Nine PhD positions in the School of Natural Sciences: Deadline 13 May 2011
05 April 2011
Earth and Natural Sciences structured PhD Programme
(4 year PhD Programme - 10 studentships)
Applications are sought from suitably qualified candidates to undertake doctoral research under this PRTLI-funded structured PhD programme. Projects will fall within the following strands: Earth and Computational Climate Modelling; Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Energy and Environmental Engineering; Sustainable and Competitive Agriculture; Transport and Water Engineering. Nine of the studentships will be run through the School of Natural Sciences www.naturalscience.tcd.ie/ and one in the School of Engineering www.tcd.ie/Engineering/. This 4 year structured PhD programme will be conducted in close cooperation with UCD www.ucd.ie/earth. The programme will include training modules in generic and discipline related skills.
The studentships include EU fees and an annual stipend of €16,000 and they will commence from September 2011. TCD project titles and lead supervisors are detailed in the table below. Further details of the proposed projects and application procedure can be found at www.ucd.ie/earth/graduatetraining/phdprogrammeinearthandnaturalsciences/earthandnaturalsciencesphdprojects/
NB. Application deadline is 13 May 2011 and all applications must be made through: www.ucd.ie/earth/graduatetraining/phdprogrammeinearthandnaturalsciences/applyingforaphdposition/
Research Theme |
Project Title |
TCD School |
Lead Supervisor |
Supervisor email |
Earth and Computational Climate Modelling |
1.1 Modelling the thermal structure of onshore Ireland and its offshore basins |
Natural Sciences |
David Chew |
chewd@tcd.ie |
1.2 Biomineralisation and Isotope Proxies for Environmental Change |
Natural Sciences |
Quentin Crowley |
crowleyq@tcd.ie |
|
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
2.1 Modelling past and future fire regimes in the Irish uplands |
Natural Sciences |
Fraser Mitchell |
fraser.mitchell@tcd.ie |
2.2 Novel methods to quantify differences in community structure: development of stable |
Natural Sciences |
Andrew Jackson |
a.jackson@tcd.ie |
|
2.3 Advance warning indicators for the vulnerability of Cold Water Coral ecosystems to environmental change: a basis for |
Natural Sciences |
Carlos Rocha |
rochac@tcd.ie |
|
Energy and Environmental Engineering |
3.1 Assessment of the potential of Irish on- and offshore Carboniferous black shales and coal-bearing sequences for CO2 sequestration |
Natural Sciences |
Geoff Clayton |
gclayton@tcd.ie |
Sustainable and Competitive Agriculture |
4.1 Examining the challenges to applying a One Health approach to addressing the risks to animal and human health from emerging and re-emerging zoonoses in Rwanda |
Natural Sciences |
David Taylor |
taylord@tcd.ie |
4.2 Evolution of woodiness in grasses (Poaceae) including biomass and bioenergy crops |
Natural Sciences |
Trevor Hodkinson |
hodkinst@tcd.ie |
|
Transport and Water Engineering |
5.1 Design of linear wetlands for contaminant attenuation in highway runoff. |
Engineering |
Paul Johnston |
pjhnston@tcd.ie |
5.2 Sustainable nutrient and metal removal from domestic and industrial wastewaters using Lagarosiphon major and other submerged macrophytes under temperate conditions |
Natural Sciences |
Nick Gray |
nfgray@tcd.ie |
