Saturday 22 December 2012

Fully Funded Studentship:



Telomeres as Biomarkers of Costs and Quality in a Wild Population of Seychelles Warblers

University of East Anglia -Faculty of Science, School of Biological Sciences

Research Keywords: Ecology and Conservation, Evolution, Genetics, Zoology/Animal Science
Deadline: 28 February 2013. Applications are processed as soon as they are received, so early application is encouraged.
Supervisory Team: Dr David S Richardson
The Project:

PhD Studentship - Transforming composite structural design by use of structural health monitoring



Cranfield University

Application deadline: 28th February 2013
Start date:  1st March 2013
Duration of award: 3 years
Sponsors: EPSRC / BAE Systems
SupervisorProfessor Peter Foote
Industrially sponsored by BAE Systems and EPSRC, a PhD studentship at Cranfield with up to £20,000 p.a is available for three years, UK/EU fees included*
Applications are invited for a PhD studentship award within the Composites Centre at Cranfield University. The Centre provides world-class research capabilities enabling UK industry to design and manufacture high performance materials and structures in aerospace, automotive and energy sectors.
The PhD position is sponsored by BAE Systems and the successful applicant will work closely with specialists from their Military Air and Information Business along with the Composites Centre at Cranfield University. 

Friday 21 December 2012

AP-Google Scholarship program accepting applications for 2013-14



The Associated Press and Google are seeking candidates for a scholarship program that recognizes student creativity and innovation at the intersection of journalism and technology.
Now in its second year, the AP-Google Journalism and Technology Scholarship Program is administered by the Online News Association, the world’s largest membership organization of digital journalists.
The program will award six $20,000 scholarships to undergraduate or graduate students for the 2013-2014 academic year who are pursuing degrees in journalism, computer science and new media. The deadline to apply is Feb. 8, 2013.
“The AP-Google Scholarship Program allows students to delve into projects they otherwise may not be able to pursue,” said Sue Cross, AP’s senior vice president for business development and partner relations in the Americas. “We are excited to support the next generation of digital journalists and create opportunities for them to help shape the future of the news industry.”

Sunday 16 December 2012

PhD Studentship Mid-IR Integrated Photonic Devices for Biomedical Diagnostics



University of Southampton -Optoelectronics Research Centre
The Optoelectronics Research Centre has a 40-year track record of pioneering contributions in photonics and is currently one of the largest and most dynamic research centres in this field world-wide.  The Integrated Photonic Devices Group explores the fundamentals of guided wave optics at surfaces, with applications including telecommunications, biosensing and novel light sources, and is complemented by world-class photonic materials and fabrication facilities (www.orc.soton.ac.uk/photonicsfoundry.html).
We currently have a vacancy for a fully funded (fee + stipend up to £15,000/year) PhD studentship in our group in a recently awarded European Research Council Advanced Investigator Grant to Professor James Wilkinson. This research programme presents an excellent opportunity for individual creativity to flourish in a strong team environment, addressing topics from Mid-IR and nanostructured waveguide materials, through the photonic toolkit for biochemical diagnostics to clinical applications.

PhD Studentship in Materials Discovery



University of Cambridge -Department of Physics
Limit of tenure: 30 September 2016
Applications are invited for a PhD studentship in the group of Dr Andrew Morris (http://www.winton.phy.cam.ac.uk/directory/ajm255@cam.ac.uk). The starting date is from 1st April or 1st October 2013.
In this project we will use cutting-edge computational structure prediction techniques to investigate the feasibility of high-capacity replacements of graphite anodes in lithium ion batteries (LIB).
It is very difficult to "see" the structure of materials over the length scales that they work and very expensive to create prototype materials to test. The ab initio random structure searching method (AIRSS) uses a stochastic approach to suggest different structural configurations of atoms within a material. By searching over a range of stoichiometries it is possible to model how a battery is charged as we can predict the structural changes of the electrodes as a charging potential is applied. Using this knowledge it is possible to perform further theoretical analysis such as NMR and EELS (electron energy loss) spectroscopies and to predict charge and discharge voltages.

PhD Studentship - Exploiting genomics and biosynthetic assembly line enzymology for discovery and optimisation of novel agrochemicals



University of Warwick
Supervisors:  Professor Greg Challis
Project description: 
A fully-funded BBSRC studentship is available to carry out research for a PhD degree under the supervision of Professor Greg Challis for four years from 1 October 2013. You will work alongside two postdoctoral research fellows focused on exploiting the genome sequences of 30 Streptomyces bacteria for the discovery and optimisation of novel bioactive natural products, in particular with potential applications in crop protection. Close cooperation with scientists at the agrochemical company Syngenta and collaborating researchers at the Universities of Cambridge, Manchester and Bristol will be involved. The project will be highly interdisciplinary and will provide excellent training in a variety of skill and techniques, including analytical and synthetic chemistry, bioinformatics, enzymology and molecular genetics.