Apr 10, 2008

International Call for Research School Fellowships

Research School scholarships are offered as employment contracts for
Net salary after taxes approx. 1.100 € per month (E13/2 TVL)
Net salary for engineers after taxes approx. 1.800 € per month (E13 TVL)
In addition 1000 € p.a lump sum for consumables and travel
PhD fellowships for three years
Deadline for application is April 30, 2007.

Details on the research fields and admission procedure can be obtained at
www.rub.de/research-school/application.html

Thematic Priorities

Natural Sciences and Engineering

Interfacial Systems Chemistry

Chemical Complexity at Interfaces
Heterogeneous Catalysis
Systems Chemistry and the Origin of Life
High-Resolution Analytics and Imaging
Theoretical Chemistry and Simulation
Plasma Science

Fundamental plasma phenomena in laboratory and space
Diagnostics, modelling and simulation of plasmas
Novel sources and processes for plasma technology
Plasma applications from nanoelectronics to medicine
Materials Science and Engineering

Processing and analysis of novel nanoelectronic devices
Quantum ballistic transport, magnetotransport, spintronics
Band gap engineering
Structure and microstructure diagnostics
Multi-scale modelling and simulation of materials
Sustainable Infrastructure Engineering

Geothermal exploitation
Tunnel design and construction
Modelling and simulation
Underground freight transportation
Multi-level energy supply
Security in Information and Communication Systems

Cryptography, efficient algorithms
Secure operating systems, embedded security, network security,
Public key algorithms,
Legal and economical aspects of IT security
Advanced Computational Sciences and Engineering (ACSE)

computing Scale-traversing modelling and simulation
High performance computing
Advanced Computational Engineering
Autonomic computing
Embedded
Life Sciences

Macromolecular networks

signal and regulatory pathways
Biotechnology
Protein structure and networks
Neuronal and cognitive networks

computational neuroscience
perception, cognition and memory
development and plasticity of nervous system
Humanities and Social Sciences

Biomedical Ethics and Public Health

Culture, Religion and Illness
Intercultural Bioethics, End of Life Issues in Chinese Bioethics
Neuroethics, Clinical Ethics
Organisation and Transformation of Semantic Spaces
Continuities and discontinuities in the historiography 20th century, Germany in an international perspective

Religion and Secularisation
Religion and Civil Society, Religious Pluralism, empirical social research (esp. quantitative methods), Sociology of Religion

Human Security in the Process of Globalisation
Effects of Globalisation on Growth and Distribution in Developing Countries (quantitative approaches)

The coordination is handled by the Central Coordination Office (CCO) of the Research School.


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