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A Challenging and Rewarding Experience Among Serious Scientists

NanoCore is committed to providing participating individuals a challenging environment that enhances their scientific, engineering, medical or commercial careers. NanoCore does this by fostering collaboration between participants and by matching ambitious and capable research students with world renowned faculty. Individual researchers participating in NanoCore have access to a wide network of people in the academic sector, the technology sector, the medical sector, as well as the business and financial sector. Students and staff in NanoCore are able to utilize this network to further their goals. For currently available positions please see below. Singapore is very friendly towards immigrants, permanent residency and citizenship can be obtained quite easily. Like Western European and North American passports, Singaporean passports allow for smooth travel to most countries.

PhD Program - PhD Scholarships

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Excellent students from all scientific and engineering, as well as biomedical disciplines are welcome to apply for NanoCore PhD Scholarships. Students whom we are recruiting typically are in the top 10% of their class and have shown the ambition and ability to immerse themselves in challenging, high impact research projects. We also highly welcome students who have entrepreneurial ambitions. The scholarship entails:

  • -4 years of funding
  • -full coverage of all tuition and fees
  • -monthly living allowance (12 months per year)
  • -possibility to work with any NanoCore researcher/collaborator
  • Students from Europe, America, Asia and Africa are currently working in many departments at the NUS. NanoCore participants have especially diverse backgrounds. Hence we encourage excellent students from all backgrounds to apply. If you see a fit then please send your Cover Letter and CV. The Cover Letter should briefly introduce you and state your motivation to work at NanoCore. If you can, name research areas you would like to work in. Highlight any achievements that show academic and/or entrepreneurial capabilities. Please limit your cover letter to approximately 400 words. Your CV should be clear and concise. Please name two (three if you can) individuals whom you have worked or studied under and who are able to provide a reference. If you have taken the GRE and an English test (e.g. TOEFL), please include the scores in your CV, official test scores can be sent later. Send Cover Letter and CV as one pdf file, the Cover Letter should occupy the first page, the CV should occupy subsequent pages. Name the file: "lastname_firstname_nanocore_phd.pdf". Please make sure that the email address on your Cover Letter and CV matches the email address you use to contact us. Please keep the text in the email to one or two sentences. In the subject line please put: "NanoCore PhD application: LastName FirstName". We look forward receiving your documents by 1. December 2009 for the August 2010 intake.

    Life and Work in Singapore

    Due to its all year round excellent weather, its location in the heart of Asia, its varied food and culture as well as its cosmopolitan society with a large number of foreigners and its low tax rates, life in Singapore is very pleasant. The research community is dynamic and fast growing. Immigration to Singapore is uncomplicated. It is straightforward to obtain working/student visas. If they wish, foreign students at the National University of Singapore are able to obtain permanent residency immediately after graduating and finding a job in any sector. After having been a permanent resident, obtaining citizenship is simple. Please check our Singapore section for more information on life, work and study in Singapore

    NanoCore PhD Scholarships