LIFE now offers 8 PhD scholarships within Climate Change; Impacts, Mitigation and Adaptation. Below you will find detailed information about the relevant areas of research. Also, please see the original posting of the 8 schorlarships.  

15 research areas Applications are welcomed within the following 15 areas; please observe that only 8 PhD scholarships will be awarded. Application deadline is 1 September 2010, at noon.

1. Research to prevent methane emission from ruminant livestock and associated damage to the environment
2. Downscaling climate change information for agriculture and natural resource management
3. Spatial characterisation and modelling of bio-production, eco-systems and climate driven spatial change
4. Climate change effects on ecology and pest status of noxious species
5. Developing sustainable, climate-favorable fertilizer technologies for industrial and third world agriculture
6. Waste management effects on GHG emissions and climate change – in a life cycle assessment perspective
7. Climate Change and Mitigation: Forestry and land-use change
8. Climate Change and Adaptation: Forestry and land-use change
9. Impact of climate change on emerging plant diseases and their threat to food security
10. Climate and contaminants in agricultural drainage water
11. Climate change: Costal Flooding Impacts and Adaptation Strategies in Urban Planning
12. Economics of Climate Change and Natural Resources Management
13. Climate change- GIS-based models for assessing changes in transmission patterns and human health risks of food-borne zoonotic trematode infections in south-east Asia
14. GIS-based models and risk assessment to establish effect of climate change on Salmonella in aquacultures in South-east Asia
15. Effect of climate change on the disease biology of vector-borne helminth diseases in Africa

Further information A full job description and formal requirements can be found in the full job posting.

General questions regarding the Graduate School of Life Sciences at LIFE should be directed to Course Administration c/o executive advisor Michael Cleve Hansen or Senior Administrative Officer Lillian Zeuthen Bjørnseth.

General information on PhD programmes is available at our PhD website 

For further information about climate change research at LIFE, see our website on climate research (Danish).

The Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Copenhagen is pleased to announce that three PhD fellowships will be available from 1 September 2010 or as soon as possible thereafter. Applications are invited for the three-year fellowships from candidates that hold or expect to hold a master's degree in a field relevant to the following projects:

1. Investigation of the function and development of the pharmacology of heteromeric kainate receptors. 
Main supervisor: Associate Professor Darryl Pickering, Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy (email: picker(at)farma.ku.dk).

2. Development of SERCA inhibitors using metabolites of metabolically engineered Physcomitrella patens as starting materials.
Main supervisor: Professor Søren Brøgger Christensen, Department of Medicinal Chemistry (email: sbc(at)farma.ku.dk).

3. Influence of mucosal membrane barrier properties on transport kinetics of oral peptide and protein delivery.
Main supervisor: Associate Professor Hanne Mørck Nielsen, Department of Pharmaceutics and Analytical Chemistry (email: hmn(at)farma.ku.dk).


The PhD fellowships are to be completed in accordance with the Ministerial order on the PhD programme at the universities (PhD order) from the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation and the Regulations and guidelines for the conferment of the PhD degree by the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences. The terms of employment are stated in the agreement between The Danish Confederation of Professional Associations and the Ministry of Finance.

As an equal opportunity employer, the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences invites applications from all interested candidates regardless of gender, age, ethnic origin or religion.

Please note that projects number 1 and 2 are part of the Danish Research Agency´s mobility programme, which means that applicants should have a Master´s and Bachelor degree from another university than the University of Copenhagen.

For further information, applicants may contact the main supervisor.

How to apply

STEP ONE: Make one pdf-file (max 10 mb) with the following contents:

1. Letter stating the interest and qualifications for the project (max. one page)
2. CV
3. Master's degree diploma (including grade transcripts for bachelor’s and master’s degrees)
4. Possible publication list
5. Possible references
6. Applicants with a Master's degree from abroad should also enclose a short description of the grading scale used. 

STEP TWO: Fill in the following form and upload the pdf: Application form

STEP THREE: Print the pdf-file and send one hard copy in an envelope marked "Reference 211-0041/10-0900" to:

University of Copenhagen
Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences 
Universitetsparken 2 
DK - 2100 Copenhagen
Denmark

The hard copy has to be received at the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences before the application deadline.

Deadline for applications: Wednesday 18 August 2010 at 12 o'clock noon.  

An answer as to the granting of the fellowships can be expected appr. 4 weeks after application deadline.

