PhD - Farmacología & Neurociencia

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

España

Descripción

Se ofrece contrato laboral para realizar una Tesis Doctoral dentro del -Programa de Doctorado de Farmacología y Fisiología- de la UAM con -Mención hacia la Excelencia- concedido por el Ministerio de Educación.

Area de trabajo: Receptores y canales iónicos que contribuyen al proceso de exocitosis: implicación en enfermedades neurodegenerativas.

Técnicas experimentales: “Patch-clamp”, amperometría, fluorimetría, inmunocitoquímica.

PhD - Instrumentación espacial

AEGORA (Astronomía Espacial y Gestión Óptima de Recursos Astronómicos)

España

Descripción

El grupo de investigación AEGORA (Astronomía Espacial y Gestión Óptima de Recursos Astronómicos) en el marco de la convocatoria de ayudas para contratos predoctorales de FPU, publicada en el BOE de 21/11/2013, ofrece la posibilidad de realizar una tesis doctoral enmarcada en el proyecto del Observatorio Espacial Mundial de Ultravioleta.

Título del Trabajo: Instrumento de imagen ultravioleta ISSIS para el Observatorio Espacial Mundial de Ultravioleta (WSO-UV).

WSO-UV es un proyecto internacional liderado por la Agencia Espacial de la Federacion Rusa (ROSCOSMOS) y desarrollado para garantizar el acceso al rango ultravioleta (UV) una vez que la vida del Telescopio Espacial Hubble llegue a su fin. Este telescopio espacial de 170 cm que será lanzado al final de esta década ha sido concebido como un observatorio para la formación de imágenes y espectroscopia astronómica. España está desarrollando en su totalidad ISSIS, uno de los tres instrumentos de los que constará el WSO-UV.

El desarrollo de nueva instrumentación espacial para aplicaciones científicas, como es el caso de ISSIS, conlleva la definición de objetivos concretos a alcanzar con los nuevos instrumentos (nuevos retos que no hayan sido alcanzados con misiones espaciales anteriores y avanzar en áreas del conocimiento poco o nada exploradas en el pasado).

El investigador predoctoral en formación participará en las tareas de diseño y construcción de ISSIS, así como en la definición y en el desarrollo de los test de verificación del instrumento.

Enlace: www.wso-uv.org y www.wso-uv.es

Incorporación a un un grupo líder internacional en la astronomía UV y con experiencia en observación y calibración de datos de misiones espaciales UV. Trabajo en un grupo muy dinámico. Desarrollo de labores de investigación, en diversos centros internacionales de gran prestigio (impulsores de misiones espaciales como Hubble, GALEX...).

PostDoc / PhD - Biochemical and functional analysis of Cyplasin

IBMC

Porto, Portugal

Description

One position is open for the recruitment of a highly motivated research fellow with PhD or Master degrees to work on the  project "Biochemical and functional analysis of Cyplasin, a cancer cytotoxic protein from the marine slug Aplysia punctata", funded by “Cyplasin Biomedical Ltd.”, under a research fellowship contract with Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular (IBMC, Porto, Portugal) and the groups of Chromosome Instability & Dynamics and Protein Crystallography.

PhD & Postdoc positions - several projects

Initial Training Network for Digital Cultural Heritage

Several projects in Europe

Description

Call for 16 PhD-Fellowships and 4 Post-Doc Positions in the area of Digital Cultural Heritage.

All the calls available under www.itn-dch.eu

The “Initial Training Network for Digital Cultural Heritage: Projecting our Past to the Future” with acronym ITN-DCH ( www.itn-dch.eu), is the first and one of the largest Marie Curie fellowship projects in the area of the e-documentation / e-preservation and Cultural Heritage (CH) protection funded by the European Union under the FP7 PEOPLE research framework (http://ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions/ ). The Project started on the 1st of October 2013 and it is a consortium comprising of 14 full partners and 9 associate members covering the entire spectrum of European CH actors, ranging from academia, research institutions, industry, museums, archives and libraries. The project aims to train 20 fellows (16 Early Stage Researchers and 4 Experienced Researchers – 500 person months) in the area of CH digital documentation, preservation and protection in order to create for them a strong academic profile and market oriented skills which will significantly contribute to their career prospects. The consortium and the fellows training programme will be supported by a prestigious advisory board.

