Highlights:

1 Marie-Curie PhD position available at CNR, Firenze, Italy (Initial Training Network NANO-HOST (http://www.nanohost.eu/), funded by the European Commission.
2 Recycle of selective hydrogenation catalysts: non-covalent heterogenization of metal complexes.
3 Early stage researcher Position
4 Expected starting date Sept 1st, 2009
5 Host Consiglio Nazionale delle RicercheIstituto di Chimica dei Complessi Organometallicihttp://www.iccom.cnr.it/
6 Location Area della Ricerca di FirenzeVia Madonna del Piano 10 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (Firenze) Italy
7 The research and training activity comprises the synthesis and the characterization of homogeneous chemical catalysts and of their heterogenized counterparts. Immobilization onto to silica, ion-exchange resins, polymers, metal organic frameworks is foreseen.
8 The main instrumental techniques will be: NMR, AFM, SEM, GC, GC-Ms, HPLC. Catalysis experiments will be central with focus on recycling, selectivity, mechanistic studies.
9 Supervisor Pierluigi Barbaro
10 Nationality: Member State, Associated Country or any other third country. Italian citizens are excluded.
11 Post-graduate level Fellows who have received a degree that entitles them to embark in a doctorate no later than 4 years before the start date of the present position.
12 Knowledge in the field of organic and metallorganic synthesis, catalysis, chromatography and nuclear magnetic resonance.
13 Contacts:
Pierluigi Barbaro
14 e-mail: pierluigi.barbaro@iccom.cnr.it
15 Phone: 0039 055 5225287
16 Application procedure
http://www.iccom.cnr.it/vacancies/bando66/bando66.pdf
http://www.iccom.cnr.it/vacancies/bando66/bando66en.pdf

Closing date: August 8th, 2009

Chemist Postdoctoral Fellow

Highlights:

1. The fuel-cell program at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) has an exciting opportunity for an electrochemical engineer to simulate mathematically the behavior of polymer-electrolyte fuel cells under both steady state and transient conditions.

2. You will be in charge of developing and refining mathematical models related to ageing and durability studies in addition to transport phenomena under various operating conditions.

3. The position will also entail model validation, collaboration with industrial and research partners, and verification and explanation of predicted trends seen in experimental data.

4. Recent PhD in chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, or closely related field.

5. Experience with mathematical modeling (i.e., continuum modeling) including in the application of transport phenomena in polymer-electrolyte-fuel-cell systems.

6. Excellent communication skills, both oral and written.

7. Apply: http://cjo.lbl.gov/LBNLCareers/details.asp?jid=22987&p=1

8. As part of the online application process, please submit a single attachment that includes both your resume or CV and a statement of your research interests. Please be sure to reference where you found out about the position.

9. More details: http://www.lbl.gov/

COMMONWEALTH SCHOLARSHIP PLAN, NEW ZEALAND AWARDS-2010

Highlights:
1. Applications on plain paper, as per prescribed format, are invited from Indian Nationals residing in India for the above-mentioned Commonwealth Scholarship for higher studies, research leading to Ph.D /Masters/Post Graduate Diploma Study in New Zealand.

2. Ph.D
3. MASTERS/P.GRADUATE STUDIES

4. Fields:
a. Sustainable Rural Livelihoods (including Livestock, forestry, fisheries and horticulture).
b. Education (including early childhood education, bilingual education and education management.

c. Primary Health

5. Master’s Degree in the subject or allied fields with minimum 60% marks in Sustainable Rural Livelihoods or Education or Primary Health for applying for Ph.D.

6. For Masters Degree, candidate should have completed Bachelor’s Degree in the above subjects or allied fields with minimum 60% marks. Where percentage of marks is not available and grades are mentioned, the candidates must indicate the conversion formula adopted by the University/Institution and should also indicate equivalent percentage of marks.

7. Candidates are encouraged to secure admission to their preferred New Zealand education Institution in advance of Scholarship application. Evidence of admission should be attached with the application form or produced at the time of interview.

8. Otherwise, he/she will not be given any TA for attending the interview. Study at Ph.D level will only be considered where particularly strong development relevance is demonstrated.

Postdoctoral researcher

Highlights:

1. The High Energy Physics Division at Argonne National Laboratory has an immediate opening for a Postdoctoral Appointee to work on the Dark Energy Survey (DES: http://www.darkenergysurvey.org/ ) for more information.

2. The selected candidate will be expected to contribute to the CCD tests, photometric calibration efforts, and early DES science analyses with first light in 2011.

3. Preference will be given to candidates with prior astrophysics experience, but it is not required. If the selected candidate comes from an on-going astrophysics experiment, they will be encouraged to continue with analysis of that data. Substantial knowledge of modern software environments and data analysis experience is desirable.

4. Interested candidates should send a detailed CV, along with a list of publications, and the names and addresses of three references through the Argonne web site at http://www.anl.gov/jobs under job search for postdoctoral/job openings, for requisition number 314740 HEP.

5. A U.S. Department of Energy laboratory managed by UChicago Argonne, LLC.

6. Argonne is an equal opportunity employer, and we value diversity in our workforce.
http://www.anl.gov/

Almende Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowships

Highlights:
1. Almende BV is a high-tech commercial research company (SME) researching advanced hardware and software-agent technology. Almende in particular investigates self-organized critical agent-based network solutions to sustain and improve the coalition formation and coordination of communication and collaboration across evolving networks of humans and existing ICT infrastructures.

1. To advance science and technology Almende strongly fosters close collaboration with universities, knowledge institutes, large industrial R&D groups and other SMEs in the Netherlands and Europe. In respect to the Marie Curie Actions - International Dimension; International Incoming Fellowships Programme Almende is willing to serve as hosting organization for experienced researchers as IIF fellows for 12-24 months in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. For the IIF Programme,

2. Almende is inviting experienced researchers to set up in liaison an application on either of the following subjects:

a. Scalable Networked Social Media Indexing, Querying, Search and Retrieval

b. Contextual Personalized Networked Social Media Indexing, Querying, Search and Retrieval

c. Ambient Intelligent Service Robotics for Elderly Home- and Health-Care

d. Emerging self-organized control of swarming intelligence or robotics

e. Multi-scale purposeful synergetics amongst unmanned aerial vehicles and terrestrial robots
f. Energy-aware and other QoS-aware grid and cloud management

g. Simulation techniques for verification of large scale networked embedded system

properties

h. Formal and system engineering methodologies, techniques and tools for virtualization of (legacy) multi-core and/or reconfigurable systems.

3. Eligible candidates are welcomed to write and send a two-to-three pages application letter together with their CV to the contact person below (Closing Date July 1 2009)

4. Eligibility conditions please consult and check the Information Package.

5. After a short internal selection, all candidates will be notified about the outcomes of the selection procedure (Deadline July 14 2009). Successful candidates will be further assisted to define, set up and submit their applications (Deadline August 18 2009).

Please send your applications to
Dr. Alfons H. Salden
Almende BV, Westerstraat 50, 3016 DJ Rotterdam, The Netherlands
alfons@almende.org