International Scholarships

The Environmental Policy Group is an internationally leading and dynamic centre of expertise in the environmental social sciences. Theoretical and empirical research and undergraduate and post-graduate education are focused on the following themes: sustainable production and consumption; (inter)national environmental policies and politics; nature and natural resource governance. We cooperate in research and education with other … [More Info]

The Surface Mechanics and Tribology research group is one of the most active in the School of Engineering and Design, well established nationally and internationally for research in the fields of surface engineering, wear, gears and thin film lubrication. The research project is sponsored by SKF, leading global supplier of products, solutions and services in … [More Info]

Today integrated circuits exhibit rapidly increasing power dissipation due to static leakage in idle circuits. Innovative device technology on its own does not provide scalable leakage-problem solutions that manage to keep up with increasing device density. Leakage already now can present insurmountable design obstacles to energy-limited embedded Systems-On-Chips. To pave the way for future, dense … [More Info]

The department of Air Chemistry, Radical Measurements Group offers the following position Postdoctoral Research Position on Airborne Measurements of Atmospheric Nitric Dioxide by Laser-Induced Fluorescence For the assessment of the photochemical processing that occurs in an air mass, high-sensitivity measurements of reactive nitrogen species are a necessity. Laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) is already being used in … [More Info]

The Institute of Remote Sensing and Environmental Physics (IFE/IUP) at the Physics department of the University of Bremen offers a PhD position for 3 years with payment according to TV-L 13 /2 for a PhD on the topic of Development and verification of profile retrieval algorithms to analyse ground-based UV/vis measurements The Institute of Environmental … [More Info]

PhD position Agrotechnology & Food Science Group (Gelderland), 38 hours per week Job description We are offering a PhD research project on the properties and behaviour of novel, protein-inspired biopolymers with block structure: self-assembly, micellization, gel formation, conformations etc. as a function of physicochemical parameters. The polymers are biosynthesized through fermentation by gmo’s (yeasts) containing … [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]