ITN-DCH aims -for the first time worldwide- to analyze, design, research, develop and validate an innovative multidisciplinary and inter-sectorial research training framework that covers the entire lifecycle of digital CH research for a cost– effective preservation, documentation, protection and presentation of cultural heritage. CH is an integral element of Europe and vital for the creation of a common European identity and one of the greatest assets for steering Europe’s social, economic development and job creation. However, the current research training activities in CH are fragmented and mostly design to be of a single discipline, failing to cover the whole lifecycle of Digital Cultural Heritage (DCH) research, which is by nature a multi-disciplinary and inter-sectorial research agenda. ITN-DCH targets all aspects of CH ranging from tangible (books, newspapers, images, drawings, manuscripts, uniforms, maps, artefacts, archaeological sites, monuments) to intangible content (e.g., music, performing arts, folklore, theatrical performances) and their inter-relationships. The project aims to boost the added value of CH assets by re-using them in real application environments (protection of CH, education, tourism industry, advertising, fashion, films, music, publishing, video games and TV) through research on (i) new personalized, interactive, mixed and augmented reality enabled e-services, (ii) new recommendations in data acquisition, (iii) new forms of representations (3D/4D) of both tangible /intangible assets and (iv) interoperable metadata forms that allow easy data exchange and  archiving.

The ITN-DCH project is seeking highly motivated and valuable researchers for PhD positions in the entire field of Digital Heritage, such as: Data Acquisition (Photogrammetry, Terrestrial laser scanning, GIS) and Computer Vision data processing, 3D reconstruction and modeling, symbolic, semantic and ontology representation, metadata, mixed and augmented reality technologies, CH e-services. All the fellows are supposed to travel between the project partners and attend a series of complementary training courses, scientific workshops and summer schools.

PhD - Cáncer hereditario

Instituto Catalán de Oncologia, IDIBELL

Barcelona, España

Descripción

Se busca candidato/a para realizar tesis doctoral en el estudio de factores genéticos de predisposición al cáncer.

Ofrecemos:

•Proyectos altamente competitivos y de relevancia internacional en el campo del cáncer hereditario.

•Proyectos financiados por agencias públicas y privadas.

•Equipamiento de última generación en el laboratorio y en el Instituto.

•Colaboraciones con grupos gran relevancia en el campo, nacionales e internacionales.

•Reuniones de grupo, lab meetings, journal clubs y  seminarios internos semanales, asistencia a cursos y congresos, etc.

•Relación bi-direccional con clínicos (obtención de muestras y translación de resultados a la práctica clínica).

•Equipo joven y comunicativo, a la vez que productivo y competitivo internacionalmente.

•Buen ambiente en el laboratorio.

PhD - Astrophysics

University of Leicester

United Kingdom

Description

Several research council funded studentships will be available from Autumn 2014 at the University of Leicester for promising potential PhD students in observational and theoretical astrophysics and space science.

Research areas with projects available include high-energy astrophysics, transient searches, galaxy evolution, planet formation and exoplanet studies.

PhD - Grafeno y otros materiales compuestos

Instituto de Carboquímica (CSIC)

Zaragoza, España

Plazo límite: 10 de Marzo de 2014.

Descripción

Se busca candidato para solicitar una de las subvenciones de contratación de personal investigador predoctoral en Aragón para la obtención del titulo de doctor.

El candidato se incorporará al grupo de nanoestructuras de carbono y nanotecnología del Instituto de Carboquímica del CSIC en Zaragoza.  (http://www.icb.csic.es/index.php?id=g-cnn) .

El Plazo de solicitud finaliza el 10 de marzo.

