Postdoctoral Scientist in MDS Hematopoiesis Research : Stockholm, Sweden

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Karolinska Institutet (KI): job description

Description of the work

Applications are invited for 2+2 year postdoctoral research position in the research group of Professor Eva Hellstrom-Lindberg and Guest Professor Sten Eirik Jacobsen at the Center for Hematology and Regenerative Medicine (HERM).

The main focus of the position will be to conduct research projects aiming to unravel the cellular and molecular defects in the hematopoietic system of patients with myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS). Hellstrom-Lindberg and Jacobsen have a strong track record in related studies (Pellagatti A et al, Proc Natl Acd Sci USA 2007; Tehranchi et al,N Engl J Med 2010).

Applicants should have a PhD in a biology related area with significant experience in MDS, leukemia or normal hematopoiesis research, and a strong publication track record including recent high impact publications. Experience of advanced flow cytometry is an advantage.

The position is supported through a grant from the new Wallenberg Institute for Regenerative Medicine.


Qualifications

To qualify, the applicant must hold a doctor’s degree or a foreign qualification deemed equivalent to a doctorate. Applicants who have completed their degree no more than three years before the last date for applications should be given priority. Candidates who have completed their degree earlier than this should receive equal priority if special grounds exist.

Postgraduates who have yet to graduate may apply if their public defense is scheduled to take place within three months after the application deadline, in which case verification from the Dissertation Committee or equivalent body must be submitted with the application.


Please send your application, marked with reference number 1779/2011, to reach us by no later than April 30 2011 to KI jobb (http://jobb.ki.se/external/security/login.asp) or Karolinska Institutet, Registrar Anna Maria Bernstein, Department of Medicine M54, 141 86 Stockholm.


The following documents must be submitted with your application, and written in English or Swedish:
1. A full CV, including date of public defense, title of thesis, previous academic appointments, academic title, current position, academic distinctions and committee work
2. A full publication list
3. Contact details of three referees
4. A brief outline of your current work (max. one page)
5. Certificates testifying to sickness, service in the total defense, positions of trust in trade union organizations and student organizations, parental leave or similar circumstances
6. Verification from the Dissertation Committee or equivalent body (only if you are planning to defend your thesis within three months after the application deadline)
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Postdoctoral Fellows in Geology & Geophysics

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The Computational Geoscience Department is seeking Postdoctoral Fellows with strong academic backgrounds in geology and geophysics to work as part of an embedded team working closely with software developers, industry-data and industry experts. The fellows will work generating paleogeographic reconstructions for different regions of interest to our industry partner, Statoil.

Project Description
The Computational Geoscience Department at Simula is beginning a new five year project in paleogeographic reconstructions for which we seek enthusiastic and talented researchers. The project will involve producing and testing geological reconstructions with observations and models and building paleogeographies on top of the reconstructions. The project will involve strong collaboration with international and industrial research groups as well as have exceptional access to industrial data. The research project is supported by a software development team specialised in data visualisation.

About the Department
The Department of Computational Geoscience at Simula Research Laboratory works on the development of computational methods, evaluating their performance on the latest computer architecture and applying these methods to complicated geoscience problems. Our team is highly diverse and unifies researchers from geology and geophysics to mathematics and physics and scientific and high performance computing. We are closely tied to the oil and gas industry and obtain a majority of our funding from Statoil, either through academic or R&D projects.

What's Expected
The successful candidate engage in quality research as directed by the project manager, developing geological models and scenarios based on available observations and being part of a team integrating such models with geodynamic and paleoclimate models and plate reconstructions from various sources. The candidate will be supported by experienced geoscience researchers, industry scientists and a software development team and will be required to closely interact with all parties. High quality research output is expected, and the potential is high, given the interdisciplinary nature of the project and its size.

Simula offers
* Excellent opportunities for doing high quality research, as part of a highly competent and motivated team of international researchers
* Is an equal opportunity employer
* Generous support for travels and equipment
* Good office facilities located close to the Oslo fjord and 10 minutes drive from the centre of Oslo, the capital of Norway.
* Competitive Salaries

Selection Criteria
Essential
1. A PhD in geoscience
2. Interest in Earth simulations and computational geoscience
3. Demonstrated history of publishing and presenting scientific results, excellent oral and written communication skills in English
4. Demonstrated skills in making geological interpretations based on integrated observations and interpretations, using for example, seismic, well or potential field data
5. Strong capacity for team work and for interacting with industry contacts
6. Strong analytical skills
7. Discipline to communicate and document work as it occurs and an ability to work independently and to complete tasks within given deadlines

Desirable
1. Programming skills
2. Strong publication record
3. Experience in research project management

Application Requirements
Interested and qualified applicants should provide the following information via email to jobs@simula.no:

1. Cover letter
2. Statement addressing the selection criteria
3. Curriculum Vitae or Resume including a publication list and two references

The subject field of your email must include "JOBS 1104 Geology & Geophysics". We are interested in how you first came to learn about this position—please let us know in your emai.

