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Postdoctoral in Mechatronics with Application to Traffic Safety, Sweden

You will be involved in mainly two research activities, both concerning traffic safety. The first topic is cooperative driving which will be carried out partly together with the other postdocs recruited to the department. The second topic is development of algorithms for detecting critical traffic situation based on sensor signals. Also this research will be carried out in connection with other researchers, both from academia and from industry.

Eligibility:
Required qualifications You have a recent Ph.D. degree in a subject related to any of the fields signal processing, automatic control or mechatronics. You have a good theoretical background and interest to work on real world problems. Experience in traffic safety, vehicle dynamics, data mining, detection theory and filtering is an advantage. Furthermore, an interest in interdisciplinary work with researchers and engineers from other fields is essential, as are skills in simulation techniques and mathematical analysis. You should have excellent command of spoken and written English and have good collaborative skills. Teaching experience is an advantage.

Application procedure

The application shall be written in English and include the following items:

1. An application of a maximum of one A4 page containing your specific qualifications for the position
2. Curriculum Vitae including list of publications
3. Two reference persons who can be contacted by Chalmers (describe association with them and give their contact addresses)
4. Attested copies of education certificates, including grade reports and other documents.
Fellowship Application Deadline:
2011-02-25
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PhD Stipend in Bioinformatics, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Within recent years, it has become evident that non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) play numerous important roles in the cell. Many ncRNAs contain a characteristic RNA structure, a hallmark that (albeit often at a high computational cost) can be exploited by in silico screens. These screens are in essence based on a search for RNA secondary structures. The goals of the Ph.D. project is to design methods to conduct in particular local structural alignments of RNA structures to be exploited for structure search in genomic sequence as well as structural clustering of the RNAs.The project will be carried out in collaboration with people in the Center for non-coding RNA in Technology and Health.

Qualification requirements
The applicant should hold professional as well as personal skills and qualifications as stated below:
* A master degree in Bioinformatics, computational biology, biology or similar.
* Basic knowledge of biological sequences.
* Experience with algorithm development.
* Experience with Perl or Python (or similar)
* Experience with one (or more) of C, C++ or Java.
* It is an advantage (but not a requirement) to have general knowledge about RNA structure and folding, RNA gene search algorithms and algorithms for structural alignment or RNAs.
* The Ph.D. candidate should also possess good interpersonal skills.

Scholarship Application Deadline: February 1st, 2011

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TWAS-CAS Postgraduate Fellowship Programme for Scientists from Developing Countries 2011, China

TWAS-CAS Postgraduate Fellowships in natural sciences are tenable for a minimum period of six months to a maximum period of twelve months at the research institutions of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. This is not a full PhD programme, but specifically enables PhD students to carry out all or part of the final year of their research programme in China.
CAS will provide a standard monthly allowance which should be used to cover living costs, such as accommodation, food and health insurance. Only emergency medical aid will be available, if necessary. The monthly stipend will not be convertible into foreign currency.

Eligibility
Applicants for these Fellowships must meet the following criteria:
* be a maximum age of 35 years on 31 December of the application year;
* be nationals of a developing country (other than China);
* hold a Master’s degree in a field of the natural sciences;
* be registered PhD students in their home country;
* be accepted at a CAS-listed institution participating in the scheme and provide an official acceptance letter from the host institution (see sample Acceptance Letter, page 6) to this effect; and
* provide evidence of proficiency in English or Chinese.

Scholarship Application Deadline:
31 August 2011

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