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

PhD Fellowship: ISGlobal, Universitat de Barcelona

Employer: ISGlobal, Universitat de Barcelona
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Deadline: April 5, 2015

Description

Euroleish.net, a Marie Sklodowska-Curie - Innovative Training Network, is offering a PhD Fellowship for the project: Economic Evaluation of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) for the Development of Drugs and Diagnostic Tools for Leishmaniasis and Other Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) and Private Business Impact.

Hosting Institution: Barcelona Centre for International Health Research- ISGlobal
Principal Supervisor: Dr. Elisa Sicuri

Partner Institutions:
Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics - FIND (Switzerland)

Objectives:

To evaluate the cost effectiveness of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) for the development of drugs and diagnostics for leishmaniasis and other NTDs from the public health perspective and the market/business impact.
Job Description:
Conduct a review of the literature on PPPs for the development of drugs and diagnostics for neglected tropical diseases
Estimate of the market/business and welfare impacts of PPPs for NTDs
Conduct a cost-effectiveness analysis comparing PPPs and standard market procedure for the development of drugs and diagnostic tools for leishmaniasis and other NTDs
Prepare manuscripts for the publication in peer reviewed journals and prepare the PhD thesis

Profile:

Background: Master of Science in economics/health economics

Essential:

ITN Requirements:
Experience: candidates must be in the first four years of their research career and not yet have a doctoral degree.
Mobility: candidates must not have resided or carried out their main activity in Spain for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to 1st July 2015.
EUROLEISH-NET Requirements:
English proficiency (oral and written)
Availability to join the CRESIB/ISGlobal on the 1st July 2015.
Fulfil academic requirements to enrol the PhD programme in International Health at University of Barcelona on the 1st July 2015 (see details here). Note: To get enrolled at the PhD programmes, the Spanish universities require an MSc degree in related topics to the field of the thesis for all science graduated students, except for those owning a degree on Pharmacy, Medicine or Veterinary Science.
Network Mobility: willing to spend a significant amount of time (minimum 6 months) in Partner institutions when required.

Desirable:

Enthusiastic student with high interest in the economics of poverty related diseases
Has very good quantitative and analytic skills
Able to work both independently and in team
Knowledge of Spanish and/or French is a plus

How to apply:
http://www.isglobal.org/en/web/guest/programme-train/-/asset_publisher/oSgA0dGQ1Hzi/content/euroleish-net#content3

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The EIS research group <http://eis.iai.uni-bonn.de/About.html> at the
University of Bonn in Germany is pleased to announce


*Three full time PhD student positions in the field of question answering on
interlinked datasets*


The successful candidates will carry out research towards a PhD on one
of the following topics: (1) Effectively and efficiently supporting
dataset maintainers in semi-automatically cleaning and enriching
datasets to make them fit for question answering. (2) Discovering and
retrieving datasets of a high quality for QA with a high precision and
recall; automating dataset quality assessment. (3) Efficient and precise
translation of natural language questions into structured queries
against a federated knowledge base.


The successful candidates will work in the Marie SkÅ,odowska-Curie
International Training Network WDAqua (Answering Questions using Web
Data), undertaking advanced fundamental and applied research into
models, methods, and tools for data-driven question answering on the
Web, spanning a diverse range of areas and disciplines (data analytics,
social computing, Linked Data, and Web science). They will participate
in the networkâ?Ts training schedule and perform internships with other
project partners. There will be no teaching obligation but teaching can
be arranged, if desired.


On top of a generous basic salary we offer a mobility allowance and, if
applicable, a family allowance. Initial appointment will be for one year
with a possible extension to 3 years. The position starts as soon as
possible. Initial appointment will be for one year with a possible
extension to 3 years.


*We offer:*


  * Two or more academic supervisors from the WDAqua network (the PhD

    student working on topic (1) will obtain a dual PhD degree with
    Université Jean Monnet Saint-�tienne, France)
  * A support grant to attend conferences, summer schools, and other
    events related to your research.
  * The possibility to obtain a discounted public transport ticket


*Requirements*


  * A Master degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
  * Not having resided/worked in Germany for more than 12 months in the
    3 years before starting the work (Marie SkÅ,odowska-Curie mobility rule)
  * Proficiency in spoken and written English. Proficiency in German is
    a plus.
  * Proficiency in Programming languages like Java/Scala or JavaScript,
    and modern software engineering methodology.
  * Familiarity with Semantic Web, Natural Language Processing, Indexing
    and Data Analytics is an asset.


