Postdoctoral Position with the International Forestry Resources and Institutions (IFRI) network

Postdoctoral Position with the International Forestry Resources and
Institutions (IFRI) network

The International Forestry Resources and Institutions (IFRI) Network,
located at the University of Michiganís School of Natural Resources and
Environment, seeks a postdoctoral fellow for a one-year appointment
beginning Fall 2011. The Postdoctoral Fellow will work under the direct
supervision of Professor Arun Agrawal who coordinates the IFRI network.
The Fellow will conduct and support research for several existing projects
on institutional and social dimensions of forest outcomes and climate
adaptation, community forest governance, and land cover change. As
necessary, the Fellow will also assist with the preparation of new grant
proposals, coordination of IFRI field research, and organization of
research workshops in national and international contexts. A combination
of scholarly imagination and rigorous interdisciplinary empirical and
analytical skills will provide applicants a competitive edge. Strong
statistical training, experience working with complex social-ecological
datasets, and some spatial analysis skills (GIS and Remote Sensing) are
especially desirable.  Qualified applicants may come from a range of
fields, including Political Science, Public Policy, Geography, Sociology,
Economics, Ecology, and Environment programs.
To apply, please send a 1-page cover letter, names of two recommendation
letter writers, and a copy of a recent publication (all as a single file
with your full name in the filename) to Joan Wolf at ifri@umich.edu. The
initial appointment will be for a year, with the possibility of renewal
for a second year contingent on satisfactory performance and final
approval of funds. We will begin reviewing applications August 15, and
will accept applications until Sept. 1, or until the position is filled.
For more information on the IFRI research program please visit:
http://www.sitemaker.umich.edu/ifri/home


Professor, Research Associate Dean
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Ann Arbor MI 48104
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ILRI vacancy: Post-Doctoral scientist- Pathogen Discovery

ILRI vacancy: Post-Doctoral scientist- Pathogen Discovery
 

Vacancy Number: PD/BT02/07/11
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
Duration: Two years with the possibility of renewal

Base salary from USD 35,000 plus attractive international staff benefits package

The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) works at the crossroads of livestock and poverty, bringing high-quality livestock science, communications and capacity building to bear on poverty reduction and sustainable development. ILRI is one of 15 centres supported by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). ILRI has campuses in Kenya (headquarters) and Ethiopia, with other offices located in other regions of Africa (Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria) as well as in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka), Southeast Asia (Laos, Thailand, Vietnam) and East Asia (China).

The position: ILRI seeks to recruit a Post-Doctoral Scientist to act as the primary driver of the next generation sequencing aspects of ILRI's component of a project entitled "An Integrated Response System For Emerging Infectious Diseases in East Africa". This is a challenging and highly collaborative project which aims to bring current molecular and epidemiological approaches to the detection of pathogens –both known and unknown in field samples. ILRI's primary role is in establishing and exploiting a 2nd generation sequencing platform together with data analysis and sample biobanking. Collaborators from Kenya, UK, USA and elsewhere represent world leaders in these areas. This is an opportunity for a dynamic and motivated post-doc capable of working in dispersed and complex teams, to make important contributions to the understanding of disease in Africa – particularly epidemic viral disease.

Key responsibilities

• Designing and testing highly multiplexed assays for a range of sequences;
• Establishing sampling and pooling protocols;
• Overseeing the Project's use of a Roche 454 (Titanium) sequencer;
• Sequence data Quality Assurance/Quality Control.

Requirements

• A PhD degree obtained no more than 5 years ago in molecular genetics;
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and the ability to perform in a multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural research environment;
• Fluency in spoken and written English;
• Hands on experience of highly multiplexed PCR, e.g. for diagnostics and of working with complex, mixed and "dirty" biological samples;
• Evidence of innovation and initiative;
• Experience of "bench" plus informatics aspects of high throughput sequencing;
• Experience of RNA virus genome analysis and phylogenetic/population analysis in
• prokaryotes or eukaryotes would be an important advantage;
• Ability to work in diverse, multidisciplinary teams.

Post location: The position is based at ILRI's Headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya with travel to other countries where ILRI works.

