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University of Edinburgh 2 PhD studentships Graduate School of Engineering and Electronics

Metal-organic frameworks for hydrogen purification and catalytic applications – suitable for chemical engineers, chemists, and physicists Funding is available for two PhD studentships in the School of Engineering and Electronics, University of Edinburgh on two separate metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) related projects. Metal organic frameworks (MOFs) constitute one of the most exciting developments in recent nanoporous-materials science, with potential applications in many areas, including catalysis, gas separation and storage. The major advantage of MOFs over more traditional porous materials, such as zeolites, is the greater scope for tailoring these materials for specific applications due to their modular synthesis from corner units (generally metal ions or clusters) and linker units (organic molecules able to bridge the metal corners). Project 1: Metal-organic frameworks for hydrogen purification Hydrogen is a potential future automotive fuel as well as an important industrial feedstock. For fuel-cell applications, as well as in many industrial processes, high purity is required. The hydrogen required can be produced either by generating it from steam reforming or methanol cracking processes or by recovering it from hydrogen-rich process streams by adsorbing the impurities using pressure swing adsorption. Such streams are readily available in refineries and petrochemical plants and are sometimes burnt as a waste stream. The scope of this project is to design new adsorbents for hydrogen purification using computational and experimental methods. This is a collaborative project with the Department of Chemistry at the University of St Andrews. Project 2: Metal-organic frameworks for catalytic applications To date a large percentage of chiral compounds are synthesised using homogeneous catalysis. Although they are often expensive and their separation/recycling tedious, inefficient and time consuming, homogeneous catalysts often show excellent selectivities and high activities. However there are many advantages to using heterogeneous catalysis, such as easy separation, efficient recycling, minimisation of metal contamination, improved handling that could all result in lower environmental impact and lower overall costs. The aim of this project is to develop chiral heterogeneous catalysts based on MOFs and to study in particular the adsorption and diffusion processes involved. This is a joint project with chemists at the University of East Anglia and the University of Bath. The studentships The studentships are available immediately for a period of 4 years (project 1) and 3.5 years (project 2). (They are of different length because the projects themselves have different durations.) The studentships provide a tax-free EPSRC stipend (currently £12,600 per annum), plus university fees at the Home / EU rate. Additional funding is available to cover the overseas fees for non-EU citizens for one of the projects. For both studentships, collaboration between the chemical engineers at the University of Edinburgh and the partners in chemistry is a very important element and the successful candidates will spend significant periods of time at the partner institutions, learning among other things about material synthesis and characterisation. The ability to be a team player and to work in close collaboration with a team of chemical engineers and chemistry is therefore essential. The successful candidates will have a first class or 2.1 degree, or equivalent, in chemical engineering, chemistry, physics or a related subject.

For further information please contact Dr Tina Düren (+44 (0)131 6504856, tina.duren@ed.ac.uk).

 

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Full-time PhD Studentship Microbiology - Discrimination of Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria Faculty of Health & Life Sciences

Applications are invited for a fully funded three-year PhD studentship starting in October 2008. The studentship includes a bursary of £12,600 per annum (tax-free) for three years and all tuition fees. Candidates should hold a good first degree (at least an Upper-Second Class or equivalent) in a relevant subject area. Project: Discrimination of Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria The emergence of antibiotic resistance in hospital-acquired infections represents a considerable burden to healthcare delivered globally. This research project aims to develop proteomic approaches (including MALDI-TOF-MS) for discrimination and characterisation of antibiotic resistant bacteria. Proteomic techniques, such as two-dimensional gel electrophoresis, will be used to identify biomarkers of antibacterial resistance on the surface of bacterial isolates. Candidates should have a strong interest in bacteriology and molecular biology. Laboratory based practical experience in microbiology, molecular biology and proteomic techniques would be an advantage. Applications are welcome from citizens from the EU and those with overseas status as well as those from UK. Candidates for whom English is not their first language should hold an English qualification at least equivalent to IELTS 6.5. Enquiries should in the first instance go to the Research Office, De Montfort University, Leicester, LE1 9BH. Telephone: 0116 2506309. Web: http://www.dmu.ac.uk/research/index.jsp Closing Date: 25th July 2008

An application form may be downloaded from: http://www.dmu.ac.uk/research/degrees/procedure.jsp Applicants are requested to contact the office to receive a hardcopy admission pack and will need to provide a full CV with two supporting references. Please e-mail: researchstudents@dmu.ac.uk or call (0116) 2506309 to receive further details.

 

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PhD Studentships Integrated Renewable Energy Generation and Supply Cardiff School of Engineering

