Vacancies at NTNU-Norway

Post doctor position in Chemistry within "molecular dynamics simulations" (Application deadline: 22. May)

Little is known about the precise molecular interactions that control the stability of gas hydrates, in particular the effect of additives like glycol, salts, fluoroalkanes, and tetrahydrofuran which may have an enormous effect on the stability. It is planned to conduct molecular simulations (Molecular Dynamics, Monte Carlo) using classical force fields to investigate the thermodynamic stability of various gas hydrate structures that contain methane, CO2 and some of the additives mentioned above.

We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher with a PhD in physics, chemistry or engineering and with a solid background in molecular simulation and (statistical) thermodynamics. The duration of the project will be 3 years, and the right person can start on short notice.

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PhD Research fellowship position at Department of Electric Power Engineering within “Ageing and Failure Mechanisms in Subsea High Voltage Insulation Systems” – IME-035-2008 (Application deadline: 30. May)

The Research fellowship is part of a large project entitled “Electric Power Systems for Subsea Processing and Transportation of Oil and Gas”, organized by SINTEF Energy Research in co-operation with oil companies, industries and the Research council of Norway. The main objective is to examine degradation mechanisms that can come into action at high temperature and high hydrostatic water pressure.

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Ph.D position in the area Steel for Arctic Applications (Application deadline: 30.05.08)

Steel alloys are by far the most commonly used metals in oil and gas production installations, and in cold environments, many low-alloy steels become brittle. The aim of the PhD project is to achieve knowledge on mechanisms and microstructures that affect the ductile-to-brittle transition of steels for arctic applications.We seek a candidate with an MSc or equivalent degree in materials science , physics or chemistry. Previous experience with steels and electronoptical techniques, especially transmission electron microscopy, is desirable.

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Research Grant for a PhD Candidate in "Metal Hydrides" at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) (Application deadline: 30. May)

The PhD project is an integrated part of the NFR financed project "An Integrated Process for Hydrogen production and Separation", managed by StatoilHydro, and which objectives are in accordance with future visions and strategies for the development of Norwegian hydrogen based energy systems. The candidate who receives the fellowship is expected to fulfil the requirements for a PhD degree at NTNU during the period of the grant.

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PhD research fellowship in the field of “Nonlinear elastic waves for estimation of properties of technical and geologic materials” (Application deadline: June 1st)

The Department of Petroleum Engineering and Applied Geophysics announces one vacant PhD fellowship in the field of "Estimation of material and reservoir properties with nonlinear ultrasound". The fellowship is financed by the PETROMAKS program of the Research Council of Norway.

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2 positions as research fellow in biological/cognitive psychology (Application deadline: 3. June 2008)

At the Department of Psychology there are 2 positions as research fellow in biological/cognitive psychology vacant.

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Postdoctoral fellowship position in Analysis (Application deadline: 5. June)

The aim of this postdoctoral project is to perform researches in complex and harmonic analysis as well as spectral operator theory in collaboration with the Analysis group NTNU. Applicants must have a PhD degree or equivalent. Candidates that complete their PhD degree before fall 2008 are also encouraged to apply.

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Professorship/Qualification Fellowship in Marine Technology Application deadline: 15 June 2008

The Department of Marine Technology announces a vacant Professorship/Qualification Fellowship in Marine Operations and Maintenance Technology.

Jobbnorge

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Up to 7 PhD Research Fellowships at the Department of Marine Tehcnology (Application deadline: 15. June)

Up to 5 vacant doctoral fellowships related to design and operation of marine systems at The Marine Systems Group.

Up to 2 vacant doctoral fellowships related to marine hydrodynamics and structural analysis at the Marine Structures Group.

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Professorship/Qualification Fellowship in Marine Technology (Application deadline: 15. June)

The Department of Marine Technology announces a vacant Professorship/Qualification Fellowship in Marine Operations and Maintenance Technology.

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PhD Research Fellowship in mineral deposit geology (Application deadline: 15. June)

At the Department of Geology and Mineral Resources Engineering is one PhD position open for qualified candidates with a specialization in geology and particularly in one or more of the sub-disciplines, mineral deposit geology, high temperature geochemistry, igneous and metamorphic petrology. The period of employment is 4 year with 25 % duties.

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PhD research fellowship position within the field of nanopositioning (Application deadline: June 15, 2008)

At Department of Engineering Cybernetics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology we have available a PhD research fellowship position within the field of nanopositioning. Funding is for 3 years and startup is autumn 2008.

PhD Vacancy-University of Twente, The Netherlands

http://www.utwente.nl/vacatures/en/

PhD student project “Conductivity Control in Metallic Nanolayers”

2 PhD Closed-Loop Embedded MEMS- based Precision Stage

Staff member AIDA

Associate Professor Financial Engineering 1,0 fte (08/099)

Wanted: Female Talent UTwist 3

Assistant Professor Fundamentals of Chemical Reaction Engineering (FCRE)

PhD Studentship Tribology of Fiber Reinforced Elastomers and Thermoplastics (08/139)

PhD Governance of International Research Collaboration (08/135)

PostDoc or Assistant Professor International Master Programme ‘Governance of Science, Technology and Innovation’ (08/136)

PhD position: Jamming, shear banding and microstructure

PhD position: Clustering phase diagram simulation and theory

Associate Professor (UHD) + Assistant Professor (UD) Applied Cognitive Psychology (tenure track)

Postdoc Multi scale analysis of contact noise

PhD researcher

PostDoc position Integrated Perimeter Security

Associate Professor Financial Engineering 1,0 fte

Two PhD positions are available at the Department of Applied Mathematics at the University of Twente.