Terms of appointment:  This is an Internationally Recruited Staff (IRS) position with initial appointment of two years with the possibility of renewal for one year, contingent upon individual performance and the availability of funding. ILRI offers a competitive international remuneration package which includes: – medical insurance – life insurance – and allowances for: – housing – baggage – and children's education.

Applications: Applicants should send a cover letter explaining their interest in the position, what they can bring to the job and indicating earliest availability, curriculum vitae and the names and addresses (including telephone and email) of three referees who are knowledgeable about the candidate's professional qualifications and work experience to email: recruit-ilri-Ken@cgiar.org by 27 July 2011.

The position title and reference number POST DOCTORAL SCIENTIST: PD/BT02/07/11 should be clearly marked on the subject line of the email applications.  Due to the high volume of applications that we receive, we regret but only online applications will be considered and only short listed candidates will be contacted.

To find more about ILRI, visit our Website at www.ilri.org

ILRI is an equal opportunity employer

ILRI vacancy: Post-Doctoral Scientist

ILRI vacancy: Post-Doctoral Scientist

 

Vacancy Number: PD/PGI/06/11
Department: Poverty, Gender and Impact team
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
Duration: two years with the possibility of renewal

Base salary from USD 35,000 plus attractive international staff benefits package

The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) works at the crossroads of livestock and poverty, bringing high-quality livestock science, communications and capacity building to bear on poverty reduction and sustainable development. ILRI is one of 15 centres supported by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). ILRI has campuses in Kenya (headquarters) and Ethiopia, with other offices located in other regions of Africa (Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria) as well as in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka), Southeast Asia (Laos, Thailand, Vietnam) and East Asia (China).

ILRI seeks to recruit a postdoctoral scientist within its Poverty, Gender and Impact team. The post doctoral scientist will work mainly but not exclusively on 2 projects (i) evaluating the impacts of livestock and aquaculture interventions on poverty and women's empowerment in Kenya and (ii) Integrated Crop and Livestock Project in Tanzania.

Key responsibilities

• Work on evaluating impacts of crop, livestock and aquaculture interventions on poverty, nutrition and women's empowerment
• Develop evaluation framework for multiple crop, livestock and aquaculture interventions and design survey instruments and sampling strategies
• Implement, supervise and monitor data collection efforts in study countries
• Use empirical micro-econometric and other methods to analyse the impacts of interventions integrating both household and intra household analysis
• Work with others in the team to combine quantitative and qualitative analysis to understand impacts especially on women's empowerment
• Contribute to the development, testing and analysis of poverty, gender and equity indicators for monitoring and evaluating livestock research and development projects
• Provide strategic guidance to other ILRI scientists in the collection and analysis of gender disaggregated data
• Write  peer-reviewed articles and  research reports
• Contribute to preparation of briefs, and other strategic communication products including gender checklists and research materials for website content and publication
• Co-supervise students doing their research on gender, evaluation and impact assessment

Requirements

Phd position at Urgent

Phd position

* Last application date: 2011-10-01 12:00
* Department: TW08 - Department of Electrical energy, systems and automation
* Contract: bepaald
* Occupancy rate: 100%
* Vacancy Type: wp

Job Description
Development of a multipurpose micromagnetic and micromechanical simulation platform

A PhD position is available to join the research team that develops the multipurpose magnetic software platform “MuMax”. In a collaboration between the DyNaMat and EELAB groups at UGent, we are currently developing this high-performance simulation package that allows to simulate, on the one hand, the energy efficiency of electrical steels as used in electromagnetic devices, and, the read and write processes on e.g. hard disks on the other hand. In all applications, the complex magnetic processes can be determined by carefully combining Maxwell equations with micromechanic and micromagnetic equations. The software resulting algorithms will be implemented on the most modern and time efficient GPU hardware available (GPU: Graphical Processing Units). Due to its immense computational power compared to standard CPU computations, the software will open a complete range of new research opportunities to understand the rich physics of magnetic materials that can be exploited in various engineering applications.

