Job Requirements
The position requires a candidate who is driven, curious, independent-thinking, and able to come up with unique solutions. This candidate should preferably be experienced or interested in the field of magnetic resonance spectroscopic and/or molecular imaging, tumor models, and cancer research. The successful candidate will have a strong affinity with technological developments and information management. Thorough knowledge of the English language is required.

Terms of Employment
The position is intended as full-time appointment in the Radiology Department of the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) School of Medicine (SOM). JHU SOM assists any new foreign employees with housing and visa applications.

The Institute
The Johns Hopkins University (JHU) School of Medicine (SOM) is one of the best in the United States, and the largest recipient of National Institutes of Health research grants to medical schools. Basic and clinical research findings made at JHU SOM have improved the health of the community and the world by setting the standard of excellence in medical education, research, and clinical care.
More information about the research at JHU SOM can be found at http://www.jhu.edu

The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine In Vivo Cellular and Molecular Imaging Center (ICMIC) was established in 2003. Its mission is to identify and image key pathways specific to cancer cells that are a part of the tumor microenvironment. To achieve this goal, the JHU ICMIC combines state of the art molecular biology techniques, multimodal imaging techniques such as optical, magnetic resonance, and nuclear imaging, and unique imaging probe design. The ICMIC Program and JHU SOM offer several high-profile seminar series.

More information about the research at JHU ICMIC can be found at http://icmic.rad.jhmi.edu/

AMOLF is a research institute of the Foundation for Research on Matter (FOM). It employs approximately 200 people, half of them research staff (permanent staff, postdocs and PhD-students). AMOLF is a dynamic institute with over 70 new employees coming in every year and the same number leaving to a new position in industry or university. The research program at AMOLF is interdisciplinary, with strong collaborations among the research groups. The Institute offers a wide variety of weekly work discussions and seminars. Since the institute employs many researchers from abroad, English is spoken at all work discussions and seminars.

More information about the research at AMOLF can be found at http://www.amolf.nl/

Application
Applications can be sent to:

Kristine Glunde, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Radiology/Oncology
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Radiology Department JHU ICMIC
212 Traylor Building
720 Rutland Avenue
Baltimore, Maryland 21205 USA

E-mail: kglunde[ at ]mri.jhu.edu
Phone: (410) 614-2705
Fax: (410) 614-1948

12 Doctoral Fellowships within the Jena Graduate School Human
Behaviour in Social and Economic Change (GSBC)

The Graduate School is a recently established university institution
located at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena. It is a joint
initiative of scholars of the School of Social and Behavioural
Sciences, the School of Economics and Business Administration, and the
Max Planck Institute of Economics. Currently, the major contributing
disciplines are Applied Ethics, Economics, Psychology and Sociology.
Their common research topic within the GSBC is the analysis of human
behaviour with an emphasis on social and economic change. The
principal research focus of the GSBC is interdisciplinary. For further
information, especially on the research programme, please visit
www.gsbc.uni-jena.de.

Applicants are expected to hold a Diplom or a Masters Degree with
honours in one of the above mentioned disciplines or an equivalent
degree in a related discipline. Fellows will actively and permanently
participate in the study and research programme of the Graduate
School. Therefore all fellows are expected to choose Jena as their
place of residence.

Fellowships start on October 1st, 2008 (Deadline for application: 23
August 2008) and on January 1st, 2009 (Deadline for application: 30
September 2008). All fellowships include funding for up to three years
(2+1). Research will be conducted in English.

Candidates should e-mail their CV, transcripts of degrees, a writing
example (about 10 pages, for example an extract from the diploma or
master thesis), a brief outline of a potential dissertation project
within the GSBC, a letter of interest, the application form and two
letters of reference from academic teachers to:
kristina.von-rhein@uni-jena.de. The application form is available on
www.gsbc.uni-jena.de. The letters of reference should be directly sent
to us by the recommenders.

website link:
http://www.gsbc.uni-jena.de/fileadmin/soec/media/GSBC/Application/phD_Oktober_2008.pdf

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