The successful candidate should have received a PhD within the last five years in geosciences or a related field. Fellowships are initially limited to a term of two years and will start in fall or winter 2008. After a successful evaluation a prolongation by one year is possible. Salary and benefits are linked to the German employee scale 13 TVL. International candidates are highly encouraged to apply. Applications should include a CV, a list of publications, a research proposal describing research interests, contact information for 3 referees and completed application form (available from www.marum.de/Jobs.html). MARUM Fellows are expected to develop their own research program within the scientific framework provided by MARUM; proposals targeting research between boundaries of individual research groups at MARUM are encouraged. MARUM Fellows will be integrated in a stimulating and supportive environment that provides ideal conditions for scientific growth.

As the University of Bremen intends to increase the proportion of female employees in science, women are particularly encouraged to apply.

In case of equal personal aptitudes and qualification priority will be given to disabled persons.

Applications and inquiries should be directed to Achim Kopf electronically (akopf[a-t]uni-bremen.de) under the reference number A 66/08.Deadline for applications is June 10, 2008.

• [Germany] PhD Studentships at the Graduate School of Social Sciences (GSSS), University of Bremen
• [Germany] PhD Grants at International Graduate School for Dynamics in Logistics, Universität Bremen
• [Germany] PhD Studentships at The Graduate School of Social Sciences (GSSS), The University of Bremen
• [Canada] Post Doctoral Position in Ocean Data Assimilation
• [Germany] The International Max Planck Research School on Earth System Modelling

Applicants preferably have:

• a PhD degree and at least three years of post-doctoral experience
• publications in international top journals of legal research
• proof of independence and international recognition
• experience in various working environments, for example a postdoc period abroad
• experience in acquiring external funding
• a research proposal with a clear vision of future legal research
• teaching experience
• organizational qualities and communication skills
• presently a position outside this faculty.

Successful candidates will set up their own research project(s) in the area of their choice, including funds to support a PhD project, and will be expected to attract external funding. They will also contribute to the international teaching programmes within the faculty.
The fellowship, of at most five years, comprises a salary in the range of a university teacher, and a holiday allowance of 8%. The salary and the duration of the fellowship depend on experience and qualifications.

Following a favorable evaluation after at most five years, the fellow will be awarded tenure and promotion to the rank of Associate Professor, including the ius promovendi. After a further five years another evaluation will take place and if this proves favorable, a full professorship will be awarded. The period after which tenure and full professorship will be awarded is at most five years each, but may be influenced by academic results of the fellow before and during the fellowship.

Additional information about the fellowship can be obtained from prof.dr. L.C.A. Verstappen, dean of the Faculty of Law, e-mail address: l.c.a.verstappen[ at ]rug.nl, Prof.dr. O. Couwenberg, vice-dean of the Faculty of Law, e-mail address: o.couwenberg[ at ]rug.nl, and dr. J. Houtman, administrative director of the Research School Centre for Law, Administration and Society (Centrum voor Recht, Bestuur en Samenleving – CRBS), e-mail address: j.houtman[ at ]rug.nl.

As an applicant, you are requested to submit:

1. your curriculum vitae, including a complete list of publications
2. up to five keywords describing your research area
3. a three-to-five page statement of your research accomplishments and your future research goals
4. a letter of motivation

Applications should be sent to:
University of Groningen, Personnel and Organization Department
P.O. Box 72,
9700 AB Groningen
The Netherlands
E-mail address: vmp@rug.nl

You are invited to apply before March 1st 2008; when applying for this fellowships always mention RFF-FRG. Candidates employed by the Faculty of Law of the University of Groningen are eligible for a Rosalind Franklin fellowship within this Faculty only if appointed in temporary, non-tenure track positions and if they have had at least two years of employment outside this Faculty.

For further information please visit official website

• [Netherlands] PhD Assistanship in Mathematics, University of Groningen
• [Netherlands] PhD studentship in Microbiology, University of Groningen
• [Ireland] Postgraduate Scholarships in Theology and Religious Studies – Mary Immaculate College
• [Netherlands] PhD Position in Vegetation Dynamics – University of Groningen
• [Netherlands] PhD position in Microbial Ecology – University of Groningen

Fellowship Programme 2008-2009

The IAS-STS in Graz, Austria, promotes the interdisciplinary investigation of the links and interactions between science, technology and society as well as technology assessment and research into the development and implementation of socially and environmentally sound technologies. The IAS-STS invites researchers to apply for a stay between 1 October 2008 and 30 June 2009 as

• Research Fellow (up to nine months) or as
• Visiting Scholar (shorter period, e.g. a month)

The IAS-STS offers excellent research infrastructure. Close co-operation with researchers at the IFZ (Inter-University Research Centre for Technology, Work and Culture; see: www.ifz.tugraz.at), guest lectures, workshops and conferences provide an atmosphere of creativity and scholarly discussion.Furthermore we can offer five grants (up to EUR 1,000 per month) for long-term Research Fellows (up to nine months) at the IAS-STS.

