PhD Scholarship in Physics, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB), Germany

The institute Institute for Nanospectroscopy is looking for:

PhD Student (f/m) in the EPR-Group

Reference No.: EM 2016/18


Doctoral Thesis:Variable ultra-high frequency EPR on catalytically active high spin transition metal ions

The institute for Nanospectroscopy offers an interdisciplinary research program for the design and optimization of energy-related materials applying synchrotron-based spectromicroscopic and synchrotron- and lab-based spectroscopic characterization methods
Materials research includes in particular nanoparticle and hybrid materials for applications such as photovoltaics, catalysis, thermoelectrics, batteries, and hydrogen storage

Tasks

We are looking for a highly motivated young scientist in the field of very high frequency/ high field Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR). The major aim of the project is to apply and further develop an existing FD-FT THz-EPR set-up and realize an in operando electro chemical cell that can be operated in the probe of the 263 GHz spectrometer in our lab. Main scientific targets are the extraction of spin coupling parameters and oxidation states in catalytically active high spin transition metal ions.

Our EPR lab is equipped with modern EPR spectrometers covering the frequency range from 9 to 263 GHz capable of the complete repertoire of CW/pulsed EPR and a unique synchrotron based very broad band (150 GHz to several THz) frequency domain EPR spectrometer.

Requirements

Applicants should have a master degree in physics or chemistry. Knowledge in magnetic resonance spectroscopy and instrumentation, preferably in EPR would be beneficial. Candidates with experience in inorganic and/or electro chemistry as well as quantum chemical calculations of EPR parameters are specially encouraged to apply.

What we offer

Fixed term contract for 36 months. The employment contract is based on contracts for the German civil service (TVöD-Bund). We particularly welcome applications from women. Preference will be given to handicapped applicants provided equal suitability.

How to apply

Have we sparked your interest? Then we look forward to receiving your application by 05.08.2016.


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Helmholtz-Zentrum für Materialien und Energie GmbH
Hahn-Meitner-Platz 1
14109 Berlin
www.helmholtz-berlin.de

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PhD Student (f/m) (Master/Diploma in Physics), Germany

The department Quantum Phenomena in Novel Materials is looking for:

PhD Student (f/m) (Master/Diploma in Physics)

Reference No.: EM 2016/6

The Department of Quantum Phenomena in Novel Materials undertakes world leading research in quantum and frustrated magnetism, multifunctional materials and superconductivity. As well as operating several X-ray and neutron instruments it also offers a state-of-the-art materials synthesis program and the full range of standard sample characterization facilities including X-ray Laue and powder diffraction, magnetization, specific heat and transport measurements.

Topic of the doctoral thesis:
"Investigations of Topological and Quantum Magnets"

The PhD student will investigate topological and quantum magnets with particular focus on frustrated and low dimensional magnetism where current research has revealed exotic phases such as classical and quantum spin ice which exhibit monopole excitations, new forms of topological order and fractional excitations. These phenomena will be investigated using primarily the experimental techniques of neutron and X-ray scattering along with materials synthesis and characterization. Pressure and magnetic field will be used to tune the ground states and provide additional insight, while deeper understanding will also be gained by performing computer simulations and by collaboration with theorists.

Applicants should have or be close to finishing a master/diploma degree in physics and should have taken courses in condensed matter physics.


Please enclose with your application the following documents:
Motivation letter, CV and the contact details of at least two academic references.

What we offer

Fixed term contract for 36 months. The employment contract is based on contracts for the German civil service (TVöD-Bund). We particularly welcome applications from women. Preference will be given to handicapped applicants provided equal suitability.

How to apply

Have we sparked your interest? Then we look forward to receiving your application by 25.07.2016.

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Helmholtz-Zentrum für Materialien und Energie GmbH
Hahn-Meitner-Platz 1
14109 Berlin
www.helmholtz-berlin.de

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PhD Scholarship, Deep learning for musical structure analysis and generation, Inria Nancy, France

ITLE: 

• Deep learning for musical structure analysis and generation

LAB: 

• Inria Rennes & Inria Nancy, France

SUPERVISORS: 

• Frédéric Bimbot & Emmanuel Vincent

STARTING DATE: 

• October 2016 or later (until January 2017)

HOW TO APPLY: 

• send a CV, a motivation letter, a list of publications, and

• one or more recommendation letters to emmanuel.vincent@inria.fr as soon as possible and no later than July 22, 2016

ABOUT INRIA:

• Inria is the biggest European public research institute dedicated to computer science. The PANAMA team (https://team.inria.fr/panama/) and the MULTISPEECH team (https://team.inria.fr/multispeech/) each gather 20+ scientists with a focus on machine learning and signal processing for music, speech, and general audio.

