Call for PhD Scholarships 2009: Ruhr-Universität Bochum Germany’s Excellence Initiative

12 thematic priorities from life sciences, through natural sciences and engineering to the humanities and social sciences. We provide wide prospects for an individual research project in an attractive and international research environment.

-Research School scholarships are offered as employment contracts

-net salary after taxes approx. € 1.10O per month (E13/2 TVL)

-net salary for engineers after taxes approx. € 1.800 per month (E13 TVL)

-in addition €1.000 p.a lump sum for consumables and travel

-PhD positions for three yars

-special support service for foreign students

-state-of-the-art research facilities

-structured scientific programme

-transdisciplinary Science College

-training of transferable skills

-supervision and mentoring arrangements career guidance

Deadline for application is January 31, 2009.

Details on the research fields and admission procedure can be obtained at

wvww.research-school.rub.de

Thematic Priorities

-Natural Sciences and Engineering
Interfacial Systems Chemistry
Plasma Science
Materials Science and Engineering
Sustainable Infrastructure Engineering
Security in Information and Communication Systems
Advanced Computational Sciences and Engineering (ACSE)

-Life Sciences
Macromolecular Networks
Neuronal and Cognitive Networks

-Humanities and Social Sciences
Biomedical Ethics and Public Health
Organisation and Transformation of Semantic Space
Religion and Secularisation
Human Security in the Process of Globalisation

The coordination is handled by the Central Coordination Office (CCO) of the Research School. Further details regarding the announcement can be obtained at www.rub.de/stellenboerse.html

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