International Scholarships

Universität Bern – International Master’s Scholarship The Universität Bern will offer international students Excellence Scholarships for postgraduate study for the academid year 2008/09. The scholarship consists of 1600 CHF per month for the entire duration of the Master’s programme. Master’s Programmes For further information (study programmes, major, minor, etc.) about the about the Master’s programmes … [More Info]

The division Social and Industrial Ecology at the Department of Geography at the University of Zurich is starting an inter- and transdisciplinary research project entitled “Reducing human health and environmental risks from pesticide use: Integrating decision-making with spatial risk assessment models” in Vereda la Hoya, Tunja, Colombia, S.A. The successful PhD candidate will first develop … [More Info]

Postdoctoral and PhD Student Positions in Neurochoice, the University of Zurich, Switzerland SystemsX.ch, the Swiss initiative in systems biology, has initiated a new project entitled “Neurochoice: Neural Correlates of Collective Decision Making”, with principal investigators located at the Universi-ties of Zurich, Bern, and Geneva, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. One part … [More Info]

Vision Systems Physiology group (http://ltl.tkk.fi/wiki/BRU/Vision_Systems_Physiology) has funding available for a PhD or a postdoctoral student. Earlier experience about visual system or matlab programming would be helpful. We are part of Brain Research Unit at Low Temperature Laboratory in Helsinki University of Technology. The work would target cortical physiology with brain imaging and aim to understand … [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]

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]

Center for Comparative and International Studies (CIS), ETH Zurich (Switzerland) The Center for Comparative and International Studies (CIS) at ETH Zurich seeks a PhD Student (60%) interested in writing his/her PhD thesis in the context of a project on water management in the Zambezi river basin. Research area: Your PhD research will be part of … [More Info]