RESEARCH TOPIC:

• Despite numerous studies on automatic music transcription and  composition, the temporal structure of music pieces at various time scales remains difficult to model. Automatic music improvisation systems such as OMax [1] and ImproteK [2] assume that the structure is either predetermined (chord chart) or completely free, which limits their use to specific musical styles. The concepts of semiotic structure [3] and Contrast & System [4] we recently introduced helped defining musical structure in a more general way. Yet, they do not easily translate into a computational model due to the large temporal horizon required and to the semantic gap with the observed musical signal or score. In the last few years, deep learning [5] has emerged as the new state of the art in the field of natural language processing (NLP) and it has already demonstrated its potential for modeling short-term musical structure [6, 7].

• The goal of this PhD is to exploit and adapt deep recurrent neural networks (RNNs) for modeling medium- and long-term musical structure. This involves the following tasks in particular:

1. designing new RNN architectures for jointly modeling music at several time scales: tatum, beat, bar, structural block (e.g., chorus or verse), whole piece,
2. training them on smaller amounts of data than in the field of NLP,
3. evaluating their performance for musical structure estimation and automatic music improvisation.

• This position is part of a funded project with Ircam, in which the successful candidate will have the opportunity to engage.

PROFILE/ELIGIBILITY:

• MSc in computer science, machine learning, or a related field.
• Programming experience in Python or C/C++.
• Previous experience with music and deep learning is not required but would be an asset.

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68 PhD and Postdoc Scholarships in Ecomomic, Engineering, Design, Medicine, Pharmaceutical, Biomedical, Veterinary and Social Sciences, at University of Antwerp, Belgium

Vacancies for academic personnel

Only vacancies in English are shown on this page. For a complete list of all the vacancies currently open at the university, please consult the vacancy pages in Dutch.

Faculty of Applied Economics

Vacancies on a predoctoral level

• Doctoral student, air transport economics and business
• PhD Scholarship in the field of Strategy, Organization & Innovation
• Doctoral Grant BOF, Corporate Social Media Communication
• Doctoral Grant BOF, Marketing and Innovation
• Doctoral Grant BOF, port economics

Vacancies on a postdoctoral level

• Tenured academic staff, Sustainability in companies and organizations

Faculty of Applied Engineering

Vacancies on a predoctoral level

• Doctoral Grant BOF, Computer Vision
• Doctoral Grant BOF, embedded wireless sensor networks

Faculty of Arts

Vacancies on a predoctoral level

• Doctoral student, research infrastructure project GISTorical Antwerp II
• Doctoral student, shock cities
• Doctoral Grant, historical linguistics
• Doctoral Grant BOF, Dutch-language children's literature
• Doctoral Grant BOF, Aesthetics
• Doctoral Grant BOF, contemporary history
• Doctoral Grant BOF, Premodern Islamic History
• Doctoral Grant BOF, Spanish Linguistics
• Doctoral Grant BOF, digital text analysis
• Doctoral Grant BOF, historical and variationist linguistics
• Doctoral Grant BOF, moral philosophy
• Doctoral Grant BOF, religious history

Vacancies on a postdoctoral level

• Tenured academic staff, Hispanic literature and language
• Doctoral assistant, Hispanic literature and language

Faculty of Design Sciences

Vacancies on a predoctoral level

• Doctoral Grant BOF, Landscape Studies and Urbanism

Faculty of Law

• Doctoral Grant BOF, family property law
• Doctoral Grant BOF, medical law and criminal law

Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences

Vacancies on a predoctoral level

• PhD student, whole genome sequencing of Mycobacterium tubercolosis
• Clinical researcher, PhD project
• Bio-informatician/PhD student
• Doctoral student, Molecular Imaging

Vacancies on a postdoctoral level

• Postdoctoral researcher, whole genome sequencing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
• Postdoctoral researcher, development innovative PET neuroimaging radioligands

Faculty of Pharmaceutical, Biomedical and Veterinary Sciences

Vacancies on a predoctoral level

• Doctoral scholarship, proteomics and brain plasticity
• PhD student, molecular genetics of Alzheimer's disease and frontotemperal dementia
• PhD Position, aminoacyl-tRNA sythetases in neurodegeneration
• PhD student, Molecular Neurogenetics and Neurosciences
• PhD Student, Peripheral Neuropathy Research Group
• Doctoral Grant BOF, parasitology
• Doctoral Grant BOF, Cell biology of accelerated aging disease
• Doctoral Grant BOF, Veterinary Sciences
• Doctoral Grant BOF, complex genetics of Alzheimer's disease
• Doctoral Grant BOF, Physiopharmacology

Vacancies on a postdoctoral level

• Director/research professor VIB-Departement of Molecular Genetics (DMG)
• Doctor assistant, perinatal development of the gut