El tema de la tesis será "materiales avanzados basados en grafeno y derivados: síntesis procesado y aplicaciones". Se estudiarán los procesos de obtención de grafeno, funcionalización, y de preparación de materiales compuestos con polímeros conductores electroactivos, y de materiales híbridos con nanopartículas metálicas. Se caracterizarán los materiales por técnicas microscópicas,  espectroscópicas y electroquímicas, y se estudiará su procesado en forma de películas transparentes conductoras para aplicaciones ópticas.

PhD - Chronic mental illness

Universidad de Santiago de Compostela

Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Closing date: 22nd February 2014.

Description

Exploring the DISC1-VGF connection in chronic mental illness One ESR Marie S. Curie training position is available at the CIMUS Biomedical Research Institute, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain (www.usc.es/cimus), in the team of Jesús R. Requena, as part of the Marie S. Curie Initial Training Network (ITN) InSens: (www.in-sens.eu).

Responsibilities and tasks:

The broad picture of the ITN in which this research project is embedded is to establish the molecular foundations of chronic mental illness (CMI) by elucidating the molecular mechanisms of the DISC1 pathway (Korth, 2012, Prion 6:134-41). DISC1, a protein that is truncated in a Scottish family with a high prevalence of CMI, forms insoluble aggregates in a subset of cases of mental disease (Leliveld et al. 2008, J Neurosci 28:3839-45). Following these studies, we have recently discovered that DISC1 regulates the expression of VGF, a neuropeptide precursor with potent antidepressant and neurotrophic properties (manuscript submitted). Therefore, we hypothesize that some of the roles of DISC1 deficits in mental disease might be mediated by reduced expression of VGF. In this context, we aim at investigating the molecular biology of this new member of the extended DISC1 pathway using a variety of molecular, cellular and animal tools, in close collaboration with the other groups that participate in this ITN. In particular, the applicant is expected to carry out studies to elucidate the signalling pathways connecting DISC1 and VGF, to identify VGF receptors and develop receptor agonists, and to study the effect of VGF-derived peptides and VGF receptor agonists on behavioural deficits of DISC1-deficient mouse models.

PhD - Metamaterials

University of Exeter

United Kingdom

Description

The University of Exeter invites applications for 4-year fully-funded PhD studentships as part of its EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Metamaterials. This new centre-of-excellence ,“XM2”, will act as a hub of international and industrial collaborations, training scientists and engineers with the relevant skills, knowledge and professional attributes to transform the exploitation of metamaterials across industry and academia.

We invite applications from independently-minded undergraduates that have demonstrated excellence at the undergraduate level in a relevant subject. Applicants should have an interest in electromagnetics, acoustics, nanotechnology and/or materials science, and are expected to demonstrate creativity and be open-minded to collaborative work and innovation.

Full scholarships (up to 18 per year), including a stipend to cover living expenses and fees, are available to UK students at standard EPSRC rates. A small number of these may also be available to EU and International students. Industry-orientated studentships may also include a top-up to the stipend.

Metamaterials have properties beyond those found in nature, and have found application across the electromagnetic and acoustic domains. We will run projects ranging from fundamental explorations of physics through to device design. Our students will research a wide range of metastructures spanning 10 orders of scale, from quantum considerations on the atomic scale through to plasmonics and biomimetics and the manufacture of novel composites at the nano-scale. From the control of electron spin (spintronics) and magnonics, to the centimetre and millimetre scale in both acoustics and the RF and microwave regimes.

XM2 is interdisciplinary in nature, with projects taking place across Physics and Engineering.

Our core themes are:

• Plasmonics and graphene photonics including localisation of light at the nanoscale, graphene-based detectors and sources and energy harvesting.
• Natural photonics including the exploration of metastructures and the biomimetics of natural structures.
• THz and Microwave metamaterials including tuneable structures, imaging, surface waves, absorbers, energy harvesters and antennas.
• Magnonics and magnetic metamaterials including spintronics and magnetodynamics.
• Acoustic metamaterials including airborne and SONAR, metasurfaces, composite materials and absorbers.
• Spatial transformations including the application of theory to electromagnetic and acoustic problems.
• Nanomaterials and nanocomposites including carbon-based structures and nanocellulose.

