International Scholarships

Description: A PhD Studentship is available within Department of Chemical/Biochemical Engineering at the University of Western Ontario (UWO) to carry out research in the area of fuel-ethanol production from lignocellulosic materials. The successful candidate will be enrolled in the PhD Program in Chemical Engineering at UWO, supervised by Dr. Jesse Zhu, while most of the … [More Info]

PhD Studentship: Dorothy Hodgkin Postgraduate Award Modelling Rupture of CO2 Pipelines Department of Chemical Engineering Reducing carbon dioxide emissions is considered to be the most effective way of tackling the effects of global warming. This will require the large-scale capture, transportation and storage of CO2. In the case of coal fired power generation plants, pressurised … [More Info]

An EPSRC DTA PhD Research Studentship is available within the Centre for Process Analytics and Control Technology in the School of Chemical Engineering and Advanced Materials to carry out research in the area of predictive modeling, advanced data analysis and model-based scale-up as part of a European Integrated Research Project in Bioproduction and in particular … [More Info]

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]

Engineering Doctorate (EngD) in Environmental Technology Improving the assessment of the health aspects of odour exposure within industrial conurbations and industry sectors School of EngineeringThe EngD is a 4-year postgraduate studentship conducting research on the sponsor’s project whilst based at the sponsor’s premises. It is EPSRC’s* premier research qualification and the programme includes 15 short … [More Info]

International Max Planck Research School “Ecological Interactions” Project 7: How do wood-feeding insects digest their diet? Supervisors: Prof. Jonathan Gershenzon, Dr. Axel Schmidt, Dr. Martin Kaltenpoth, MPI-CE Wood-feeding insects are sometimes known to use microbial symbionts present in their guts to help in digestion and nutrient mobilization. However, nothing is known about how such insects … [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]