PhD vacancies at Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
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1. PhD position in Centre for Catalysis and Sustainable Chemistry (Due: 15 February 2010)
In the Centre for Catalysis and Sustainable Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry one PhD position is open. The research project is mainly experimental and deals with the development of molecular transition metal catalysts for oxidation catalysis using dioxygen. The reactions targeted are important in the production of chemicals from biomass. The work will consist of organic and inorganic synthesis, spectroscopic characterisation and catalysis tests. The candidate will be trained in working under an inert atmosphere and in elucidating the electronic structure of transition metal compounds. The position is in a new group within the Centre for Catalysis and Sustainable Chemistry. The centre employs ~20 PhD students and post docs in an international environment.
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2. PhD fellowship in Multiphoton Photopolymerization (Due: 15 February 2010)
The main focus of the project is microstructuring of hydrogel scaffolds by multiphoton photopolymerization, which is a novel technology and research area. The goal of the project is to produce advanced technology and methods for evaluation of immune cell migratory behavior, to enhance the success of clinical outcomes in the area of immunotherapy.
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3. PhD scholarship in carbohydrate chemistry (Due: 22 February 2010)
A PhD position is available at the Department of Chemistry at the Technical University of Denmark. The purpose of the project is to prepare oligosaccharides found in human milk by chemical synthesis. This will involve synthesis of specially designed glycosyl donors and acceptors followed by glycosylations to assemble the desired oligosaccharides. The project is part of a larger strategic research project funded by the Danish Council for Strategic Research where the aim is to develop new enzymatic procedures for production of human milk oligosaccharides.
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The Inverse Modeling and Geostatistics Project is offering three PhD student positions for excellent, highly motivated candidates interested in computational geoscience. All three positions are available starting March 1, 2010 or as soon as possible. The first PhD position is associated with the project Integrated Modeling of Oil Reservoirs, aimed at oil reservoir modeling through simultaneous analysis of seismic data and production data. The second PhD position is connected to the project Risk Assessment and Multiple Scenario Generation from Seismic and Geological Data, aimed at developing methods, algorithms and software for integrated uncertainty assessment and generation of multiple geological scenarios from seismic data and statistical geological information. The third PhD position is connected to the Advanced Oil Recovery Methods (ADORE) project and concerns Numerical Methods for Reservoir Simulation and Production Optimization.
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5. PhD position: Optical quantum information processing: Generating the Optical Cat state (Due: 26 February 2010)
The objective of the research project is to experimentally investigate new quantum information systems based on quantum optics. By using the fundamental quantum properties of light, it is possible to make ultra fast computers – the so-called quantum computers. The ambitious and ultimate objective of the research project is to design and construct the first quantum processor using the quantum mechanical wave properties of a light field. In this project, the so-called Schrodinger Cat state of light will be used to enable quantum computing.
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6. PhD scholarship - aerodynamic models (Due: 27 February 2010)
This PhD position is concerned with improving and refining existing engineering models for dynamic stall and stall delay. Engineering models are widely used in industry, and further development of the models based on the newest experimental data supplemented by Computational Fluid Dynamics studies will be important for the predictive capability of modern aeroelastic codes. Additionally, the aerodynamics is an essential part of understanding the load situations experience by a turbine during its lifetime. The PhD employee's main focus will be to combining results from existing Navier-Stokes computations, model experiments of airfoils and rotors in wind tunnels (NREL Phase-VI and MEXICO) and full scale experiments (DanAero).
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7. PhD fellowship in Molecular Diagnostics of Foodborne Pathogens (Due: 28 February 2010)
The fellowship will be part of a larger, international research project (BIOTRACER, see www.biotracer.org), focusing on improved biotraceability of unintended micro-organisms and their substances in food and feed chains. The aim of the PhD project is to develop and validate culture-independent and DNA-based methods for detection, enumeration, and characterization of foodborne pathogens, such as Salmonella and Campylobacter. Methods that will be used include real-time quantitative PCR and DNA microarrays, together with standard culture based techniques. These methods will then be used to study different aspects of food and feed safety, for example the attachment of Salmonella to meat surfaces and survival over time in feed samples. The project will be performed in close collaboration with national and international partners involved in the BIOTRACER project.
