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PhD Fellowships at Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Germany

PhD fellowships for International students at the International Max Planck Research School on Physical Processes in the Solar System and Beyond at the Universities of Braunschweig and Göttingen, Germany

Study Subject: Physical Processes in the Solar System
Course Level: PhD
Scholarship Provider: International Max Planck Research School
Scholarship can be taken at: Germany

Eligibility:
-Highly-qualified and well-motivated applications are, however, considered at any time of the year.
-Applicants for the graduate (PhD) program must have a masters or diploma or equivalent degree in physics, including a thesis. (Applications are encouraged even if the degree is not yet, but will soon be obtained).
-Candidates whose native language is not English or German are required to provide a certificate documenting proficiency in English, for example TOEFL or IELTS or equivalent.
-If no language test is available, the proficiency in English can be evaluated during a personal interview.
-A prerequisite is a diploma or a masters degree in physics


Scholarship Open for International Students: Yes

Scholarship Description: Intensive courses in astrophysics, solar and heliospheric physics, and planets and small bodies provide a deep insight into the research topics of the school. The compulsory program also includes courses in methods of computational physics and data analysis, instrumental methods, and basic scientific techniques with practical exercises and tutorials. These courses are intended to introduce all students to the various aspects of solar system research and to bring them to a comparable level of knowledge. Courses are repeated on a two-year interval.

The main curricular elements of the research school are three to four weeks per year of intensive block courses on all aspects of solar system physics and scientific techniques, a fortnightly half-day seminar, in which the students regularly report on the progress of their work and scientists give tutorial talks, a yearly one-week retreat (summer school) of the whole school with courses and lectures of general relevance.

Scholarship Application Deadline: 31 July 2011

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