Faculty of Science

Vacancies on a predoctoral level

• PhD scholarships, Aquatic Ecophysiology and Toxicology
• Doctoral student, Plant physiology and biochemistry
• Doctoral scholarship holder, Molecular Plant Physiology
• Doctoral Grant BOF, Electrochemistry
• Doctoral Grant BOF, wireless communication networks Internet of Things
• Doctoral Grant BOF, biomolecular data mining
• Doctoral Grant BOF, Computational physical chemistry
• Doctoral Grant BOF, Computational condensed matter physics
• Doctoral Grant BOF, Plant-Microbial Ecology
• Doctoral Grant BOF, Environmental biotechnology
• Doctoral Grant BOF, material surface modification

Vacancies on a postdoctoral level

• Postdoc researcher, Computer Aided Design

Faculty of Social Sciences

Vacancies on a predoctoral level

• Doctoral Grant (BOF), family sociology
• Doctoral Grant (BOF), medical sociology
• PhD students, measurement of multidimensional well-being, inequality and poverty
• Researcher, analysing wealth inequality
• Researcher, social distributive effects of climate change policies
• Junior Researcher/PhD Visual Urban Culture
• Junior Researcher/PhD Visual Methods / Visual Culture / Visual Sociology / Visual Anthropology / or Visual Communication
• Doctoral Grant BOF, Educational Sciences
• Doctoral Grant BOF, medical sociology and gender studies
• Doctoral Grant BOF, cultural sociology and identity studies
• Doctoral Grant BOF, communication Studies
• Doctoral Grant BOF, Political Sociology

Institute of Development Policy and Management (IOB)

There are currently no English vacancies at the Institute of Development Policy and Management (IOB).

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Doctoral student in the area of air transport economics and business @ Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France

Introduction

Year after year, the University of Antwerp has the privilege of welcoming more students. This is no coincidence. Innovative instruction, ground-breaking research and excellent guidance: students and researchers make a conscious choice for these qualities. Each day, our 4 000 employees go to great lengths to realize them. We are constantly in search of colleagues who are ready to invest their efforts with us in our university.

Department

The Faculty of Applied Economics is seeking to fill the following full-time vacancy in the Department of Transport and Regional Economics

Subject area

Doctoral student in the area of air transport economics and business

Job description

The Department of Transport and Regional Economics is looking for reinforcement for its air transport research team. Together with the team, the applicant will conduct cutting-edge research on air transport economics and business.

The applicant will further:

• prepare a doctoral thesis in the field of air transport economics and business;
• contribute to research in the Department of Transport and Regional Economics, in the field of air transport economics and business;
• keep active contact with the air transport industry stakeholders;
• enroll in the university's Ph.D. program;
• write scientific articles about the subject of your research.

Profile and requirements                                                                           

• You hold a master degree in applied economics (or other relevant domains).
• You have relevant knowledge of and genuine interest in transport and preferably air transport economics and business.
• You have a good methodological background. Proven research expertise in quantitative research methods is considered a plus.
• You can submit outstanding academic results.
• Also students in the final year of their degree can apply.
• Your academic qualities comply with the requirements stipulated in the university’s policy.
• You are quality-oriented, conscientious, creative, customer-oriented and cooperative.
• An analytical spirit and a focus on quantification are expected.
• Team player with a sense of initiative and responsibility.
• Excellent verbal and written English communication skills and a willingness to learn Dutch.

We offer

• a contract for a period of one year to start with, with the possibility of renewal for a further period after positive evaluation;
• the start date of the contract is planned for as soon as possible;
• a gross monthly grant ranging from € 2.189,88 - € 2.334,46;
• a dynamic and stimulating work environment with possibilities for extra training in an international context.

How to apply?

• Please send an extended CV and motivation letter to Anne Arekens (anne.arekens@uantwerpen.be). The motivation should on the one hand explain why you are the right candidate for the position and on the other hand indicate what your topic of choice within the domain of air transport would be and how you would approach it. The final topic of the PhD will be determined by the promotor(s) in consultation with the applicant.
• The application deadline is 17 July 2016.
• A pre-selection will be made amongst the submitted applications and the motivation document.
• Selected candidates will be invited for an interview (in person or via Skype).
• The remainder of the selection procedure is specific to the position and will be determined by the selection committee.
• With regard to questions regarding the profile and the description of duties, please contact dr. Wouter Dewulf at wouter.dewulf@uantwerpen.be or +32-3-265 49 36.

The University of Antwerp is a family-friendly organization, with a focus on equal opportunities and diversity. Our HR-policy for researchers was awarded by the European Commission with the quality label 'HR Excellence in research'. 


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PhD Position on Networks & Control @ Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France

Location
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PhD Opening at the Heudiasyc Lab, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France

Description
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A PhD position is available at the Heudiasyc Lab of the Technological University of Compiegne, France. The candidate will join the transversal Networking and Control research direction managed by Professors Isabelle Fantoni and Enrico Natalizio.

