**Very grateful if you could please help us disseminate the message below**. Summary: New PhD and postdoctoral fellowships available to explore life history evolution, trade-offs and senescence in plants and animals at the Max Planck Society. More details below. Cheers, rob s-g
Dear all, The MaxNetAging Research School (MNARS) is seeking applications for Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowships to start in February 2015. MNARS is an international graduate program launched by the Max Planck International Research Network on Aging (MaxNetAging). Traditionally, the focus of the MNARS Fellowships has been on human aging, but we wish to encourage applications from candidates interested in studying demography, life history, and aging across a broader taxonomic range including plants and non-human animals. We are particularly interested in candidates wishing to undertake studies on the evolution of aging across large clades using matrix modeling and comparative phylogenetic approaches. See http://goo.gl/DWStsy and www.compadre-db.org for brief details of some of our data. Candidates interested in these particular areas would, if successful, work with researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR - http://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/) in Rostock, Germany, and with us [Dr. Owen Jones (Max-Planck Center on the Biodemography of Aging, Odense, Denmark, aka MaxO) and Dr. Roberto Salguero-Gomez (University of Queensland, Australia)]. Each fellow enrolled in the MNARS will be affiliated with a participating Max Planck Institute, in our case this will be the MPIDR (Rostock), or MaxO (Odense, Denmark). During the first six months of the MNARS all doctoral and postdoctoral fellows will study together in Rostock, Germany. Please visit www.maxnetaging.mpg.de for more information on the program and the other participating Max Planck Institutes. Applications should include: - a CV, - a statement about the level of the job you are seeking (as doctoral or postdoctoral student), the group(s) you would wish to be affiliated with and why you are interested in working in the MaxNetAging Research School, details of qualifications, including information about honors, awards, or evaluations of your educational degrees (e.g., "cum laude"), - a list of publications, if any, - names and addresses of 2 people we can contact about you, and, - for postdoctoral fellows a brief outline about your research agenda in the upcoming two years. Applicants should also indicate the Max Planck Institute they wish to be affiliated with (in this case, the MPIDR in Rostock, or MaxO in Odense, Denmark). The Max Planck Society wishes to increase the share of women in areas where they are underrepresented, and strongly encourages women to apply. The Max Planck Society is committed to employing more handicapped individuals and especially encourages them to apply. Applications should be addressed to the MaxNetAging Director Prof. James W. Vaupel and sent by e-mail at the latest by June 25, 2014 to appl-mn...@demogr.mpg.de. E-mail inquiries concerning the application process and other aspects of MNARS should also be sent to appl-mn...@demogr.mpg.de. We encourage informal enquiries, which can be made with Owen Jones (jo...@biology.sdu.dk) and Roberto Salguero-Gomez (r.salgu...@uq.edu.au). Q: Why is the text above (likely) ≤5 sentences?A: http://five.sentenc.es<http://five.sentenc.es/> "Aliud iter ad prosperitatem nos est: id est omnibus rebus vincere" Rob Salguero-Gómez, PhD Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow; Research Fellow of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research Contact info and more: https://sites.google.com/site/robresearchsite ---------- This mail has been sent through the MPI for Demographic Research. Should you receive a mail that is apparently from a MPI user without this text displayed, then the address has most likely been faked. If you are uncertain about the validity of this message, please check the mail header or ask your system administrator for assistance.
