The European Institutes for Advanced Study (EURIAS) Fellowship Programme is an international researcher mobility programme offering 33 fellowships for the 2011/2012 academic year. It proposes 10-month residencies in one of the 14 participating Institutes: Berlin, Bologna, Brussels, Bucharest, Budapest, Cambridge, Helsinki, Jerusalem, Lyons, Nantes, Paris, Uppsala, Vienna, Wassenaar. The Programme builds on the strong reputation of the Institutes for Advanced Study for promoting the concentrated, self-directed work of excellent researchers within the stimulating environment of a multidisciplinary and international group of fellows.

EURIAS Fellowships are mainly offered in the fields of the humanities and social sciences but may also be granted to scholars in natural and exact sciences, if their proposed research project does not require laboratory facilities. The diversity of the 14 participating IAS —which have agreed on a common selection procedure— offers a wide range of possible research contexts in Europe for worldwide scholars. Applicants select up to three IAS outside their country of nationality or residence as possible host institutions.

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Phd in Cloud Computing for Datadriven Applications at University of Strasbourg, France
The Scientific and Parallel Computing and Imaging (ICPS) group is seeking very good candidates for the following subject. Applicants shall have a Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or in a related discipline. As for all PhD studies, a genuine interest and curiosity in the subject matter and excellent analytical and communication skills, orally as well as literally, are needed. Further, since the research work normally involves developing and testing analytical techniques, good programming skills are important. A successful candidate should have a profound interest in parallel and distributed systems.

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The Geophysical team of the Centre de Geosciences at Mines-ParisTech in Fontainebleau (France) has a position for a PhD in geophysics (3 years) for a gifted young student on the following subject:

“Near surface characterization using surface waves”

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A three years research fellow is available at Lirmm.
Application deadline: June 1st 2009.

This work aims at contributing to the detection and rehabilitation of stroke, by focusing on modelling and experimental components of efficient and deficient postural behaviour. Stroke has many deficient consequences at cognitive and sensorimotor levels, which may be modelled, diagnosed, and may orient adequate rehabilitation programs.

Specifically, this research aims at achieving a computational modelling of the coordination and control of human posture as a tool for quantitative analysis and diagnosis of movement disorders induced by stroke. Postural coordination and control is one emblematic function of human agents in daily life that exhibits well-known neurophysiological and behavioural regularities. The (ir-)regularities in postural behaviour produced by hemiplegia are less known, even if a large amount of work has been devoted to hemiplegic posture during the last three decades or so.

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