Dear all,

FYI.

 

Best regards,
Iwan H. Sahputra

PhD position at the Max Planck Graduate Center in Mainz, Germany

Metal-organic framework growth: Mechanistic insight for tailored device design

Job offer from March 17, 2015

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are increasingly attracting attention as versatile functional materials for sensing, catalysis, optoelectronics and energy storage/conversion applications. Particularly attractive is the possibility of strategic combination of metallic and organic building blocks to create custom-tailored MOF materials with desired structure and functionality. In order to achieve such systematic MOF device design, fundamental understanding of the nucleation phase and early growth stages that govern the final material properties is urgently required.

The overall aim of the proposed PhD project is to derive a theoretical model for electrochemically controlled MOF growth that relates relevant tunable synthesis parameters, such as initial structure and composition, to the resulting MOF 2D/3D structure and chemical functionality.

More specific, we will investigate how metal/organic-linker/dopant concentrations and electrochemical synthesis potential govern the structure and crystallinity as well as the chemical sensing properties of a showcase luminescent Zn-MOF routinely used in advanced sensing applications. With help of such a theoretical model, bottom-up fabrication protocols can be developed that enable rational design of functional MOF materials.

The project will involve the advance of current computational electrochemistry techniques on a multiscale approach where small size electronic structure calculations will be combined with largescale atomistic simulations including reactive force fields (Jun. Prof. M. Sulpizi, JGU). The simulated models will be tested against experimental data, namely electrochemical vibrational spectroscopy (nearfield and nonlinear Raman, infrared) and complementary in situ scanning probe techniques (STM, AFM) (Dr. K.F. Domke, MPIP). The powerful combination of theoretical and experimental insight will provide a unique base for the development of strategic preparation protocols for MOFs with tailored architectures and functionalities.

Who can apply?

Mandatory requirements are: - master in Physics, Chemistry or Materials Science - good knowledge of Statistical Mechanics or Electronic Structure Theory; good knowledge of modern programming and scripting languages; proficiency in spoken and written English language. 

Application process

Applications including a statement of interest, curriculum vitae and name and address of at least one reference person, should be sent to sulpizi@uni-mainz.de.

http://psi-k.net/jobs/phd-position-at-the-max-planck-graduate-center-in-mainz-germany

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Posted by: Iwan Halim Sahputra <halimits@yahoo.com>

Dear all,

FYI.

 

Best regards,
Iwan H. Sahputra

PhD Position in Atomistic Mechanics of Glasses, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Friction and wear are important processes that determine the function of many mechanical devices, but their underlying microscopic physical principles are complex and often not well understood. Amorphous – or glassy – materials often form on surfaces that have experienced frictional loading. The research will involve large-scale molecular dynamics simulation of the near-surface deformation upon indentation and scratching of network and bulk metallic glasses. The goal is to build a fundamental understanding of energy dissipation channels and plastic deformation processes in these materials, and to identify potential differences in the behavior of ceramic and metallic glass formers. The project will also make connection with higher level meso- and macroscale theories for the description of the plasticity of glasses.

The research will be carried out in the group of Dr. Lars Pastewka in a project funded by the Emmy-Noether program of the German Research Foundation. The group is embedded in the MicroTribology Center (μTC) which bundles tribology-related research activities at KIT-IAM and Fraunhofer IWM. KIT provides excellent infrastructure for computational research, including multiple high-performance computing platforms and large-data storage facilities.

The candidate has an MSc (or equivalent) with a strong focus on Material Science, Mechanics, Physics or Chemistry. Additional knowledge of glasses, numerical methods, atomic-scale simulation, and experience with Python and C/C++ is an asset.

Remuneration occurs on the basis of the wage agreement of the civil service in TV-L. The application deadline is May 31, 2015.

For more information please contact Dr. Lars Pastewka, Email: lars.pastewka@kit.edu. Interested candidates are asked to send a cover letter, curriculum vitae, transcripts and contact information for at least one academic reference to the IAM-CMS front office reachable at office-CMS@iam.kit.edu.

KIT is an equal opportunity employer. Women are especially encouraged to apply. Applicants with disabilities will be preferentially considered if equally qualified.

A postdoc and   Ph.D. position is offered at Inria Lille, in collaboration with CWI, Amsterdam.
The successful applicants will work with Daniil Ryabko at Inria, and will collaborate
with Peter Grünwald at CWI, Amsterdam, spending some of  time in Amsterdam.
(For postdoc between 3 and 6 months.)

Application Deadline: 26/04/2015, but better apply earlier
Duration: 36 months for PhD, 16 months for postdoc
Starting date: October, 2015

Please contact Daniil dot Ryabko at inria.fr before applying, with  [phd] in the subject line.

