Postdoctoral Position in Chemical Toxicology – ETH Zurich

The Laboratory of Food & Nutrition Toxicology, Institute of Food, Nutrition, & Health, ETH Zurich, is offering a Postdoctoral position in Chemical Toxicology to start 15 January 2011 or an agreed on date, with potential research projects in areas involving molecular mechanisms of dietary carcinogenesis or metabolism-mediated cytotoxicity/chemotherapy

Our research at the interface of chemistry & biology has a broad aim of correlating biological activity with chemical structure & reactivity. It unites contemporary research approaches in organic chemistry, analytical chemistry, & biochemistry to address current issues in Food & Nutrition Toxicology.

Friedrich Miescher Institute PhD Scholarships, Basel Switzerland

Applications are invited for internally funded PhD student fellowships at the FMI in Basel, Switzerland.

The FMI is part of the Novartis Research Foundation. Our research focuses on epigenetics, growth control and neurobiology.

We employ state-of-the-art technologies to explore basis molecular mechanisms of cells and organisms in health and disease.

UNU Fellowships in MBA Programme for Developing Countries

The University of Geneva and The United Nations University (UNU) share a strong commitment to capacity development, especially aiming to enhance the capacity of individuals and institutions in developing countries. Therefore, in line with UNU’s capacity-development focus, the University of Geneva will offer UNU fellowships for international organizations MBA Programme.

UNU fellows will be mid-career professionals from developing countries (minimum 3 years relevant work experience in developing countries), who would be expected to apply and disseminate their newly acquired knowledge and skills in promoting the socio-economic development of their own and other developing countries. The UNU fellowship covers full tuition, but Fellows need to fund their living expenses in Geneva throughout the academic part of the programme.

PhD-Postdoctoral Positions in Architecture at Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland

The Accademia di architettura di Mendrisio (Università della Svizzera italiana) invites applications for 2 fulltime doctoral positions and 1 postdoctoral position (80%) within the interdisciplinary research project “From Ravenna to Vals. Light and Darkness in theArchitecture from the Middle Ages to the Present” funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.

The Swiss Government Scholarships for University, Fine Arts and Music Schools for Foreign Students

The Swiss Government grants a number of arts scholarships to foreign students from a pool of countries, including Kenya, Algeria, Senegal, South Africa, Cameroon, Madagascar, Egypt, Ivory Coast, Tanzania and Tunisia.

Students may undertake Postgraduate study at any Swiss university or Federal Institute of Technology and the listed universities of applied sciences.

For fine arts and music, scholarship holders can attend the respective public schools and conservatories. Proficiency in German, French or Italian is required for studies at a Swiss university or art institution. In some cases a students knowledge of English will also be tested. The scholarships are for nine months.

PhD Position in Computer Science Specialization in Mobile Distributed Systems, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Opening of a PhD position in computer science, specialization in mobile distributed systems

Position overview
The Distributed Object Programming Lab (DOPLab), at the University of Lausanne, is opening a PhD position in computer science, specialization in mobile distributed systems, coupled to an assistant position at 100%. The DOPLab is part of the Information Systems Institute (ISI) of HEC Lausanne.

Supervisor: Prof. Benoît Garbinato
Work location: University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Starting date : September 1, 2010 or to be agreed.
PhD duration : 3 years.

PhD Student Position in Alpine Hydrogeology at Eawag Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology

Eawag, the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, is a Swiss-based but internationally active research institute within the domain of the ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Science and Technology). It is committed to the ecologically, economically and socially responsible management of water.

The Department of Water Resources and Drinking Water has a vacancy for a
PhD Student in Alpine Hydrogeology

The subject of the doctoral thesis will be “Water fluxes in alpine catchments with special emphasis on interactions between groundwater and surface water”.

EURIAS Fellowship 2011-2012 Call for Applications

The European Institutes for Advanced Study (EURIAS) Fellowship Programme is an international researcher mobility programme offering 33 fellowships for the 2011/2012 academic year. It proposes 10-month residencies in one of the 14 participating Institutes: Berlin, Bologna, Brussels, Bucharest, Budapest, Cambridge, Helsinki, Jerusalem, Lyons, Nantes, Paris, Uppsala, Vienna, Wassenaar. The Programme builds on the strong reputation of the Institutes for Advanced Study for promoting the concentrated, self-directed work of excellent researchers within the stimulating environment of a multidisciplinary and international group of fellows.

EURIAS Fellowships are mainly offered in the fields of the humanities and social sciences but may also be granted to scholars in natural and exact sciences, if their proposed research project does not require laboratory facilities. The diversity of the 14 participating IAS —which have agreed on a common selection procedure— offers a wide range of possible research contexts in Europe for worldwide scholars. Applicants select up to three IAS outside their country of nationality or residence as possible host institutions.

Jim Ellert MBA Scholarships 2010 at IMD Business School, Switzerland

Jim Ellert MBA Scholarships are intended to attract students from Africa, Central and Eastern Europe (including all former Soviet republics), and the South-Eastern Asian Peninsula (Thailand, Myramar, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Indonesia)

Field of study: Masters in Business Administration
Scholarship value/inclusions: CHF 20,000

The Nestle MBA Scholarships for Women from Developing Countries

The Nestlé Scholarship for Women was first awarded in 1997 and was initiated by a group of IMD MBA participants who wanted to encourage women to take the MBA.