The Fellowship Programme 2008-2009 is dedicated to projects investigating the following issues:

1. Gender – Technology – Environment
Women with their various interests, competencies and potentials play an important part in the process of shaping socially sound and environmentally friendly sustainable technologies – as users and consumers or experts. Applications should focus on research in the field of women in traditionally male fields of engineering, on ways of creating cultures of success for women engineers (students, graduates), and on masculinity and the culture of engineering.

2. New Genetics and Modern Biotechnology
A focus of the Fellowship Programme lies on research providing a critical analysis either of human genetic research or of modern biotechnology. Researchers investigating either ethical, legal and social aspects of genetic testing in the medical domain or risk policy and wider governance issues related to agricultural biotechnology are especially encouraged to apply.

3. Technology Studies and Sustainability
Fellowships will be awarded for research projects contributing to the issue of sustainable development from the perspective of social studies or the history and philosophy of science and technology. Projects should aim at socio-economic aspects of environmental technologies or at strategies of environmental technology policy, such as user participation, strategic niche management or ecological product policy. We encourage both theoretical analysis as well as empirical case studies and implementation research. As a special grant within this thematical focus the Manfred-Heindler-grant for research projects on the increased use of renewable energies and on a more efficient use of energy will be awarded.

4. Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
A focus of the Fellowship Programme will be put on novel developments based on ICT from an STS point of view. Topics like ICT and agency, ubiquitous computing or ICT and mobility shall be analysed with respect to their wider social and political implications. Further issues of interest are the social shaping of ICT developments, innovation policies, risk management and participatory approaches to the design of ICT systems and applications.

Applications must be submitted to the IAS-STS by 31 December 2007.

For application forms and further information:
Please visit our website: www.sts.tugraz.at

Institute for Advanced Studies on Science, Technology and Society (IAS-STS)
Attn. Günter Getzinger
Kopernikusgasse 9
8010 Graz – Austria
E-mail: info@sts.tugraz.at

Deadline: 31 December 2007

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• [Austria] IIASA Young Scientists Summer Program 2008
• [Japan] The United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies seeks PhD& Postdoctoral Fellowships – Sustainable Development
• [Austria] Postgraduate Programme in Political Science / European Integration
• [USA] 2008-2009 IBM Herman Goldstine Memorial Postdoctoral Fellowship
• [Austria] Scholarship Opportunities, Webster University Vienna

Eligibility
Candidates for the Yerby Postdoctoral Fellowship Program must have a doctoral degree. To achieve the goal of increasing the diversity of academic public health, candidates must also be members of minority groups underrepresented in public health or first-generation college graduates. Application Information To qualify for consideration, applicants must submit a completed application that includes the following:

• Statement of professional objectives in academic public health, including a description of how these objectives would be advanced by research opportunities at hsph
• Proposal for research to be undertaken during the fellowship
• Curriculum vitae
• Three letters of recommendation
• Official doctoral transcripts
• Sample publication In addition, applicants are welcome to suggest the names of faculty members with whom they might wish to be affiliated.

The yerby postdoctoral fellowship program draws on the rich research environment and intellectual resources of one of the world’s premier public health training institutions. Named for Dr. Alonzo Smythe Yerby, an African-American pioneer in public health, this initiative is geared toward expanding the diversity of those entering academic public health. The program creates a bridge between academic training in health-related disciplines and entry-level faculty positions at institutions throughout the United States.

The goal of the program is to advance the intellectual and professional development of each Yerby fellow. Under the guidance of a senior hsph faculty member with compatible interests, fellows develop their research agendas, gain experience in publishing papers in peer-reviewed journals and obtaining grant support, participate in a variety of professional development workshops, and increase their teaching expertise. Yerby fellows receive a competitive salary with benefits for one year, renewable for a second year. Up to five new fellowships are awarded annually.

