International Scholarships

Full-time PhD Studentship in Microbiology – Discrimination of Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria Faculty of Health & Life Sciences Applications are invited for a fully funded three-year PhD studentship starting in October 2008. The studentship includes a bursary of £12,600 per annum (tax-free) for three years and all tuition fees. Candidates should hold a good first degree … [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]

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]

PhD position (RUG): The objectives of project 1 are to assess the functional and structural prokaryote diversity of soil under potato (baseline) and to establish sensitive bacterial and archaeal bioindicators on the basis of molecular tools. Prokarya interacting with local fungi will also be studied. The effects of the presence of transgenes in potato will … [More Info]

Seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow to work with the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the Uniformed Services University in Bethesda, MD. Responsible for initiating and carrying out research projects in collaboration with a research team. Assists in designing, developing, executing, and implementing scientific research and/or development. Investigates the feasibility of applying a wide variety of … [More Info]

Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science The faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS) is known world wide for its high academic quality and social relevance of its research programs. The faculty’s excellent facilities accentuate its international position in teaching and research. The faculty offers an interdisciplinary setting for its 500 employees, 350 … [More Info]

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]