Kingston University
PhD studentship
Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture

The Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture invites applications from outstanding postgraduate students for an AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award starting in March 2009. The award is for a three-year full-time studentship, and is equivalent in value to a standard AHRC Doctoral Award.

Partner organisation: The Geffrye Museum

Project: Approaches to documenting the homes of the London middle classes in the 21st Century

The aim of this project is to examine domestic interiors from the standpoint of the householder/occupants, exploring the meanings and values placed on domestic spaces. The research will seek to understand the social, cultural and aesthetic contexts, which influence choice and taste

It is anticipated that the project would suit well-qualified postgraduates from the arts, humanities or social sciences, who are looking to research the visual and material contexts of contemporary family life, domesticity and home-making. The project sits across the fields addressed by the Design Research Centre and the Modern Interiors Research Centre in the Faculty, and the Geffrye Museum. It will involve developing research methodologies for this subject area and gathering material such as recorded interviews of householders and images of their homes, which will form part of the Geffrye Museum’s archive collections.

Applications deadline Wednesday 14 January 2009. Interviews will be held in February.

For further details please contact Emerald Day, Research Administrator on:
Tel +44 (0)20 8417 4016 (voicemail)
Email e.day@kingston.ac.uk
Visit www.kingston.ac.uk/designpostgrad

The Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture is pleased to announce the availability of a number of full-time three-year PhD scholarships and part-time PhD fee waivers, for projects to start in Autumn 2009. Research proposals, including for practice-led projects, are invited for the subject areas listed under each of our Research Centres:

Contemporary Art (Centre for Useless Splendour)
Agency and socially-sited art production
Art and technology
Knowledge, art and the archive
Embodiment, matter and experience

Design
Sustainable and Environmental Architecture
Creative Resource
Curating the Contemporary
Fashioning Luxury
Design for Environments
Sustainable Design and Architecture
The City
Design Practice, Theory and Pedagogy

Visual and Material Culture
Theories and histories of the artistic avant-gardes
Art, War and Commemoration in the Twentieth Century
The Art Market in the Middle East: A Cultural and Political History from Goupil to the Gulf
Post-war Émigré Sculptors in Britain
Identity based performance art in Japan since the 1960s
Contemporary art practices: place, history and audience

Modern Interiors Research Centre
The design of the public and private interior 1870-1970
Modernity, identity and the interior

Real Estate Research Centre
Sustainable communities
Valuing real estate for sustainability
Regulatory frameworks
Built environment education

Further details of these Research Centres are available from the Faculty Research Administrator, Emerald Day. The scholarships are for £15,000 made up of the EU/UK tuition fee plus a bursary, and Scholars will be expected to undertake a small amount of teaching. Part-time fee waivers are also available. Successful applicants will be expected to apply for AHRC funding through the Faculty. Applications for our range of taught postgraduate programmes are also welcomed.

Tel +44 (0) 20 8417 4016

Email e.day@kingston.ac.uk

Visit www.kingston.ac.uk/designpostgrad

Closing date for applications: 12 January 2009.

Interviews: week beginning 26 January.

Job description
“Treatment of nanofiltration (NF) concentrates, produced during polishing of municipal wastewater treatment plant effluent”

Nanofiltration (NF) of the effluent of municipal wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) is a promising technique as it results in a permeate that can be used as a source for (industrial) process water, irrigation water or even for the production of drinking water. A major bottleneck is the NF concentrate that somehow needs to be disposed of, which accounts for the majority of the costs. However, NF concentrates also presents some interesting opportunities because several compounds are present at enhanced concentrations such as phosphorus, heavy metals, multivalent cations and organic micropollutants. This may allow (1) then recovery of phosphorus for direct reuse as a fertilizer, or for the production of higher grade phosphorus products, (2) easier removal of the concentrated heavy metals, (3) recirculation of multivalent cations to the biological reactor stimulating flocculation of the sludge and (4) an improved and/or easier removal of the organic
micropollutants. Research aspects that need to be addressed include the development of an innovative WWTP flow scheme based on NF polishing and NF concentrate treatment, technology selection for removal of heavy metals and organic micropollutants, and the effect of NF concentrate recirculation on the primary functions of the WWTP, i.e. flocculation, COD removal and nitrogen removal.

