International Scholarships

The Department of Organization and Industrial Sociology invites applications for a vacant PhD scholarship within the following research area: Framing markets for energy technologies – The role of economic tools in defining and qualifying the value of different energy technologies The proposed project will make a comparative and empirical study of the role of economic … [More Info]

The PhD student will use process integration methods and tools to identify options for improving the energy efficiency of process plants for production of synthetic natural gas (also called bio-methane) from gasified biomass. The work will proceed in close collaboration with Göteborg Energi and other research groups active in the field of biomass gasification. The … [More Info]

A PhD scholarship in sociology is available in the EUROSPHERE project at Unifob Global. The PhD scholar will have his/her workplace at Unifob Global / Department of Sociology. The duration of engagement is four years, starting from 1 September 2007. EUROSPHERE ”Diversity and the European Public Sphere: Towards a Citizens’ Europe” is an integrated project … [More Info]

The project goal is a defined chemical modification of polymeric walls in small cavities of nanoliter size by low temperature plasma. Your aim will be to optimize the means of the energy coupling into the plasma, gas composition, its pressure and flow. The feedback for the optimization will be provided by suitable plasma diagnostics and … [More Info]

Within the Membrane Technology Group at the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Twente, we have a PhD position for a project entitled: “Membranes for Electrochemical Energy Storage Devices” The Ph.D project focuses on the development of membranes and different membrane configurations and the integration of the membrane with the catalytic layers … [More Info]

Deadline : 31 Octobre 2006 The Department of Nuclear and Particle Physics and the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, are opening a Ph. D student position related to a European project in the field of the history of Astroparticle physics. The candidate is expected to collect and … [More Info]

This project is a joint research effort undertaken by the University of Potsdam in cooperation with the NGO Germanwatch, the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, the Potsdam-Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), and the European Climate Forum (ECF). The project is scheduled to last for … [More Info]