risk of failing European maximum levels (MLs) for cadmium (Cd). This project provides research to mitigate threats to Irish agricultural and horticultural production industries from heavy metal uptake and will develop practical solutions of international interest while building a national expertise in this area.
Introduction. Applications are invited for a fully funded PhD Studentship at Dundalk Institute of Technology. The successful applicant will be registered as full time postgraduate student in the DCU-DkIT Graduate School.
Mary Immaculate College (MIC) offers a diverse suite of postgraduate programmes in Education to masters and doctoral level. Be part of an innovative and creative learning environment with student supports, graduate skills training and a range of financial supports.
Mary Immaculate College (MIC) offers a diverse suite of postgraduate programmes in Liberal Arts to masters and doctoral level. Be part of an innovative and creative learning environment with student supports, graduate skills training and a range of financial supports.
The PhD student will conduct research within the area of data privacy for big data. The successful applicant will work on methods that provide privacy guarantees when big data is used for machine learning and data mining.
The successful student will work with Professor Andrew Parnell and Professor Subhra Dey’s research groups as part of the new SFI I-Form centre on analytics for advanced manufacturing.
The candidate will work with Prof Andrew Parnell and Dr Gerard McCarthy’s research group in statistics and machine learning and climate change (respectively), and also as part of the wider group funded by SFI for the ‘Predict’ project involving Dublin City University, University College Cork, and the Geological Survey of Ireland.
Who are these scholarships for? Students starting their PhD in September 2019. High-achieving dynamic individuals, who have an appetite for the research world and creativity, who thrive on intellectual excitement, and who will positively shape the future for all in our society.
We are seeking applicants with Bachelors/Masters degree (2.1 or higher) in natural/environmental science, natural resource management, or similar, preferably with knowledge and experience in ecosystem services, natural capital, bioeconomy, and/or life cycle analysis to do a PhD on “Integrating natural capital into Bioeconomic industrial applications”.
Global change includes a wide range of environmental (physical and chemical) changes and is occurring faster than our ability to predict it’s consequences (Kroeker, Kordas & Harley 2017).
