We are looking for skillful and hard working candidates with high academic credentials/results for PhD student positions within the area of data communication, computer networks and distributed systems at SimTel Innovation, a joint research project between Simula Research Laboratory and the telecom operator, Telenor in Norway.
The PhD positions are targeted at the following research topics:

*   Peer-to-Peer (P2P), overlay networking
*   Multi-link access
*   Cognitive radio and dynamic spectrum access, with focus on higher
layers

Applications should be submitted by July 31st 2009.

The chosen PhD candidates will be enrolled in the 3-year PhD-program of the Simula Research Laboratory, Norway. The PhD degrees will be awarded by the University of Oslo.

The applications should follow the guidelines described at
http://simula.no/jobs/SimTel09 .

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Jennifer Lappin
Chief Operations Officer
ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies
James Cook University
Townsville, Queensland 4811
Australia
Ph: 61-747-814222
Fax: 61-747-813015
email: <mailto:Jennifer.Lappin@jcu.edu.au>Jennifer.Lappin@jcu.edu.au
http://www.coralcoe.org.au/

The Laboratory of Medical Microbiology within the Vaccine & Infectious Diseases Institute(VAXINFECTIO) of the faculty of Medicine has a fulltime position (m/v):

PhD fellow (100%)

in the field of Medical Microbiology

Tasks:

you will prepare a PhD in the framework of a project studying medically relevant biofilms

you will study biofilm development and co-aggregation as well as antibiotic resistance in biofilms, utilizing both standard microbiological and state-of-the art molecular techniques .

Project:

Bacterial biofilms are a new concept in infectious disease, and can explain resistance to antibiotics and to host defenses along with being one of the most important factors responsible for bacterial persistence evidenced as chronic infections.

Profile:

you are holder of a master degree in Biomedical Sciences, Medicine, Pharmacy or a related subject with a strong interest in bacterial genetics and in laboratory work

good knowledge of English is required.

We offer:

a dehousse mandate for 12 months, which will be extended up to 3-4 years upon excellent performance

starting date is 1/10/2009

Interested?

To apply: Mail or e-mail your curriculum vitae + a one page letter in which you explain your interest in the position and in the field of research to

herman.goossensatuza.be

Universiteit Antwerpen

Campus Drie Eiken

Vaxinfectio, Labo Medische Microbiologie

Universiteitsplein 1

2610 Antwerpen (Wilrijk)

Belgium

Phone: + 32 3 821 37 89

no later than 15/09/2009

For more information please contact prof. dr. Herman Goossens, herman.goossens@uza.be, + 32 3 821 37 89.

Project Supervisor(s) Professor Keith Whitelam, University of Sheffield (K.W.Whitelam@sheffield.ac.uk)
Peter Barber, British Library

Application Deadline 30 July 2009

Project title: Mapping Palestine: Cartography of Palestine in the Nineteenth Century

Project description:
The research project will investigate the ways in which maps of Palestine in the nineteenth century, particularly those produced by the British military, played a vital role in the creation of meaning rather than providing passive representations of geographical or historical reality. It is often assumed that the scientific advances of trigonometrically-based cartography, which culminated in the Survey of Western Palestine by Conder and Kitchener, replaced biblically-inspired representations of Palestine. Sir Walter Besant claimed that ‘nothing has ever been done for the illustration and right understanding of the historical portions of the Old and New Testament, since the translation into the vulgar tongue, as this great work’. The map is deeply embedded in many reconstructions of Israelite and Palestinian history, lending a seeming factuality, objectivity and authority to narrative descriptions. However, the map, rather than lessening the gap between reality and interpretation, adds another layer to the interpretative process. This project will explore how such maps continued to be instruments of subtle persuasion and will examine carefully their assumptions and rhetorical devices. It will examine the social and political location of the cartographers and those sponsoring their work (e.g. the military, the Palestine Exploration Fund, etc.) in the context of the growth of nationalism, the nation-state, and the development of European overseas expansion. It will utilise the correspondence and private papers of cartographers, along with the paper and minutes of learned societies, in order to understand the influence of these factors on their work.

