12 Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowships in Europe

12 Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowships.

MNARS is an international three-year doctoral school launched by the Max Planck Society's MaxNetAging program. The school focuses on topics of aging ranging across the full spectrum of the behavioral and social scien­ces, biology, law and the humanities. Fourteen Max Planck Institutes parti­cipate:

• MPI for Art History, Florence, Italy,
• MPI for the Biology of Aging, Cologne,
• MPI for Demographic Research, Rostock,
• MPI for Economics, Jena,
• MPI for European Legal History, Frankfurt/Main,
• MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig,
• MPI for Foreign and International Criminal Law, Freiburg,
• MPI for Foreign and International Social Law, Munich,
• MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig,
• MPI for the History of Science, Berlin,
• MPI for Human Development, Berlin,
• MPI for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen,
• MPI for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn,
• MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle,
• MPI for the Study of Societies, Cologne.

Each fellow enrolled in MNARS will be affiliated with one of these Max Planck Institutes. During the first six months of MNARS, from January through June 2010, all fellows will study together at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock. They will attend lectures and semi­nars on a broad range of topics in aging research and doctoral students will develop the topic of their dissertation. Instruction will be in English. At the end of the first six months, fellows will go to the Max Planck Institute they are affiliated with and spend the next 30 months in case of doctoral students or the next 18 months in case of postdoctoral fellows working on their re­search projects. Fellows will meet, together with other MaxNetAging scientists and a few invited speakers, twice a year at research workshops.

Visit http://www.maxnetaging.mpg.de/en/doctoralschool/participants.htm for examples of research questions and for statements about the program of current MaxNetAging students.

Applications should include:

• a CV,
• a statement about the level of the job you are seeking (as doctoral or postdoctoral student), 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.

Ph.D. and Post-Doc appointments are made on Ph.D. and Post-Doc sti­pends. We can provide you with information about the level of your sti­pend based on the information you provide us on your CV.

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 to appl-mnars@demogr.mpg.de. Email inquiries concerning the application process and other aspects of MNARS should also be sent to appl-mnars@demogr.mpg.de.

Applications should be submitted as soon as possible. Review of applications will begin on receipt and will continue until all fellowship positions have been filled.