In practice this PhD work will focus in the first place on the development of numerical algorithms to solve large systems of coupled equations in magnetism. Depending on the candidates’ interest, the focus can be on the efficient GPU-implementation of the developed algorithms or on the engineering applications.

Profile
We are currently looking for a new PhD student with a masters degree in either electromechanical, electrical or physical engineering or a masters degree in physics. The research topic is the development of algorithms that efficiently solve complex coupled equations in a magnetic context. An interest in programming numerical code is required.

More information is available on http://dynamat.ugent.be/simulations

Apply
If you are interested, please contact: Luc.Dupre@UGent.be or Bartel.VanWaeyenberge@UGent.be

Source : www.ugent.be/en/news/vacancies/scientific/tbOAPTW08

POST-DOCTORAL POSITION AVAILABLE: GLOBAL CHANGE IN AFRICAN MOUNTAINS

POST-DOCTORAL POSITION AVAILABLE: GLOBAL CHANGE IN AFRICAN
MOUNTAINS
The University of Pretoria is offering a post-doctoral position on global change. Global
change denotes the interaction between climate and other global drivers and human
practice with respect to the ecosystem services, food and natural resources for humans.
The effect of global change is likely to be observed clearly in mountain areas because the
altitudinal variation in climate and natural resources in mountains is likely to provide a
sensitive indicator of global change. The position is based at the Centre for
Environmental Studies (CFES) at the University of Pretoria and funded by the Swiss
Development and Cooperation Agency (SDC) through the Food and Agriculture
Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations, with technical oversight by the Mountain
Research Initiative (MRI) at the University of Bern (Switzerland). The position will
promote global change monitoring and research in African mountains, available
immediately until December 31st 2012. Your responsibilities will be:
a) Develop and promote the network of researchers focused on global change research in
the mountains of Sub-Saharan Africa, in close collaboration with the MRI at the
University of Bern, Switzerland. Your work will include travel to Western and Eastern
Africa to meet scientists and to assist with the planning, facilitation and funding of an
Africa-wide network of research on global change in African mountains.
b) Facilitate the participation by the above research network in preparation activities and
documentation leading to the Fifth Assessment Report of the IPCC, the IGBP Planet
Under Pressure Conference Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development, and
Conferences of the Parties of the UNFCCC, UNCBD and UNCCD.
Become part of a multidisciplinary team of scientists on the African continent. You will
obtain in-depth experience in research on global change. You will also gain extensive
experience in the interaction between the scientific world and the international treaties
and bodies around global change (e.g. IPCC, UNCBD), in planning for the Rio+20
conference and other similar events. Your overall insight into the continent-wide research
will enable you to generate at least one scientific article at the end of 2011, as well as a
body of more popular articles on global change in African mountains. You will work
closely with the MRI and CFES. The postdoctoral position includes a stipend of US$
16000 (approx. ZAR 112000) per annum, as well as extensive provision for travel and
project development.
Interested persons should send by 30 April 2011 a C.V. and a statement of interest
indicating why you would be appropriate for this position (300 words maximum) :
Prof. J.W.H. Ferguson, Centre for Environmental Studies, University of Pretoria
Phone: +27-12-420-2017 Fax: +27-12-420-3210
Email: willemferguson@zoology.up.ac.za

PhD position in Computer Science at Karlstad University / Sweden

PhD position in Computer Science at Karlstad University / Sweden


A PhD position is available within the Privacy and Security Group (PriSec) at the Department of
Computer Science at Karlstad University. Research within PriSec is focused on privacy-enhancing
technologies (PETs), network and operating system security, as well as usability of security and PETs.

Qualifications

Qualified for the position are candidates with a University degree of 240 ECTS, from which at
least 60 ECTS were awarded for courses at advanced level and have a Master's degree or the
Swedish Magister or Civilingenjör degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering, or
equivalent. Qualified are also those candidates who have achieved corresponding degrees and/or knowledge in Sweden or abroad.

The position is focused on the trade-off between security and performance within a networking
context. Knowledge or experience in some of the areas of wireless network security, adaptive
security solutions, quality-of-service and/or performance modeling is therefore desirable.

Good programming skills and English language abilities are pre-requisites for the position.

