Postdoctoral Fellowships program for International Students in GFZ organisation in Germany

 August 31^st, 2018.

Potsdam, Germany

(Paid Opportunity)

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GFZ PostDoc Fellowship

New scholarship programme has now started accepting applications for GFZ PostDoc Fellowship that aim at adding to the future direction of GFZ’s research and performing innovative projects. The positions are planned to be filled as of November 2018.

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The GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences is the national research centre for Earth sciences. Research at the GFZ focuses on the geosphere within the highly complex System Earth with its further subsystems, its interacting subcycles, and its wide network of cause-and-effect chains. The new positions are funded by the recently implemented Topic Innovation Fund (TIF) and will support two fellowships per call, starting once a year. Successful candidates are expected to perform innovative projects and to identify future fields of research within the GFZ research units. The research topic can be freely chosen but must be assigned to one of the GFZ’s research units, have an interdisciplinary approach, and be realized in close cooperation with at least two GFZ sections.

Specializations for studying on this opportunity:

– Global Processes

– Plate boundary systems

– Earth Surface and Climate Interactions

-Natural Hazards

-Georesources and Geoenergy

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English

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ALL WORLD COUNTRIES

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 The fellowships will run for a maximum duration of three years

Short listed candidates will be invited to present their projects on September 17^th, 2018.

The planned starting date for 2018 fellowships is November 1^st, 2018.

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• The applicant should be a junior scientists from within or outside the GFZ, holding a PHD in Geosciences or related fields that is not older than 8 years
• Every applicant needs a GFZ section that sponsors and hosts the applicant (‘lead section’) and at least one additional co-sponsoring section
• Applications must be supported by section leaders with a reference letter
• Innovative character of research proposed
• Interdisciplinarity within a program topic or between the program topics
• applicants should have an excellent record (publications, preparatory work etc.

applicants should provide these documents in your application:

• the applicant’s proposal should be linked to one of the program topics within the GFZs research environment.
• applicants need at least the support of two GFZ sections ensuring interdisciplinary of your proposed research.
• The proposal (max. 6 pages) focusing on innovation and interdisciplinary is the core of your application.
• the application is complemented by a CV (max. 2 pages) and letters of support of at least two section heads from GFZ.

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(Paid Opportunity)

The funding includes a standard postdoc salary that will cover the living expenses of the chosen candidate.

Note: The new positions are funded by the recently implemented Topic Innovation Fund (TIF)

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First Step: Make an account on the website. click here.

Second Step: fill in the application form and upload the required documents.click here

Third Step: submit your application.

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