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The 2010 Michigan Society of Fellows Postdoctoral Fellowship at The University of Michigan

Overview
The Michigan Society of Fellows, under the auspices of the Rackham Graduate School, was established in 1970 with endowment grants from the Ford Foundation and the Horace H. and Mary Rackham Funds. Each year the Society selects four outstanding applicants for appointment to three-year fellowships in the social, physical, and life sciences, and in the professional schools.

In 2007, the Mellon Foundation awarded a grant to add four Mellon Fellows annually in the humanities, expanding the number of fellowships awarded each year from four to eight. The newly appointed Postdoctoral Fellows join a unique interdisciplinary community composed of their peers as well as the Senior Fellows of the Society, who include many of the University`s leading scholars. Past Fellows of the Society have gone on to become distinguished scholars at institutions around the world.

The Chair of the Society is Donald S. Lopez, Jr., Arthur E. Link Distinguished University Professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan.

Eligibility
The Society invites applications from qualified candidates who are at the beginning of their academic careers, having received the Ph.D. or comparable professional or artistic degree between June 1, 2008 and September 1, 2011. Applications from degree candidates and recipients of the Ph.D. from the University of Michigan will not be considered. Non-US citizens may apply.

Overview a post-doc, who will be responsible for the day to day running of the project to assess the impact of artificial light on flora and fauna a large-scale project has been funded by STW. Job Description: a candidate who will carry out research on the effects of artificial light on organisms at different trophic levels using moths as a model group, both as part of the large scale experiment and in small scale experiments. The project will be carried out jointly by the Nature Conservation and Plant Ecology Group at Wageningen University (NCP-WU)

Especially the collection and analysis of the data from a large scale experiment on 40 different sites are the tasks for the post-doc. The project will be carried out jointly by the Nature Conservation and Plant Ecology Group at Wageningen University (NCP-WU) and the Animal Ecology Department of the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW). The two PhD students will carry out in-depth projects on the impact of artificial light, closely linked to the large scale project. In close collaboration with the Netherlands Society for Research on Flora and Fauna (VOFF), Philips Lighting and the NAM.
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