Areas of Training
Fellowship training is available throughout the broad range of the school’s activities—laboratory sciences, population sciences, and social and policy sciences. Fellows have a home within one of the school’s nine academic departments:

• Biostatistics
• Environmental Health
• Epidemiology
• Genetics and Complex Diseases
• Health Policy and Management
• Immunology and Infectious Diseases
• Nutrition
• Population and International Health
• Society, Human Development, and Health

The application deadline is December 15 of each year. If December 15 falls on a weekend or holiday, the deadline is the next working day. Application forms are available at http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/academicaffairs/yerby.htm

Brochure (PDF)
Application Form

For further information, please contact Betty Johnson at bljohnso -#- hsph.harvard.edu, Director

Phone: (617) 496-8064
Fax: (617) 495-8543

Harvard School of Public Health
Landmark Center
401 Park Drive
Boston, MA 02215

• [USA] The Kokkalis Fellowship for Master Degree at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard
• [USA] Postdoctoral Fellow in Low Temperature Physics, Harvard University
• [USA] Harvard Academy For International and Area Studies, The Academy Scholars Program
• [USA] PhD Studentship in Speech Communication
• [USA] Fellowships in Sustainability Science Center for International Development, Harvard University

The fellowship is aimed to the execution of the following research programme: Processes of self-assembly of hybrid metallic-supramolecular architectures and Methodologies for tuning the properties of the single molecole in a supramolecular ensemble at surfaces.

Requirements
To see the complete vacancy announcement visit the following website.

Applicants must be young researchers (early stage researchers):

• with a university degree giving access to PhD studies as defined in article 1 of the vacancy,
• who are in the first four years of their research activity since gaining the university degree or the equivalent qualification;
• who have not yet obtained a PhD degree.

Background in Surface science techniques will be an asset.

Benefits
Employment contract of 12 months (renewable up to a maximum of further 24 months) that will have a yearly gross amount of EUR 30.033,00 inclusive of all the fiscal and social security taxes. Moreover, the Marie Curie fellow will receive an additional contribution, which includes all fiscal and social security deductions – if due -, for the following items: travel allowance, mobility allowance and career exploratory allowance, which will be defined according to his/her geographical and family situation.

Application
Please see the official announcement for application information. Mail your application to:

University of Catania
Department of Chemical Sciences
Viale A. Doria, 6
Catania, 95125 ITALY

For further questions, please contact gmarletta[ at ]unict.it

Application deadline: September 15, 2007

• [Italy] Summer Course in Mathematics, University of Perugia
• [Italy] PhD Scholarships in Business and Economics, University of Venice
• [Italy] Funded Doctoral Programme in Economics and Management, The University of Trento
• [Canada] The Bentley Cropping System Fellowship
• [Italy] PhD Fellowships at International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB)

The scholarship period may vary from 3 to 12 months. The monthly allowance is 810-1 200 euros (in 2006). The scholarship is intended to cover living expenses in Finland for a single person. No additional allowance for housing is paid. Expenses due to international travel to and from Finland are not covered by CIMO.

How to apply?
The prerequisite for applying is that the visiting researcher must have established contacts with the Finnish host university. The Finnish university department wishing to host him or her applies to CIMO for the grant.

Applications should be submitted at least 3 months before the intended scholarship period. Please note that although the application form is in Finnish, Swedish and English the guidelines are only in Finnish as it is the Finnish host department who applies for the grant to CIMO.

For more information, please visit the official website.

• [Japan] The United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies seeks PhD& Postdoctoral Fellowships – Sustainable Development
• [Finland] PhD Studentship in Optoelectronics at the Department of Physics, the University of Kuopio
• [Australia] Monash Fellowships 2008, Monash University
• [Finland] PhD Student Positions in Analysis, University of Oulu
• [Finland] PhD Studentships in Biochemistry at University of Oulu

The more details about LORNET project can be found from http://www.lornet.org. The information about SIAT and SFU is available at http://www.siat.sfu.ca

All inquiries and application should be forwarded to LORNET Theme leader Dr. Marek Hatala (details below). The review of the applications will begin June 5, 2007 and continue until the position is filled.

Contact:
Dr. Marek Hatala
Theme Leader, LORNET Project
Director of Laboratory for Ontological Research
Associate Professor, School of Interactive Arts and Technology
Simon Fraser University
250-13450 102 Ave., Surrey, BC V3T 0A3, CANADA
Email: mhatala@sfu.ca, Web: http://www.sfu.ca/~mhatala/
Phone: 1.778.782.7431, Fax: 1.778.782.7488

• [Canada] Postdoctoral Fellow in Developmental Child Psychology, Université Laval
• [Canada] The Bentley Cropping System Fellowship
• [Canada] Postdoctoral Fellowship in Signal Processing and Hearing Aids at University of Ottawa
• [Canada] Postdoctoral Position in Numerical Linear Algebra at University of British Columbia
• [Canada] Postdoctoral Position in Retinal and Early Eye Development, University of Victoria