Time Sensitive - Heinrich Winkelmann Postdoctoral Fellowship of the Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum, Research on plastic degradation in museum objects
Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum Bochum, Germany The Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum (DBM) offers yearly two postdoctoral fellowships for projects related to its research interests. For the first time, the fellowship is open to candidates aiming to research the natural degradation of polymers in museum objects and help develop conservation strategies for these materials - one of the research foci of the Materials Science Research Section of the DBM ( http://www.bergbaumuseum.de/en/research/research-areas/material-science). The preparation of an application for third-party funding for an extended research project at the DBM can be a part of the research stay and is specifically supported. The call is open to applicants from all countries with a background in chemistry, conservation science, materials sciences and related disciplines. Prior knowledge of German is desirable but not necessary. Eligible candidates interested in applying with a proposal on polymer research are warmly encouraged to contact Dr. Elena Gomez Sanchez at [email protected] when formulating their proposals. The submission period for the current call is now open and closes on December 8th, 2017. The fellowship will be announced in the next days on the museum website; due to the tight deadline interested applicants are however encouraged to get in touch as soon as possible. The fellows have the opportunity to use the research infrastructure of the DBM. For example the Montanhistorische Dokumentationszentrum (montan.dok) including the records of the mining archive but also the collections, scientific libraries and the material science laboratory of the DBM. Besides this, the DBM closely cooperates with the Department of History and the Department of Archaeological Studies at the Ruhr University Bochum as well as with the section Applied Material Science at the TH Georg Agricola University to Bochum. The fellows are expected to participate actively in the events and research discussions of the DBM, the Ruhr University Bochum and the TH Georg Agricola University to Bochum. Research results of the fellowship should be published in Der Anschnitt or in Metalla. Successful applicants need to have a PhD degree in history, archaeology, archaeometry, material science or related disciplines. The fellowships will be awarded for three months and will include a grant of 2,000 Euros per month and free accommodation nearby the DBM. Please send in your application - in German or English - by the 8th of December 2017 including the following documents: - curriculum vitae - publication list - project proposal (max. 5 pages) Applications should be sent exclusively via email to: [email protected] Homepage: http://www.bergbaumuseum.de/en/research Dr. Elena Gomez Sanchez Materialkunde Telefon: +49 (234) 968 4048 Fax: E-Mail: [email protected] Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum Herner Strasshum http://www.bergbaumuseum.de http://www.facebook.de/bergbaumuseum ****** Unsubscribe by sending a message to [email protected] Searchable archives: http://cool.conservation-us.org/byform/mailing-lists/cdl/
