International Scholarships

Several Ph.D Studentships With FSEG Available The Fire Safety Engineering Group (FSEG) of the University of Greenwich, London UK is offering a number of three year PhD studentships in a range of fire and evacuation modelling application areas. A range of topics is available, the precise number of positions offered will be dependent on the … [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]

The Jena School for Microbial Communication (JSMC) is funded by the German Excellence Initiative. It conceptionally combines different research areas (microbial communities, interactions with plant, animal and human hosts and environmental interactions) to a comprehensive picture of microbial communication (www.jsmc.uni-jena.de). JSMC is an ambitious Graduate School prospectively comprising 150 PhD students who will be educated … [More Info]

Universität Zürich, Geographisches Institut, Abt. GIVA Representation of geographic relevance in mobile applications The Geographic Information Visualization and Analysis group at the University of Zurich invites applications for a doctoral research assistant position in Geographic Information Science/Geovisualization to work on a 3-year project. The highly motivated, successful applicant will be asked to develop methods for … [More Info]

Doctoral Programme in Quantitative Economics and Finance The doctoral programme gives students a firm background in the newest theoretical concepts and quantitative methods of economics and finance, in order to gain the skills needed to write a doctoral thesis in line with the highest internationally recognised standards. Aside from training in economic theory and econometrics, … [More Info]

The Department of Economics at the University of Konstanz (Germany) offers positions as Research/Teaching Assistants at the Chair of Economic Theory (Professor Leo Kaas). The positions last for a period of three years and start October 1st 2008. The successful candidates are expected to participate in a research project on “Growth and volatility with endogenous … [More Info]

The Biomedical Research Institute (BIOMED) of Hasselt University has a position available for a PhD Student for the project “Development and Characterisation of Fluorescent Molecularly Imprinted Polymers for Nanotechnology and Applications in Advanced Electronic Devices, Chemo- and Bio-sensors”. This project runs in close collaboration with the Institute for Materials Research (IMO). The duration of the … [More Info]