Rathgen Heritage Science Scholarship

Rathgen Heritage Science Scholarship 2015

The Rathgen Research Laboratory is the leading institution for
conservation science, art technology and archaeometry at the
National Museums in Berlin.  It carries out investigations on a
broad variety of materials within the museum environment and focuses
its research on scientific issues concerning the care of monuments
and archaeological sites.

It carries forward the tradition of the world's oldest scientific
museum laboratory, the Chemical Laboratory of the Royal Museums in
Berlin, which was founded on April 1, 1888 and bears the name of its
first director, Friedrich Rathgen.

It is the mission of the Friends of Rathgen (Forderkreis des
Rathgen-Forschungslabors e.V.) to support the work of the Rathgen
Research Laboratory in various ways, among others by supporting
research projects of young professionals in heritage science.  To
this end, the Rathgen Heritage Science Scholarships have been
established in 2009 and are awarded annually.  The Rathgen Heritage
Science Scholarship enables young professionals to undertake a
project at the laboratory within 1-3 month duration. The topic is
proposed by the applicant.

Successful applicants will receive a scholarship for Post-Graduate
Scholarship of EUR 900 month and Post-doc Scholarship EUR 1200 per
month.

The application consists of:

    1-2 pages explaining the research proposal, the required
    resources and the envisaged time frame, including preliminary
    work accomplished and short bibliography

    CV including list of publications

    2 reference letters of support

Deadline for 2015 applications is March 15, 2015. Please submit your
application electronically to:

    <URL:http://www.rathgen-foerderkreis.de>
    rf<-at->smb<.>spk-berlin<.>de<

or by mail to

    Rathgen-Forschungslabor
    Scholarship
    Schlossstrasse 1 A
    14059 Berlin
    Germany


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