PhD - Biogeochemistry

Max Planck Institute

Jena, Germany

Description

The successful candidate will be involved primarily in a field experiment aimed at understanding the interactions between nutrient, water availability and carbon fluxes. The objective of the PhD work is to gain further understanding on the role and interaction of water/nutrient (N and P) availability in determining CO2 and water fluxes, water use efficiency, and their temporal variability at ecosystem level by combining eddy covariance with a manipulation experiment and terrestrial biosphere models. The field sites are located in Spain, with periodic visits during planned field campaigns and activities. The knowledge of a programming language or/and the experience with process-based terrestrial biosphere models will be considered an added value.

The position will be at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry (Jena, Germany) in the Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions and Experimentation Group, Biogeochemical Integration Department (http://www.bgc-jena.mpg.de/bgi/index.php/Main/HomePage).

The PhD Student will join an international team in a vibrant research environment. The successful applicant will be also encouraged to apply for admission to the International Max Planck Research School for Global Biogeochemical Cycles. This is a structured PhD program that offers thematically complementary courses as well as seminars on soft and hard skills. For detailed information, see www.imprs-gbgc.de.

PhD - Uranium melting and atomization

Technische Universität München (Germany) & AREVA-CERCA in Romans (France)

Deadline for applications is 2014-02-16.

Description

The neutron source Heinz Maier-Leibnitz (FRM II) aims to convert its operation from usage of highly enriched Uranium (HEU) to lower enriched Uranium. This program is part of world wide efforts to minimize the usage of HEU in research reactors. For this reason, a new nuclear fuel with a very high Uranium density has to be developed. 

In the past years, the working group “Hochdichte Brennstoffe” of FRM II together with its partner AREVA-CERCA in France has constructed a device to produce Uranium powder of small spherical particles with diameters of 50-100 µm. This device, which is currently a prototype, needs Uranium pins for its operation that have to be casted beforehand in a specially designed furnace. 

To enforce our team, we are looking for a Ph.D. Student to continue and expand our work in this field. Large parts of the thesis have to be carried out at AREVA-CERCA in Romans, France. The work consists of two main parts: 

• The optimization and industrialization of the Uranium casting process, or depending on the outcome, the construction of a new furnace which satisfies the pronounced safety requirements of the nuclear industry.

Therefore, a safety plan has to be developed and implement together with the French nuclear authorities.

• The optimization and industrialization of the atomization process. This includes a design review, parameterization of the proto-type, process modelling, automation and more. Again, this has to be carried out in accordance with the French nuclear regulations.

PhD - Astronomy & astrophysics

The Astrophysics Group at Keele University

United Kingdom

Closing Date: 28th February 2014

Description

The Astrophysics Group at Keele University has several funded studentships (STFC/Keele funding) in astronomy/astrophysics to start in September 2014.

Possible projects include (title, main supervisor):

- Transiting extra-solar planets with WASP-South, Prof Coel Hellier.

- High-resolution imaging of transiting planet host stars, Dr John Taylor (Southworth).

- Nuclear astrophysics: impact and sensitivity studies, Dr Raphael Hirschi.

- Laboratory astrophysics at the Diamond Light Source, Prof Nye Evans.

- Star formation and stellar ages from the Gaia-ESO Spectroscopic Survey (Prof. R. D. Jeffries).

- Outer solar system chemistry (Dr Jacco van Loon, Prof. A. Evans).

- Star formation in the Magellanic Clouds (Dr. Joana Oliveira).

- Atmospheric properties of A, F and G stars (Dr Barry Smalley).

PhD - Biomedicine

IDIBAPS

Barcelona, Spain

Description

The group of Mercedes Fernandez at the Institut of Biomedical Research IDIBAPS (Barcelona, Spain) is looking for a highly motivated research scientist with a PhD in biomedicine or related disciplines. The ideal candidate must have experience working with animal models and cell culture. Mercedes' group is focused on the study of pathological angiogenesis during chronic liver disease. The selected investigator will be candidate for a contract from the MINECO ("Formación Postdoctoral 2014"; before: "Juan de la Cierva").

