International Scholarships

A postdoctoral position is available for up to four years in the Air Pollution/Climate Research Group of the Swiss Federal Research Station Agroscope Reckenholz-Taenikon (ART) in Zurich led by Prof. J. Fuhrer. The position is part of an ongoing project funded by the Swiss Federal Office of Environment. The aim is to investigate the interactive … [More Info]

Title Innovation and market selection: an evolutionary approach Supervisor Jean-Luc Gaffard Professor of Economics, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis and CNRS-GREDEG, Head of the Department for Research on Innovation and Competition (OFCE Centre de Recherche en Economie de Sciences-Po) Research project Aggregate productivity growth is the outcome of incumbent firms adopting new and superior techniques … [More Info]

Research Schools of Chemistry & Environment wish to appoint 6 PhD fellows in the following themes by research school, for 3 years starting on September 1st, 2008. Successful applicants will enrol at the Faculty of LIFE Sciences, University of Copenhagen, under the auspices of the specific research school. The individual research school administers a special … [More Info]

2 PhD-POSITIONS in PLANT ECOLOGY and PLANT PATHOLOGY at Technische Universität München, Freising, Germany We advertise two open PhD-positions (BAT IIa/2) within the sub-projects A6 and B5 of the Collaborative Research Center (SFB 607) “Growth and Parasite Defence” funded by the Deutsche Forschungs-gemeinschaft (DFG) since 1998. Ambitious candidates with a strong background/interest in modeling approaches, … [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]

Applications are invited from first or upper second Honours graduates in biological, ecological, environmental, soil science or other appropriate disciplines for two postgraduate research studentships in soil biology research in Ireland, commencing in September 2006. Both studentships are initially funded for two years (MSc), but may be extended by a third year (PhD). The studentships … [More Info]

Center of Industrial Economics (Cerna), Ecole Nationale Supérieure des mines de Paris (France) Cerna recently launched a 5 years research programme on “Patent reforms in Europe” with the sponsorship of international companies. It aims at contributing to a better understanding of the economic aspects of patent reforms in Europe. It will carry out and disseminate … [More Info]