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8. PhD fellowship: Campylobacter vaccination of poultry (Due: 28 February 2010)
The fellowship will be part of a larger, international research project focusing on the development of a cost-effective vaccination strategy against poultry being colonised by Campylobacter using different vaccine candidates and delivering systems. The project consists of four work packages, where the first three focus on experimental challenge trials with three different vaccine candidates in three different countries. The fourth work package, which mainly involves this PhD program, deals with the biostatistical design and analysis of the challenge trials, design of field studies and the development of a decision tool based on commercial interface software for design of a vaccination strategy. The software work will be done by a commercial company as collaborator. The decision to use a vaccine will be based on assessment of the efficiency of the vaccines as well as management factors in different poultry industries. Field studies will be main part of the PhD work.
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9. PhD Scholarships on Models and Logics for Verification and Analysis (Due: 1 March 2010)
In this call we particularly welcome candidates whose interests cover at least one of the following topics:
(a) The interplay between static analysis and model checking;
(b) Methods and techniques for the analysis of discrete or stochastic features;
We are interested both in candidates aiming to perform foundational work and those that are interested in studying how to analyse concrete applications. We often describe our models using appropriate process calculi or suitable automata; similarly properties are often described in logics such as Alternation-free Least Fixed Point Logic, Computation Tree Logic, Continuous time Stochastic Logic or variants of these. Static analysis techniques incorporate Abstract Interpretation, Flow Logic, Type and Effect Systems; model checking incorporates discrete and stochastic model checking.
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10. PhD grant at DTU Management Engineering (Due: 1 March 2010)
Announcement of three PhD grants.
A. Challenges and responses in historical perspective (DTU Management Engineering)
B. Curriculum design and learning outcomes
C. Models and simulations in engineering
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11. PhD position: Nanoscale and Single Molecule plasmonic Spectroscopy (Due: 1 March 2010)
The objective of the research project is to investigate linear and non linear spectroscopy in enhanced local optical fields of silver - and gold - nanostructures. The outcome of the PhD thesis will contribute to a better understanding and control of surface enhanced spectroscopic effects, such as surface enhanced Raman scattering, surface enhanced fluorescence, and surface enhanced infra red absorption. At the same time, the work should demonstrate some exciting new application of surface enhanced spectroscopy in nanosciences or in life sciences.
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12. PhD scholarships in Physics (Due: 1 March 2010)
The Department of Physics at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark, has 10 three year PhD scholarships within the research areas defined by its four sections:
- Theoretical Atomic-scale Physics
- Experimental Surface- & Nanomaterials Physics
- Biophysics & Complex Systems
- Quantum Physics & Information Technology
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13. PhD scholarship in: Environmental assessment of CO2 contamination in shallow aquifers (Due: 1 March 2010)
The PhD project will investigate the consequences of high CO2 concentrations entering into aquifers through a combination of laboratory column experiments and field experiments in aquifers. Geochemical modeling should be an integral part of the experimental planning and interpretation and extrapolation of the results.
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14. 2 PhD scholarships and 1 Postdoc: Deep-blue high-power supercontinuum light sources (Due: 12 March 2010)
All projects are mostly experimental in nature and involve the design and test of advanced photonic crystal fibers (PCFs) for the development of high-power supercontinuum light sources with a spectrum that reaches down to 350nm. The Postdoc will be in charge of establishing a new experimental facility for supercontinuum measurements at DTU Fotonik and for measurements of the noise properties of the source. One PhD project will deal with the measurement of supercontinuum generation in tapered PCFs and comparison with numerics to develop the optimum fiber structure. The other PhD project will focus on the important photodarkening problem with silica fibers exposed to UV light.