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Vacancies in KTH-SWEDEN

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[Spain- MSc/PhD] students in Wireless Communications and Multimedia Signalling

Call for MSc / PhD students in the area of wireless communications and multimedia signalling NeTS Research Group Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

NeTS is looking for students coming from renowned universities from around the world, with a very good grade record, who have a very high interest in wireless communications, specially those based on the IEEE 802.11 principles, including sensor, adhoc, infrastructure WLANs and mesh networks. We are also looking for students passionate about multimedia communications in the Internet, and the protocols associated to it. We seek students with a strong background on communications networks, coming from electrical engineering, computer science or related fields. Paramount is a desire to learn and push the limits of current technology, as well as providing new insight into today’s and tomorrow’s networks and services.

The accepted candidates will participate in several projects in tight cooperation with other researchers from our group. Positions available are:

1 PhD / MSc position in “Reconfigurable, adaptive and selforganized sensor networks”. Sensor networks are formed by small, inexpensive and resource limited devices that can interact with the environment (sensing or actuating) and communicate wirelessly with other devices. The work will consist in the design and implementation of a complete new protocol stack based on collaborative and crosslayer techniques, including power control routing algorithms, reconfigurable PHY/MAC protocols and adaptive self organized multihop clustering algorithms.

1 PhD / MSc position in “Modeling adaptive traffic flows over capacity varying wireless mesh networks”. Current WLANs suffer from various impairments which reduce their ability to carry multimedia flows satisfactorily. One of them is the intrinsic variable capacity due to the multiple transmission rates used and caused by the distributed random access to the channel. The proposed thesis will consider the definition of a mathematical framework to analyze multichannel wireless mesh networks, based on the IEEE 802.11s/n prestandard, in order to optimize the QoS and signalling mechanisms (e.g. based on P2P paradigms) to adapt properly the multimedia traffic sources (such as VoIP, video streaming).

1 PhD / MSc position in “Next Generation Multimedia Signalling for the multitechnology, multiservice Internet”. The Internet is undergoing a dramatic evolution through new architectural paradigms, like the NGNs, P2Pbased signalling and applications, mobile and wireless access networks and the like. There is a necessity to design a new set of integrated signalling protocols, which permit to control the transmission of multimedia traffic over such heterogeneous networks. IMS is the current best practice in that area, but its many shortcomings and high complexity suggest to explore new approaches that go beyond IMS, like P2PSIP based systems. The goal of this PhD, thus, is to design, evaluate and standardize new signalling protocols for the Internet of the future. We offer a three year grant to PhD students with a MSc already finished. Moreover, for students without a MsC a four year grant is also possible with the requirement to follow our master program during the first year.

How to apply Please send your full CV, together with your student record (as appropriate) and a cover letter stating your interests and goals to:

Dr. Miquel Oliver: miquel.oliver[a-t]upf.edu Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Edifici Estació França, Passeig de la Circumval∙lació, 8. Postal code: 08003 Barcelona (Spain). Tel: 93 542 24 51 Fax: 93 542 25 17

Deadline: 1 May 2008

[Ireland]Nanoelectronics: Fabrication, characterisation and heterogeneous integration of 1-D nanostructures demonstrating electronic functionality

Electrically conducting 1-D nanostructures (100 – 200 nm in diameter, 10-20 microns in length), have high application potential in future electronic devices such as, e.g., transparent backplane field effect transistor (FET) devices and as sensor platforms. However, a critical challenge in the development of future devices based on 1-D nanostructures is the lack of suitable integration techniques for assembly and integration of nanostructures at pre-defined locations on technologically relevant substrates. New combined approaches to fabrication and heterogeneous integration of, e.g., nanowire components are required whereby components may be assembled into multifunctional mesoscopic arrays on active substrates that permit direct connection to each of the components for either selective component addressing or collective read-out of array status. To address this challenge, this project will explore novel methods for nanostructure fabrication, self-assembly and heterogeneous integration of metallic and metal oxide nanowire arrays at silicon substrates. The morphological characteristics of fabricated nanostructures will be probed using optical and electron microscopy, and scanning probe techniques, e.g., STM and AFM. Following self-assembly and integration of nanostructure-based devices, electronic, and optoelectronic characterisation will be undertaken to demonstrate device functionality. Applications are invited for a Ph.D. studentship in this field. The student’s work will focus on: - Fabrication and nano-visualisation of 1-D metallic- and metal oxide-based nanostructures. - Morphological characterisation of fabricated nanostructures. - Development of routes for controlled self-assembly and heterogeneous integration of nanostructures within electronic and optoelectronic devices. - Investigation of electronic and opto-electronic characteristics of the fully integrated nanodevices using low-noise electrical and optoelectronic characterisation techniques. The successful candidate for this position will have a good undergraduate degree in physics, chemistry, electronic engineering or materials science. Informal enquiries concerning this studentship can be made to Dr. Alan O’Riordan (email: alan.oriordan@tyndall.ie, group webpage: www.tyndall.ie/nanotech). Application Deadline - 30 April 2008