HITACHI SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM

HITACHI SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM
This program is offered to the university staffs who wish to study at Japanese graduate schools for Master’s or Doctoral Course in the area of science and technology and intend to contribute to their university for promotion of higher education after completion of study in Japan. Under this program, we have invited 158 university staffs since 1985.

HITACHI RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM
This program intends to encourage the university staffs having keen interest in conducting post-doctoral research in the area of science and technology to enhance their professional backgrounds and promote academic collaboration through building mutual human network with Japanese universities and/or institutions. We have invited 128 university staffs since 1986.

KOMAI FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM
This program started in 1989 under the auspices of late Mr. K. Komai, the first Chairman of the Hitachi Scholarship Foundation, to encourage interactions between Southeast Asian countries and Japan. The program, therefore, intends to encourage the university staffs having keen interest in conducting study and research to enhance their academic and professional backgrounds in the area of social and cultural science related to Japan. We have invited 40 university staffs to date.

Further information is available on the following web site.
http://www.hitachi-zaidan.com/global/scholarship/index.html

PhD Candidates in Marine Machinery Controls Operations 2011

The maritime offshore cluster operates globally and is highly innovative and adaptive. Every new ship is more or less a prototype designed for unique advanced operations. Environmental demands, subsea operations at several thousand meters depth, rough climate challenges and the installation of wind turbines are examples of operations that continuously demands new solutions. The close cooperation between Aalesund University College (AAUC), the companies in the region and NTNU/MARINTEK in Trondheim, provide the access to innovative and challenging laboratory facilities, where main focus is on applied research activities. In this academic and industrial environment you will find numerous interesting and challenging research objectives. Aalesund University College can offer PhD Candidate positions in the following fields:

• Environmental friendly (green) shipping (11-05ITN)

Existing propulsion machinery must be optimized and new novel systems must be developed to meet future requirements. The main objective of this research is to adapt advanced energy and environmental technology from other fields, to be applied onboard maritime installations.

• Machinery systems – modeling, simulation and optimization (11-10ITN)

Machinery systems onboard advanced off-shore vessels have become more and more complex and integrated, increasing the need for tools and methods to analyze and optimize. The main objective of this research is to develop knowledge, methods and tools for effective modeling and analysis.

• Human factors – man/machine interactions (11-09ITN)

As machines get more complex, operations more demanding, and need for risk reduction, we need to study and develop better and safer man/machine interaction. The main objective of this research is to develop knowledge and methods to be used in effective design of operator interfaces such as ship bridge design.

• Ship behavior under real operational loads and conditions (11-08ITN)

Ship behavior under normal conditions, are well studied. However, the interaction between vessel and external factors such as sub-sea equipment under demanding operations requires new research approach. The main objective of this research is to develop knowledge and methods to analyze ship behavior including external loads and conditions.

• Remote control and monitoring of maritime operations (11-07ITN)
The cost and availability of cheap and advanced instrumentation, microprocessors and data transfer solutions has opened for new possibilities for remote monitoring and control of systems in operation. The main objective of this research is to develop knowledge and methods to design effective remote operated condition monitoring systems including intelligent analysis for effective evaluation, and how to apply this technology to make extended laboratory facilities.

• Complex marine operations management (11-06ITN)

Ships and machines for demanding marine operations are getting more and more complex. Integrated control systems and interacting crews challenges safety. Planning and executing high risk operations challenge a safe and effective management. The objective of this research is to develop knowledge and methods for effective and safe management of complex high risk operations off-shore.
All these research fields are linked together in the overall research programs at AAUC, and will be part of a research team. The research may be both theoretical and experimental, and in close cooperation with local industry partners, NTNU/MARINTEK in Trondheim, and relevant international universities/research centers. The common goal for the vacant positions is to build up research activity over a period of 5 years. The PhD candidates will be part of the Research Centre for Marine Operations in Virtual Environment (MOVE) at AAUC.

Requirements:

Master degree or similar in:
• Mechanical engineering
• Marine technology / naval architecture / ocean engineering
• Cybernetics / control engineering / electronic engineering
• Nautical science
• Industrial design

Terms and conditions:

Each PhD candidate will be offered individual terms, related to background and competence. The normal period of appointment is 4 years with integrated teaching assistance of master and bachelor students.

