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PhD and Postdoc positions |
We are always eager for smart & motivated people to come and work with us. The Organismal Biology department at QMUL includes many other behavioral and evolutionary genomics researchers; we share a cutting edge laboratory for genomics work and a powerful computing environment. We are located in East London, with many of us living locally (Hackney, Bow) - a 15 minute walk to 20 minute bicycle ride from the office.
If you're interested in joining us, please provide by email a CV, and a short proposal. Projects should address major evolutionary or ecologically relevant questions, and/or major challenges in bioinformatics/genomics. We are happy for projects to include population genomics, comparative analyses, bioinformatics, molecular biology, software development, hacking, field or behavioral work.
We invite applications for Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowships. The biggest effort is usually to come up with a good project. Once a proposal is written it is often worth applying to several funding sources.
These can include:
- many national sources of funding (e.g., Swiss NSF, Fondation Fyssen, DAAD)
- EMBO
- putting together a BBSRC or NERC grant with you as a named researcher co-investigator
- FEBS
PhD funding exists as part of multiple schemes. These include:
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RCUK Doctoral training programmes - application deadlines in January.
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In some circumstances we accept self-funded PhD candidates.
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Many national schemes exist (e.g., from your country of origin). Some of these are listed on QMUL's page including:
- CONACYT (Mexico)
- Commonwealth Scholarships
- Newton fund
- US citizens can come with Marshall or Fullbright scholarships.
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Occasionally, we have specific funding for PhD positions.
Please get in touch if you want to put in an application.
We can in some cases host interns (for French students: par exemple pour les stages de M2 ou équivalent). This is much easier if you come with your own funding. Minimal duration is 5 months.
Our department hosts at least 3 MSc progams that are relevant to our research - these programs typically last one year for full-time students, include taught courses and a 6-9 month research project.