Europe

The International Research Training Group (IGDK 1754) invites applications for 10 Doctoral positions (75% TV-L 13) in Munich and 5 Doctoral positions (75%) in Graz for research projects concerned with numerical methods and optimization algorithms in the context of partial differential equations.

A PhD vacancy is available in the Mechanics of Materials and Structures research group at Ghent University, Belgium The position is a 4-years full-time job with the main activity on numerical research on blast effect on laminated glass.

The University of Manchester is offering a range of awards for PhD research in September 2012 to which candidates working on topics in Linguistics and English Language are eligible to apply.

King's Interdisciplinary Social Science Doctoral Training Centre (KISS-DTC) is awarding a number of ESRC-funded postgraduate research studentships to support doctoral research and training in the social sciences at King's.

McLean Endowment supports outstanding basic research at the University of Toronto and provides extraordinary support to an outstanding researcher relatively early in his or her career by assisting the awardee to attract and support graduate students and post-doctoral fellows of great promise as part of his/her research team.

The Swedish Institute Study Scholarships target highly-qualified students from the selected countries. In order to apply for a Swedish Institute Study scholarship the student must first be admitted to a Swedish university/university college.

Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden offers 2 Postdoc positions in Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, to work in the development and application of statistical methods for large cohort studies, family data and high-throughput omics data analyses in cancer and cardiovascular diseases.

Electronic health records (EHRs) are valuable for medical research and clinical trials. Researchers need EHRs to perform clinical trials on new medicines, for example. However, EHRs contain sensitive data and should not reveal the identity of the patient. Therefore EHRs must be anonymized or aggregated before they are released to the clinical investigators.

Marie Curie Initial Training Networks (ITN) are providing funding for 16 Research Assistant positions throughout Europe. As part of this, the Centre for Immunology and Infection at the University of York are looking to recruit three Research Assistants to investigate stromal cell – immune cell interactions.

The Lund University of Sweden offers Doctoral Grant to study adaptations to foraging and migration movements in of seabirds, such as lesser black-backed gull, common guillemots and razorbills. The project involves comparative work with seabirds of different species as well as at different locations. The movement patterns will be analyzed relative to winds, food availability, and topography as well as habitat type