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The purpose of the fellowship is to enable a Postdoctoral Researcher to propose and carry out a project of relevance to the Hellenic Observatory (part of the European Institute). It has been made possible by the generosity of the Hellenic Bank Association of Greece. This role is the equivalent of a Research Officer under LSE’s Research Career family.

You will have a completed PhD in social sciences, and a comprehensive and substantial knowledge of contemporary Greece and/or Cyprus.

Στους παρακάτω συνδέσμους μπορείτε να ενημερωθείτε για υποτροφίες στο εξωτερικό. Οι θέσεις αυτές αποτελούν ένα μέρος των θέσεων που αναρτώνται καθημερινά σε διάφορους ιστότοπους και κατηγοριοποιούνται σε κύριες ομάδες ανάλογα με το αντικείμενο απασχόλησης.

New materials are behind the development of essentially every commercial product, but a very large number of these still remain completely unknown. An EU initiative has developed a set of online tools to store and benefit from such Big Data.

Basically, every new commercial product, be it related to health, communication technology or clean energy, largely depends on improved, new or even novel materials. Their discovery is one of the most exciting and economical important applications of high-performance computing to date.

As childhood cancer treatments have improved, increased survival rates have highlighted the impact of late effects on health-related quality of life. One project sets out a path for more effective risk management.

More effective treatment alongside better care has increased the survival rates of European children diagnosed with a cancer to nearly 80%. However life-saving treatments are harsh and come with significant side-effects impairing quality of life for survivors.

Internet safety and bullying are concerning issues today with many people seeking solutions to deal with them. An EU-funded project investigates the effectiveness of one of these solutions – serious games – in supporting behavioural changes in young people.

When it comes to transferring knowledge and supporting behavioural, perceptual or cognitive change, serious games – games of an educational purpose – are a popular tool. While this is the case, there are few studies that investigate their effectiveness in achieving these changes, particularly in younger learners.

PTFE – known widely by the popular brand Teflon™ – has been around for decades. Now an EU-funded project has developed a stretchable tape version, making a high-tech product fit for the space age.

Germanium has long been a popular material for integrated circuits. Outside the core area of electronic devices, an EU-funded project is showing its great potential as a substrate to lead next-generation multi-junction solar cells.

The world is looking towards renewable energy such as solar power to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and solve the looming energy crisis. However, developing high-efficiency solar cells that can convert a significant amount of sunlight into electrical energy at very low costs remains a significant challenge.

Nuclear power has suffered a significant backlash from civil society over the past few years While its future may be compromised in Europe, lessons from its history can be learned to better integrate societal concerns in the debate around future energy sources.

The Baltic Region, still relatively isolated from Europe’s decentralised electricity grid, has also been left without nuclear power since the shutdown of Lithuania’s only plant in 2009. Partners under the BRILLIANT project have been trying to close this gap by clearing the way to enhanced cooperation between research organisations in Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland and Sweden.

2D semiconducting, material-based inks have just become more stable thanks to research and development under the 2D-INK project. This is an important step forward in the development of next-generation 2D electronic appliances.

EU-funded research explored the history of science and of religion, focusing on the faith-reason conflict during the Middle Ages. Scholastics of the era found ways to protect themselves while contributing to scientific exploration within the boundaries of contemporary Christian society.

The BoundSci project addressed the confrontation of natural philosophy (i.e. science) and religion during a scientific revolution in the late Middle Ages. This research was undertaken with the support of the Marie Curie programme.

Europe currently hosts three promising demonstration sites of fast reactor technology, and with them the hopes of safer, more sustainable and more competitive nuclear energy production. The SESAME project focused specifically on safety, with new evaluation methods and a set of best practice guidelines.

sCO2-HeRo safely, reliably and efficiently removes residual heat from nuclear fuel, independent of external power sources, offering a viable backup cooling system for the reactor core or spent fuel storage

Even once their fuel’s chain reaction has stopped reactor cores in nuclear power plants still generate ‘decay heat’. This radioactive residual heat has to be transferred to a heat sink (e.g. cooling towers). Removal systems usually depend on external power supplies active triggers (such as temperature levels or manual operation) and water availability.

ANAPRINT’s pre-assembled cell technology offers industry flexibility, long-term storage options, and the uncoupling of cell-model assembly from analytical use; without compromising on predictive preclinical accuracy.

Industry uses human cell models to study the biological effects of potential new treatments for human diseases. This has typically been done with aged cell lines, which has been found to compromise the tests’ predictive value. In clinical settings, the majority of candidate drugs selected this way failed, often after significant financial investment.

The safe, long-term operation of light-water reactors has become a critical challenge in Europe. Thanks to work under the SOTERIA project, the understanding of radiation effects on nuclear structural materials, which strongly affects a reactor’s longevity, has been deepened.

Europe and China have joined forces under the ALISA project to advance severe accident research for existing and advanced light-water reactors. Their efforts provide a better understanding of possible scenarios of core quenching, in-vessel and ex-vessel core melt cooling and hydrogen behaviour for different reactor designs.

In-vessel retention (IVR) is already implemented in some medium-power nuclear power reactors to prevent corium from leaking out of the vessel in the case of a meltdown. Thanks to research under the IVMR project, this approach can now be assessed for higher-power reactors as well.

The nightmare of nuclear energy stakeholders around the world has a name: corium. This man-made lava flow – the result of a nuclear meltdown in a reactor’s core – can stay radioactive for centuries, so its release into the environment in the case of major accidents must be prevented at all costs.

An EU-funded project is exploring ways to improve the efficiency of the entire value chain in solar cell production. The concept is to minimise waste and ensure that valuable components do not end up in landfills.

The RECORD-IT project has developed a new generation of reservoir computing-enabled sensors, capable of detecting and processing collected information all at the same time.

Any tech giant out there would gladly tell you: machine learning is the future of technology, and we’ve only scratched the surface of its full potential. Soon enough, all software embedded in our smart devices will automatically learn and improve from experience, as we humans do every time we encounter new situations.

The RECORD-IT project has developed a new generation of reservoir computing-enabled sensors, capable of detecting and processing collected information all at the same time.

Any tech giant out there would gladly tell you: machine learning is the future of technology, and we’ve only scratched the surface of its full potential. Soon enough, all software embedded in our smart devices will automatically learn and improve from experience, as we humans do every time we encounter new situations.