International Scholarships

The departments of Earth Sciences and Environmental Sciences are currently looking for 2 PhD students (AIO) (f/m) for the High Potential Programme granted by the Utrecht University: Global Change and Hurricanes. The research of the departments is part of the Copernicus Institute for Sustainable Development and Innovation and of the Organic Geochemistry group from the … [More Info]

Soil carbon stock changes and greenhouse gas fluxes in forest ecosystems Centre for Hydrology, Micrometeorology and Climate Change Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University College Cork, Ireland Duration: 4 years. Value of Studentship: Approx. €18,000 per annum (plus fees). Tax-exempt. Closing Date: Friday 16 March 2007 The successful applicant will investigate the following: (i) … [More Info]

The Geography Department and Coastal and Marine Resources Centre of University College Cork, Ireland, have two funded research studentships available to commence in October 2008. The studentships cover university fees at the EU level, and an annual stipend. The PhD project aims to address issues of the use of Geoinformatics technologies for predicting the effects … [More Info]

Erasmus MC PhD Studentship Molecular Biology and Genetics Department of Forensic Molecular Biology A 4 year PhD student position in molecular biology and genetics is available in the Department of Forensic Molecular Biology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. The general area of research is in identifying and understanding human individual and population differences … [More Info]

Doctoral Assistantships for Georgia Tech Research Initiative in Planning and Climate Change City and Regional Planning Program The Georgia Tech City and Regional Planning Program is pleased to announce a new Program-wide research initiative in planning and climate change. This initiative builds on current Program research in areas such as land use and greenhouse gas … [More Info]

4-year PhD studentship on “Exploring the secret metabolism of an antibiotic factory” This project will be a unique collaboration between the Microbial Physiology department and the Groningen Bioinformatics Centre using a newly acquired state-of art ultra-high resolution LTQ-Orbitrap mass spectrometer in the Medical Biomics Facility to determine the metabolome of Streptomyces coelicolor. Project objectives (1) … [More Info]

There is a studentship available to carry out a PhD at the Kapteyn Institute, University of Groningen, to do observational research on black holes (BH). The goal of the PhD project is to obtain robust measurements of BH spins, both for stellar-mass BHs in our Galaxy, and super-massive BHs at the center of active galactic … [More Info]