Applications are invited for six PhD studentships at the Centre for Integrated Renewable Energy Generation and Supply (CIREGS) within the School of Engineering at Cardiff University. In order to meet the UK government target of 10% of electricity supplies from renewable energy by 2010, an aspiration to double this by 2020 and the EU target of 15% of all energy from renewable sources by 2020, the renewable energy sources (RES) and distributed generation (DG) will play a major role in the future. The integration of RES and DG will pose many research challenges, especially due to changes in the current network operational and control strategies and dynamic behavior of the network. It is recognised that the future electricity network, both at the transmission and distribution level, can no longer play a passive role. The structure of the network will be highly interconnected with smaller controllable areas, with more responsive demand side loads and DGs. The application of power electronics such as FACTS, HVDC will offer the potential to manage the power flows while enhancing the controllability of the network under dynamic operating conditions. The estimation of the state of the entire and/or controllable areas of the network and coordinate control of these areas will become essential tools. Recognising the anticipated changes in the future electricity supply system, CIREGS is developing research capacity in integrated renewable energy generation and supply, including "Smart Grids" of the future and contributing towards meeting the UK medium-term renewable energy targets. The specific PhD projects available are: 1. Integration of Gas/Electricity/Heat Distribution Networks (REF: NJ-FEM-08) 2. System Support from Demand and Generation (REF: NJ-FLEX1-08) 3. Stability Studies of Multi Terminal HVDC Networks (REF: NJ-FLEX2-08) 4. Smart Grids (REF: NJ-CIREGS1-08) 5. Integration of Large Offshore Wind Farms (REF: NJ-CIREGS2-08) 6. Modern Power Systems (REF: NJ-CIREGS3-08) The projects are funded by the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC) and by Supergen consortia. Funding and Eligibility: The studentships are open to UK/EU or Overseas candidates. The awards will cover tuition fees at the UK/EU fee rate only (non-EU candidates will have to finance the remainder of the overseas fee by other means), and will provide an annual stipend at the UK Research Council rate (£12,940 for 2008/9). Applicants should have a good Honours degree (at upper second class or above) or equivalent in a relevant discipline and be able to contribute to achieve the research objectives of the Centre. How to Apply: Applications can be made online – please see www.cardiff.ac.uk/postgraduate/pgapply Please ensure you quote the relevant project reference and title (as shown above) on your application (please put the reference and title in the "research topic" and/or "prospective supervisor" sections of the online application form). Further information: Informal enquires may be made to Dr Janaka Ekanayake by email to EkanayakeJ@cardiff.ac.uk Closing Date for Applications: July 7th 2008

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1 PhD POSITION -- HUMBOLDT UNIV

1 PhD POSITION in EUROPEAN ETHNOLOGY / SOCIAL or CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY AT THE DEPARTMENT FOR EUROPEAN ETHNOLOGY / THE COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH UNIT 640, PROJECT No. C4, HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY BERLIN   Deadline: 17 JULY 2008   The Department of European Ethnology and the Collaborative Research Unit 640, "Changing Representations of Social Order: Intertemporal and Intercultural Comparisons" at Humboldt-University Berlin offer a PhD position within the research project "Kinship as Representation of Social Order and Practice: Knowledge, Performativity and Legal-Ethical Regulation" (Project C4, Stefan Beck and Michi Knecht) This project seeks to understand how notions and practices of kinship / affinity / togetherness are changing in relation to the appropriation of assisting reproductive technologies and adoption in Berlin and Istanbul/Izmir, with a particular focus on the emergent transnational scapes of reproductive medicine. The position is for 4 years, open as soon as possible, ending June 30th, 2012.   The PhD position will contribute to the Turkish and transnational part of the project directed by Prof. Stefan Beck and Dr. Michi Knecht. The focus will be on women, couples and kinship networks, who are using – or have used – reproductive technologies or adoption in order to start, to enlarge or complete families. Important sites of fieldwork in Istanbul, Izmir and Berlin will be self-help groups and other concerned groups within the reproductive health sector, infertility clinics, adoption agencies, ethic committees and governmental staff and experts engaged in redefining kinship and kinship law. Most importantly, interviews and participant observation will take place within the everyday life of families who are involved in our long term study.   Applicants are expected to develop, define and carry through their own PhD research project within the research field of our project (assisting reproductive technologies in Turkey and the emergent transnational scapes of reproductive medicine, kinship and citizenship, concerned groups / self help groups in the field of infertility treatment, adoption, bioethics and regulation in the field of reproductive technologies in Turkey) Applicants for this PhD position should have a background in social / cultural anthropology, european ethnology or STS. Place of work will be the Humboldt University Berlin, with long intermittent periods of fieldwork in Istanbul/Izmir. For further information on the research project see   http://www.repraesentationen.de/site/lang__en-US/3868/default.aspx   Applicants must have obtained a Master's degree with excellent results or complete a Master's course before starting at HU. They should have a very good written and oral Turkish and English and a good knowledge of German.   Further requirements:   · knowledge in one or more of the following fields: new anthropology of kinship, anthropology of knowledge, ethnographies of assisting reproductive technologies, Anthropology of Turkey and the Mediterranean, social studies of science and technology, transnationalisation, methodologies of complex comparisons.   · Ethnographic fieldwork experience   · Ability to work in a team, excellent organisation and communication skills   Applicants are kindly asked to send a letter of application with a concise statement of their interest, a cv and up to three examples of their academic writing (including unpublished thesis material), and official transcripts or certified copies of University certificates.   The successful applicant must participate in and complete the PhD programme of the collaborative research unit 640 at Humboldt University Berlin.   The position is payed according to BAT IIa-O, 50 % The PhD students will also receive an additional stipend for time abroad and funding for travel and accommodation for the time spent in fieldwork.   Applications should be sent by post with the reference Nr. DR06408 to   Prof. Dr. Stefan Beck / Dr. Michi Knecht, Department of European Ethnology, Humboldt-University Berlin, Mohrenstrasse 41, D – 10117 Berlin, Germany. Or per mail   Stefan.beck @ rz.hu-berlin.de;   michi.knecht @ rz.hu-berlin.de.   Deadline is July 17th 2008.   For further information potential applicants are encouraged to contact their prospective part-project leader and main supervisor Prof. Stefan Beck and Michi Knecht informally, by email in the first instance.