Risk Assessment and Environmental Safety affected by Compound Bioavailability in multiphase environments (RAISEBIO) based at the UFZ Centre for Environmental Research – Leipzig, Germany to be filled between September 2006 and August 2007. Details about the positions, the eligibility criteria for candidates and how to apply are given in the file that you can download. The PhD projects are highly complementary and will be accompanied by an intensive training programme and various measures meant to develop the students scientific careers.
RAISEBIO is an EU funded early stage research training project implemented at the UFZ Departments Environmental Technology, Bioremediation, and Environmental Microbiology. The project will provide new approaches and advanced concepts for the determination, modeling, and control of bioavailability of environmental pollutants, i.e. the effective concentrations of the compounds governing toxicity or availability for degradation and residue formation in terrestrial environments.RAISEBIO plans to improve the knowledge on bioavailability, refine the predictive modeling of bioavailable concentrations in environmental systems and finally emphasize the role of bioavailability and residue formation issues in setting environmental quality standards in current and future European strategies of risk assessment and approval procedures for anthropogenic chemicals. RAISEBIO offers an intensive training program for young researchers from EU member and associate states (non-German!) on cutting edge methods in the field of environmental chemistry, microbiology, and modeling of environmental processes including isotope tracer methods, molecular methods, mass spectrometry, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and sophisticated mathematical modeling. In addition, successful candidates will be encouraged to participate at courses for complementary skills and at summer schools organized by the project.
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