Duration of Study
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The position is fully funded for three years and available from September-October 2016.

Educational Requirements/Eligibility 
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Graduate students at the M.Sc. or B.Sc. level with background in Electrical and Computer Engineering or Computer Science are encouraged to apply.

*Subject and skills*
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In the development of distributed networked controlled system of systems, there is a prominent need for supporting networks that can provide high levels of QoS using mobile nodes and off-the-shelf components.  At the same time, the 5G network infrastructure is anticipated to be able to show very high performance using control of dedicated hardware. From this standpoint, the Applicant shall develop a set of control strategies that will be applied to these systems of systems. The devised strategies will ensure the appropriate management and will be oriented to the network performance maximization. In detail, the developed strategies and the associated insights will allow fulfilling specifications and constraints coming from both: (i) the communication point of view (i.e. QoS, interference shaping, etc…) and (ii) the control theory point of view (robustness of the control, system
convergence analysis, task management, etc…).
All the candidate work will converge towards a system that should also include fault tolerance features and be able to show self-* capabilities. The devised control strategy is envisioned to be based on the following strong points:
•    Decentralized network connectivity estimation coupled with agents' mobility control;
•    A two-step strategy for the management of topology control;
•    Combined Power and Mobility Control with system-status based priority assignments.
The first point will render the system capable to drive the network through a specific topology and, at the same time, satisfy communication constraints. The second point revolves around the definition of a general strategy to tackle topology control problems. The third point concerns the design of strategies to switch between mobility and power control approaches dynamically and optimally.

Other background knowledge
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Good mathematical background and knowledge in Control Theory and Networking protocols as well as practical skills with programming languages (C/C++) and software tools (e.g., Matlab, NS-2, NS-3) and fluent English (written and spoken) are required. Above all, the applicants must be motivated to learn quickly and work effectively on challenging research problems.

*Application process*
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The following documents are required:
- CV,
- motivation letter,
- statement of research experience and interests,
- University transcripts
as attachments of an email, whose subject will be "Application for PhD position at the Heudiasyc Lab", which must be addressed to Professors Fantoni and Natalizio (at isabelle.fantoni@hds.utc.fr and enrico.natalizio@hds.utc.fr).
Web links of research articles authored by the applicant are welcome to be included, too.

*Timeline*
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- July 15th, 2016: application submission deadline
- July 20th-21th, 2016: interview of the selected candidates
- September-October 2016: position start date

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Open PhD position at University of Antwerp Belgium on wireless networking

Introduction
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I would like to draw your attention to an open PhD position at the MOSAIC research group (https://mosaic.uantwerpen.be), connected to the University of Antwerp and iMinds, Belgium. The position is in the area of wireless networking for Internet of Things applications. Applications should be submitted through the online system (https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/jobs/vacancies/ap/2016bapdocproex186/) no later than August 15, 2016.

Job description                                       
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* You prepare a doctoral thesis in the field of low-power wireless networks, specifically focusing on interference mitigation among different types of networks coexisting in sub-1GHz radio frequencies.
* You publish scientific articles related to the research project of the assignment.
* You contribute to teaching and research in the MOSAIC research group of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of the Faculty of Sciences.

Profile and requirements
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* You hold a master or engineering degree in computer science, informatics, mathematics, electronics, telecommunications or equivalent.
* You can submit outstanding academic results.
* Students in the final year of their degree can also apply.
* Foreign candidates are encouraged to apply.
* Your academic qualities comply with the requirements stipulated in the university’s policy.
* You are quality-oriented, conscientious, creative and cooperative.
* Prior experience in the design or deployment of wireless network technologies is a plus, but not a necessary requirement.

We offer
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* a doctoral scholarship for a period of two years, with the possibility of renewal for a further two-year period after positive evaluation;
* the start date of scholarship will be 1 October, 1 November or 1 December 2016 or 1 January 2017;
* a gross monthly grant ranging from € 2.189,88 - € 2.334,46;
* a dynamic and stimulating work environment.

How to apply?
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* Applications may only be submitted online (https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/jobs/vacancies/ap/2016bapdocproex186/), and should include a copy of your CV and a cover letter,

Deadline
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Submit application until the closing date 15 August 2016.
* A pre-selection will be made from amongst the submitted applications.
* The remainder of the selection procedure is specific to the position and will be determined by the selection panel.
* The interviews of the candidates, preselected by a selection panel, will take place from 22 August until 16 September 2016.
* More information about the application form can be obtained from Myra De Munck (Tel. +32 3 265 32 24).
* For questions about the profile and the description of duties, please contact prof. dr. Jeroen Famaey at jeroen.famaey@uantwerpen.be.

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