This project will be carried out in close collaboration with the TTIW Wetsus, centre of excellence for sustainable water technology, in Leeuwarden (www.wetsus.nl) in the research theme ‘Waste Water Technology’. The PhD student will be located at Wetsus, and supervised by staff members of the University of Twente, Wageningen University and Wetsus.

Requirements
University Graduate
Profile
We are looking for highly motivated and enthusiastic researchers with an MSc degree in chemistry, chemical engineering, material science or a related topic, with adequate experimental and theoretical skills. We prefer candidates with a good team spirit, who like to work in an internationally oriented environment. Fluency in English is a requirement. An interview and a scientific presentation will be part of the selection procedure.

Organization
University of Twente Faculty of Science and Technology
Sharing knowledge, working together, research, innovation. It is all part of the only campus university in the Netherlands: the University of Twente (UT). A university with an international character. We have for example many foreign doctoral students, and master programmes are provided in English. Divided over 5 faculties, we provide more than 50 Bachelor and Master programmes, varying from Applied Physics and Public Administration to Applied Communication Science and Biomedical Technology. In beautiful green surroundings, more than 8000 students and 2700 staff live, work and recreate at the UT. It is also a place where talented people get every opportunity to perform cutting edge research. But as an entrepreneurial university this is not all we do. In ‘Kennispark’, for example, we work together with the business community, we support our students in setting up their own businesses and participate in many projects in the area of knowledge
development. In brief, a dynamic climate in which to work and study.

The Faculty of Science and Technology (700 faculty members, 1100 students) offers a range of bachelor and master courses (NanoTechnology, Applied Physics, Chemical Engineering and Technical Medicine). The faculty’s research is organized in three of the university’s interdisciplinary research institutes: MESA+, BMTI, and IMPACT. These institutes increase the vitality of research by enabling collaboration between programs and disciplines, by providing shared facilities, and by attracting funding for joint projects. They also provide a conduit to industrial partners and help in attracting new faculty.

Conditions of employment
Estimated maximum salary per month: eur 2500 - 3000
Salaryscale 10.
Maximum salary amount in Euro’s a month 2612
Employment basis: Temporary for specified period
Duration of the contract: 4 years
Maximum hours per week: 38

Additional conditions of employment:
Offer
We offer a scientific education on a multidisciplinary subject. The assignment is for 4 years, with a go/no-go assessment at the end of the first year. The candidates are expected to finish the project with a PhD thesis and disseminate the results through patents (if applicable), publications in peer-reviewed journals and presentations at international conferences. Your starting salary will be € 2000,- in the first year and up to € 2558,- gross per month in the last year.

Additional Information
Additional information about the vacancy can be obtained from:

Dr.ir. Antoine Kemperman
Telephone number: +31 53 489 2956
E-mail address: a.j.b.kemperman@utwente.nl

Application
You can apply for this job before 04-01-2009 by sending your application to:

University of Twente
faculty TNW
dr.ir. A. Antoine Kemperman
Postbus 217
7500 AE Enschede

E-mail address: a.j.b.kemperman@utwente.nl

When applying for this job always mention the vacancy number AT/08/291.

The short URL code for this job opening is: 00355-644.
You can use this as a direct link to the job by adding the code to the URL www.academictransfer.org/

Job description
PhD “Air/water cleaning to control membrane fouling”

High-pressure membrane processes, i.e. reverse osmosis (RO) and nanofiltration (NF), are increasingly used in drinking water treatment, seawater desalination, waste water reclamation and for the production of water for industrial uses. The potential for the removal of salts, pathogens, pesticides, hormones, pharmaceuticals and other possible threatening priority compounds from feed waters by NF/RO make these membrane processes highly attractive in a world with shortage of clean and fresh water. The largest problem in using membrane processes, however, is the occurrence of membrane fouling resulting in performance loss and operational problems resulting in an increase of the total treatment cost which limits the use of NF/RO. The new and innovative ‘AiRO’ process uses air/water cleaning of vertically positioned membrane elements to control membrane fouling.

