PhD researcher Environmental toxicology and chemistry – Utrecht University

PhD researcher Environmental toxicology and chemistry – Utrecht University
PhD researcher Environmental toxicology and chemistry (1,0 fte)
Utrecht University
(Utrecht), 38 hours per week

Job description
The objective of the PhD project is to get a better understanding of the sorption and bioavailability of cationic surfactants in sediments. This knowledge is essential for improving the environmental risk assessment of this class of contaminants. The project is funded by the European Chemical Industry Council and will be performed in collaboration with the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Leipzig.

One of the tasks is to improve the analytical procedure for measuring the freely dissolved concentration of cationic surfactants in environmental samples, including sediment suspension. Sorption studies will be performed to elucidate the contribution of sorption to clay minerals to the overall sorption capacity in natural sediments. Measuring freely dissolved concentrations in the pore water phase of a sediment toxicity test will clarify whether adverse effects to biota are solely controlled by the freely dissolved concentration in the pore water.

Requirements
Required education/skills: University Graduate
We are looking for an enthusiastic candidate carrying a master’s or equivalent degree in biology, chemistry or geochemistry with a background in environmental toxicology or chemistry and an affinity for analytical methodologies.
Job type: Research / Advising
Workfield(s) :
- Research trainees, non-tenured lecturers, researchers( Scientific discipline: Health)

Organization
Utrecht University
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
The Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences (IRAS) is an interfacultary research institute from the faculties Veterinary Medicine and Medicine, and the departments Biology and Pharmaceutical Sciences of the Science faculty at the Utrecht University. The mission of IRAS is to provide research and education on human health risks of exposure to potentially harmful agents in the environment, at the workplace and through the food chain. IRAS has three research divisions. The Environmental Epidemiology division performs epidemiological research on respiratory, cardiovascular and carcinogenic health risks in relation to biological and chemical exposures. Within the Veterinary Public Health division research is conducted to identify and study possible adverse health effects from microbial and non-microbial agents occurring in food derived from the animal production process. Research within the Toxicology division covers the part of the risk assessment in which the availability and dose – adverse health effect relationships of toxic substances are studied. The aim of IRAS is to perform quality research with a high relevance for society.
PhD researcher Environmental toxicology and chemistry

Conditions of employment
Estimated maximum salary per month: eur 2500 – 3000
Salary: scale 10.
Maximum salary amount in Euro’s a month 2558
Employment basis: Temporary for specified period
Duration of the contract: 1,5 year
Maximum hours per week: 38
Additional conditions of employment:
The IRAS can offer you a temporary full-time appointment of one and a half year with the perspective of prolongation with another 2½ years. The gross salary starts with € 2,000.- per month in the first year and increases to € 2,558.- per month in the fourth year of employment (salary scale “P” Collective Employment Agreement of the Dutch Universities) .

Secondary benefits, based on the Collective Employment Agreement of the Dutch Universities are excellent in general and include e.g. a pension scheme, flexible employment conditions and salaries are supplemented with a holiday bonus of 8% and a year-end bonus of 6.4% per year.

As a partner in the Postgraduate Education in Toxicology (PET) programme, IRAS offers the opportunity to follow courses in this programme with the aim of obtaining the possibility to register as a toxicologist with the Dutch Society of Toxicology as well as with EUROTOX.

Additional Information
Additional information about the vacancy can be obtained from:

Dr Joop Hermens
Telephone number: 31 30 2535337
E-mail address: j.hermens@uu. nl

Or additional information can be obtained through one of the following links:

* About the organization (http://www.vet. uu.nl/viavet/ viavet_english)
* About the function (http://www.iras. uu.nl/)

Application
You can apply for this job before 09-10-2008 (dd-mm-yyyy) by sending your application to:

Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
J.C.M. Schoonenberg
Yalelaan 1
3584 CL Utrecht

E-mail: vacatures1@vet. uu.nl

When applying for this job always mention the vacancynumber 12875.

T-As-In-Team: Management Through Collaboration
Management Through Collaboration: Teaming in a Networked World (Routledge publishers, 2010)

Charles Wankel / Author and Organizer / St. John’s University, New York, USA / wankelc@stjohns.edu

The idea is that this book will be produced using an immense network of coauthors. The chapters will present text, examples, and exercises using networking in a globalized world as a prism through which the key management functions are refracted in telling, useful and important ways. This introductory management textbook is using a new authoring structure to create a high quality, cutting-edge, and well-researched book.

The coauthors of this breakthrough endeavor number almost a thousand management educators and researchers in about ninety nations. The twenty-first century global virtual community creating this work is itself an interesting constellation of management phenomena that provides a wide range of exciting management experiences for its members to use as examples in their teaching and writing. More importantly, being part of such a diverse, constantly self-creating, mob of innovators is immense fun! It is our hope that our contributions from Tonga to Peru, from Iceland to Botswana, from Hawaii to Tunisia, from China to Grenada, will reflect our diversity and yet our communality in this increasingly connected world in ways that will engage and excite learners in all the nations of the world.

[http://globally-collaborating.com/]

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART II: THE ENVIRONMENT OF MANAGEMENT
3: Shaping Corporate Culture
4: Managing in a Global Environment
5: Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility
6: Entrepreneurship and E-commerce

[http://globally-collaborating.com/t/index.html]

AUTHORS

[http://globally-collaborating.com/authors/index.html]

AUTHOR COUNTRY STATS

[http://globally-collaborating.com/c/index.html]

NODAL PROJECT PEOPLE

[http://globally-collaborating.com/n/index.html]

GUIDELINES FOR CONTRIBUTORS

Microsoft Word
Textual material for the book should be submitted in Microsoft Word (Windows PC version).

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

When will I be assigned to a chapter team?

Currently we are registering authors into chapter wikis. As new colleagues join the project, they will be registered within a week’s time after completing the authors’ survey.

What is the general project timeline?

The draft of the main paper-form textbook is due on December 1st, 2008. However, the digital form and ancillaries can be worked on after that. The book comes out in January 2010.

See Also

“Management Professor Uses ‘Crowdsourcing’ to Write Textbook”

[http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/]

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