Methods and Empirical Analyses” at the University of Göttingen invites applications for a PhD position in (Applied) Statistics. The position is available October 1, 2008, fixed for 3 years and has no teaching … [More Info]

PhD or Postdoc position for meteorological modelling We are currently seeking a scientist for meso/microscale simulations. The work is part of the DFG priority programme ‘Quantitative precipitation forecast’ (http://www.meteo.uni-bonn.de/projekte/SPPMeteo). The main goal of the project is to examine the influence of the orography and surface conditions associated with mesoscale mountains for convection. The simulations will … [More Info]

The Institute of Remote Sensing and Environmental Physics (IFE/IUP) at the Physics department of the University of Bremen offers a PhD position for 3 years with payment according to TV-L 13 /2 for a PhD on the topic of Development and verification of profile retrieval algorithms to analyse ground-based UV/vis measurements The Institute of Environmental … [More Info]

A three years Ph. D. position is available in the DFG-project “Interactions of the tropical Indian Ocean and the tropical Atlantic Ocean with ENSO” (keyword: TROIA) The IFM-GEOMAR is one of the world wide leading institutes for marine and climate science. The institute has one of its main research foci on the role of the … [More Info]

The research group “Development and Disease” (Prof. Dr. Stefan Mundlos) at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics / Institute for Medical Genetics, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin offers a position for a PhD-Student (BAT IIa/2) The position is available from April 2007 until June 2009 (extension until December 2010 envisaged). Our research focuses on the … [More Info]

Postdoc Position at the Simulation and Optimization Group of the Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR), University of Heidelberg, Germany The “Simulation and Optimization Group”, headed by Prof. Dr. Hans Georg Bock, is searching for a Postdoc with a strong background in numerical differential equations, numerical optimization or numerical optimal control. The research focus will … [More Info]