To effectively apply AiRO in practice, an alternative NF/RO design is necessary using vertically positioned membrane elements, completely different from conventional NF/RO design applied worldwide. The most efficient use of the AiRO technology depends on the optimal use of air/water cleaning in membrane elements. Although initial research showed the effectiveness of the process, many fundamental questions still remain unanswered. Some of these questions involve:
(i)the mechanical/physical understanding of air/water cleaning of membrane elements,
(ii)the effectiveness of the air/water cleaning process in relation to different feed components,
(iii)the long term behaviour of air/water cleaning.
The first two research questions will be investigated using CFD modelling parallel to laboratory tests and will be the heart of the PhD project. Long term air/water cleaning behaviour will be investigated in on-site pilot-scale research in a parallel research project.

Requirements
University Graduate
.Profile
We are looking for highly motivated and enthusiastic researchers with an MSc degree in chemistry, chemical engineering, material science or a related topic, with adequate experimental and theoretical skills. We prefer candidates with a good team spirit, who like to work in an internationally oriented environment. Fluency in English is a requirement. An interview and a scientific presentation will be part of the selection procedure.

Organization
University of Twente Faculty of Science and Technology
Sharing knowledge, working together, research, innovation. It is all part of the only campus university in the Netherlands: the University of Twente (UT). A university with an international character. We have for example many foreign doctoral students, and master programmes are provided in English. Divided over 5 faculties, we provide more than 50 Bachelor and Master programmes, varying from Applied Physics and Public Administration to Applied Communication Science and Biomedical Technology. In beautiful green surroundings, more than 8000 students and 2700 staff live, work and recreate at the UT. It is also a place where talented people get every opportunity to perform cutting edge research. But as an entrepreneurial university this is not all we do. In ‘Kennispark’, for example, we work together with the business community, we support our students in setting up their own businesses and participate in many projects in the area of knowledge
development. In brief, a dynamic climate in which to work and study.

The Faculty of Science and Technology (700 faculty members, 1100 students) offers a range of bachelor and master courses (NanoTechnology, Applied Physics, Chemical Engineering and Technical Medicine). The faculty’s research is organized in three of the university’s interdisciplinary research institutes: MESA+, BMTI, and IMPACT. These institutes increase the vitality of research by enabling collaboration between programs and disciplines, by providing shared facilities, and by attracting funding for joint projects. They also provide a conduit to industrial partners and help in attracting new faculty.

Conditions of employment
Estimated maximum salary per month: eur 2500 - 3000
Salaryscale 10.
Maximum salary amount in Euro’s a month 2612
Employment basis: Temporary for specified period
Duration of the contract: 4 years
Maximum hours per week: 38

Additional conditions of employment:
Offer
We offer a scientific education on a multidisciplinary subject. The assignment is for 4 years, with a go/no-go assessment at the end of the first year. The candidates are expected to finish the project with a PhD thesis and disseminate the results through patents (if applicable), publications in peer-reviewed journals and presentations at international conferences. Your starting salary will be € 2000,- in the first year and up to € 2558,- gross per month in the last year.

Additional Information
Additional information about the vacancy can be obtained from:

Dr.ir. Antoine Kemperman
Telephone number: +31 53 489 2956
E-mail address: a.j.b.kemperman@utwente.nl

Application
You can apply for this job before 04-01-2009 by sending your application to:

University of Twente
faculty TNW
dr.ir. A. Antoine Kemperman
Postbus 217
7500 AE Enschede

E-mail address: a.j.b.kemperman@utwente.nl

When applying for this job always mention the vacancy number AT/08/292.