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15. PhD Scholarship in fish immunology and virology (Due: 15 March 2010)
The overall scientific aim of this PhD project is to disclose and characterise the mechanisms involved in protective immunity to a lethal fish rhabdovirus (viral haemorrhagic septicaemia virus, VHSV) at gene expression levels. A major task will be to determine relationships between mRNA and miRNA response profiles to vaccination and/or infection and to correlate these with the phenotypic traits (level of immunity, humoral and cellular immune response). Gene expression analysis by Q-PCR and chip-based gene array will be central activities, but work in all levels ranging from wet lab vaccination and infection trials in fish to virus propagation in cell culture, immunoassays and molecular biology will be expected. Publishing of results in scientific journals will represent an integrated element. A number of training courses will be included in the PhD study.
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16. PhD Scholarship in Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome virus (PRRSV) (Due: 15 March 2010)
The aim of this PhD project is to study the pathogenesis and molecular biology of PRRSV, which is one of the most devastating diseases in swine worldwide. The PhD-student will develop and validate quantitative PCR tests for the detection and diagnosis of virus isolates and will be responsible for full length sequencing (de novo sequencing) of PRRSV isolated throughout the world. The student will be involved in establishment of databases containing sequencedata from a varity of PRRSV isolates and be responsible for the bioinformatics assessment of the compiled data. Furthermore, the student will elaborate and validate protocols for performing cross neutralisation tests in vitro and cross protection studies in vivo.
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17. PhD Scholarship in bacterial fish diseases (Due: 15 March 2010)
The PhD project will have focus on host-pathogen interactions including determination of expression-profiles for immune relevant genes in the host following infection and vaccination with Flavobacterium psychrophilum (qPCR and micro-arrays). Propagation of the infection and the related host response in the fish at various development stages will be analysed microscopically by immuno-histochemistry and in situ hybridization. Challenge protocols have been established with i.p. infection of fish but methods more related to natural exposure of the fish to the bacteria will be established. The infection routes followed by the pathogen in the fish will be described using confocal microscopy. The work will in periods take place in Aarhus (Section of Fish Diseases).
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18. PhD Scholarship in animal influenza viruses (Due: 15 March 2010)
The aim of this PhD project is to study the pathogenesis and molecular biology of influenza A viruses in animals with focus on swine and birds. The focus of the research will be on host range determinants of influenza A virus including detailed studies of the impact of genetic shift and drift. The main task will be to establish a plasmid system which will be used for the study of specific mutations in selected animal influenza A viruses. The PhD-student will develop and validate two different in vitro systems which involve molecular cloning, transfection of cells and maintenances of primary cell systems.
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19. PhD Scholarship in Hepatitis E virus in animals and food (Due: 15 March 2010)
The aim of this PhD project is to study the epidemiology of Hepatitis E virus (HEV) in various animal reservoirs and the environment in Denmark. The PhD-student will develop and validate quantitative PCR tests, protocols for sequencing HEV isolated from different sources and compare these sequences with human isolates of HEV. Furthermore, the student will elaborate and validate protocols for concentration of HEV from waste water, mussels etc. The student will participate in collecting samples from environmental resources, swine herds and the food chain. The project aims at elucidating the epidemiology of HEV in Denmark with special focus on the zoonotic perspectives.
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20. PhD Scholarship in New Neonatal Porcine Diarrhoea (Due: 15 March 2010)
The PhD project is part of a larger research project aiming to clarify the aetiology of an emerging new kind of neonatal porcine diarrhoea reported from several countries, including Denmark. The project will elucidate the infectious agents that affect the incidence and the disease caused by an interaction between different viruses, bacteria and toxins. The project is testing new methods for diagnosis, prevention and treatment of the disease. The project will use new, high-tech methods of analysis and the potential multifactorial nature of the disease will be clarified through an interdisciplinary collaboration.
