FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM, GERMANY:
(PLEASE NOTE: This post has been edited from the DFG Research Training Centre’s web site, and may contain error in translation. Applicants for this offering may be required to be completely fluent in spoken and written German.)
The University of Potsdam will be offering 10 doctoral scholarships as of April 1, 2014 within the interdisciplinary Research Training Group “Visualization and Visibility. Hybrid forms of image Knowledge “(GRK 1539) from.
The graduate program is concerned with image and visualization processes of all kinds in the sciences and arts. In attendance will be philosophy, art and media sciences, General and Comparative and Medieval literature and cognitive psychology, mathematics of dynamical systems, computer science and Geoinformatics (cartography), physics, and design and design subjects.
For detailed information on the research concept, please refer to the website ( http :// www.sichtbarkeit-sichtbarmachung.de/ ).
“We are looking for outstanding doctoral research in these subjects, particularly those that are located at the interfaces of disciplines involved.
→ For more information on the websites of the applicant
applicants from the field of science and mathematics are encouraged. According to the profile of the college and artistic projects with a share are very welcome.
The duration of the scholarship is a maximum of 36 months. The salary is according to the directive of the DFG: http://www.dfg.de/formulare/2_22a/2_22a.pdf”
Expected [is] an above average degree in any of the subjects participating in the Graduate School, an independent research projects in the subject area of the college as well as experience in interdisciplinary collaboration.
Please send your application [by] 15 Nov. 2013 in electronic form to: visibility (at) uni-potsdam.de
Please observe the following guidelines :
- Meaningful project outline (5-8 pages)
- CV (including list of publications)
- Scan of the master certificate
- Please send all documents together in a single file (pdf)
- Subject of email: “Application PhD Scholarship”
Please send us unsolicited no additional essays, cover letter, or other materials, external reports or recommendations. Please refrain from postal mailings. Nevertheless unsolicited submissions will not be returned.
CONTACT:
Prof. Dr. Dieter Mersch (CEO)
E-mail: dmersch (at) uni-potsdam.de
Institute for Arts and Media
University of Potsdam,
Am Neuen Palais 10
14469 Potsdam
Lenore Hipper (Coordinator)
Email: hipper (at) uni-potsdam.de
Graduiertenkolleg “visibility and visibility,”
University of Potsdam,
Am Neuen Palais 10
14469 Potsdam
The DFG Research Training Centre “Visibility and Visualization – Hybrid Forms of Pictorial Knowledge” at Potsdam University explores forms of visualization in science and art. In collaboration with Fachhochschule Potsdam and Freie Universität Berlin, the center investigates practices of visualization with a view to understanding how knowledge and reflective structures are Constituted. Combining computer science, cognitive science, and natural sciences with methods drawn from the humanities and social sciences as well as analyzes of artistic practice, the AIMS Research Training Centre to examine how the Significance of visual phenomena has changed over the course of recent Decades.
