International Scholarships

The Laboratory of Inorganic Synthesis and Catalysis in the Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL/ETHL/Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne), Switzerland will be created on July 1st, 2007 under the direction of Professor Xile Hu. The main goal of the laboratory is to develop transition metal based … [More Info]

Postdoctoral and PhD Student Positions in Neurochoice, the University of Zurich, Switzerland SystemsX.ch, the Swiss initiative in systems biology, has initiated a new project entitled “Neurochoice: Neural Correlates of Collective Decision Making”, with principal investigators located at the Universi-ties of Zurich, Bern, and Geneva, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. One part … [More Info]

The Theoretical Physical Chemistry Group at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL) invites applications for a Ph.D. position in theoretical chemistry and chemical physics. The preferred start date is between January and August 2008. The successful candidate will use quantum-mechanical and semiclassical methods to explain physicochemical properties … [More Info]

PhD positions: Modern Main Group Chemistry School of Chemistry, Melbourne Several PhD scholarships are available to work in the group of Professor Cameron Jones, who has recently relocated from Cardiff University to Monash University. In the past 5 years remarkable progress has been made in the chemistry of low oxidation state and low coordination number … [More Info]

METU-MEMS Center at Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara, Turkey offers two postdoctoral positions in the area of BioMEMS and microfluidics, for periods of 1-2 years, in the framework of the METU-MEMS Project funded under EU 7th Framework Programme. Assignments for Position: I. To perform fabrication of glass, PDMS, and/or parylene microfluidic channels for … [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]

The Paul Scherrer Institut is a centre for multi-disciplinary research and one of the world’s leading user laboratories. With its 1200 employees it belongs as an autonomous institution to the Swiss ETH domain and concentrates its activities on solid-state research and material sciences, elementary particle and astrophysics, energy and environmental research as well as on … [More Info]