*How to apply*


To apply, please send the following documents in pdf to
eis-leaders@lists.iai.uni-bonn.de before 28th February 2015.


  * CV
  * Master certificate or university transcripts
  * A motivation letter including a short research plan targeted to one
    of the topics listed above,
  * Two letters of recommendation
  * English writing sample (e.g. prior publication or master thesis
    excerpt).



Please direct informal enquiries to the same address or see
http://www.iai.uni-bonn.de/~langec/wdaqua/.


The University of Bonn is an equal opportunities employer. Preference
will be given to suitably qualified women or persons with disabilities,
all other considerations being equal. 

Dear all,

FYI.

 

Best regards,
Iwan H. Sahputra

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Subject: PhD in first-principles study of topologically non-trivial spin textures

Category: Job

From: Stefan Heinze

Date: 18-Feb-2015 15:04

Message:

The spintronics theory group at the Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics at the University of Kiel (http://www.itap.uni-kiel.de/theo-physik/heinze/) is opening a PhD position in the field of first-principles theory of magnetic skyrmions at interfaces and surfaces. Skyrmions are localized, stable magnetic structures which have been observed in chiral crystals and are promising for future spintronic applications. Recently, skyrmions have also been discovered in ultra-thin transition-metal films at surfaces which opened an entirely new class of systems.

The PhD candidate will focus on the exploration of complex magnetic structures at surfaces and interfaces starting from first principles electronic structure theory. She/he is expected to perform first-principles calculations using density functional theory as implemented in the FLEUR code (www.flapw.de) to explore magnetic interactions at transition-metal interfaces. The total energy calculations are mapped to an effective spin Hamiltonian which is solved using Monte-Carlo and spin dynamics simulations.

The spintronics theory group is working in close collaboration with a number of experimental groups at the universities of Hamburg, Paris and Glasgow. The candidate is expected to take an active part in the collaboration with the experimental groups in order to contribute to the understanding of present and future experiments.

In order to apply for the position, the candidate should have an outstanding master degree (or equivalent) in condensed matter physics, material science or physics. A very good knowledge of solid state physics is expected and experience in the application of electronic structure theory, Monte-Carlo or spin dynamics simulations is preferential. Programming skills are expected. As the project involves international teams, a very good level of English is expected. Women are especially encouraged to apply. Severely handicapped people will be preferentially considered in case of equivalent qualifications. The position is for 3 years and the salary and benefits will be provided with respect to TVL.

Interested candidates are asked to send their resume, list of publications, letter of motivation, and contact addresses of academic references in electronic form (under the subject: PhD-2015/1) or by regular mail to

Prof. Dr. Stefan Heinze,

Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics

Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel

Leibnizstr. 15

24098 Kiel, Germany

heinze@physik.uni-kiel.de

http://www.theo-physik.uni-kiel.de/~heinze

Consideration of candidates will start immediately and continue until the position is filled.

PhD studentship proposal


In the University de Lyon Saint-Etienne (France), the University Jean Monnet is searching for


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3 full-time PhD students 
in the domain of Semantic Web, Linked data, Internet Science
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These positions are offered in the frame of the EU-funded Marie Sklodowska-Curie International Training Network WDAqua (Answering Questions using Web Data).
http://www.iai.uni-bonn.de/~langec/wdaqua/


Topics of the PhDs will cover the domains of provenance, trust, link discovery, data dynamicity and evolution, temporal information, named entity recognition, disambiguation, and reasoning.


== Essential Facts ==
The 3 PhD students will spend 3 years working in the WDAqua ITN (a total of 15 PhD students registered in the Universities of Bonn, Athens, Saint-Étienne, and Southampton). They will participate in an outstanding web science and data science training programme, and will have the chance to visit other partners. 
The gross monthly salary (including social security, before taxes) is about 3,110 ? plus a mobility allowance of 600 ?/month and, if applicable, a family allowance of 500 ?/month.