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21. PhD Scholarship in Veterinary Epidemiology and Virology (Due: 15 March 2010)
The overall aim of the PhD project is to optimize the surveillance of serious infections in cattle taking the structural development of the Danish cattle industry into account, leading to fewer but larger herds. This is to be done by 1) making effective use of existing data on health and production parameters on the animal and herd level to allow a risk based surveillance approach and 2) by increasing the sensitivity of the surveillance system by validating and improving the diagnostic procedures for screening of pooled bulk milk samples and 3) optimizing the performance of the surveillance program to ensure that it is focused on high risk animals/herds, can be used for early warning and is cost/effective. Bovine viral diarrhoea (BVD) is used in the project as an example. BVD has been eradicated in the Danish cattle population during the last 15 years. The present surveillance system is based on bulk-milk-analysis which was validated using considerably smaller herds with a higher percentage of antibody positive lactating cows. The present situation where only a few cows may have antibodies need new considerations of how to collect samples and how to analyse them to have a cost effective and sensitive system.
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PhD studies in biomolecular sciences may need elements of atomic topological function modeling to achieve the data density for analysis of quantum effects and relativistic factors. Recent advancements in quantum science have produced the picoyoctometric, 3D, interactive video atomic model imaging function, in terms of chronons and spacons for exact, quantized, relativistic animation. This format returns clear numerical data for a full spectrum of variables. The atom's RQT (relative quantum topological) data point imaging function is built by combination of the relativistic Einstein-Lorenz transform functions for time, mass, and energy with the workon quantized electromagnetic wave equations for frequency and wavelength.
BalasHapusThe atom labeled psi (Z) pulsates at the frequency {Nhu=e/h} by cycles of {e=m(c^2)} transformation of nuclear surface mass to forcons with joule values, followed by nuclear force absorption. This radiation process is limited only by spacetime boundaries of {Gravity-Time}, where gravity is the force binding space to psi, forming the GT integral atomic wavefunction. The expression is defined as the series expansion differential of nuclear output rates with quantum symmetry numbers assigned along the progression to give topology to the solutions.
Next, the correlation function for the manifold of internal heat capacity energy particle 3D functions is extracted by rearranging the total internal momentum function to the photon gain rule and integrating it for GT limits. This produces a series of 26 topological waveparticle functions of the five classes; {+Positron, Workon, Thermon, -Electromagneton, Magnemedon}, each the 3D data image of a type of energy intermedon of the 5/2 kT J internal energy cloud, accounting for all of them.
Those 26 energy data values intersect the sizes of the fundamental physical constants: h, h-bar, delta, nuclear magneton, beta magneton, k (series). They quantize atomic dynamics by acting as fulcrum particles. The result is the exact picoyoctometric, 3D, interactive video atomic model data point imaging function, responsive to keyboard input of virtual photon gain events by relativistic, quantized shifts of electron, force, and energy field states and positions. This system also gives a new equation for the magnetic flux variable B, which appears as a waveparticle of changeable frequency.
Images of the h-bar magnetic energy waveparticle of ~175 picoyoctometers are available online at http://www.symmecon.com with the complete RQT atomic modeling manual titled The Crystalon Door, copyright TXu1-266-788. TCD conforms to the unopposed motion of disclosure in U.S. District (NM) Court of 04/02/2001 titled The Solution to the Equation of Schrodinger.
Real statistics turned into surreal geostatistics under the guidance of Professor Dr Georges Matheron, a French probabilist who turned into a self-made wizard of odd statistics in the 1950s. A brief history of my 20-year campaign against the geostatocracy and its army of degrees of freedom fighters is chronicled on my website. Dr Frederik P Agterberg, Past President, International Association for Mathematical Geosciences, called Matheron (1930-2000) the Founder of Spatial Statistics. Agterberg ranked Matheron on a par with giants of mathematical statistics such as Sir Ronald A Fisher (1890-1962) and Professor Dr J W Tukey (1915-2000). Agterberg is wrong! Matheron fumbled the variance of the length-weighted average in 1954. Agterberg himself fumbled the variance of the distance-weighted average point grade first in his 1970 Autocorrelation Functions in Geology and again in his 1974 Geomathematics.
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