Source: www.farma.ku.dk/index.php?id=8436

A PhD fellowship is now available in the Centre for Electric Technology (CET) at DTU Electrical Engineering. CET employs currently about 20 PhD students and post docs in an international environment.

This PhD project will be concerned with evaluating the potential of utilizing distributed energy resources for ancillary services. This project is linked to a collaborative research project in the centre with other university and industry partners.

Qualifications
Applicants should have a master's degree (or equally competence) in power systems and commitment to research. Research or practical experience in Distribution Network operation, Distributed Generation or Demand side management is preferred. Proficiency in written and spoken English is a prerequisite.

Approval and Enrolment
The scholarships for the PhD degree are subject to academic approval and the candidates will be enrolled in one of the general degree programmes of DTU. For information about the general requirements for enrolment and the general planning of the scholarship studies, please see the DTU PhD Guide.

Salary and appointment terms
The salary and appointment terms are consistent with the current rules for PhD degree students. The positions are available for a three-year period with start from 1 September 2010 or as soon as possible.

Further information
For further information please contact Professor Jacob Østergaard, e-mail: joe@elektro.dtu.dk, phone +45 4525 3954.

You can read more about Department of Electrical Engineering on www.elektro.dtu.dk and Centre for Electric Technology on www.elektro.dtu.dk/cet

Application
We must have your online application by 15 August 2010. To apply please open the link “apply for this job online” and fill in the application form and attach the following documents:

1. A letter of motivation
2. A CV including list of publications
3. The marks and points of all courses that are part of your BSc and MSc degrees
4. References

All interested candidates irrespective of age, gender, race, religion or ethnic background are encouraged to apply.

The Graduate School at the Faculty of Humanities and the PhD Programme in Cultural Studies, Literature and the Arts are inviting applications for four (4) Mobility PhD scholarships within the research area Poetics of Cultural Memory. The scholarships run for a period of up to three years from 1 February 2011. The scholarships are granted by the Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation's Research Coordination Committee as special Mobility Scholarships.

Research into the role and functions of cultural memory in present and past societies has become an important and innovative area of contemporary cultural studies. Cultural self-perception, political communities and the various forms of social and individual agency are deeply rooted in the relation to history proffered by different forms of cultural memory.

Application deadline 17 August, 2010.

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19 PhD Scholarships at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen 2010-05-06

The Graduate School of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Copenhagen is inviting applications for 19 PhD scholarships starting 1 February 2011 for a period of up to three years.

It is possible to apply for scholarships within subject areas and themes related to one or more of the following PhD programmes:

• PhD Programme in Archaelogy, Ethnology, Greek & Latin, and History (SAXO/CPH)
• PhD Programme in Cross Cultural and Regional Studies
• PhD Programme in Cultural Studies, Literature and the Arts
• PhD Programme in Education (FUKU)
• PhD Programme in Language and Linguistics
• PhD Programme in Media and Communication
• PhD Programme in Philosophy
• PhD Programme in Transnational and Migration Studies (TRAMS)

Application deadline: 17 August 2010 at 12 noon (Central European Time)

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The Danish National Research Foundation's Centre for Textile Research (CTR) and the Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen invite applications for a 3-years PhD scholarship on the topic of textile terminologies of Greece in the 2nd and 1st mill. BC with possible outlook to developments in Hellenistic Egypt and into Roman times. The candidate is expected to possess strong qualifications within the fields of linguistics, ancient Greek and ancient Greek dialectology.

The successful applicant will be enrolled at the Graduate School at the Faculty of Humanities from 1 February 2011 or later.

Application deadline: 17 August 2010

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A PhD scholarship is available as  part of the research project Minority Children and Youth: Language, School, and Other Settings (the Amager Project) in connection with the HERA funded project frame Investigating discourses of inheritance and identity in four multilingual European settings (the IDI4MES project). Enrolment as a PhD student will begin on February 1, 2011 or later for up to three years. The place of employment will be at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen.

The Amager Project is a study of the use of language in the lived lives of late modern urban individuals, represented by poly-lingual children and adolescents in Copenhagen, Denmark. We understand language as the means by which individuals form their understanding of the world, their personalities, and more than anything else their social relations. The project studies the varied linguistic behavior of grade school students in their different everyday contexts with the aim of describing how individuals develop and shape their identities, their realities, and their social relations, and what opportunities and impediments they meet.

