Reporter 13/10/99: Oppenheimer Research Fellowship: Notice

Oppenheimer Research Fellowship: Notice

The Committee of Management for the Ernest Oppenheimer Fund invites applications for an Oppenheimer Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (to be held at Cambridge University) in the field of colloid science and surface chemistry, including applications to metallurgical reactions.

The Fellowship will be tenable for three years in an appropriate Department in the physical or biological sciences, commencing normally from 1 October 2000. Applicants should normally be under the age of thirty years on that date and have a Ph.D. or will have submitted a thesis for a Ph.D. by 1 October 2000.

The stipend is based on age; the range is £16,286 a year at the age of twenty-five years to £22,579 at the age of thirty-two. The Committee is able to make contributions towards certain research expenses, and towards travel and removal expenses if the Fellowship is awarded to a candidate outside the United Kingdom.

Applications should reach the Secretary of the Committee of Management, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EQ, by 26 November 1999 and should be accompanied by ten copies of:

(a)	a statement of the applicant's age, academic career, qualifications, and teaching experience; and of published or unpublished work;
(b)	statements of up to about 1,000 words each, describing respectively the applicant's previous (and current) research, and proposed programme, if elected;
(c)	the names, postal, and e-mail addresses of not more than two persons who would be willing to give a confidential assessment of the applicant's research to the Committee of Management, at least one of whom should be an external referee. Candidates are requested to ask their referees to write direct to the Administrator by 26 November 1999;
(d)	the written approval of the Head of the Department in Cambridge in which it is hoped to work.

There are no application forms as such.

The Committee of Management hopes to make a decision by the end of February 2000.

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