PhD Scholarships for the PhD Programme "Biomolecular Technology of Proteins (BioToP)", University of Natural Resources & Life Sciences, Austria (2015)

Highly qualified applicants from all over the world are invited to apply for the PhD Programme "Biomolecular Technology of Proteins (BioToP)".

Information about entry conditions to Austria can be found at the homepages of Euraxess Austria and the Austrian Agency for International Cooperation in Education and Research.

Application guidelines:
- BioToP is a PhD Programme of BOKU - University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna.
- Information about the general admission of foreign students to doctoral programmes of BOKU can be found here. Different legalization and translation regulations for the final admission to BOKU depending on your citizenship are described there.

Applicants must hold a undergraduate degree equivalent to a master which would qualify them to start a PhD thesis in their home country. Candidates who have not yet obtained their degree will be accepted if they will finish their studies latest by the end of July 2015. Applicants with only a bachelor degree (B.S.) or similar are not eligible.

There is no strict age limit, however applicants should not be older than 30 years by the time applying for BioToP. In case there are special circumstances to be considered, please specify them.

PhD students applying for a wet-lab research project must have a master degree in biological sciences, biotechnology, chemistry, medicine or closely related subjects. The corresponding curriculum and the diploma or master thesis have to include experimental investigations in one of these fields.

PhD students applying for a dry-lab research project must have a master degree in a technical or scientific discipline. The corresponding curriculum and the diploma or master thesis have to bear evidence of modelling or data analysis work.

Applicants must be fluent in written and spoken English.

Students who have performed their diploma or master thesis in one of the participating laboratories are not entitled to apply for a BioToP-funded position in the same group.

Students who have started their PhD thesis in one of the participating laboratories more than 6 months before the call for applications are not entitled to apply for BioToP positions or join BioToP as external students.

Further details:
http://biotop.boku.ac.at