The topic is non-parametric sequential prediction.
The topic belongs to the areas of machine learning and (extremely) nonparametric statistics. The central theme of this topic is to explore which regularities are "learnable" from sequential data.
Specifically, this general question is considered for the problem of probability forecasting, that is, predicting the probabilities of future outcomes of a series of events given the past. The question to be addressed is: under which assumptions on the stochastic mechanism generating the data is it possible to give forecasts whose error becomes negligible as more data becomes available? Here we specifically allow for the possibility that the predictions are based on a model that is `wrong yet useful', i.e. it does not contain the data generating mechanism. In this 'nonrealizable' or 'misspecified' case, the question becomes: under what conditions it is possible to give forecasts that converge to the best available ones as more data becomes available?

Questions of this kind find applications in a variety of fields, such as finance, data compression, bioinformatics, environmental sciences,  and many others. However, the research topic is mainly about theoretical foundations rather than applications.


Background papers: paper1 (Ryabko), paper2 (Ryabko), paper3 (Grünwald/van Ommen)

The successful applicant will have a strong mathematical background with an M.Sc. in mathematics, computer science or statistics.


About Inria and the job

Established in 1967, Inria is the only public research body fully dedicated to computational sciences. Combining computer sciences with mathematics, Inria’s 3,500 researchers
with 350 working at the Inria  centre in Lille.

Lille is only 1h away from Paris, 34min from Brussels and 1h30 from London -  all by train.

Benefits: Possibility of French courses, Help for housing, Financial support from Inria to catering and transportation expenses, Scientific Resident card and help for visa, Catering service

Monthly salary after taxes: around 1580 € the 1st two years and 1660 € the 3rd year (social security included).

About CWI:

CWI is the national research institute for mathematics and computer science in the Netherlands, located in Amsterdam. It conducts pioneering research in these fields and transfers its results to society. With 55 permanent research staff, 40 postdocs and 70 PhD students, CWI is a compact institute that lies at the heart of European research in mathematics and computer science. It was the birthplace of the European internet and was home to the invention of the popular programming language Python. CWI is located within easy biking distance from the centre of one of Europe's most beautiful, lively and international cities.
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Pulse Lab Jakarta is a joint programme between the United Nations and
Government of Indonesia through UN Global Pulse (http://unglobalpulse.org/)
and the Indonesian Ministry of National Development Planning (Bappenas).
Our mission is to harness big data for development and humanitarian action
and an internship at our lab can offer you a distinguished, unique
opportunity to help tackle development challenges with the public sector,
applying your skills around data analytics, modeling and visualization.



As a data innovation lab, the Research team at Pulse Lab Jakarta, together
with our colleagues in Pulse Lab New York and Pulse Lab Kampala, are
exploring various opportunities of applying big data in different sectors,
such as food security, public health, urban dynamics and economic
well-being, with different types of big data, such as social media, online
news, remote sensing, and online search keywords. This year, in particular,
we hope to test other methodologies and approaches by using other data
sources, e.g., financial transactions and mobility data.



We are looking for talented PhD students who have already published papers
at top-tier conferences and journals in a broad area of data science,
including (but not limited to) social media analysis, user behavior
modeling, statistical model, informational retrieval, NLP, predictive
analytics, complex network analysis, geospatial analysis, image processing,
and data visualization.



Starting dates and internship are negotiable depending on the selected
candidates' availability (preferably, two to three months, at least).
Applications for the internship should be received by *April 24th, 2015**. *
Please submit an application with your CV and motivation letter (clearly
highlighting the speciality, previous research, and/or which sector you
want to work in, if any) to Jong Gun Lee, the Data Scientist and Research
Lead at Pulse Lab Jakarta, jonggun.lee@un.or.id. Applications will be
evaluated on a rolling basis. We will invite shortlisted candidates for
interviews.

Applications for Türkiye Scholarships will start by February 25th. The application deadline is 31st March 2015. Applications for undergraduate, master and PhD programmes will received through the same application cycle.

The application to Türkiye Scholarships programmes is online and totally free process.

Candidates can apply only one scholarship programme in accordance with their educational background and academic goals.

Türkiye Scholarships include both scholarship and university placement at the same time. Applicants will be placed in a university and programme among their preferences specified in the online application form.

Most programmes in Turkish universities are instructed in Turkish. However, some departments and universities offer programmes in English or French. The candidates who want to study in these languages need to have an internationally recognized certificate to prove their language proficiency. Also, most of these foreign language programmes may ask international admission test scores such as GRE, GMAT etc. Candidates can check the language of instruction while selecting the programmes.

All Türkiye Scholarships winners who do not have C1 Level Certificate for Turkish Proficiency (including those who are placed into English or French-taught programmes) must attend 1-year Turkish Preparatory Course.

