IT | Scholarship for Nigerians and Africans - Part 39

Open PhD and Postdoc Positions, Exascale Information Management, Fribourg-Switzerland

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The eXascale Infolab at the University of Fribourg has several openings for Ph.D. students and Postdocs starting now. XI is a brand new lab focusing on creating next-generation information management infrastructures for scientific, semantic, and social data.

We are looking for highly qualified individuals with a MSc or a PhD in Computer Science (or related areas), interested in inventing the future of information management for new application domains (such as for eScience, the Social Web, or the Data Web). Candidates must have strong analytical and programming skills, a good command of the English language, and a genuine interest in designing, building and publishing innovative approaches and systems to manage new types of data in very large-scale environments.

Salary and social benefits are extremely competitive (salaries start at 41K CHF for new Ph.D. students and 81K CHF for postdocs, 1CHF=1USD). XI is supported by a generous grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation and offers top-notch working conditions and cutting-edge hardware infrastructures. The PhD student or PostDoc will be able to join existing projects but also to establish his or her own research direction with the help of the other lab members. Current projects include building main-memory systems bridging the gap between transactional and analytical tools (project in partnership with MIT and the Hasso Plattner Institute), designing new algorithms to mine very large Web logs (in cooperation with VeriSign), and devising new techniques to store and process very large scientific arrays (with MIT, as part of the SciDB project http://www.scidb.org ). New projects focusing on the Social Web and the Data Web will begin shortly, in partnership with leading companies and universities in Europe.

The lab is hosted by the Faculty of Science at the University of Fribourg. The faculty is currently experiencing a formidable expansion and recently received the largest-ever donation made to a Swiss university. Ideally situated in the heart of Switzerland and at the foot of the Alps, the city of Fribourg lies on the linguistic border between the French and German-speaking parts of the country. In addition to being recognized as a first-class location for business and education, Fribourg is also a delightful and exceptional place to live and is often ranked first for quality of life in Western Switzerland.

Scholarship Application Deadline: Contact Employer

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Filed Under: Doctorate Degree, Information Technology, Managerial Science, Post Doctoral Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

Senior Research Positions at HiLASE, Czech Republic: Laser Physics

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HiLASE (High-average power pulsed lasers) is a brand new national project aimed at development of novel type of diode-pumped solid-state lasers (DPSSL) intended for industrial and scientific applications. The project realization team from the Institute of Physics AS CR, v.v.i. is seeking a candidate for the position of: Senior Researcher

Key Responsibilities:
1. Active participation on designing and implementing the laser system projects.
2. Development of the existing projects and working on the improvement and correcting of the system parameters.
3. Designing of concepts and looking for the potential applications.
4. Leading the experimental work.
5. Publishing, participating on the conference, trainings and preparing tender documentation.

Key Requirements:
1. PhD in Laser Physics.
2. Working experience in experimental work in laser physics min. 3 years in solid-state lasers.
3. English language on a very good level (written and spoken).
4. Ability to work independently, featuring strong initiative, inventiveness, and resourcefulness.
5. Excellent organizational skills.
6. Have a team-based approach and mindset.
7. Strong motivation, loyalty and reliability in the work place.
8. Willing to travel
Scholarship Application Deadline: 01/02/2011
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Two-Year Postdoctoral Scientist Position on the Link between Climate Prediction and Renewable Energy in the Mediterranean Region at the Climate Forecasting Unit (CFU)-IC3

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IC3 is a climate research institute created in 2008 by the Government of Catalunya. IC3′s main scientific goal is to assess and understand climate variability and change at both global and regional scales to improve both predictions and projections. Linked to this goal, IC3 works on understanding and simulating how global change modulates variability and change in society and ecosystems. IC3′s mandate is to become a leading international centre for climate research in Europe, with a regional focus on the Mediterranean area. IC3 will mainly develop top-quality research on basic and applied climate sciences, while informing society and stakeholders on future climate risks. Working languages of IC3 are English, Catalan and Spanish.

There is growing interest in the implications of climate variability and change from a season to a few decades ahead. Reliable climate information is critical to ensure that adaptation measures to climate variability and change are well justified and efficient. The Climate Forecasting Unit (CFU), which is led by the ICREA Research Professor F. J.
Doblas-Reyes, undertakes research on the development and assessment of dynamical and statistical methods for the prediction of global climate on time scales ranging from months to decades. More information about the activities of the unit is available from the following links:
Fellowship Application Deadline: Until Filled
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