PhD - Astrophysical research

Jeremiah Horrocks Institute, University of Central Lancashire

United Kingdom

Description

The Jeremiah Horrocks Institute invites applications for PhD studentships in Astrophysics, commencing in October 2014, in the following areas of research:

• Solar Physics.
• Observational Star formation.
• Multi-waveband analysis of galaxies.
• Modelling of nuclear star clusters in galaxies.
• Galactic Archaeology.
• Astrophysical jets.

PhD - Land change science

Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, Faculty of Science

University of Copenhagen, Denmark

The deadline for applications is 14.02.2014

Description

The Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, Faculty of Science at University of Copenhagen is offering a PhD scholarship in land change science commencing 01.05.2014 or as soon as possible thereafter.

 The position will contribute to the EU-FP7-funded project “Agroforestry that will advance rural development (AGFORWARD)”. The project offers unique opportunities for interdisciplinary cooperation around agroforestry systems in Europe within a group of researchers from 27 partner institutions.

 The PhD project aims to analyze the driving forces of land-use change and their impacts on the provision of ecosystem services in various agroforestry systems in Europe. With space for pursuing individual interests, the PhD project will:

·         contribute to a synthesis of the existing knowledge on the drivers of land-use change in European agroforestry systems.

·         identify the causal chain of land-use dynamics in agroforestry systems by evaluating existing data from various sources.

·         analyze the impacts of these land-use changes on a set of ecosystem services at landscape scale.

Principal supervisor is Associate Professor Tobias Plieninger, Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, E-mail: tobias.plieninger@ign.ku.dk, Direct Phone: (+45) 353 36782.

Your key tasks as a PhD student at Science are:

·         Performance of a research project, including fieldwork

·         Writing of scientific articles and a PhD thesis

·         Project coordination and management

·         Attendance of PhD courses and congresses

·         Teaching and dissemination of research

PhD - Mapping ecosystem service tradeoffs

The Mediterranean Institute for Biodiversity and Ecology (IMBE, Aix-Marseille University)

Aix-en-Provence, France

Closing date: 31st of January 2014

Description

Research Group "Macroecology and Biogeography of Global Change (MacroBio)" has a 36-months PhD position open for applications. The position is funded by the European Commission through the FP7 Research Project OPERAs and affiliated to the French     National Scientific Research Centre (CNRS).

The topic is the broad-scale spatial mapping and quantification of ecosystem service trade-offs following from management of agro-ecosystems in the Mediterranean basin. The context of the

research includes the environment (climate, land use) as well as trends in societal demands for services. Based on scientific literature, spatial databases and the outputs from a process-based ecosystem model, the candidate will analyze, quantify and map ecosystem service trade-offs. Service valuation and indicator representation methods will be developed with the IMBE team. The approach is pan-Mediterranean: a significant part of the work will therefore consist of helping to reduce gaps in data and knowledge for the sum of countries around the Mediterranean basin.

The research group works in close interaction with international programs such as Future Earth (through its project ecoSERVICES) and science-policy interfaces such as IPBES.

PhD - Fellowships BSC - La Caixa

Barcelona Supercomputing Center-Centro Nacional de Supercomputación

Barcelona, Spain

Deadline for applications: Thursday 28th February, 2014

Description

Since 1982, the “la Caixa” Foundation has offered several fellowship programmes aimed at allowing students to undertake postgraduate studies in Spain and abroad. Over the years, thousands of students have advanced their training thanks to “la Caixa” Foundation fellowship. In 2008, the “la Caixa” Foundation launched a new programme addressed to national and international students. As part of this programme, each year fellowships are awarded to students who wish to complete work toward their doctoral degrees. 

