Archive for August, 2010

The section Information Systems consists of the chairs Databases and Hypermedia and Architecture of Information Systems.

The Databases and Hypermedia group is world-leading in the area of adaptive hypermedia and adaptive web-based information systems. The group has produced the most referenced reference model for adaptive hypermedia and developed the most popular general-purpose adaptive hypermedia system AHA!. The group has expertise in data mining, web engineering and semantic web, and also works in application fields for adaptive technology, including e-learning and e-culture. The group has ample experience in national and international research projects, both as participant and as coordinator.

Project description:
The SeeQR project is a research collaboration between TU Eindhoven and TU Delft, the leading technical universities in the Netherlands, focusing on web data management. The project has an opening in Eindhoven for a fully funded PhD student position (4 years), supported by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), to start as soon as possible but no later than 1 April 2011.

Motivated by the growing increase in the practical use of semantic web data management technologies such as RDF and SPARQL, e.g., in the Linked Open Data initiative,  the PhD student will investigate sophisticated scalable RDF indexing mechanisms and SPARQL query processing strategies over massive dynamically evolving data sets. Read the rest of this entry »

The Department of Cellular Physiology and Metabolism of the University of Geneva Medical School, Switzerland is seeking candidates for PhD (1-3) and postdoctoral positions (2-4).

Active in the field of pancreas and islet development, electrophysiology, cell adhesion and migration, host-pathogen interactions as well as innovative HIV drug development the department recruits candidates to fill the following positions:

PhD or postdoc // Host-pathogen interactions: the Dictyostelium model; Read the rest of this entry »

The NRW Research School BioStruct – Biological Structures in Molecular Medicine and Biotechnology at Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf in Germany, funded by the Ministry of Innovation, Science, Research and Technology of the German Federal State North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), and the school chairmen Prof. Dr. Lutz Schmitt and Prof. Dr. Dieter Willbold invite applications one PhD Scholarships starting in October 2010.

BioStruct offers innovative PhD education and research programs within a stimulating interdisciplinary environment combining the field of structural biology with molecular medicine and biotechnology.
Highly motivated and excellent candidates holding an MSc or Diploma degree in the fields of Biochemistry, Biology, Chemistry, Physics and related fields can directly apply for a

PhD Scholarship for ‘Protein Structure Determination using NMR Spectroscopy’ Read the rest of this entry »

Loughborough University – Wolfson School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering

A postgraduate studentship is available to investigate new methods to increase the capability of optical interferometry and to introduce new levels of traceability in the measurement of precision engineering surfaces.

With the lateral resolution of a few micrometres and an axial resolution of a few nanometres interferometery is becoming an increasingly popular means to characterise engineering surfaces. As a non-contacting technique, commercial interferometers make an indirect estimate of surface form deduced from measurements of the light scattered from the surface. Due to the complex interaction between light and rough surfaces anomalous behaviour can occur and, for this reason, traditional contacting methods making more direct measurements using stylus-based instrumentation remain the basis of international (ISO) surface standards. The purpose of this project is to develop optimisation strategies based on new, more sophisticated surface scattering models to increase measurement capability and to estimate uncertainty in optical interferometers. Read the rest of this entry »

A position as Post Doc is available at the Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo (http://www.geo.uio.no).

The position is affiliated with the Section for Tectonics, Petrology and Geochemistry (TPG). The fellowship is for a period of 3 years, with up to 10 % compulsory work, starting no later than1 Oct 2010.

The Department of Geosciences is the broadest geoscience Department in Norway, and comprises sections for Environmental Geology and Hydrology; Tectonics, Petrology and Geochemistry; Petroleum Geology and Geophysics; Meteorology and Oceanography, and Physical Geography. The Department participates in three Centres of Excellence.

The postdoctoral fellow is expected to participate in the TPG group’s ongoing research in the Caledonides in the North Atlantic Region (Northern Norway, Svalbard and Northeast Greenland). The research is strongly field-based and the successful candidate must document extensive field-experience with metamorphic tectonites. Candidates with experience in geochronology/thermochronology (ID-TIMS, LA-ICPMS, Ar-Ar dating),metamorphic petrology and structural geology are particularly welcome.

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The Institute of  Theoretical Astrophysics is part of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences. It presently has 12 permanent professors/associate professors. The Institute employs about 8 postdoctoral research fellows and has about 14 Ph.D. students. The research activity of the Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics is concentrated around solar physics and cosmology

(http://www.astro.uio.no/).

The fellowship period is 2 years. No one can be appointed for more than one specified period at the same institution. The position is available from 1st November, 2010.

The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences has appointed the cosmology group of the Institute as an emerging top-tier research group. The participation in the European Space Agency’s flagship mission Planck and the ground based CMB polarization experiment QUIET, and a strong effort in fundamental cosmological theory, act as two foci for consolidating the group and developing it further to become one of Norway’s internationally most visible research groups in the physical sciences.

The position is connected to the project ”Studying the early universe with non-Gaussianities”, funded by the Research Council of Norway. The successful applicant is expected to carry out research on theoretical and/or data analysis issues related to non-Gaussianities in the cosmic microwave background. The research may be focused on primordial non-Gaussianity, non-Gaussianities from second-order effects, systematic effects, foregrounds or any other possible source of non-Gaussianity.

Requirements   Read the rest of this entry »

The research group for Networks and Distributed Systems,http://www.ifi.uio.no/research/groups/nd/index.html, at the Department of Informatics (IFI) is seeking one PhD scholars.

The Department of Informatics (IFI) is one of nine departments belonging to the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the University of Oslo. IFI is Norway’s largest university department for general education and research in Computer Science and related topics. You can read more about the Department here:http://www.ifi.uio.no. The Department has near 800 students on bachelor level, near 300 master students, and over 200 PhD students. The totall staff of the Department is close to 250 employees, about 150 of these are full time scientific positions: about 60 Professors and Associate Professors. Read the rest of this entry »