The British Library contains important maps from the period, particularly from 1850 onwards, that have tended to be overlooked. It also contains important papers relating to the Conder-Kitchener survey in the Map Library (War Office mapping) and the Department of Manuscripts. The project will produce a detailed listing of these and other British mapping of Palestine undertaken by the military along with an analysis of their social and political context and their importance in shaping representations of Palestine within biblical studies.

Professor Whitelam’s major research interests are in the history of ancient Palestine and the social and political influences that have shaped the way in which the history of the region has been presented. He has just complete In Pursuit of Palestine’s Past: The Rhythms of Time (due 2010) and is editing a volume, Holy Land or Homeland? Models for Constructing the Historic Landscapes of Jesus (ed. Keith W. Whitelam with H. Moxnes and J. Crossley, Sheffield Phoenix Press: Sheffield [due 2010]).

How to apply:
Interested candidates can make informal enquiries to the project supervisor. To apply for this studentship, please refer to the University of Sheffield website at http://www.shef.ac.uk/pgresearch/studentships/concordat.html

Funding notes:
This is a British Library Studentship.

Students are expected to register from October 2009 for a three year full-time MPhil/PhD degree. Funding includes UK/EU tuition fees, maintenance expenses of £13,290 and training costs.

Overseas students can apply but they will be required to pay the difference in tuition fees.

To apply for this job please click here and search for the job using the reference number provided or to view current vacancies and apply online please go to www.sheffield.ac.uk/jobs

Qualifications / Background Required:
Candidates should have or should be about to obtain a degree in engineering, computer science or related areas. Previous experience in image
processing and MRI, in particular DT-MRI, would be an advantage although training can be provided to suitable candidates.

Further Information:
Please send your CV and contact details for two referees to Dr. Kathleen Curran by e-mail: kathleen.curran@ucd.ie

Bio-Inspired Robotics Laboratory
(Director: Fumiya Iida)
Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
(ETH Zurich) Switzerland

http://www.iris. ethz.ch/

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Posdoc/PhD positions will be available from August 2009 at my new
research group, Bio-Inspired Robotics Laboraotory, Institute
of Robotics and Intelligent Systems, Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology Zurich (ETHZ), Switzerland.

The research interests of the Bio-Inspired Robotics Lab lie at the
intersection of robotics and biology. Through abstraction of the design
principles of biological systems, we develop core competences which are
the design and control of dynamic mechatronics systems, bionic sensor
technologies, and computational optimization techniques. Our main goals
are to contribute to a deeper understanding of adaptivity and autonomy
of animals through the investigation of dynamic robots, and to engineer
novel robotic applications which are more adaptive, resilient, and
energy efficient.

These positions belong to a new government funded research project,
“Bio-Inspired Motor Control for Underactuated Robotic Systems”, in which
we tackle with the problems of design optimization in underactuated
systems, control optimization of “dynamics programmability” , and dynamic
embodied cognition. For more information about the background of this
project, please visit my website:  http://people. csail.mit. edu/iida/

(1) Requirements
Applicants should have diploma/master degrees in one of the following
disciplines, but degrees from the other areas are also considered if
relevant.
* Mechanical, Electronic, Control Engineering, Robotics
* Physics, Biology, Biomechanics
* Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence

(2) Conditions
* Main duty includes research activities, lab organization, and teaching
assistant
* Starting August 2009 or at your earliest convenience
* These positions will be fully funded based on the SNF/ETHZ regulations

(3) To Apply
Please send an email to Fumiya Iida (iida at csail.mit.edu) with your cv
and a brief introduction of your research interests and plans. The
selection process will be closed as soon as the positions are filled.

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Fumiya   IIDA     Dr. sc. nat.

Robot Locomotion Group
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Office: 32-380

Phone:     +;1-617-253-7095
Fax:     +;1-617-253-0778
URL:    http://people. csail.mit. edu/iida/
e-mail: iida@csail.mit. edu

Applications are invited for two 3 1/2 year PhD studentships within the Department of Civil and Building Engineering at Loughborough University. The research will be part of the EPRSC funded 4M project: Modelling, measurement, mapping and management: an evidence based methodology for understanding and shrinking the urban carbon footprint. The project is a collaboration between Loughborough, Sheffield, Newcastle, and Leeds Universities and investigates the carbon emissions from travel and buildings, and the carbon sequestration potential of green spaces. The city of Leicester is the case-study area.