For more information please contact:

Hans Petter Hildre, hh@hials.no , +47 95993659
Vilmar Æsøy, ve@hials.no , +47 91847089
Karl Henning Halse, kh@hials.no , +47 95227613

For more information also visit:

AAUC home page: http://www.hials.no/
MOVE: http://blog.hials.no/move/
NCE‐Maritime: http://www.ncemaritime.no/

http://www.hials.no/nor/media/filer/dokumenter/phd_candidates_marine_machinery_controls_operations

ERCIM Postdoctoral Fellowships

ERCIM (European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics) offers fellowships for PhD holders from all over the world. Topics cover most disciplines in Computer Science, Information Technology, and Applied Mathematics.

Fellowships are generally of 24-month duration, spent in two ERCIM member institutes. A fellowship of 12-month duration spent in one institute might also be offered.

This programme is now co-funded by the European Commission FP7 (Marie
Curie Actions, Project: ABCDE, GA-2008-246016).

Conditions

• have obtained a PhD degree during the last 8 years (prior to the application deadline) or be in the last year of the thesis work with an outstanding academic record
• be fluent in English
• be discharged or get deferment from military service
• the fellowship is restricted to two terms (one reselection possible)
• have completed the PhD before starting the grant (a proof will be requested).
  

Postgraduate PhD scholarship in Climate Change Effects to Plant Ecosystems

Applications are invited from talented young candidates for a PhD scholarship in effects to plant ecosystems from climate change.

The PhD will be enrolled at Ecosystems programme, Biosystems Division at Risø DTU. The Ecosystems programme work on effects of climate change to ecosystems, ecosystems feedback, adaptation and mitigation as well as ecosystem modeling in relation to climate change. The project will be carried out within the highly interdisciplinary and international research environment in the division. The project will employ some of the advanced experimental facilities the division has for conducting studies of climate change effects on ecosystems and biological processes, including advanced phytotron, controlled environments, field scale experiments and laboratories. The scholarship is carried out in close collaboration with the Nordic NordForsk initiative within the project ‘Sustainable primary production in a changing climate.

The project
The PhD project is related to effects of climate change on plant production, quality and sustainability. Climate change will change plant ecosystems and affect conditions for plant growth, and in that way affect not only yield and composition of crop biomass, but also change the ecosystem demands for nutrients, pesticides and water. The project will explore how future climate change scenarios will affect plant production and fungal disease severity in selected model crops; the results will be used by collaborators for modeling the sustainability of the future crop production. Part of the PhD will be devoted to study plant adaptation and acclimation to fast abiotic and biotic stress by the use of molecular tools for gene expression profiling and physiological measurements.

The PhD project will focus on understanding of key processes in plants under abiotic and biotic stress in multifactor stress scenarios e.g. with elevated CO₂, ozone, temperature, limited water and foliar diseases. Plant population responses and feedback to climate change through genetic composition or gene expression will be explored in experiments with spontaneous and deliberate plant selection over a number of generations. The experiment will be carried out in Risø DTU’s advanced experimental facilities and include extreme events as part of the climate manipulation.

Qualifications
Candidates should have (or obtain) a master’s degree in molecular plant biology, plant physiology or plant breeding, or similar competences. A candidate with experience in molecular methods and plant population genetic analysis will be preferred.

Approval and Enrollment
The scholarship for the PhD degree is subject to academic approval, and the candidate will be enrolled in one of the general degree programmes at DTU. For information about the general requirements for enrollment and the general planning of the scholarship studies, please see the DTU PhD Guide.

Salary and appointment terms
The salary and appointments terms are consistent with the current rules for PhD degree students. The scholarship is for 3 years. Main supervisor is Senior Researcher Rikke Bagger Jørgensen (Risø DTU) and co-supervisors are Professor Pirjo Peltonen-Sainio (MTT, Finland), Senior Researcher Teis Mikkelsen (Risø DTU) and Associate Professor Michael Lyngkjær (KU Life).

Further information
Further information may be obtained from Senior Researcher Rikke Bagger Jørgensen, + 45 21331109, rijq@risoe.dtu.dk, or Senior Researcher Teis Mikkelsen, + 45 46774162, temi@risoe.dtu.dk.

Applications
We must have your online application by 27 October 2010. Please open the link "apply for this job online", fill in the application form and attach the following documents;

a) A letter motivating the application (cover letter). As part of the application we also welcome suggestions to which ‘in detail studies’ could be part of the PhD project
b) Curriculum vitae
c) Grade transcripts and BSc/MSc diploma
d) Conversion of grade averages to Danish grades (see guidelines and excel spreadsheet for the conversion here).