Application deadline: 17 August 2010

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The Institute for Society and Globalisation (ISG) specialises in interdisciplinary research and teaching in the social sciences. Roskilde University is a leading Danish university emphasising interdisciplinary research, project-based learning, and socially-relevant engagement. The Doctoral School of the ISG announces PhD scholarships for employment from the 1st September 2010 or soon after.

Collaborative Innovation in the Public Sector with a Specific Focus on Health Care.

To what extent and how can collaboration between all relevant stakeholders (politicians, public administrators, professionals, users of public services and private firms and NGOs increase the innovation capacity in the public sector and more specifically in health care?  

For further information please contact: Professor Eva Sørensen, +45 (0)4674 2486 or eva-at-ruc.dk

Please note: that the themes are for so-called mobility scholarships. Therefore only non-Roskilde University graduates can apply.

Apply for vacancy here

Info source: www.ruc.dk/en/jobs/phd

The Graduate School of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Copenhagen is inviting applications for 19 PhD scholarships starting 1 February 2011 for a period of up to three years.

It is possible to apply for scholarships within subject areas and themes related to one or more of the following PhD programmes:

• PhD Programme in Archaelogy, Ethnology, Greek & Latin, and History (SAXO/CPH)
• PhD Programme in Cross Cultural and Regional Studies
• PhD Programme in Cultural Studies, Literature and the Arts
• PhD Programme in Education (FUKU)
• PhD Programme in Language and Linguistics
• PhD Programme in Media and Communication
• PhD Programme in Philosophy
• PhD Programme in Transnational and Migration Studies (TRAMS)

A short description of the PhD programmes and their research areas is available available here (cllick). Contact information for the heads of the PhD programmes is also to be found at the homepage.

Application Procedure
Applicants need to hold a two-year Master's degree (120 ECTS) or the equivalent, or expect to receive such by 31 January 2011. Applicants shall have submitted their thesis at the time of application, to the extent the thesis forms part of their Master's programme.

Applicants with a non-Danish Master's degree will have their degree assessed by The Danish Agency for International Education to establish, if the Master's degree is equivalent to a Danish Master's degree. More information about The Danish Agency for International Education is available available here

Employment as a PhD student occurs pursuant to the applicable rules of the Faculty of Humanities, as well as between the Ministry of Finance and the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations (AC). Under this agreement, the PhD student is obliged - without further remuneration - to carry out allotted work to an extent corresponding to a total of 840 working hours in the case of a three-year contract.

The PhD student will be working at the same department of the faculty as the supervisor. Daily presence at the department is expected.

Enrolment as a PhD student at the Faculty of Humanities' Graduate School is a precondition for employment as a PhD student. Click here for description of the PhD study programme.

Application form and application guidelines on research proposal and required enclosures are available here.

Applications shall be submitted via the electronic application system ef ond: www.efond.dk/ku-hum

A certified copy of the applicant's Master's Degree diploma needs to be submitted as one of the enclosures to the application. Certification shall be by a public authority such as the institution having issued the diploma or a public bureau specializing in diploma certification. The applicant may be asked to submit the originally certified copy of the Master's Degree diploma after the application deadline.

If the MA diploma and/or examination records are in another language than English, Danish, Norwegian or Swedish, please include a translation into either of these languages in your application.

The translation of diplomas/certificates and transcripts must be made by or approved by either:

• a Danish state-authorised translator and interpreter or
• the embassy or consulate of the country where the original document was issued or where the translation was made or
• a Danish consulate/embassy.

Application deadline: 17 August 2010 at 12 noon (Central European time). No supplementary documents will be considered after this deadline.

As an equal opportunity employer, the Faculty of Humanities invites applications from all interested candidates regardless of gender, age, ethnic origin or religion.

For any further questions, please contact the PhD Centre (phdcenter@hum.ku.dk) tel. +45 3532 9223.

Balmoral awards six 6-month residential scholarships to international visual artists.
Additionally, Balmoral awards one 6-month project scholarship to allow one selected national visual artist to realise a project elsewhere. In order to promote the dialogue between research and art, one 6-month curator scholarship will be awarded to a junior scholar of the humanities (preferably art history).

Visual artists from Rhineland-Palatinate have the possibility to apply for further scholarships: Stipendien für Rheinland-Pfälzer.

One 3-month exchange residential scholarship for Künstlerhaus Schloß Balmoral will be awarded to a visual artist of Burgundy, France. For further information see the homepage of Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Art de Dijon.

Gt the details at: www.balmoral.de/english/balmoralscholarships/index.html

The deadline for the application for the Balmoral scholarhips 2011 runs until July 2, 2010.