Contact Information
For more information please contact Stuart R. Clark

Position title: Postdoctoral Fellow
Department: Computational Geoscience
Location: Fornebu, Norway (10 minutes from Oslo)
Applicants: Open to International Applicants
Application Reference #: CompGeo1104
Contractual Period: 3 years
Starting date: 2011
Applications close: 1 May, 2011
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Postdoctoral position in toolkits research and multimodal interaction

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The Interactive Computing Lab at ENAC (French Civil Aviation University) in Toulouse, France, is inviting applications for an Interactive software tools researcher for the Medusa project (advanced multimodal interactions, interactive software engineering and modeling).

http://www.lii-enac.fr/en/ jobs/Medusa-researcher-en.pdf

Description
The Medusa project (http://lii-enac.fr/en/ projects/medusa/) is financed by the French FUI (Fonds Unique Interministériel). The project aims to enable the modeling of advanced interaction techniques (multimodality, interactive surfaces, …). Through the development of a rapid prototyping platform, adapted to a model transformation approach, we seek to support an iterative design process. The target application is a airborne maritime monitoring system.
The duration of the project is 1-2 years and the start is as of now.
The practical objective is to build a prototyping platform on top of an interaction and execution engine. The scientific objective is to advance interactive software modeling in order to improve the engineering of interactive systems processes, focusing on iterative design and traceability of choices. Through this project, we also wish to foster reflection on model-driven engineering in itself: how to check specification models against system models (interaction models), how to carry out model transformation up to code generation without loss of information?
In the Medusa project, ENAC is involved in the scientific reflection on engineering processes for interactive systems, and on the design and implementation of the model execution engine. The other partners are responsible for the needs specification (Thalès Systèmes Aéroportés), system engineering and model transformation tools (Sodius), and the design of meta-models for interaction (Telecom Bretagne, ENSIETA).

Eligibility
The candidate who will join the project team will contribute to design and implementation tasks. According to his/her aspirations and skills, s/he will either focus on development orresearch subjects.
The ideal candidate holds a PhD in computer science, preferably in interactive software. S/he has experience in programming, and/or advanced interactive technique modeling (e.g post-WIMP, multimodality, visualization…), and/or system engineering. S/he has the ability to work in a team and to take part in the management of a development project. French or English writing and speaking skills are required, both languages being a plus.

Interactive Computing Lab
The interactive computing laboratory carries out research on key fundamental issues in the design, engineering and production of critical interactive systems such as those encountered in aeronautics. We work in the following domains: Interaction and collaboration design patterns, Information visualisation, Interactive software models and architectures, Interactive systems engineering.
(more information: http://lii-enac.fr/en/)

Contact: Catherine.Letondal@enac.fr or Daniel.Prun@enac.fr

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Catherine Letondal -- ENAC/LII
Positions or internships offers at Interactive Computing lab: http://www.lii-enac.fr/en/ jobs.html
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Postdoc - Economic Analysis of Inequalities and their Impacts

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Postdoc - Economic Analysis of Inequalities and their Impacts
Job description

The Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS), a leading European institute on labour and inequality research, is a multi-disciplinary research institute at the University of Amsterdam . It performs high-level applied research in an international research environment, with excellent support services, and maintains a significant portfolio of externally funded research projects.

AIAS is the coordinator of the major, interdisciplinary research project Growing INequalities’ Impacts (GINI), which is funded by the European Commission’s 7th Framework Programme (February 2010–January 2013). The aim of this project is to analyse changing inequalities, their implications and policy options in an internationally comparative way and a longer-term perspective. It brings together a large team of eminent researchers from 25 EU-countries, the USA , Japan , Canada and Australia (please see www.gini-research.org for details) who are contributing discussion papers and country reports.

To reinforce the team working at AIAS for GINI research and management we offer a 1.5 to 2-year postdoctoral position that will contribute to:

   1. performing theoretical and empirical analysis of the level, causes and consequences of inequality in income, wealth and education,
   2. collecting statistical data and perform empirical analysis of individual and country-level data
   3. integrating the findings of 1) and 2) with the results of analyses of social, cultural and political impacts, and
   4. drawing policy implications from 1) to 3).
   5. publishing results in academic journals, presenting them to academic audiences, and assisting in writing reports on the scientific output for the European Commission.

The enthusiastic new postdoc will work in a mutual division of labour with the other members of the GINI team at AIAS. We hope the person will take an active interest in researching the mechanisms affecting the distributions of incomes and of earnings in a perspective that such mechanisms may differ for top incomes, the middle and the bottom of the distribution. In particular, the role of taxation in explaining the evolution of top income shares deserves attention. We encourage the post-doc’s own creative research ideas within the scope of the project.
Requirements

We invite applications from researchers with:

    * a completed PhD (or a defence date fixed) in macro economics, (applied) macro econometrics, (applied) micro econometrics, international economics or labour economics, who can bring his or her expertise to bear on the subject of inequalities and their impacts;
    * confirmed skills and experience in statistical analysis and econometrics.

Good knowledge of labour-market or inequality issues will be appreciated, as will be own ideas and initiatives for developing the research. Ability in written and verbal communication with academic audiences and proficiency in English are compulsory, some knowledge of Dutch is appreciated.

End procedure
   
20 April 2011

Conditions of employment

The job is located in Amsterdam . The successful candidate is expected to begin his/her assignment as soon as possible in mutual agreement. The appointment will be for 1.5 to 2 years. Salary is competitive, depending on qualifications and work experience, starting from €3195 per month (full-time) plus 8% annual holiday allowance, 8.3% end-of-year allowance and 7.75% health care insurance contribution. Applicants coming from abroad may be eligible for a favourable tax treatment (‘30% ruling’).
Additional information

For more information please contact Dr Wiemer Salverda (w.salverda@uva.nl) at AIAS.

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