Scholarship Details: The University of Salford is participating in the Government’s National Scholarship Programme to help with the costs of going to University. If you are a full-time student, our Salford National Scholarship Programme awards a £2,000 discount against your fees and a £1,000 cash award in year one of your studies. If you are [...]

Scholarship Details: Thin films of transition metal oxides exhibit a range of functional properties that are of interest for energy-related and environmental applications. Research on “green” nanomaterials for applications as electrochromic and thermochromic window coatings, gas sensors and photocatalytic self-cleaning and air purifying surfaces is well established at the Division of Solid state Physics, the [...]

Scholarship Details: The project focuses on studies of different redox-, radical- and metallo-proteins involved in oxygen activation and electron transport. This includes the proteins/protein systems of ribonucleotide reductase (RNR), nitric oxide synthase (NOS), catalase-peroxidase (KatG), cytochrome c and myoglobin. For these systems the combination of protein crystallography with different in-situ spectroscopic techniques as well as [...]

Scholarship Details: The Niels Bohr Institute (www.nbi.ku.dk) at University of Copenhagen (www.ku.dk) invites applications two Ph.D. scholarship in theoretical condensed matter physics. One position is in the field of quantum science, including topological states in superconductors (Majorana Fermions), spin qubits and transport theory of nanostructures. The theory group works in close collaboration with the experimental [...]

Scholarship Details: All 29 masters research of the University of Rennes 1 are concerned by this call in different fields of Biology And Environment , Health, Physics, Chemistry, Mechanics , Mathematics, Computer Science, Electronics, Law, Economics, Management, Philosophy.4 000€ as a mobility allowance.1 000€ at most as a travel allowance (economic class and 2nd class, [...]

Scholarship Details: The successful applicants should take up the position not later than September 2012. Are you interested in dynamical processes in young and old stars, the evolution of galaxies, the formation of chemical elements, the enrichment of the interstellar medium with gas and dust from giant stars, the formation of planetary systems, asteroids, comets, [...]

Scholarship Details: The objective is to study the local, multi-functional optimisation problem related to central issues in passenger vehicle design, namely structural constraints and noise and vibration (comfort) constraints, as well as environmental aspects. These often conflicting functional requirements are difficult, if not impossible, to properly address in a sequential manner, but rather must be [...]

Scholarship Details: The French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs provides a large number of grants to international students. A quarter of the grants are awarded by the ministry’s offices in Paris (e.g., grants under the Eiffel and Major programs. The rest are awarded by France’s embassies. Information on all French government grants is available [...]

Scholarship Details: More than 20 research groups are active at the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics. The research projects span across a broad range of topics covering various aspects of structure and function of biological systems. A major fraction of these topics are centered on biological membranes, where many groups working within this area are [...]

Scholarship Details: The University of Birmingham is pleased to announce 18 PhD scholarships for students from China. This major new scholarship scheme is open to all fields and named in honour of Li Siguang, one of Birmingham’s most famous Chinese graduates. The scholarship is offered in partnership with the China Scholarship Council (CSC). There are [...]

Scholarship Details: The projects involve long time scale simulations and density functional theory calculations on “Electrochemical production of fertilizer and green fuel”.

Scholarship Details: The successful applicant will grow and investigate two-dimensional systems, like graphene and BN on well-controlled substrates. The research is focused on the electronic and structural properties of these systems as well as the possibility to tune the properties of these systems by different means, e.g. by chemical additives. For the experimental research different [...]

Scholarship Details: The Scholarship is awarded upon the recommendation the Head of the School of Physics. Applications for the scholarship are invited by a notice on the University notice board whenever the scholarship is available for award.$2450.00 Approximate value for 2012 award.The 2012 scholarship is valued at approximately $2,450 and is tenable for one year. [...]

Scholarship Details: The Department of Fundamental Physics is active within basic science research. The research within experimental subatomic physics is performed at leading infrastructures such as CERN-ISOLDE and GSI/FAIR, as well as theoretical studies of quantum many-body systems, both containing strong components of e-science. Furthermore, there are leading activities within theoretical elementary particle physics and [...]

Scholarship Details: We are pleased to offer University of Exeter graduates progressing directly from undergraduate to postgraduate study in 2012 a £1,000 scholarship towards the cost of their tuition fees. The scholarship is available to any 2012 Exeter graduate progressing to a taught Masters degree in the Business School, College of Humanities, College of Social [...]

Scholarship Details: The purpose of the McLean Endowment is to support outstanding basic research at the University of Toronto in the following fields: physics, chemistry, computer science, mathematics, engineering sciences, and the theory and methods of statistics. The specific purpose of the McLean Award is to provide extraordinary support to an outstanding researcher relatively early [...]

Scholarship Details: Qualified candidates should possess an excellent masters or diploma degree in theoretical physics or theoretical chemistry. A solid background in quantum mechanics is a prerequisite, programming experience would be advantageous. Good command of the English language is required, knowledge of German beneficial, but not required. Most importantly, however, the candidate should be highly [...]

Scholarship Details: The research project for the present PhD position is multi-disciplinary, spanning both fusion plasma physics and applications of automatic control. In fusion research, it is important to develop the understanding of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) instabilities, and to devise methods to suppress these, since the instabilities are limiting the operational range of the fusion reactor. [...]

Scholarship Details: The successful candidate must have a Bachelors degree in Exercise Science, Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Robotics, Physics or a related discipline, and should have an interest in biomechanical research. The candidate will be expected to conduct research concerned with aspects of the biomechanics of the upper limb and lympheodema and the efficacy of emerging [...]

Scholarship Details: A Postdoctoral Research Associate position is available in the extragalactic and observational cosmology group, in The Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics. The starting date is 1st April 2012 or as soon as possible thereafter. You will work with Dr. Michael Brown on the analysis of data from current CMB polarization experiments and the [...]

Scholarship Details: The new Helmholtz-Russia Joint Research Group (HRJRG) “Measurements of Gamma Rays and Charged Cosmic Rays in the Tunka-Valley in Siberia by Innovative New Technologies” aims at high-energy gamma-ray astronomy and cosmic ray astrophysics. The projected air-shower detectors will be based on the air Cherenkov technique and the radio detection technique (tunka-hrjrg.desy.de). In the [...]