Villenpromenade 11
56130 Bad Ems
Germany
info@balmoral.de

The Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Copenhagen is pleased to announce that 8 PhD fellowships will be available from 1 July 2010 or as soon as possible thereafter. Applications are invited for the three-year fellowship from candidates that hold or expect to hold a master's degree in a field relevant to the following projects:

1. DRUG DELIVERY
Micro-containers – an approach improve transmucosal delivery of peptides? Main supervisor: Associate Professor Anette Müllertz, Department of Pharmaceutics and Analytical Chemistry, phone +45 3533 6440 (email: amu(at)farma.ku.dk).

2. PHARMACEUTICAL TECHNOLOGY
Insight into water in solid state biopharmaceutical drug products. Main supervisor: Professor Jukka Rantanen, Department of Pharmaceutics and Analytical Chemistry, phone +45 3533 6585 (email: jtr(at)farma.ku.dk).

3. DRUG DELIVERY
Modified protein and their interaction with commonly used pharmaceutical excipients. Main supervisor: Associate Professor Marco van de Weert, Department of Pharmaceutics and Analytical Chemistry, phone +45 3533 6186 (email: mvdw(at)farma.ku.dk).

4. DRUG DELIVERY
Rational design of polymeric matrix nanoparticles for delivery of small interference RNA (siRNA). Main supervisor: Associate Professor Camilla Foged, Department of Pharmaceutics and Analytical Chemistry, phone +45 3533 6402 (email: cfo(at)farma.ku.dk).

5. DRUG DELIVERY
Protein drugs: Surface-induced aggregation in a pharmacy setting. Main supervisor: Associate Professor Lene Jørgensen, Department of Pharmaceutics and Analytical Chemistry (email: lej(at)farma.ku.dk). 

6. BIOSTRUCTURAL RESEARCH
Solution and formulation properties of protein-modules. Main supervisor: Associate Professor Bente Vestergaard, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, phone +45 3533 6144 (email: bv(at)farma.ku.dk). 

7. DRUG DELIVERY
Influence of mucosal membrane barrier properties on transport kinetics of oral peptide and protein delivery. Main supervisor: Associate Professor Hanne Mørck Nielsen, Department of Pharmaceutics and Analytical Chemistry, phone +45 3533 6346 (email: hmn(at)farma.ku.dk). 

8. DRUG DELIVERY
Non-injectable delivery of modified biopharmaceuticals. Main supervisor: Associate Professor Hanne Mørck Nielsen, Department of Pharmaceutics and Analytical Chemistry, phone +45 3533 6346 (email: hmn(at)farma.ku.dk). 

The PhD fellowships are financed by the The Danish Council for Independent Research, NAMEC, Amgros A/S and the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences.

The PhD fellowships are to be completed in accordance with the Ministerial Order on the PhD Programme at the Universities (PhD order) from the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation and the Regulations and Guidelines for the Awarding of the PhD Degree by the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences. The terms of employment are stated in the agreement between The Danish Confederation of Professional Associations and the Ministry of Finance.

The PhD fellowships are affiliated to the research training programme, Drug Research Academy.

As an equal opportunity employer, the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences invites applications from all interested candidates regardless of gender, age, ethnic origin or religion.

Please note that 5 of the PhD fellowships are part of the Danish Research Agency´s mobility programme, which means that applicants should have a Master´s or Bachelor degree from another university than the University of Copenhagen.

For further information, applicants may contact the main supervisor.

APPLICATIONS:
Applications should be marked with reference number 211-0023/10-0900. Include in seven (7) copies (sorted):
1. Applicant information form (click here)
2. Letter stating the interest and qualifications for the project (max. one page)
3. CV
4. Copy of Master of Science diploma (including grade transcripts for bachelor’s and master’s degrees)
5. Possible references
6. Applicants with an MSc degree from abroad should also enclose a short description of the grading scale used. 

Applications should not be sent directly to the supervisor. Applications should be sent to:

University of Copenhagen
Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Universitetsparken 2
DK - 2100 Copenhagen
Denmark

Deadline for applications: Friday 7 May 2010 at 12 o'clock noon. Please note that only hardcopy applications are accepted.

We will not send any confirmation of reception of the application. An answer as to the granting of the fellowship can be expected appr. 4-5 weeks after application deadline.

Get more info at: www.farma.ku.dk/index.php?id=8224