[Cyprus] Postgraduate Research Associate in The Area of E-Learning at University of Cyprus

The Department of Computer Science of the University of Cyprus intends to officially announce shortly (within the next three months) a position for a Research Associate within the research project “Tooling of and Training for Collaborative, Distributed Product Innovation” (idSpace), to be funded by IST of FP7.

The position is initially for one year, renewable for one more year. The annual salary for a Research Associate starts at the A8 scale (about EUR 15,000 initially), but the exact amount will depend on qualifications and prior experience. Innovative design is characterised by an intense, collaborative process of generating and exploring ideas meant to contribute to the solution of particular problems.

Innovators go through cycles of divergence, in which new ideas are generated and explored, and convergence, in which new ideas are valued and detailed. The idSpace project will design and build a responsive web-based environment that will offer an integrated suite of knowledge eliciting and sharing tools, and create a collective, sharable memory to support the entire innovative design process.

A suitable candidate for the above position should have a degree in Computer Science or related field and post graduate studies related to one or more of the following areas: Context Awareness, Adaptive Systems, Ontologies, User Modeling, e-learning, Collaborative learning.

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[UK] PhD Studentships in Physics at Scottish Universities Physics Alliance

8 Fully Funded Prize PhD Studentships The alliance brings together internationally leading physics research across Scotland to form the largest physics grouping in the UK.

Major research themes being pursued are astronomy, condensed matter and materials physics, nuclear and plasma physics, elementary particles, photonics and physics and life sciences. The Scottish Universities Physics Alliance (SUPA) is offering up to 8 fully funded PhD studentships for outstanding students from anywhere in the world. These prestigious and competitive awards are intended to attract outstanding students to study for a PhD in Scotland.

Applicants will be registered for a PhD in physics at one of the participating Universities namely Edinburgh, Heriot-Watt, Glasgow, Paisley, St Andrews and Strathclyde. An excellent training environment will be provided by the SUPA Graduate School, giving candidates access to a wide range of courses across Scotland. The online SUPA Prize Studentship is looking to recruit the best early stage researchers from a world-wide market to come to Scotland and help drive the research agenda in physics.

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[New Zealand] PhD Scholarship in Stochastic and Fuzzy Modelling, Auckland University of Technology

Auckland University of Technology PhD Scholarship Software Engineering Research Laboratory School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences.A fully funded PhD position is available in the Software Engineering Research Lab at Auckland University of Technology and applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates.

The scholarship is tenable for up to four years to support work in the area of stochastic and fuzzy modelling in the management of software development projects.

Successful candidates will have an Honours (or more likely a Masters) degree in Computer Science or similar technical discipline. They will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the software development lifecycle and have an interest in software project management. Strong development skills, preferably in Java or C++, will be required.

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[Germany] The Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies Scholarships

Funded by the Excellence Initiative of the German Federal and State Governments will admit fifteen PhD students to its doctoral programme to begin October 1, 2008. Ten of these candidates will receive a Graduate School grant.

The Graduate School investigates the plurality, changeability, and global connectedness of Muslim cultures and societies. It invites applications from candidates whose dissertation project fits one of the Graduate School’s Research Areas. Successful applicants will have a master’s degree in one of the disciplines represented at the Graduate School, with a ranking, where applicable, of above average.The language of communication is English. Admission is for one year, and, contingent upon a positive evaluation after the first year of study, will be extended for a total of three years.

For more information visit our website at http://www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/graduateschool/en

The application package will include the following documents: a completed application form; an outline of the dissertation project (up to 6 pages, with a brief summary); a curriculum vitae; two letters of reference; certified copies of degrees received; evidence of proficiency in the language(s) relevant to the dissertation project; and for non-native speakers of English, proof of proficiency in English.

