Sunday, February 15, 2009

PhD Research Grant and PhD Teaching Assistant in I-Biostat Belgium

PhD Research Grant
and PhD Teaching Assistant

Opportunities

At both entities
(UHasselt and K.U.Leuven) of I-BioStat

Over
the coming weeks, a variety of opportunities for 4-year PhD research grants and
6-year teaching assistant (also leading to a PhD) positions will become
available.

Some preliminary details:

· Both locations of I-BioStat:

o CenStat, at
UHasselt
o L-BioStat, at
K.U.Leuven

· Various topics:
o Mathematical
Statistics

o Biostatistics
methodology
o Clinical
trials

o Epidemiology
and public health
o Statistical
bioinformatics

· The various
positions encompass opportunities to work with a variety of thesis advisors, including but not
limited to (alphabetical order):

o Marc Aerts
o Roel Braekers
o Tomasz
Burzykowski
o Christel Faes
o Niel Hens
o Paul Janssen
o Geert Molenberghs
o Ziv Shkedy
o Noël
Veraverbeke
o Geert Verbeke

· Several sponsors are contributing towards these
opportunities
o HasseltUniversity, regular funding
o HasseltUniversity, research council
o Methusalem
collaboration Hasselt University-University of Antwerp
o FWO, Fund for
Scientific Research, Flanders
o IWT, Flemish
Industrial Research Fund
o Janssen
Pharmaceutica

o I-BioStat

· Number of positions: not all details are known at this time, but at
least eight (8!) positions are very likely to be available. It is very much
possible that more positions will become available in the short term!

· You are interested?

o Contact Marc
Aerts, marc.aerts@uhasselt.be, or
Geert Molenberghs. geert.molenberghs@uhasselt.be, geert.molenberghs@med.kuleuven.be,
to indicate your interest and/or for further information.