Art and Sport Scholarship Programmes, available for the first time this year, is specifically designed to encourage the skilled international students in the fields of art and sport to study at undergraduate, master or PhD (proficieny in art) degree levels in the prestigious Turkish universities with opportunities of Türkiye Scholarships. Applicants selected to be funded take one-year Turkish Language Course covered by scholarship. Subsequently, they have to receive an acceptance from the relevant faculties of Turkish universities. Applicants are expected to have documents (offical certificate, portfolio, etc.) to prove their success in the field they apply for.

The Scholarship Covers...

• Monthly stipend (600 TL for undergraduate, 850 TL for master and 1200 TL for PhD )
• Full tuition fee
• Free 1-year Turkish language course
• Free accommodation
• Round-trip air ticket
• Health insurance

 

To be eligible for Undergraduate Programmes, applicants must;

• be a citizen of a country other than Turkey (Anyone holding or ever held Turkish citizenship before cannot apply),
• not be a registered student in Turkish universities at the level of study they are applying,
• be have graduated or are likely to graduate from a secondary education institution,
• be under the age of 21 (no earlier than 01.01.1994),
• have at least specified (% 90 for medical sciences, % 70 for other undergraduate programs) cumulative grade point average, diploma grade, national exam or international exam score,
• be in good health

 

To be eligible for Postgraduate Programmes, applicants must;

• be a citizen of a country other than Turkey (Anyone holding or ever held Turkish citizenship before cannot apply)
• not be a registered student in Turkish universities at the level of study they are applying.
• be a bachelor's or master's degree holder by 30th of July 2015 at the latest
• be under the age of 30 for master's programmes (no earlier than 01.01.1985)
• be under the age of 35 for doctorate programmes (no earlier than 01.01.1980)
• have at least 75 % cumulative grade point average or diploma grade over their maximum graduation grade or have at least 75 % success in any accepted national or international graduate admissions test.
• be in good health

 

Required Documents

Undergraduate Level

• Online application
• A copy of a secondary school diploma or document indicating that the candidate is secondary school senior student,
• A certified secondary school transcript (indicating courses taken and relevant grades of the candidate)
• A copy of a valid ID card (passport, national ID, birth certificate etc.)
• Passport photo

Postgraduate Level

 

• Online application
• A copy of a bachelor or master's diploma or document indicating that the candidate is bachelor or master's senior student
• A certified bachelor and/or master's transcript (indicating courses taken and relevant grades of the candidate)
• A copy of a valid ID card (passport, national ID, birth certificate etc.)
• Passport photo

Application Procedure

Candidates are supposed to;

• go to www.turkiyeburslari.gov.tr
• click the online application form,
• create an account by entering an e-mail and password,
• read the application guide,
• log in to the system and fill out the application form,
• upload the required documents,
• and finally finish the application.

 

Click here to reach the Scholarship Programmes brochures and applications

 

Click here to apply

http://www.exeter.ac.uk/studying/funding/award/?id=1809

PhD in Engineering: Water Management - Emergency planning in the Water Sector Ref: 1809

About the award

Location: Streatham Campus, University of Exeter, EX4 4QJ

Primary supervisor: Professor David Butler

Secondary supervisor: Dr Sarah Ward

Project Description: this PhD focuses on the important role of emergency planning and preparedness in the water sector.  The aim of the project is to explore the various threats or emergencies that are planned for and to understand the role of emergency planning in promoting water sector resilience.  Specific areas of study will be: plans relating to drought, flood response and water contamination incidents; how such plans are implemented and; how organisational learning (from a variety of sources) may result in revision or redevelopment of these plans. 

Close attention will be paid to how a plan is matched to a threat, subsequent impacts and potential consequences and to how appropriate standards or best practice have been developed. These plans will be compared and contrasted with other sectoral emergency plans (utility, infrastructure, health), local authority emergency plans and central government advice.  Methodologically, the PhD is quite flexible and a range of approaches that are complementary to the topic under study may be used. Such methods could include document content analysis, participant interviews, situational analysis or agent-based modelling.

The implications of different plans and planned responses will be incorporated into technical system models (developed by other team members) and their impact on the reliability, resilience and sustainability of the systems will be assessed. 

Recommendations for improved practice will be developed for a range of stakeholders and the candidate will facilitate project knowledge exchange, translation, communication and engagement.  This PhD forms a part of Professor David Butler’s EPSRC research fellowship on developing a new paradigm for ‘Safe SuRe’ urban water management in the UK in response to emerging challenges and global uncertainties. 

The successful candidate will work in a team of researchers embedded within the wider Centre for Water Systems at the University of Exeter.

Contact for Informal enquiries: Professor David Butler (01392 724064)

Application criteria

Applicants should have or expect to achieve at least a 2:1 Honours degree, or equivalent, in engineering, environmental science, geography, planning or allied subjects.

Summary

Application deadline:	27th March 2015