Under a collaborative Framework Agreement, the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and the “la Caixa” Foundation continue the fellowship programme started last year with a 2nd call. This programme aims to help the recruitment of talented students from across the world by doing their doctoral thesis work in one of the accredited “Severo Ochoa” centres of excellence. The objective of this joint activity is to boost the research capacity of the best research institutions in Spain. For this year, the “la Caixa” Foundation has selected the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS) to offer four grants more for the academic year 2014-2015 addressed to PhD students. This grant is renewable up to four years. 

BSC-CNS is looking for young scientists from the national and international community who wish to do their PhD in a stimulating environment, rich in technological resources and campus life. We encourage applications from highly motivated engineers and computer scientists with outstanding qualifications. Successful candidates will join research groups with top-level scientists and will carry out their research in cutting-edge areas of Computer Sciences, Life Sciences, Earth Sciences and Computer Applications in Sciences and Engineering. 

PhD - Global agricultural modeling

Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

Postdam, Germany

Closing date: February 16th, 2014

Description

The department of Climate Impacts and Vulnerabilities of the *Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research* (PIK) invites applicants for *four PhD positions* as part of a newly funded project to study agricultural management options for greenhouse gas mitigation at the global scale. Agriculture will have to increase production to meet the demand for food, fuels and material of growing and richer populations while simultaneously increasing resource conservation and sustainability and adjust production methods to climate change. Agricultural management is at the core of these challenges and will have to be studied in a global context. The successful candidates will work with a global gridded crop simulation model and will closely cooperate within the newly found research group, as well as with other scientists at PIK and with international scientific collaborators (e.g. in AgMIP).

PhD – Biotecnología alimentaria

Universidad de Lleida

Lleida, Spain

Fecha límite para el envío de solicitudes: 9 de febrero de 2014

Descripción

Nuestro equipo de investigación busca un/a candidato/a interesado/a en solicitar una beca pre-doctoral dentro del programa de Becas de “la Caixa” para estudios de doctorado en universidades españolas, para realizar su Tesis Doctoral en el marco de un proyecto de investigación financiado por el INIA (Proyecto: Obtención de purés de frutos de alto valor funcional mediante tecnologías innovadoras de procesado). 

La línea de trabajo a desarrollar incluirá actividades relacionadas con la elucidación de mecanismos de respuesta de frutos al estrés abiótico inducido por tecnologías innovadoras de procesado de alimentos.

El/la candidato/a se incorporaría al Grupo de Nuevas Tecnologías para el Procesado de Alimentos de la Universidad de Lleida, adscrito al centro de investigación de excelencia Agrotecnio, ubicado en el Campus de la Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Agraria de la Universidad de Lleida, y su Tesis será dirigida por el Departamento de Tecnología de Alimentos. 

El/la candidato/a podrá cursar estudios de doctorado en un programa con Mención hacia la Excelencia otorgada por el Ministerio de Educación. Además, la Universidad de Lleida ocupa el primer puesto a nivel estatal en el ámbito de la investigación en Ciencia y Tecnología de Alimentos según el ranking I-UGR 2013 (periodo 2008-2012). El grupo de investigación receptor ha dirigido 10 tesis doctorales y ha publicado más de 75 artículos en revistas científicas de alto impacto en los últimos 5 años.

PhD - Cancer research

Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas (CNIO)

Spain

Closing date: February 28th, 2014

Description

The “la Caixa”-Severo Ochoa International PhD Programme at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) offers cross-disciplinary training in state-of-the-art basic and applied cancer research within an international and very dynamic scientific environment. Four 4-year fellowships will be available during 2014.

This programme is open to highly motivated young graduates from all over the world who want to pursue ambitious research projects.

Characteristics:

-The programme has 4 year duration.

-During the 4 years, the graduate students will receive an employment contract. For the first year, the gross annual salary will be 18,546.56 EUR .The initial gross annual salary will be increased progressively to 4.08% the second annuity, 7.06% the third and 9.16% the fourth. In addition to the salary, the students will receive a onetime annual allowance of 1,500 EUR for the first and second years and 1,700 EUR for the third and fourth years.