Admission

Admission is on the basis of individual assessment of the candidates' abilities to
successfully pass the research education. The earliest date for filling the position is June 1,
2011. The position is limited to 4 years, but can be prolonged for up to one more year, if the
candidate also takes on other research, teaching or administrative tasks besides his/her PhD
research. Those tasks should not exceed 20% of the time of a full-time position.

Application

Your application should contain a cover letter motivating your reasons for applying, a CV,
copies of your degrees, a list of attended courses with grades and dates, if applicable
copies of publications or proofs of other achievements, and reference letters or contact addresses of reference persons.

Reference Number: REK2011/40

Contact: Professor Stefan Lindskog, +46 54-7001000

Union representatives: Thomas Wennstam, SACO, +
46 54-7001000, Barbro Berglund, OFR, +46 54-7001000

Application Deadline: 2011-04-30

Please apply via: https://kau.netrecruiter.se/en/what:job/jobID:4745/where:4/
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Call for Proposals: Research Project on Gender, Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security

The Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) is a strategic alliance of members, partners and international agricultural research centers that mobilizes science to benefit the poor.

Also Via PWESCR - Programme on Women's Economic, Social, Cultural Rights

Call for Proposals: Research Project on Gender, Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security

The complex and dynamic relationships among climate change, agriculture and food security and how they affect men and women differently are not well understood. Due to scarce gender-disaggregated data, there has been limited research on how men and women adapt to climate variability and change to maintain food security in agricultural systems, as well as the incentives, constraints and opportunities women farmers have to pursue farming practices that reduces emission of GHGs. How climate risk affects the livelihoods of men and women, and the type of climate information that will assist both men and women in making ‘climate smart decisions’ are also areas of research that have not received enough attention. Therefore, CCAFS is searching for scientists who are interested in conducting research on gender issues related to the climate change, agriculture, and food security nexus.

Proposals must be submitted by 1 May 2011.

CCAFS will award women scientists enrolled in a PhD program or interested in a post doctoral opportunity, and who are citizens of and affiliated with an institution in Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Bangladesh, India, or Nepal to a research grant of $35,000

Proposals must:
1. Demonstrate and contribute to understanding the linkages between climate change and gender more specifically, while developing policy-relevant findings on climate change, agriculture, and food security more generally.
2. Build research capacity of women scientists in partner institutions and increase their representation in agricultural research.

TERMS OF REFERENCE

I. SCOPE OF THE WORK
To design and conduct a research project on a key topic/issue related to gender, climate change, agriculture, and food security. Topics may include but are not limited to:

Differences between men and women’s access to, and use of, climate/agricultural information
Institutional arrangements that provide incentives and deliver benefits for women to mitigate greenhouse gases through the adoption of soil, water, cropping, livestock or agroforestry management methods that reduce GHG emissions.
Adaptation strategies, both technical and institutional, that help men and women cope with the impacts of a changing climate on agriculture and food security
Differentiated impacts of climate change on food security and nutrition
Risk management strategies through the use of institutional services (i.e. safety nets, technical advice, financial services) differentiated by gender.
Relative vulnerability of men and women, and of female-headed versus male-headed households, to climate change impacts on agriculture and food security
Roles of women and men in local food systems, such as small-scale trade and local food reserves, in adapting to a changing climate
Gender-differentiated allocation of household labor and capital in agricultural adaptation and mitigation
How national legislation and policy on mitigation and adaptation can best support gender equality
Research sponsored by CCAFS is aimed at helping to inform policies and practices that reduce the negative impacts of climate change for people who depend on agriculture as a source of their livelihoods, without jeopardizing food security.
This call targets female PhD scientists and students enrolled in a PhD program based in CCAFS initial target countries. Scientists awarded the grant will be partly supervised by a CGIAR scientist and will have full access to an electronic science library. The scientist should also be supervised by the institution she is affiliated with. Those awarded are required to submit financial and narrative progress reports every six months to the supervisor. The expected output of the research project will be a publishable paper and a presentation on the awarded research topic.

Download the full call for proposals and the application form.

Proposals must be submitted by 1 May 2011.

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