Scholarship in Austria (Richard Plaschka Scholarship)

Area of study or research:

• Humanities and Theology
• Historical Sciences, Linguistics and Literature Sciences

Detailed type of grant:

• semester or one-year grant, research grant

Target Group:

• postgraduates
• PhD holders
• researchers

Authority awarding grant:

• OeAD-GmbH/ICM-Centre for International Cooperation & Mobility on behalf of and funded by the Federal Ministry of Science and Research (BMWF)

Duration:

• 4 to 9 months

Quota:

• Maximum of 7 new awards per academic year! In case of successful research activities the scholarship can, on request, be renewed (total duration 18 months).

Grant benefit paid:

1. Monthly grant
   a) grant: 1040 EUR
   b) book allowance: 93 EUR
2. Accident and health insurance, accommodation
   a) If necessary, the ÖAD will take out an accident and health insurance on behalf of the grant recipient.
   b) The OeAD-GmbH will endeavour to provide accommodation (student hall of residence or flat) for recipients of grants who wish to get accommodation arranged by the OeAD. Monthly costs: 220 EUR to 470 EUR (depending on how much comfort the recipients of grants want). An administration fee of 18 EUR per month is payable to the ÖAD for arranging accommodation.
   The costs for insurance and accommodation have to be paid out of the grant by the recipient of the grant.
3. Recipients of grants are exempted from paying tuition fees.
4. Recipients of grants from non-European developing countries will also receive a travel costs subsidy of up to 730 EUR maximum.

Closing date for applications:

• 01. 03. 2011

Where to submit your application:

• New applicants:
  online at http://www.scholarships.at
• Applications for renewals:
  Centre for International Cooperation & Mobility (ICM)
  of the OeAD-GmbH
  A-1090 Wien, Alser Straße 4/1/14/1
  Tel.: 01/4277-28189
  Fax: 01/4277-28194
  e-mail: lydia.skarits@oead.at

Application form:

• at www.scholarships.at

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[Austria] PhD Position in Applied Mathematics at Austrian Academy of Sciences

PhD Position in Applied Mathematics at Austrian Academy of Sciences

Description:
The Johann Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics (RICAM) in Linz is looking for 1 PhD student in the field of the optimal control and optimisation. This position is part of the FWF (Austrian Science Fund) project "Numerical verification of optimality and optimality conditions for optimal control problems".

Requirements:
A master`s degree in (applied) mathematics or a closely related field is required. The successful candidate should have an excellent background in applied mathematics, optimization, partial differential equations, and their numerics. Programming skills are desirable.

Salary and Funding:
The research is funded by the FWF (Austrian Science Fund) according to its salary guidelines #8594; "FWF Personalkostensä tze für DoktorandIn neu". The position is limited to three years. Funding for conference visits etc. is available. The position can start from September 1, 2009.



Inquiries and applications:
Please send the usual documents (CV, degree certificates, thesis - if already finished, title and abstract otherwise, references, and letter of motivation), preferably by email, to:

Daniel Wachsmuth
Johann Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics (RICAM)
Austrian Academy of Sciences
Altenbergerstraß e 69
A-4040 Linz, Austria

website link:
http://people.ricam.oeaw.ac.at/d.wachsmuth/projects/

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[Austria] PhD Call 2009 at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna

PhD Call 2009 at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna

Several PhD positions are available in the Institute of PopulationGenetics at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Vienna from autumn 2009. Through the analysis of natural variation the students will receive training in evolutionary theory and population genetics in an interdisciplinary research environment. Students will join a lively institute working at the interface between experimental and theoretical population genetics.


Our institute represents a synthesis of theoretical and experimental expertise in population genetics (Christian Schloetterer) , molecular evolution and bioinformatics (Carolin Kosiol), functional genetics (Alistair McGregor and Thomas Flatt) and conservation genetics (Franz Suchentrunk) . We welcome applications from international students as the working language of the institute is English. Available projects include:

- Functional characterization of copy number variation in Drosophila (Schloetterer group)
- Probabilistic modeling of inter- and intraspecies sequence evolution (Kosiol group)
- Mechanisms and evolution of Drosophila life history and aging (Flatt group)
- Genetic basis of morphological variation in Drosophila (McGregor group)
- Measuring gene flow between hare species by massive parallel sequencing (Suchentrunk group)

Application deadline is 15 May 2009



See the following websites for more information on the projects and the application procedure:
http://i122server.vu-wien.ac.at/pop/index.html
For questions and enquires, feel free to contact carolin.kosiol@ vu-wien.ac.at

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