Marmic-Stellen

The International Max Planck Research School of Marine Microbiology (MarMic) is an M.Sc. / Ph.D. graduate program for highly qualified and motivated national and international students. MarMic is a joint program of the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology (MPI-MM), the University of Bremen (UniB), the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), and the International University Bremen (IUB). MarMic teaches students to take an interdisciplinary approach to the understanding of marine prokaryotic and eukaryotic microbiology, offering training in physiology, ecology, evolution, molecular biology, bioinformatics, and other related subjects.

Contract NumberMEST-CT-2004-007776

Project Title
Marie Curie Training Site for Marine Microbiology

Job Title
Short term fellowships in Marine Microbiology
Job Description
MarMic is one of the few graduate schools worldwide that is able to offer a PhD degree in marine microbiology because of the singular concentration of expertise in disciplines relevant to marine microbiology in and around Bremen that does not exist elsewhere. The comprehensive study of marine microbiology includes not only training in microbiology, but also in marine biology, oceanography, molecular biology, bioinformatics, geology, and biogeochemistry and is thus truly interdisciplinary, bridging life, environment, and geological sciences. The MarMic training concept is unique: to educate a new generation of marine microbiologists, and provide them with the tools to better understand microbial life and the manner in which it affects our biosphere.
The training at MarMic supports visits of (usually) 3 months at the MPI, the International University Bremen, the University of Bremen or the Alfred-Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research for students currently studying for a PhD or equivalent.

Details and application procedures listed on website:
http://marmic.mpg.de/marmic_cms/application.php?section=application

PLEASE NOTE : Start Date flexible between January 1 and April 1, 2009
Contract Typetemporary

These are the criteria for eligibility of the researcher(s):
* The researcher must be in the first 4 years of his/her research
activity, including periods of research training, since gaining a
university degree giving him/her access to doctoral studies in the
country in which it was obtained.
* The researcher must be a national of a member state of the European
Community or of an associated state, but shall not be a german
national.
* A researcher from a third country having legally resided or/and
having had his/her main activity in the EU or in an associated
state(s) for at least 4 years (in total) out of the last five years
immediately prior to his/her appointment is treated as a national of
the EU member state in which (s)he has resided for the longest period.
* At the time of appointment, the researcher may not have resided or
carried out his/her main activity in Germany for more than 12 months
in the 3 years immediately prior to his/her appointment.