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University of Chicago, Postdoctoral Researcher,USA: Research(Laboratory/Non-Laboratory)

Chapin Hall seeks candidates for the Harold A. Richman postdoctoral research fellowship aimed at strengthening the intellectual and research qualifications of outstanding scholars interested in applied research careers focusing on child, youth, and family well-being. The postdoctoral program will provide new scholars with advanced research training through participation on Chapin Hall research projects; time and resources to explore and develop independent research ideas; and mentoring by nationally recognized researchers in the field, both at Chapin Hall and the University of Chicago. The selected individual will have the opportunity to be involved with research design, development of data collection instruments and their implementation, data analyses and write-up of study results. This is an in-residence, two-year term program. Applications must be received by January 31, 2011. Notice will be given to the successful applicant in March-April 2011. The Fellow must be able to begin the position between July 1 and September 2011.

The Fellow will receive $52,000 per calendar year and an opportunity to participate in the University of Chicago’s benefit program. Moving expenses are the responsibility of the individual. The individual may not hold any other paying positions or appointments during the period they are participating in the Chapin Hall Postdoctoral Fellowship programme.

Application Deadline: 03/28/2011

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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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EPSRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow: Cognitive Control of Autonomous Systems, UK

The Cognitive Signal Image Processing Research (COSIPRA) Laboratory of Dr. Amir Hussain at the University of Stirling invites applications for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to work on the EPSRC project “Dual Process Control Models in the Brain and Machines with Application to Autonomous Vehicle Control”.

The general aim of this multi-disciplinary project is to exploit a range of similarities between systems in control engineering and the animal brain, focusing specifically on the concepts of automatised and controlled (or executive) processing and how they might map onto modular.

Given the inherent similarities between the two problem domains of AVC and action selection in animals, this ambitious project aims to leverage new results from psychology and neurobiology discovered in the laboratory of the project Co-Investigator (Prof Kevin Gurney at The University of Sheffield) and apply them to the AVC controllers under development in Dr Hussain’s Lab at Stirling. The outcome should be a new generation real-time cognitive AVC controller, more directly inspired by the biological ideas. The appointed postdoctoral researcher will work closely with our industrial partners (Industrial Systems Control and SciSys) to evaluate the benefits of these novel controllers within the challenging context of regular road driving and planetary rover vehicles.
Fellowship Application Deadline: 05/01/2011 at 12 noon
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