The complete application package must be submitted by January 31, 2008 to:

Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies
Academic Coordinator
Lars Ostermeier
Altensteinstr. 40
D-14195 Berlin
Germany

For further information, please contact Academic Coordinator Lars Ostermeier (lars.ostermeier[ at ]fu-berlin.de)

[Australia] PhD Scholarship in Wave Modelling, Swinburne University of Technology

PhD Scholarship co-sponsored by Swinburne University of Technology and Woodside Energy Ltd Wave Modelling within Extreme Tropical Cyclones Physical Oceanography, Victoria, Australia.BACKGROUND:
Swinburne University of Technology (SUT) and Woodside Energy Ltd (WEL) are seeking a suitably qualified student to undertake post-graduate study to develop a wave forecast model suitable for extreme tropical cyclone conditions.

About Swinburne University of Technology
Swinburne University of Technology is a large multi-sectoral and multi-campus institution with a stated mission to be a pre-eminent
entrepreneurial university from the Asia-Pacific, thriving on new ideas and knowledge and exploiting its intersectoral heritage to create value for its stakeholders.

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[Switzerland] Two PhD [Switzerland] Two PhD positions in Biologically Inspired Robotics at Swiss Federal Institute of Technologypositions in Biologically Inspired Robotics at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

Two funded PhD student positions in the Biologically Inspired Robotics Group

The Biologically Inspired Robotics Group (BIRG, http://birg.epfl.ch/) in the School of Computer and Communication Sciences at EPFL has two open funded PhD student (research assistant) positions as part of a new European project to be started on the 1st of February 2008.

Background The two positions are part of a new European project called Lampetra that aims at building lamprey-like and salamander-like robots to test hypotheses concerning vertebrate locomotion control.

The project will be carried out in collaboration with the Scuola Superiore Sant`Anna (Pisa, Italy), Karolinksa Institute (Stockholm, Sweden), Royal Institute of Technology (KTH, Stockholm, Sweden), Centre de recherche INSERM U862 (Bordeaux, France), and EPFL (Lausanne Switzerland).

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[ERASMUS MUNDUS] Master Position in Geospatial Technologies

We ask that you please publicize the availability of full grants including travel and housing (ERASMUS MUNDUS program) for students outside Europe wishing to attend the 18-month international at :

  1. Universities of Münster (Germany)
  2. Jaume I (Spain)
  3. Nova de Lisboa (Portugal)

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[Switzerland] Doctoral Candidate in Physical Metallurgy at The Swiss National Science Foundation

Candidate in Physical Metallurgy at The Swiss National Science Foundation.
The above positions are available as part of a new project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation within the Laboratory of Mechanical Metallurgy at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).

This project aims to produce, using a novel process, individual, custom-shaped, cast `microsamples` of single-crystalline aluminium only a few micrometres in diameter that can be tested individually.

The scientific goal of the project is to contribute, using this new approach to sample generation, to our understanding of size-effects in dislocational plasticity.

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PhD Scholarship in the Centre for International Business Law at Aarhus School of Business

The Centre for International Business Law (CIBL), a research centre at Department of Law, at Aarhus School of Business (ASB), University of Aarhus, is advertising one PhD fellowship available as at January 1, 2008 or as soon as possible thereafter.

Only applicants with projects within the research profile of CIBL will be considered.
The research of CIBL is focusing on the legal aspects of the internationalisation of firms and on the internationalisation of business law itself.
More detailed information about CIBL can be found at: www.asb.dk/research/centresteams/centres/cibl.aspx

More information on the position can be obtained from :
Centre Director Karsten Engsig Sørensen,
tel. +45 8948 6335,
e-mail: kas@asb.dk.

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Erasmus-Mundus Student Scholarships for the European Master of Research on Information and Communication Technologies

MERIT / ERASMUS-MUNDUS 2008/2009 STUDENT SCHOLARSHIP CALL

This is the call for applications to the Erasmus-Mundus student scholarships for MERIT – the European Master of Research on Information and Communication Technologies (see http://www.meritmaster.org ).

MERIT is a European 2-year post-graduate programme taught in English at the following institutions:
- Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain
- Universität Karlsruhe (UKA), Karlsruhe, Germany
- Politecnico di Torino (PdT), Torino, Italy
- Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), Louvain, Belgium

These scholarships are addressed for highly qualified non-European students willing to study the MERIT programme in two of the above institutions beginning September 2008.
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