International Scholarships

The Faculty of Economics of the University of Lugano, Switzerland, opens an assistant position in Accounting & Financial Management, starting in Fall 2008. The main responsibility will be to support the teaching of accounting and valuation courses and to assist empirical research projects particularly in the field of corporate governance. It is encouraged that the … [More Info]

Postdoc project “Hedge funds: tail event behaviour and absolute alphas” ICEF – International Center of Economics and Finance Department of Economics University of Venice (Italy) The ICEF (http://www.dse.unive.it/en/centers-partners/icef/) conducts international research in the fields of Finance, Economics and Financial Econometrics. It also provides academic courses in these areas and organize the International Master in Economics … [More Info]

The PhD student will use process integration methods and tools to identify options for improving the energy efficiency of process plants for production of synthetic natural gas (also called bio-methane) from gasified biomass. The work will proceed in close collaboration with Göteborg Energi and other research groups active in the field of biomass gasification. The … [More Info]

Ph.D. student Global Environmental Measurements, Department of Radio and Space Science The Global environmental measurements group at the Department of Radio and Space Science seeks a PhD student to work with data from the Swedish led Odin satellite and the ESA ENVISAT instruments. The project will involve both data analysis and modelling work with emphasis … [More Info]

Chalmers University of Technology and Volvo Technology announce an open PhD research student position in the field of: “Telematics Software Engineering” Vehicle telematics combines information technology, wireless telecommunication and in-vehicle electronics in order to improve safety, transportation efficiency, driver comfort and the environment. The trends of vehicle telematics indicate that corporate services like vehicle logging, … [More Info]

Today integrated circuits exhibit rapidly increasing power dissipation due to static leakage in idle circuits. Innovative device technology on its own does not provide scalable leakage-problem solutions that manage to keep up with increasing device density. Leakage already now can present insurmountable design obstacles to energy-limited embedded Systems-On-Chips. To pave the way for future, dense … [More Info]

The position is with the Division for Communication Systems which belongs to the Department of Signals and Systems. The division pursues advanced research in wireless and fiber optical communication links and systems. The researchers have participated in developing 3G (WCDMA) and took part in the first demonstration of communication via ultra-wideband (UWB) in Europe (in … [More Info]