== Timeline ==
27 February 2015: application deadline
March 2015: first job offers made to successful applicants
July 2015-June 2018: duration of a PhD in WDAqua



== Eligibility and application procedure ==
Candidates must not have resided for more than 12 months in France in the 3 years before starting. They must hold an MSc degree in computer science or a related field and be able to combine both theoretical and practical aspects in their work. Fluent English communication and a passion for developing modern software solutions are fundamental requirements. Command of French or German is a plus but not required. The candidates should have experience and commitment to work in team and on the forefront of research.


You will need to submit a CV, university transcripts, a motivation letter including a short research plan targeted some topics of the above list, two letters of recommendation, and English writing samples (e.g., prior publication or master thesis excerpt).


The University of Saint Etienne is an equal opportunities employer. Preference will be given to suitably qualified women or persons with disabilities, all other considerations being equal.


== Contact ==
Pierre Maret and Antoine Zimmerman (Laboratoire Hubert Curien, Saint Etienne)
pierre.maret@univ-st-etienne.fr, zimmermann@emse.fr

PHD POSITION IN COMPUTATIONAL MODELS OF LANGUAGE AND VISION 


One PhD position/studentship to study computational models of language
and vision is available in the Language, Interaction and Computation
track of the 3-year PhD program offered by the Center for Mind/Brain
Sciences at the University of Trento (Italy) (www.unitn.it/en/cimec).


The PhD program (start date: November 2015) is taught in English by an
international faculty. The Language, Interaction & Computation track
is organized by the CIMeC-CLIC laboratory, an interdisciplinary group
of researchers studying language and conceptualization using both
computational and cognitive methods (clic.cimec.unitn.it).


The topic of the PhD thesis will be defined with the student selected
as PhD candidate. Possible research directions include:
Compositionality in images; Methaphors in images; Searching for images
through natural language queries; Language, vision and reasoning. The
selected student will work closely with the research team of
the ERC project COMPOSES (http://clic.cimec.unitn.it/composes/).


* Desired Profile *


Given the interdisciplinary nature of the project, we seek a brilliant
student with at least some of the following background:


- Machine learning
- Computer Vision
- Natural Language Processing
- Good programming skills
- Ability to work with big data
- Mathematical and statistical skills.


If you think that your background is relevant to the research program
outlined on the project website (clic.cimec.unitn.it/lavi) and you
have good programming and quantitative skills, please do get in touch
even if you do not fully fit the profile above.


All prospective students are expected to have an interest in working
in an interdisciplinary environment.




* The Research Environment *


The CLIC lab (clic.cimec.unitn.it) is a unit of the University of
Trento's Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC,
www.unitn.it/en/cimec), an English-speaking, interdisciplinary center
for research on brain and cognition whose staff includes
neuroscientists, psychologists, (computational) linguists, computer
scientists and physicists.


CLIC consists of researchers from the Departments of Computer Science
(DISI) and Psychology and Cognitive Science (DiPSCo) carrying out
research on a range of topics including concept acquisition,
corpus-based computational semantics, combining NLP and computer
vision, combining brain and corpus data to study cognition, formal
semantics and theoretical linguistics.


CLIC is part of the larger network of research labs focusing on
Natural Language Processing and related domains in the Trento region,
that is quickly becoming one of the areas with the highest
concentration of researchers in NLP and related fields anywhere in
Europe.


The CLIC/CIMeC laboratories are located in beautiful Rovereto, a
lively town in the middle of the Alps, famous for its contemporary art
museum, the quality of its wine, and the range of outdoors sport and
relax opportunities it offers:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rovereto




* Application Information *


The official call of the Doctoral School in Cognitive and Brain
Sciences will be announced shortly, and application details will be
available on the page:


http://www.unitn.it/en/drcimec/10140/admission-doctoral-school-cognitive-and-brain-sciences


We strongly encourage a preliminary expression of interest in the
project. Please contact Raffaella Bernardi (bernardi@disi.unitn.it),
attaching a CV in pdf or txt format, or a link to an online CV. For
information about the application process, please contact the school
administrator (phd.cimec@unitn.it).