16 Fully-financed PhD fellowships: Health Science 1514 views

Aarhus University invites applications for 16 highly competitive fully-financed PhD Positions for world-class PhD projects within health science. The Graduate School of Health at the University is recruiting talented, ambitious and highly motivated candidates for three-year fully financed PhD positions.

Study areas:

• Biomedicine and Public Health Science
• Clinical Medicine
• Forensic Medicine
• Dentistry and Oral Health

Requirements:

• Applicant must have a relevant higher education degree. The educational level will be assessed to determine whether it comply with entry requirements.
• If candidate hold a degree other than a Danish Master’s degree, it can be advisable to get your degree assessed by the Danish Agency for Science and Higher Education before applying.
• The qualifying degree should not be more than 5 years old and applicants without a prior PhD degree will be preferred.
• Applicant must be proficient in the English language corresponding to CEFR C1-level (comparable with an ‘English B level’ in the Danish upper secondary school (‘gymnasium’). The test result will be required.
• Applicant must comply with the project specific qualification requirements.

Applications:

• Submit application in English via our online application form
• Candidate can apply for max three projects (if you apply for more than three projects your application will be disregarded).

Imp info:

• Selected candidates are invited for a recruitment day of interviews, presentations and matchmaking on 14 November 2018 in Aarhus, Denmark.
• The travel, hotel and visa expenses within a fixed amount will be reimbursed.
• Successful candidates will receive an offer of enrolment and employment.
• Next, selected candidates must prepare a final 5-page project description in collaboration with the supervisors before enrolment can commence.
• Earliest enrolment date is 1 January 2019 and up until six months after receiving the enrolment offer.

Project proposals

Dept. of Biomedicine

P1: Loss of the α-ketoglutarate receptor OXGR1 causes severe nephrolithiasis

P2: Treatment of hydrocephalus after subarachnoid hemorrhage by inhibition of NCBE at the blood- cerebrospinal fluid barrier

P3: Novel slow-growing bacteria as causative agents of implant-associated infections

P4: Cell Biology and Genetics

Dept. of Clinical Medicine

P5: Social cognition, mentalizing network and attachment style in 11 year old children with familial high-risk of schizophrenia or bipolar disorder

P6: Clinical cell biology with special focus on cancer cell biology

P7: Lymphatic dysfunction – bench to bed – a cure for edema

P8: Translational imaging of synaptic dysfunction in mental health disorders

P9: Medical Microbiology; Orthopaedics; Infectious Diseases

P10: Heart-lung interactions during mechanical ventilation: bridging research and clinical reality

Dept. of Dentistry and Oral Health

P11: Outcome of orthognathic surgical procedures – a prospective study

Dept. of Forensic Medicine

P12: Pulmonary morphology in the deceased – forensic pulmonay imaging

Dept. of Public Health

P13: Health promotion interventions in the family

P14: Recreational sport, drug use, complex interventions

P15: Intergenerational effects of cardiometabolic factors

P16: Microbial exposure and allergic disease