The two studentships will investigate the willingness of householders to embark on actions to reduce their carbon emissions and the reduction in emissions that district, and other community energy schemes, might yield. The city wide face-to-face survey of households offers numerous other opportunities for exciting studies based on primary data collection and analysis.

Applicants should have a genuine interest in energy and climate change, a minimum of an upper second class honours degree or equivalent in either a relevant engineering/science or social science field and good written and verbal communication skills. Fees at the UK/EU rate are offered together with a tax free stipend of, initially, £12,940 for 3 1/2 years.

For informal discussions, please contact Dr Steven Firth by email s.k.firth@lboro.ac.uk or on 01509 228546 or Prof. Kevin Lomas k.j.lomas@lboro.ac.uk.

Applications can be accessed on line at: http://www.lboro.ac.uk/prospectus/pg/essential/apply/index.htm

Closing date: 10th July 2009.

Further information can be obtained from:
Ms Helen Newbold
Research Administrator
Department of Civil and Building Engineering
Loughborough University
E-mail: h.newbold@lboro.ac.uk

University of Sydney
New South Wales, Australia

New Postdoctoral Fellowships are being offered to attract outstanding researchers within 2-6 years from the award of their PhD to conduct full-time research in any of the schools and departments at the University of Sydney.

These will be available from January 2010 for a maximum duration of 3 years, with a starting salary of A$76,097 and a research support grant of A$25,000.

Applications close: 11 September 2009.

PLEASE NOTE: Applicants must contact the head of the host school/department before 7 August 2009.

For eligibility and application details see www.usyd.edu. au/research/ fellowships

Contact Jane Zhang for more information
Tel: (+61 2) 8627 8103
Email: j.zhang@usyd. edu.au

www.usyd.edu. au

Function title PhD student Where Bioinformatics Laboratory, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam Apply before July 15, 2009 Project
Model organisms have been essential for improving our knowledge of human disease. Especially rodents, mainly mouse and rat, are often used for this purpose, as well as for pre-clinical trials of new drugs and toxicology screens. However, often animal models fail to mimic human disease adequately. As a consequence drugs successfully tested in animal models fail in costly clinical trials or are falsely discarded. Goal of this project is to explore the suitability of rodents as a model organism for human disease, specifically metabolic syndrome. Since metabolic syndrome is a complex multifactorial group of metabolic conditions, a systems approach will be taken to uncover the molecular networks perturbed by disease. Specifically, we aim to validate the similarity of a large number of rodent models for metabolic syndrome to their human counterparts. The project is tightly linked to ongoing projects in biological and clinical groups at the AMC. This project is part of the second round of the BioRange programme of the Netherlands Bioinformatics Centre (NBIC; www.nbic.nl).

Tasks
The successful candidate will work towards a PhD degree in bioinformatics. We will build a compendium of rodent and human metabolic syndrome related gene expression datasets. We develop module-based joint analysis methods that search for conserved patterns consisting of sets of genes and sets of conditions in both rodent model and human under which they are co-expressed. These patterns are used to evaluate the molecular similarity of rodent models and their human counterpart. Conserved patterns will be further interpreted by constructing functional networks for metabolic syndrome in rodents and human. We expect methods developed and resulting conserved patterns and functional networks to be useful for elucidating the model mismatch and for increasing the predictive value of preclinical trials and toxicity screens.
Requirements
We are looking for an enthusiastic communicative team player with
•a MSc in one of the following areas: bioinformatics, computer science, engineering, statistics, physics, plus a proven interest in biology
•strong background in computer science (machine learning, graph algorithms, relational databases)
•good programming knowledge (R, C/Java/C++, SQL)
Additional conditions of employment: The appointment will be on temporary basis for a maximum period of four years. Based on a full-time appointment (36 hours per week), compensation will be according to standard salary levels for PhD students starting with a salary of € 2046,- with a yearly growth to € 2622,- gross a month. The collective employment agreement of the AMC is applicable. Additional information about the vacancy can be obtained from: Dr. ir. P.D. Moerland Bioinformatics Laboratory Telephone number: +31 (0) 20 566 4660 E-mail address: p.d.moerland@amc.uva.nl
Contact: Applications should include a detailed curriculum vitae and a letter of motivation, and be sent to:
AMC Medical Research BV.
Mevrouw M.J.Scholtemeijer
Personeel & Organisatie, J1A-229
Postbus 22660
1100 DD Amsterdam
The Netherlands

