Physics and Life Sciences Industrial Studentships
Applications are open for SUPA industrial Studentships are support researchers of any nationality in order to perform postgraduate research in Physics and Life Sciences (PaLS) within industry and academia for a PhD at any of the eight participating SUPA universities
EPSRC CASE Studentship - Novel gas sensor for combustion control
This is an exciting opportunity to work with the Microscale Sensors Group at UWS and SST Sensing Ltd, a Scottish sensor company specialising in the design and manufacture of sensors for domestic, industrial and aerospace applications.
SUPA/SFC Announcement
Eight Scottish universities are to share almost £48 million to grow their physics research capabilities. The Scottish Further and Higher Education Funding Council (SFC) and the participating universities have confirmed funding for SUPA.
SUPA START Launched
The SUPA START feasibility study awards have been launched. These can provide up to £5,000.
Kamerlingh Onnes Prize
Professor JC Seamus Davis of Cornell University, who also holds a position as a SUPA Distinguished Research Professor at St Andrews, has shared the 2009 Kamerlingh Onnes Prize for Superconductivity.
SUPA press release
Postgraduate Online Application Facility
The new Online Application Facility for Postgraduate Studies at SUPA has been launched today.
Please note that application process for the prize PhD studentships for 2009 is now closed.
Postdoctoral Research Fellows (3 posts): Soft Condensed Matter, Biological and Statistical Physics
Based in the School of Physics & Astronomy, Edinburgh (www.ph.ed.ac.uk )
The closing date for applications is 15 March 2009
Several postdoctoral positions are available to work within the Soft Matter, Biological and Statistical Physics Group in the School of Physics and Astronomy (part of the Scottish Universities Physics Alliance, SUPA).
You will undertake experimental, theoretical or computational work within one or more of the following broad areas: Rheological Physics; Rare Event Physics in Soft Matter and Biology; New Soft Materials; Physics of Cellular Motion; Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics.
The breadth of our Programme offers strong opportunities for you to pursue collaborative and interdisciplinary work.
We expect to fill up to three posts in 2009.
Fixed Term: not beyond 30 September 2011
Salary Scale: £29,704 - £35,469
Vacancy Ref: 3010355jw
Further particulars: https://www.jobs.ed.ac.uk/jobs/index.cfm?action=jobdet&jobid=3010355.
SUPA Advanced Fellowship in Experimental Particle Physics
Based in the School of Physics & Astronomy, Edinburgh (www.ph.ed.ac.uk )
The closing date for applications is 25 March 2009
RSE Research and Enterprise Awards
The Royal Society of Edinburgh announced that a number of research and enterprise awards are available now.
New Doctoral Training Centres
The Condensed Matter Doctoral Training centre is offering new funded studentships in Condensed Matter Physics.