Candidates may apply prior to obtaining their master's degree, but cannot begin before having received it.

All interested candidates irrespective of age, gender, race, religion or ethnic background are encouraged to apply.

Apply for this job online

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PhD Student “ViCoMo” project
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Eindhoven University of Technology

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perform scientific research in the described domain;
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PhD Studentship: Understanding design principles of regulatory and metabolic networks : Conway Institute, UCD, Dublin

Science jobs from University College Dublin: job description

NB: this position is restricted to European Union candidates (EU status is based largely on recent residency – www.ucd.ie/registry/adminservices/fees/eu_fees.htm#2)

Are you interested in interdisciplinary research in mathematics, computing and biology?

New high-throughput technologies in biology have opened up exciting opportunities for numerate scientists to work in advanced areas of biological research. Our programme takes students from a variety of backgrounds (statistics, engineering, mathematics, computer science, biology, chemistry, physics) and gives them a structured training during their PhD, tailored to their needs. Each project is jointly run by two supervisors, one with a background in modelling or computational analysis and one with an experimental research programme. The student is integrated into the research teams of both research groups.
Applications are invited from EU students for 4-year PhD positions under the graduate education programme (GREP) of the Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology (IRCSET). Most studentships commence Oct 2009 Understanding design principles of regulatory and metabolic networks
Supervisors: Zoltan Neufeld UCD (Systems Biology), Denis Shields, UCD
Biochemical reactions between different types of molecules (proteins, metabolites, genes etc.) form a complex network of interactions composed of metabolic and regulatory pathways. Although the reaction dynamics of metabolic networks can be described by a system of kinetic equations this is of limited use since the parameters and the functional forms of reaction fluxes and parts of the regulatory interactions are largely unknown. New approaches have been proposed that instead of analysing the full reaction dynamics focus on the constraints arising from the structure of the stoichiometric matrix that describes the network of interactions between the components. Taking into account these constraints, flux balance analysis (FBA) can determine the flux distribution corresponding to an optimal state of the system (e.g. corresponding to maximal growth rate). Such approaches have been validated experimentally and can also be used to predict effects of genetic knockouts.

The PhD project will aim to understand the mechanism of dynamic regulatory processes through which the optimal metabolic states are reached and maintained in biological systems. First synthetic metabolic network models will be used with full reaction dynamics to design “genetic” regulatory schemes that by adjusting reaction fluxes can drive the system to the optimal metabolic state for the given network. Understanding the characteristic features of the regulatory interactions in the synthetic metabolic networks will then be used to formulate hypotheses than can be tested on real biological systems (e.g. using data available on metabolic and genetic interactions in microbial systems). In a later stage the work will be extended to study adaptation in response to changes or fluctuations in the external environment (e.g. due to variable sources of nutrients) by designing signaling interactions that can optimise the systems behavior under such conditions. Finally robustness and evolvability of the regulation with respect to genetic mutations will also be considered.

The project will involve mathematical and computational modeling and analysis of biological data and is most suitable for a student with strong quantitative mathematical background and some knowledge and/or interest in biology.

References

Price et al. Genome-scale models of microbial cells: evaluating the consequences of constraints. Nat Rev Microbiol (2004) vol. 2 pp. 886
Covert et al. Integrating high-throughput and computational data elucidates bacterial networks. Nature (2004) vol. 429 pp. 92-96
Ibarra et al. Escherichia coli K-12 undergoes adaptive evolution to achieve in silico predicted optimal growth. Nature (2002) vol. 420 (6912) pp. 186-189
Prill et al. Dynamic Properties of Network Motifs Contribute to Biological Network Organization. Plos Biol (2005) vol. 3 (11) pp. e343
Min Lee et al. Dynamic Analysis of Integrated Signaling, Metabolic, and Regulatory Networks. PLoS Comput Biol (2008) vol. 4 (5) pp. e1000086
Application procedure procedure and further details

http://bioinformatics.ucd.ie/PhD/apply_09.html

This studentship is funded by IRCSET (www.ircset.ie). Funds are available for a student stipend (€16,000), fees, some lab consumables ( up to €5,000 per year), and a travel budget to allow the student to get work experience abroad and industrial work experience in a company in Ireland or abroad.

Contact Details: bioinfo@ucd.ie
Closing date: 30th March 2009

University College Dublin
Website:
http://bioinformatics.ucd.ie/…
Location:
Conway Institute, UCD, Dublin
Expires:
May 15, 2009