International Scholarship : Oxford University Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Ancient Philosophy: Pre-Socratics

Overview

FACULTY OF PHILOSOPHY

Grade 7: Salary £28,983 – £35,646 p.a.

Project: Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies.

Applications are invited for a fixed-term Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Ancient Philosophy, to work on a project entitled Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies, which is hosted by the Faculty of Philosophy, and supported by the European Research Council. The postholder will be located in the Faculty of Philosophy, and will work under the guidance of the Director of the project, Dr Anna Marmodoro. The Fellowship is for the period of 1 October 2011 to 30 September 2013, and is not renewable.

The postholder will be expected to conduct research on all aspects of Pre-Socratic philosophy, and to contribute to the project in other ways by, for example, helping to organise conferences; assisting in supervising the work of doctoral students; and collaborating to develop grant applications for the project. In addition, the postholder may be asked to undertake some duties for the Faculty of Philosophy, including lecturing and examining.

The successful applicant will have an outstanding record of research in Pre-Socratic philosophy, with evidence of, or evidence of potential for producing distinguished research in philosophy. By the date of appointment, candidates should have received (or have submitted their thesis for) the degree of PhD (or equivalent).

Further particulars, including details about how to apply, are available from the website at http://www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk, or by contacting the Assistant Administrator, Faculty of Philosophy, 10 Merton Street, Oxford OX1 4JJ (tel: 01865 276934; fax: 01865 276932; email: jobs@philosophy.ox.ac.uk).

The deadline for the receipt of applications is 12.00 noon on 22 November 2010

Source: http://www.ox.ac.uk/about_the_university/jobs/arrs/221110/arrs6713j/

Scholarships PhD position in hydrology

The Agricultural Engineering research group of the Earth and Life Institute is
offering a PhD fellowship for a period of up to 4 years to work on the refinement of
surface flow modelling at the subgrid scale of distributed hydrological models.

Research project summary
Subgrid modelling of surface hydrological flow in physically-based,
spatially-distributed models is currently based on the use of effective parameters
which cannot properly capture the subgrid connectivity of surface runoff. A
promising connectivity function – the Relative Surface Contribution function (RSC)
(Antoine et al., 2009) - has been recently developed and tested at the 1 m² scale,
which improves the modelling of subgrid runoff generation. This project seeks to
pursue the integration of the subgrid connectivity function in spatially-distributed
hydrological models and to test the scale-dependency of the RSC function and its
time-rate of change for contrasted initial conditions. This will involve a
combination of field/lab and numerical experiments.

The Institution
The candidate will be hosted in the Agricultural Engineering research group of the
Earth an Life Institute (ELI) of the Université catholique de Louvain in
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. The Environmental sciences section of ELI offers a
dynamic, multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary research environment dealing with
various topics related to agriculture and the environment. The research activities
of the Agricultural Engineering research group focus on water resources, soil-plant
interactions and soil conservation. Additional information concerning the
Environmental sciences section of the Earth and Life institute can be found at
http://www.uclouvain.be/ , and regarding UCL at http://www.uclouvain.be/ .
Collaboration with research groups in The Netherlands and France is expected.

Applications
The successful candidate should be a national from a European country and hold a
M.Sc. degree in hydrology, earth or environmental sciences (or related disciplines).
Experience with modelling and a good mathematical background will be an advantage.
The candidate will be attributed a renewable fellowship (€2,300 – 2,570 per month
depending on prior degree) for an initial duration of 15 months. In addition,
he/she will benefit from social security coverage.

Candidates should send by October 15, 2010 – preferably by email - a letter of
intent, the name and address of 2 referees, a curriculum vitae and a copy of the
grades obtained for the masters degree to:

Profs. C. Bielders and M. Javaux
ELI / GERU
Université catholique de Louvain
Croix du Sud 2, boite 2
B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
Belgique
charles.bielders@uclouvain.be