PhD Scholarships Institute for Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy

IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca is an international Graduate School and Institute of Technology that acts as a research university with the aim of forming human capital –specifically with regard to its PhD programs- in disciplines characterized by their high potential for concrete application. IMT strives to reach the fusion of theoretical comprehension and practical relevance.

COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
The Doctoral Program aims at preparing researchers and professionals with a wide knowledge of the foundations of informatics. It seeks to explore applications to a variety of systems that are changing the perspective of other existing technological applications and that are target of very active research in the international scene. The research activity focuses on key aspects of these systems, such as open-endedness, autonomy, resource sharing, security, and concurrency.

ECONOMICS, MARKETS, INSTITUTIONS
The program seeks to deal with issues in political economy, applied public economics, the functioning of industries and markets, the impact of macroeconomics on productivity and growth.
A distinctive feature of the Ph.D. program is the integration of theoretical, technical, and practical expertise, aimed at educating highly qualified professionals, who analyze, plan, and manage concrete interventions of political economy.
Theoretical methodologies and models are generated and tested, through the systematic investigation of the real world, with a distinctive focus on concrete observation of markets and their actors. At the end of the program, students are able to identify commonalities as well as distinctive characters of economies, markets, and industries.

MANAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF CULTURAL HERITAGE
Programma in collaborazione con il Politecnico di Torino
The Program aims at formalizing in a consistent multidisciplinary course, the specific know-hows needed by researchers and professionals operating at the highest levels of management of culture. The PhD course focuses on the following disciplines: History and Art History; Economics and Management of immaterial goods; Legislation on Cultural Heritage; Technology. Doctoral students will also be given elements of physics and chemistry, strictly related to the field of conservation and analysis of materials. The PhD program integrates a theoretical approach with technical and practical ones, in order to educate both highly qualified professionals operating in the concrete field of cultural policy and researchers who will be active in the field of cultural heritage.

POLITICAL SYSTEMS AND INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE
The PhD in Political Systems and Institutional Change is a multidisciplinary course which analyses, in a comparative perspective, institutions and their historical, political, sociological, legal and economic features. Special attention will be devoted to processes of institutional change. The PhD aims at forming political analysts able to: plan and manage collaborative and integrated processes at the international level; analyse and assess policies and institutional settings at a supranational, national and regional level; confront the specific problems of countries in transition towards democracy and a market economy.

Information:
•Location: Lucca
•Duration of the PhD Program: 3 years
•Available positions: 48
•Cost: tuition, enrolment fees and associated taxes are paid for by the School for all candidates admitted to the program
•Scholarships: 24 scholarships, 6 for each PhD program, will be awarded, and are equal to about € 13.638 per year for each winner + 3 additional scholarships financed by the European Union through the European Social Fund, by the Minister of Labor, Health and Social Politics and by the Region of Tuscany (one for the Economics, Markets, and Institutions program and two for the Management of Cultural Heritage program) All admitted candidates are provided free meals (lunch and dinner). Non-scholarship winners will be awarded a €3000.00 research fund. Six participants in each program will also be awarded free housing.
•How to apply: applications for the PhD course must be submitted following the online procedure on the School’s website: http://www.imtlucca.it/phd_programs/call_for_applications/index.php
Application deadline: October 28th 2010 (those scheduled to obtain their degree on or before December 17th are still eligible to apply)

The call for Assistant Professor and Post-Doctoral Fellow appointments in the fields of Economics and Institutional Change and Computer Science and Applications will be launched in September. Please visit the School’s website for the latest information.
Study information

Qualification:

PhD
Study duration:

3 years
Study mode:

FT
Start month:

March
Entry requirements:

Minimum 4 year BA/BS in a related field
Language requirements:

All courses are held in English, very good knowledge of English is mandatory
No. of students per year:

12 per program
Fees:

None

Funding information

Number of awards per year:

12 per program
Funding applies to:
Open to applicants from a range of countries
Funding notes:

In addition to tuition, 6 students from each program will receive a yearly stipend of €13,638.
Funding duration:

Duration of course

Contacts and how to apply

Academic contact:

phdapplications@imtlucca.it
Administrative contact and how to apply:

Apply online only: http://www.imtlucca.it/phd_programs/call_for_applications/index.php

PhD position in soft matter physics, ETH Zurich scholarships fellowships

This position is part of a joint SNF-DFG research project on the Anisotropy of the Magnetoviscous Effect in Ferrofluids. It involves the Polymer Physics group at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, and the Chair of Magneto-fluid dynamics at TU Dresden, Germany.

The aim of the project is to improve and complete our understanding of the dynamics of magnetic liquids and in particular the anisotropy of the magnetoviscous effect. The magnetoviscous effect (the viscosity change via an external magnetic field) provides not only the basis for many applications of ferrofluids, but is also of central importance for fundamental questions in soft matter rheology [1]. As a PhD student, you will perform nonequilibrium computer simulations and study simplified theoretical models in order to predict anisotropic and field-dependent material properties, like effective viscosities. The numerical and theoretical work will be done in close collaboration with the group of Prof. Stefan Odenbach (TU Dresden, Germany), where the corresponding experiments on well-defined ferrofluids will be performed.

[1] P. Ilg and S. Odenbach. Ferrofluid structure and rheology.
In ‘Colloidal Magnetic Fluids: Basics, Development and Applications of Ferrofluids’,
volume 763 of Lecture Notes in Physics (Springer, Berlin, 2009).
How to apply

Candidates should have a MSc-degree in physics or related, ideally with experience in statistical physics and/or computer simulations. The position is available immediately.

To apply, please send a brief letter of motivation, your curriculum vitae including detailed education and grades, and the full contact details of two academic referees to
PD Dr. Patrick Ilg,
patrick.ilg@mat.ethz.ch