Post-doctoral position is available in the interdisciplinary Max Planck Research Group on Comparative Population Linguistics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. The successful applicant will be expected to work on language contact in the Kalahari Basin with a particular focus on the underdocumented language ǂHoan; this will potentially involve close collaboration with a molecular anthropological project dealing with ‘Khoisan’ peoples. The project is planned as part of a broader collaborative interdisciplinary project on the ‘Kalahari Basin Area: A ‘Sprachbund’ on the verge of extinction’, for which a funding application is still pending; however, the ǂHoan contact project will be pursued regardless of the outcome of that application.

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The Energy Management Group is keen to take on PhD candidates and postdoctoral researchers and has a number of funded PhD studentships in Renewable Energy and related subjects.

• PhD Studentship in Scalable Pico-Hydro Power
• PhD Studentship in Renewably-Powered Wireless Health Sensors
• Two PhD Studentships in Advanced Electrical Drive Systems
• EngD in Urban Micro-Renewable Power Generation Systems
• Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Electrical Energy Management

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