January, 2011 | Scholarship for Nigerians and Africans - Part 52

EMIN-Erasmus Mundus Joint Master in Economics and Management of Network Industries

The EMIN Joint Master Programme offers the opportunity to acquire expertise in network industries management from a global perspective that covers both the economic/regulatory and technological/management issues. In these industries, teaching, training and research are typically carried out solely by focused specialists, which usually results in a skewed perspective. The purpose of this Master is to continue integrating specialists from different perspectives and nationalities, and to make them interact in an interdisciplinary program to address the main problems faced by network industries in the current context of economic crisis and environmental concern. Our master students will learn the relevant engineering, economics, policy and management principles in the network and infrastructure industries. These skills and knowledge will be acquired and used together in real-life problems, as this course is dedicated to training qualified professionals.

EMIN Joint Master Programme was awarded in 2006 with the Erasmus Mundus excellence label by the European Commission, award renewed for another 5 years in 2010. This excellence label has been granted only to 126 Masters and 22 doctorates in all disciplines and Universities across Europe so far. Comillas also coordinates the Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate in Sustainable Energy Technologies and Strategies (SETS Joint Doctorate).

Duration
The EMIN is a two-year joint programme (120 ECTS) with two separate phases:
Training period (90 ECTS): 3 semesters of lectures at the partner universities worth 30 ECTS each.
Master Thesis and internships (30 ECTS): to be carried by students at any of the EMIN partner universities, with the collaboration of the industry partners that will support the development of professional internship of EMIN students during the last stage of their studies.

Scholarship Application Deadline: January 31st 2011

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Postdoctoral Position in Neuroinformatics 2011, Sweden

KTH School of Computer Science and Communication (CSC) announces a postdoctoral position in neuroinformatics in collaboration with Stockholm Brain Institute (SBI) and international partners
The Department of Computational Biology (CB) at CSC and Nada conducts research in the areas of computational neuroscience, neuroinformatics, neurocomputing, systems biology, bioinformatics and biological physics. The computational neuroscience research is specialized in modelling and simulation of the neuronal networks of the brain as well as brain-inspired computational architectures and algorithms. The methodological approaches span multiple scales, from simulation of subcellular signaling pathways to biophysically detailed or abstract modelling of large-scale neuronal networks. The group is partner of SBI and manages its computational and modelling platform.
Stockholm Brain Institute (SBI) is a brain research consortium in Stockholm with a focus on cognitive and computational neuroscience that joins research groups from Karolinska institutet, KTH, and Stockholm University.
CB currently has an opening for a postdoctoral position at Stockholm University in neuroinformatics aimed at development and use of advanced computational tools for analysis of multidimensional data produced by computational brain models. A focus is on parallel computing in a Linux environment using available high-end cluster supercomputers. The position is partly connected to SBI. Co-supervising of PhD students may take place.

Scholarship Application Deadline: 31 January 2011

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Engineering Postdoctoral Position in Microfluidics, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea

There is an opening for a postdoctoral researcher in the accelerator and Medical Engineering at the SKKU University, Republic of Korea. The initial term is one year, with the possibility of extension subject to performance review and funding availability.
The project is aimed at the development of automatically FDG production system using Microfluidics technology.
The applicant should have earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, physics, or system design engineering. Candidates should have experience in the design and characterization of such devices as well as extensive experience in using multi-physics simulation tools (such as ANSYS). The candidate should be open-minded, ingenuous, energetic, and bring strong expertise in at least one of the fields of microfluidics, micro fabrication, system engineering, mass transport, cell biology, or microscopy. Candidates are invited to send by email with the subject “Postdoc in microfluidics” a cover letter, their complete curriculum vitae, the names of three references, and if published papers or manuscripts in preparation (preferred electronic format is pdf) to:

Accelerator and Medical engineering lab
Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU)
300 cheoncheon-dong, jangan-gu,Suwon,
Gyeonggi-do 440-746, korea

Scholarship Application Deadline: Contact Employer,jschai-at-skku.edu

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