Doctor/PhD

International and Monetary Macroeconomics at the University of Konstanz invites applications for a position as a research assistant. The successful candidate will contribute to the chair's research and teaching responsibilities. She or he is expected to participate in the Doctoral Programme in Quantitative Economics and Finance at the University of Konstanz.

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.

The Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology (ZMT) GmbH in Bremen is a member of the Leibniz Association, which is supported by the German Federal and State Governments. The Coral Reef Ecology Group (CORE) at ZMT has vacancies for 4 PhD students within the following 3 new projects:

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.

The Northern Territory Office of Environment and Heritage has established, through the Charles Darwin University Foundation, the Barbara Singer Environmental Studies Scholarship to honour Ms Singer’s contributions during a career spanning more than thirty years, to environmental protection throughout the Territory. The scholarship is available to students enrolled full time in an environmental science course at Charles Darwin University.

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.

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

The University of Cape Town, South Africa and Yale University, USA has exchange program supporting outstanding students with demonstrated leadership potential from the world’s finest educational institutions to spend an academic year at Yale University pursuing independent research