Post Doctoral | Scholarship for Nigerians and Africans - Part 127

John Von Neumann Research Fellowship in Computational Science, USA

/ August 19, 2010 Leave a Comment

The Computational Sciences, Computer Sciences and Mathematics Center and the Distributed Information Systems Center at Sandia National Laboratories invite outstanding candidates to apply for the John Von Neumann Post-doctoral Research Fellowship in Computational Science. The Fellowship is supported by the Mathematical, Information, and Computational Sciences Division at the U.S. Department of Energy and provides an exceptional opportunity for innovative research in scientific computing on advanced computing and software architectures. This appointment is for a period of one year with a possible renewal for a second year, and includes a highly competitive salary, moving expenses, and a generous professional travel allowance.

Selection of Candidates

* Candidate will apply to specific job postings for consideration, www.sandia.gov/careers.
* Selections of successful candidates is based on the technical needs of specific technical organizations at the labs and a criteria-focused matrix of academic standing, experience, leadership qualities, honors and faculty recommendations.
* Each candidate’s research interest and preference in position will determine organizational placement of the MFP candidate.

Benefits

* Pursue a graduate degree on a full-time basis while remaining on roll but being absent from Sandia
* Annual stipend
* Full-time regular employee benefits while in the program with the exception of vacation accrual
* Payment of tuition and tuition associated costs without annual cap, paid directly to the university
* Relocation benefits
* One four day/three night campus visit to finalize program of study and secure housing
* Upon successful completion, return to Sandia as a Member of the Technical Staff

The application deadline for fellows is December 5 of the year prior to the October start date.

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Public Health Informatics Fellowship Program, USA

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PHIFP is a 2-year paid fellowship in public health informatics. The competency-based and hands-on training allows you to apply information and computer science and technology to solve real-world problems.

You will have the opportunity to:

  • Learn about informatics and public health
  • Work with teams involved in research and development of public health information systems
  • Lead an informatics project
  • Design, develop, implement, evaluate, and manage public health information systems .

    • To apply for PHIFP, you must:

  • Meet both the educational and professional requirements
  • Be willing to commit to a 2-year full-time program
  • Be willing to relocate to Atlanta, Georgia
      • Educational Requirements:A doctoral (PhD, MD) or masters level degree is required. Qualifying degree must be from an accredited academic institution in one of the following:

    • Public health, medicine, health care, health-services research
    • Computer science, information science, information systems
    • Statistics
    • Epidemiology
    • Public health informatics or related discipline
      Professional Requirements:Documented 1-year experience for doctoral level candidates and 3-year experience for masters level candidates is required in one of the following fields:

    • Public health informatics
    • Health informatics or related field
    • Information systems
    • Information science
    • Computer science
    • Information technology

      • Additionally, documented 1-year experience for doctoral level candidates and 3-year experience for masters level candidates is required in one of the following areas:

    • Public health
    • Related healthcare profession (medicine, nursing, veterinary medicine, dentistry, allied health professions)
      Research Requirements:Documented experience in performing research or evaluation during or after academic training (e.g., publication, thesis, poster presentation, research/evaluation proposal).

      Apply online between July 5 and November 3, 2010.

      Application Deadlines:

    • November 3: Deadline for submitting the online application (12:00 midnight, Eastern Time)
    • November 11: All supporting documents must be received by this date

    Contact Address:

    Public Health Informatics Fellowship Program
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    1600 Clifton Road, NE
    Mailstop E-92
    Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
    Phone: 404-498-6219
    Fax: 404-498-6135
    E-mail: phifp@cdc.gov

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    PhD Scholarship of Biosciences BBSRC CASE Award: Exploiting Next-Generation Sequencing Data for Measurement of Biological Phenomena, UK

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    Based in the School of Biosciences and offered in collaboration with the LGC, this BBSRC CASE award will look at next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies, which have the potential to be used for measurement of a wide range of biological, environmental, and toxicological phenomena. The project will involve testing and validating NGS methods, including consistency between alternative methods (e.g. Illumina, 454, Quantitative PCR), accuracy, dynamic range for optimal accuracy, the robustness of technologies to increasingly complex mixtures of test material, variations in DNA library preparation protocols, inherent biases of each method and ability to reproduce measurements.

    As part of the award you will have access to standard reference biological materials (well-characterised mixtures of two or more bacterial strains, for example) as well as Illumina (via Exeter) and 454 (via LGC) NGS platforms. You will also have access to more established analytical methods such as quantitative PCR. The first step will be to devise a series of metrics of reproducibility and bias. As well as classical statistical approaches such as linear regression, the project will also make use of bioinformatics approaches for tasks such as quality-filtering and mapping reads against reference sequences.

    You will spend at least 6 months seconded to LGC’s laboratories in Teddington and it is also likely that you will have the opportunity to spend some time at one of LGC’s sites abroad (e.g. the Berlin laboratories where the 454 instrument is based).

    Application deadline: 13th August 2010

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