Associate Curator of Mineralogy

The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) is Canada's pre-eminent international museum and houses some of Canada's most important collections in both Natural History and World Cultures. The department houses Canada's largest mineral and gem collections, an important meteorite collection, and a comprehensive petrology collection.

The ROM currently invites applications for the position of an entry-level Associate Curator of Mineralogy to conduct field and collections-related research.

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Tenure Track Faculty Position at CeSMEC

The Center for the Study of Matter at Extreme Conditions (CeSMEC, Florida, USA) encourages candidates to apply for currently advertised tenure track faculty positions in the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering in the field of materials science. I anticipate one position to go to a high pressure materials scientist with involvement in CeSMEC research.

Please write to Prof. Kinzy Jones (jones@fiu.edu) Chair, Search Committee, with a copy to Prof. Surendra K. Saxena, Director (saxenas@fiu.edu) at Florida International University, Miami, Florida.
Nominations for a senior level position may be made to Prof. Saxena or Prof. Jones.

See also the CeSMEC Website

Postdoctoral positions in Experimental Geochemistry and Mineral Physics

The GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam (GFZ), member of the Helmholtz Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren, is the German national research centre for geosciences. We invite applications for a Postdoctoral Scientist (m/f) at the Department 4 "Experimental Geochemistry and Mineral Physics"

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Open position at ETH Zürich

We expect an opening of a postdoc position in the "Theory of Minerals at Extreme Conditions" group at the Laboratory of Crystallography, ETH Zürich, starting approximately from June 2006.

We seek a highly motivated researcher, ideally with a good background in high-pressure physics and/or ab initio simulations. Additional experience with computational methods is an advantage. The length of appointment is 3 years (extension is possible), with starting salary around 75000 SFr (ca 60000 USD), depending on experience.

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Professor Position in Grenoble

There is a high probability that a Full Professor position will be open next year (starting 09/2006) at the Université Joseph Fourier (Grenoble, France) in the field of Environmental Mineralogy.

The position will be opened in the Environmental Geochemistry group of the LGIT.

Actual applications will be made in the spring of 2006 but there is a preliminary and essential deadline of October 15, 2005.

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