Post Doctoral | Scholarship for Nigerians and Africans - Part 76

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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PhD Studentship, Postdoctoral Fellowship and Junior Scientists Positions, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock

Applications will be reviewed as received. Work can start between February and October 2011.
Project description
James Vaupel’s review of the “Biodemography of Human Ageing” in Nature magazine last March was partially a review and partially a forum to advance a novel, path-breaking hypothesis. The hypothesis is that all humans, both today and in the past, share the same (or almost the same) “rate of aging”, i.e., rate of increase in the chance of death due to increasing deterioration with age (senescence). This is a controversial hypothesis. A research project to study this hypothesis is being launched. Pilot research was conducted in 2010 and the full project will be carried out in 2011-2015. The invariant rate of aging is denoted by the letter b and hence the project is also called the b-project and the researchers working on it are known as the b-team.

Application
Applications should be addressed to the Director, Prof. James W. Vaupel. Applications should include: (1) a CV, (2) a copy of relevant publications (if any), (3) a list of two or three persons, with email addresses, who can be contacted as references, and (4) a short statement of why you are interested in the rate of aging project and what aspects of it you are most interested in working on.

The Max Planck Society wishes to increase the share of women in areas where they are underrepresented, and strongly encourages women to apply. The Max Planck Society is committed to employing more handicapped individuals and especially encourages them to apply

Scholarship Application Deadline:
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Postdoctoral position at KTH, Sweden: Astrophysics

KTH School of Computer Science and Communication (CSC) announces a post-doctoral position with a focus on the approximability of NP-hard optimization problems.
The goal of the current project is to show mathematical theorems relating to efficient computation. The project studies NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems of central importance and aims to establish theoretical bounds on how well each problem can be approximated in polynomial time. The goal is to prove upper bounds by designing and analyzing algorithms and to prove lower bounds in the form of hardness results. A more detailed description of the project can be found at

http://www.csc.kth.se/tcs/projects/approx.php

Scholarship Application Deadline: 15 February 2011

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