Level: PhD

Duties: Research

Specialty Areas: Anthropological Linguistics
Language analysis

Description:

Applications are invited, from suitably qualified students, to enter the PhD
program of the Language and Culture Research Group within the Cairns Institute
of James Cook University Australia. Supervision will be provided by Professors
Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and R. M. W. Dixon.

Our PhD candidates undertake extensive fieldwork on a previously undescribed
(or scarcely described) language and write a comprehensive grammar of it for
their dissertation. They are expected to work on a language which is still
actively spoken, and to establish a field situation within a community in which
it is the first language. Their first fieldtrip lasts for about nine months.
After completing a first draft of the grammar, back in Cairns, they undertake a
second fieldtrip of two to three months. Fieldwork methodology centres on the
collection, transcription and analysis of texts, together with participant
observation, and judicious grammatical elicitation in the language under
description (not through the lingua franca of the country). Our main priority
areas are the languages of tropical Amazonia and the Papuan and Austronesian
languages of New Guinea. However, we do not exclude applicants who have an
established interest in languages from other areas.

PhDs in Australian universities generally involve no coursework, just a
substantial dissertation. Candidates must thus have had a thorough coursework
training before embarking on this PhD program. This should have included courses
on morphology, syntax, semantics, and phonology/phonetics , taught from a
non-formalist perspective. We place emphasis on work that has a sound empirical
basis but also shows a firm theoretical orientation (in terms of general
typological theory, known as basic linguistic theory).

The Cairns Institute is a world centre for advanced study relating to the
tropics. Professor Alexandra (Sasha) Aikhenvald is Research Leader for People
and Societies of the Tropics. Together with Professor R. M. W. Dixon, she heads
the Language and Culture Research Group (LCRG), which includes Research Fellows
and a growing number of doctoral students. Senior scholars from across the world
opt to spend their sabbatical in the Cairns Institute.

The LCRG has strong links with anthropologists and archaeologists, with
scholars working on environmental issues, and with the School of Indigenous
Australian Studies, all within James Cook University.

The scholarship will be at the standard James Cook University rate, Australian
$20,427 pa. Students coming from overseas are liable for a tuition fee; but this
may be waived in the case of a student of high merit. A small relocation
allowance may be provided on taking up the scholarship. In addition, an
appropriate allowance will be made to cover fieldwork expenses. The scholarship
is for three years (with the possibility of a six month extension). The deadline
for application by international students (starting in 2010) is 31 August 2009;
the deadline for students with Australian and New Zealand passports is 31
October 2009. The academic year in Australia commences about 1st March.
Successful applicants would take up their PhD scholarships between January and
June 2010.

The application procedures for international students can be found at:
http://www.jcu. edu.au/prospecti ve/studyoptions/ postgraduate/ JCUDEV_002585. html .
The 2010 Scholarship application form for international students can be found
at: http://www.jcu. edu.au/grs/ scholarships/ index.htm

Prospective applicants are invited, in the first place, to get in touch with
Professor Aikhenvald at sasha.aikhenvald@ jcu.edu.au, providing details of their
background, qualifications and interests (including a curriculum vitae).

Application Deadline: 31-Aug-2009

Mailing Address for Applications:
Attn: Prof Alexandra Aikhenvald
The Cairns Institute, JCU
MacGregor Road
Cairns Queensland 4878
Australia

Web Address for Applications: http://www.jcu. edu.au/prospecti ve/studyoptions/ postgraduate/ JCUDEV_002585. html

Contact Information:
Prof Alexandra Aikhenvald
Sasha.Aikhenvald@ jcu.edu.au
Phone:61(0)74042111 7
Fax:61(0)740421390