Chemist Postdoctoral Fellow

Highlights:

1. The fuel-cell program at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) has an exciting opportunity for an electrochemical engineer to simulate mathematically the behavior of polymer-electrolyte fuel cells under both steady state and transient conditions.

2. You will be in charge of developing and refining mathematical models related to ageing and durability studies in addition to transport phenomena under various operating conditions.

3. The position will also entail model validation, collaboration with industrial and research partners, and verification and explanation of predicted trends seen in experimental data.

4. Recent PhD in chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, or closely related field.

5. Experience with mathematical modeling (i.e., continuum modeling) including in the application of transport phenomena in polymer-electrolyte-fuel-cell systems.

6. Excellent communication skills, both oral and written.

7. Apply: http://cjo.lbl.gov/LBNLCareers/details.asp?jid=22987&p=1

8. As part of the online application process, please submit a single attachment that includes both your resume or CV and a statement of your research interests. Please be sure to reference where you found out about the position.

9. More details: http://www.lbl.gov/

COMMONWEALTH SCHOLARSHIP PLAN, NEW ZEALAND AWARDS-2010

Highlights:
1. Applications on plain paper, as per prescribed format, are invited from Indian Nationals residing in India for the above-mentioned Commonwealth Scholarship for higher studies, research leading to Ph.D /Masters/Post Graduate Diploma Study in New Zealand.

2. Ph.D
3. MASTERS/P.GRADUATE STUDIES

4. Fields:
a. Sustainable Rural Livelihoods (including Livestock, forestry, fisheries and horticulture).
b. Education (including early childhood education, bilingual education and education management.

c. Primary Health

5. Master’s Degree in the subject or allied fields with minimum 60% marks in Sustainable Rural Livelihoods or Education or Primary Health for applying for Ph.D.

6. For Masters Degree, candidate should have completed Bachelor’s Degree in the above subjects or allied fields with minimum 60% marks. Where percentage of marks is not available and grades are mentioned, the candidates must indicate the conversion formula adopted by the University/Institution and should also indicate equivalent percentage of marks.

7. Candidates are encouraged to secure admission to their preferred New Zealand education Institution in advance of Scholarship application. Evidence of admission should be attached with the application form or produced at the time of interview.

8. Otherwise, he/she will not be given any TA for attending the interview. Study at Ph.D level will only be considered where particularly strong development relevance is demonstrated.

Postdoctoral researcher

Highlights:

1. The High Energy Physics Division at Argonne National Laboratory has an immediate opening for a Postdoctoral Appointee to work on the Dark Energy Survey (DES: http://www.darkenergysurvey.org/ ) for more information.

2. The selected candidate will be expected to contribute to the CCD tests, photometric calibration efforts, and early DES science analyses with first light in 2011.

3. Preference will be given to candidates with prior astrophysics experience, but it is not required. If the selected candidate comes from an on-going astrophysics experiment, they will be encouraged to continue with analysis of that data. Substantial knowledge of modern software environments and data analysis experience is desirable.

4. Interested candidates should send a detailed CV, along with a list of publications, and the names and addresses of three references through the Argonne web site at http://www.anl.gov/jobs under job search for postdoctoral/job openings, for requisition number 314740 HEP.

5. A U.S. Department of Energy laboratory managed by UChicago Argonne, LLC.

6. Argonne is an equal opportunity employer, and we value diversity in our workforce.
http://www.anl.gov/

Almende Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowships

Highlights:
1. Almende BV is a high-tech commercial research company (SME) researching advanced hardware and software-agent technology. Almende in particular investigates self-organized critical agent-based network solutions to sustain and improve the coalition formation and coordination of communication and collaboration across evolving networks of humans and existing ICT infrastructures.

1. To advance science and technology Almende strongly fosters close collaboration with universities, knowledge institutes, large industrial R&D groups and other SMEs in the Netherlands and Europe. In respect to the Marie Curie Actions - International Dimension; International Incoming Fellowships Programme Almende is willing to serve as hosting organization for experienced researchers as IIF fellows for 12-24 months in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. For the IIF Programme,

2. Almende is inviting experienced researchers to set up in liaison an application on either of the following subjects:

a. Scalable Networked Social Media Indexing, Querying, Search and Retrieval

b. Contextual Personalized Networked Social Media Indexing, Querying, Search and Retrieval

c. Ambient Intelligent Service Robotics for Elderly Home- and Health-Care

d. Emerging self-organized control of swarming intelligence or robotics

e. Multi-scale purposeful synergetics amongst unmanned aerial vehicles and terrestrial robots
f. Energy-aware and other QoS-aware grid and cloud management

g. Simulation techniques for verification of large scale networked embedded system

properties

h. Formal and system engineering methodologies, techniques and tools for virtualization of (legacy) multi-core and/or reconfigurable systems.