The short URL code for this job opening is: 00355-645.
You can use this as a direct link to the job by adding the code to the URL www.academictransfer.org/

Postdoc Biochemistry (1.0)
(Utrecht), 38 hours per week Utrecht University

Job description
Postdoc Biochemistry
Because pathogens become increasingly resistant to therapeutic drugs, and due to the emergence of new pathogens, novel approaches to the treatment of infectious diseases are required. By chemical cross-linking we have generated bifunctional proteins consisting of a lectin domain and a fragment of an antibody directed against Fc receptors on phagocytic cells. Studies in vitro in our laboratory have shown that such bifunctional proteins can stimulate uptake and killing of a broad spectrum of pathogens by recognizing the microbes through the lectin domain and targeting them to the phagocytes through the anti-Fc receptor part. Your task will be to expand this work by:

1) varying the anti-Fc receptor moiety
2) developing a method for the production of the bifunctional proteins as fusion proteins
3) testing the effectiveness of the produced proteins with regard to their stimulation of pathogen uptake and killing by phagocytes in experiments in vitro. Depending on your affinity and experience, the effectiveness can also be studied in mouse infection experiments in vivo.

Requirements
Doctorate
We are looking for a biochemist, or medical molecular biologist, holding a PhD degree, who has experience with molecular biology, protein expression, various protein purification techniques and cell culture, and who has affinity with immunology. Candidates from the European Union are eligible for this position. Applications from the American continent will also be considered.

Organization
Utrecht University
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
The Faculty of Veterinary Medicine www.vet.uu.nl is an internationally leading institute in veterinary scientific education, research and associated patient care. It ranks number one in Europe and among the top five institutes of veterinary science world-wide and is accredited by the American Medical Veterinary Association and the Canadian Medical Veterinary Association.

The Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology invites applications for a

Postdoc Biochemistry

Conditions of employment
Estimated maximum salary per month: eur 3500 - 4000
Salaryscale 10.
Maximum salary amount in Euro’s a month 3755
Employment basis: Temporary for specified period
Duration of the contract: 2 years
Maximum hours per week: 38

Additional conditions of employment:
We offer an experienced, collaborative and international group of colleagues and an excellent infrastructure that integrates molecular biology, biochemistry, life-cell imaging, and a state of the arts lipidomics facility. We take part in the Institute of Biomembranes www.biomembranes.nl the Academic Biomedical Centre www.abc.uu.nl and are engaged in many (inter)national collaborations.
We offer a fulltime temp. app. for 2 years.
Your gross salary will amount between € 2,861.- and € 3,755,- per month (full-time appointment in scale 10 of the Collective Labour Agreement of the Dutch Univ.), depending on previous qualifications and experience. Salaries are supplemented with a holiday bonus of 8% and a year-end bonus of 8,3% per year. There are outstanding secondary benefits, based on the CAO of NL Univ. and include e.g. a min. of 29 days holiday per year, an arrangement for study fac., generous contributions to healthcare, childcare, a pension scheme and flexible employment conditions.

Additional Information
Additional information about the vacancy can be obtained from:

Dr. J.J. Batenburg
Telephone number: +31 (0)30 253 5381
E-mail address: j.j.batenburg@uu.nl

Or additional information can be obtained through one of the following links.

* About the organization

Application
You can apply for this job before 03-01-2009 by sending your application to:

The Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
Personnel department
M.E.J. Willemse-van Soest
Yalelaan 1
NL 3584 CL Utrecht

E-mail address: vacatures1@vet.uu.nl

Please send your application (including a cover letter, a CV, a statement of education, research interests and experimental methods used, and a detailed list of publications and achievements), accompanied by the names and contact info of persons who are able to provide professional reference.

When applying for this job always mention the vacancy number 12896.

The short URL code for this job opening is: 00351-1787.
You can use this as a direct link to the job by adding the code to the URL www.academictransfer.org/

All applicants are subject to a rigorous screening process in view of limited places available in the department. Details of the University of Hong Kong’s research degree minimum entrance requirements and application process can be found at
http://www.hku.hk/gradsch/web/index1024.htm

The University of Hong Kong’s research degree application deadline is December 31st, however in the first instance applicants should send a letter of interest and C.V. to Dr. Teresa C.H. Tao by December 15th. The letter of interest will not be treated as an official application.
Full-time research postgraduate students at the University of Hong Kong are eligible for a postgraduate studentship that equates to a monthly stipend of HK$13100 (subject to university review) for 3 years of Ph.D. and 2 years for Master of Philosophy.

