International Scholarships

The Distributed and Embedded Systems and Information Systems research groups of the University of Twente collaborate with a number of industrial partners in the VISPER project. In this project, we investigate modelling and developing a virtual security perimeter across the digital, physical, and organisational domains. We will investigate how re-perimeterisation affects the digital domain (where … [More Info]

The Centre is a Centre of Excellence (CoE) under the scheme initiated by The Research Council of Norway to enable Norwegian research groups to carry on long-term, basic research at a high international standard. The Centre has around 35 scientists including professors, postdocs, PhD. candidates and visiting professors/scholars. The Centre deals with Quality of Service … [More Info]

The development and analysis of numerical methods along with the relevant theoretical foundations for a wide range of problem classes is a central research area at the IGPM (Institut f�r Geometrie und Praktische Mathematik). These activities are closely intertwined with current interdisciplinary research projects with partners from engineering sciences, e.g., Collaborative Research Center CRC540 “Model-based … [More Info]

The Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS) invites applications to its Ph.D. and Post-doc program. The program is funded by the German Excellence Initiative and will commence in September 2008. BIGSSS is an inter-university institute of the University of Bremen (UB) and Jacobs University. BIGSSS builds on the experience and institutional structure of … [More Info]

PhD or Postdoc position for meteorological modelling We are currently seeking a scientist for meso/microscale simulations. The work is part of the DFG priority programme ‘Quantitative precipitation forecast’ (http://www.meteo.uni-bonn.de/projekte/SPPMeteo). The main goal of the project is to examine the influence of the orography and surface conditions associated with mesoscale mountains for convection. The simulations will … [More Info]

The Organic Electronics Group at University of California, Los Angeles (http://yylabs.seas.ucla.edu:81/) is seeking applications from qualified candidates for postdoc positions to work on organic electronic devices such as memory, solar cells and thin film transistors. Prospective candidates should have a PhD in electrical engineering, materials science, physics or associated fields, with solid background in electronic … [More Info]

The Biosystems Analysis Group has an immediate opening in the techno-economic analysis of biofuel production systems based on biochemical conversion of lignocellulosic biomass. This full time position is focused on evaluating the economic and environmental sustainability of systems of technology for the production of lignocellulosic biomass and its conversion to alcohols and other valuable co-products. … [More Info]