3. Eligible candidates are welcomed to write and send a two-to-three pages application letter together with their CV to the contact person below (Closing Date July 1 2009)

4. Eligibility conditions please consult and check the Information Package.

5. After a short internal selection, all candidates will be notified about the outcomes of the selection procedure (Deadline July 14 2009). Successful candidates will be further assisted to define, set up and submit their applications (Deadline August 18 2009).

Please send your applications to
Dr. Alfons H. Salden
Almende BV, Westerstraat 50, 3016 DJ Rotterdam, The Netherlands
alfons@almende.org

Postdoctoral position in Earth science

Highlights:

1. The Division of Earth Sciences (EAR) awards Postdoctoral Fellowshipsto highly qualified investigators within 3 years of obtaining their PhD to carry out an integrated program of independent research andeducation.

2. The research and education plans of each fellowship must address scientific questions within the scope of EAR disciplines.

3. The program supports researchers for a period of up to 2 years withfellowships that can be taken to the institution or national facilityof their choice.

4. Fellowships are awards to individuals, not institutions, and are administered by the Fellows.

http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2009/nsf09526/nsf09526.html

EPSRC PhD position

Highlights:

1. Applications are invited from well-qualified, highly motivated students for PhD studentships in the Centre for OR and Applied Statistics at the University of Salford.

2. The Centre is part of Salford Business School and 90% of output was rated of international standard at the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise. With a healthy postgraduate population, the Centre offers many exciting opportunities for postgraduate training in Operational Research and Statistics.

3. Field:

a. Maintenance modelling of complex systems

b. Hierarchical forecasting systems

4. The studentships are available through the EPSRC Doctoral Training Scheme. The studentships cover fees and maintenance for UK students, and fees only for EU students, for a minimum period of 3 years.

5. The maintenance grant offered will be £14,000 per annum. Candidates should have, or expect to obtain, at least a 2:1 honours degree or an MSc in a numeric-related subject such as Mathematics, Statistics or Operational Research.

6. Further enquiries may be made to Prof. Philip Scarf (Ph 0161 295 3817; email: p.a.scarf@salford.ac.uk ).

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Highlights:
1. The Nanomaterials Chemistry Group in the Chemical Sciences Division (CSD) at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory invites applications in the area of molecular simulations (classical molecular dynamics (MD) and Monte Carlo (MC)) of porous materials and ionic liquids for separations of important materials relevant to U.S. DOE.

2. The candidate will perform fundamental research in the molecular simulations of solubility and transport of targeted molecules in novel separation media such as ordered porous carbons and ionic liquids. The research will also involve a minor effort of force field development in support of the simulations. World-class computational facilities are available both at ORNL and from other DOE supercomputing sites.

3. This position requires a Ph.D. in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, or a related field.

4. Candidates must have previous experience in classical MD and/or MC simulations. Experience with modeling porous materials and/or ionic liquids is desirable. Experience with force-field development is a plus. Excellent oral and written communication skills are required, and presentations and publication of scientific results in peer-reviewed journals are expected.

5. Applicants must be within five years of their most recent degree and must complete all degree requirements before starting their appointment. Technical Question:

6. Contact De-en Jiang (jiangd@ornl.gov and deen.jiang@gmail.com .

7. Please reference this position title in your correspondence.

8. Qualified applicants may apply online at https://www2.orau.gov/ORNL_POST /.

9. All applicants will need to register before they can begin the online application. For complete instructions, on how to apply, please see the instructions at http://www.orau.gov/orise/edu/ornl/orni-pdpm/application.htm When applying for this position, please reference the position title and number.

10. Applications will be accepted until July 1st, 2009 or until the position is filled.

11. The program is open to all qualified U.S. and non-U.S. citizens without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, national origin, physical or mental disability, or status as a Vietnam-era veteran or disabled veteran

12. Closing Date: 07/01/2009

http://deen.jiang.googlepages.com/

Postdoctral Computational biology

Highlights:

1. A bioinformatics postdoctoral position is available immediately in the laboratory of Dr. Sue Rhee at the Carnegie Institution, Department of Plant Biology (Stanford, CA), to analyze biological networks of a model plant organism Arabidopsis thaliana (to analyze biological networks in plants).

2. Qualified candidates must have a Ph.D. or equivalent in Computer Science, Physics, Mathematics, Engineering, Mathematics, Biology or related field, and a strong background in algorithm development, statistics and programming.

3. The successful candidate should have a demonstrated ability for independent and critical thinking, excellent communication and teamwork skills.

4. Please email a brief letter describing your research experience, plus your CV and contact information for 3 references to Sue Rhee (rhee@acoma.stanford.edu ).

Doctoral Positions 2010

Highlights:
1. The University of Pisa announces a competition, based on academic qualifications, for 7 grants reserved for candidates educated abroad for admission to the gGalileo Galilei Ph.D. School.

2. The selection will be based on the scientific qualifications of the candidates, bearing in mind the balance between the different areas of the School.

3. Ph.D. programmes:

a. Informatica (Computer science)

b. Fisica e Fisica applicata (Physics and Applied physics)

c. Matematica (Mathematics)