Job Summary

PhD and Postdoc positions in an Initial Training Network (ITN) on
ultrafast control of quantum systems by strong laser fields

http://icb.u-bourgogne.fr/fastquast

Application Deadline
30/12/2008

How To Apply
e-mail

Applicants must not have resided or carried out their main activity
in the country of the host for more than 12 months in the three
years immediately prior to their recruitment

Master obtained within the past four years for the PhD positions

Applicants who will obtain a Master in 2009 after the deadline are
also eligible for the PhD positions

http://ec.europa.eu/euraxess/index_en.cfm?

Do you have GREAT VISION? Do you have GREAT PASSION? Do you have
GREAT TALENT?
Do you have what it takes to MAKE A DIFFERENCE in education?

Ma Chung University invites high-caliber talents with big passion and
vision in education to join our dream team! We provide vast
opportunity for bright professionals to actualize ideas and maximize
their potentials. It is truly the right place for you who want to
make a difference in education and raise a generation of future
leaders, entrepreneurs and motivators!

General Requirements:
- Male/Female
- Min. Bachelor’s Degree (S1) in the related field; GPA
min.3.00 (scale 4) from a reputable university.
- Proficient in English, both oral and written.
- Computer literate, positive attitude
- Good interpersonal, communication skills, self-motivated,
- Able to work well independently or in a team.
- Having working experience in educational institution will be
an advantage.

Available Positions:
1. IT Staff – Programmer (Code: IT-Prog)
- Mastering ASP.net, SQL server, C#.net
- Familiar in using the products of Windows Server

2. Librarian (Code: LIB)

3. Research Assistant at Ma Chung Research Centre (Code: RA)
- Min. Bachelor’s Degree (S1) in Natural chemical material,
Food Chemistry, Bio Industry, Microbiology
- Enclose the abstract and title of your final project
- Enclose your resume and list of publications that you have

4. Researcher at Ma Chung Research Centre (Code: R)
- Min. Master’s Degree (S2) in Natural chemical material, Food
Chemistry , Bio Industry, Microbiology
- Enclose the abstract and title of your final project
- Enclose your resume and list of publications that you have
- Make the research summary about photosynthetic pigment
(Chlorophyll and Carotenoid)

5. Student’s Affair Staff / Bidang Kemahasiswaan (Code : STA)
- Single.
- Bachelor’s Degree (S1) in Psychology will be an advantage
- Sociable & having students’ organizational experience will be
prioritized.
- Having own private vehicle.

If you meet above requirements, please send your
Application Letter, Academic Transcript & Certificates, Latest CV,
Copy of ID Card and Photo (4X6 – color) before December 5Th , 2008
to:
Universitas Ma Chung
Att.: Human Capital Development (HCD)
Villa Puncak Tidar N-01
Malang 65151 – Jawa Timur, Indonesia
Phone : +62-341 550 171
Fax : +62-341 550 175
www.machung.ac.id

Or via e-mail to : hcd@machung.ac.id
Cc : dwi.indahwati @machung.ac.id

NOTE:
- Name the position code on subject column on your email or on
your envelope.
- Only short-listed candidates will be notified for further
processing.

We have two openings for PhD candidates interested in working on 3D
shape and motion recovery from video. Topics of immediate interest
include modeling crowd behavior using multiple cameras, real-time
tracking for visual servoing of a robotic plane, and automated
analysis of brain imagery.

For details about our research activities, see
http://cvlab.epfl.ch/research/.

For practical information about EPFL’s doctoral program and life in
Lausanne, see http://acide.epfl.ch/webdav/site/acide/shared/phdguide.pdf.

Education:

Masters degree in Computer Science or related field with experience in
the areas of Computer Vision or Computer Graphics. A strong background
in Mathematics is desirable.

Applying:

1. Apply to our doctoral program, as explained under
http://phd.epfl.ch/page55508.html.

2. Specify in the application form that you are interested by Prof.
Fua’s CVLab. There is no need to contact him directly.

Interested students should contact:

Andrey Bekker (Precambrian atmospheric and ocean composition)-
bekker@cc.umanitoba.ca

Alfredo Camacho (Tectonics and geochronology)- camacho@cc.umanitoba.ca

Mostafa Fayek (Uranium deposit research and exploration)- fayek@cc.umanitoba.ca