Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands invites multiple online application for Postdoctoral Positions in various research areas. Candidates interested in Postdoctoral Fellowships can check the details and may apply as soon as possible.
1. Postdoctoral researcher Engineered Ice-Binders
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowships:
Ice-binding proteins (IBPs) protect against freeze damage in polar regions by keeping the nucleation and growth of ice crystals in check. How this works exactly is not yet known. This is because we currently lack designer ice-binders to unravel and utilize the structure-function relations underlying activity. In this project you will combine computational tools for protein engineering (de novo protein design, folding) with biochemical and structural biology techniques (protein expression, structure elucidation, activity assays) to bridge this knowledge gap. You will engineer IBPs de novo. You will express and study promising designs to elucidate the relation between IBP structure, composition and function. Through collaborations within the group and (inter)nationally, you will study how your designer IBPs with optimized and customized activity interact with ice and may be exploited for cardiac regenerative medicine.
Application Deadline: 05/06/2022
2. Postdoctoral researcher Nanoscopy of Ice-Binding Proteins
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowships:
Ice-binding proteins (IBPs) offer protection against freezing to sustain life at subzero temperatures in ice-laden environments. How IBPs work exactly is not yet known, but it is clear that their activity is closely related to the way in which IBPs interact with ice. Recently, we adopted sub-zero nanoscopy to study for the first time the interfacial dynamics of ice-bound IBPs at the single molecule level (see preprint for more information). These pioneering experiments offer unprecedented insight in the structure-activity relations of IBPs. In this project you will use subzero nanoscopy to study the interaction with ice of biological IBPs and (de novo) designed ice-binders at the single molecule level aiming to better understand how biological and (bio)synthetic antifreezes block ice growth, shape ice crystals, inhibit ice recrystallization and control ice nucleation. You will work in close collaboration with other group members, who design and prepare biological and (bio)synthetic IBPs and explore their application potential in cardiomyocyte preservation. Our aim is to unravel how biological and engineered ice-binders function and to customize these cryoprotectants for biomedical and other applications.
Application Deadline: 05/06/2022
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3. Postdoc positions on Seamless design of Smart Edge Processors
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowships:
With the rise of deep learning (DL), our world braces for Artificial Intelligence (AI) in every edge device, creating an urgent need for Edge-AI processing hardware. Unlike existing solutions, this hardware needs to support high throughput, reliable, and secure AI processing at ultra-low power (ULP), combined with a very short time to market. With its strong position in edge solutions and open processing platforms, the EU is ideally positioned to become the leader in this edge-AI market. However, certain roadblocks keep the EU from assuming this leadership role: Edge processors need to become 100x more energy efficient; Their complexity demands automated design with 10x design-time reduction; They must be secure and reliable to gain acceptance; Finally, they should be flexible and powerful to support the rapidly evolving DL domain.
Application Deadline: 05/06/2022
4. PostDoc position in Semantic Perception for Context-Aware Collaborative Robots
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowships:
Are you passionate about AI & Robotics? Are you eager to work on a cutting-edge research project that aims to increase the level of autonomy in robots that collaborate with each other and with humans? Then, this position is a great opportunity for you to professionally grow and become an expert in the highly demanded fields of AI & Robotics at the center of the Brainport region in the Netherlands. You are expected to contribute to research that aims at advancing state-of-the-art in semantic perception algorithms for visual intention prediction and robotic decision making for collaborative robots. Job Description: Automation and robotics technology is witnessing a shift from individual robots that can perform a specific task in known and structured environments towards collaborative robots that can interact with people and other robots to complete more diverse and complex tasks in unknown and unstructured settings. This requires robots to better understand and predict people, other robots, and their surroundings to engage in finer collaborative interactions. The capability of understanding environmental/task content (i.e., semantic perception) and “reading others’ minds” (i.e., intention prediction) is fundamental for robots to have situational awareness and anticipate the future in order to be better prepared for performing shared tasks with others in dynamic settings.
Application Deadline: 31/05/2022
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5. Postdoc Optimal Transport & Machine Learning Methods for Inverse Problems
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowships:
We are looking for a postdoctoral candidate who will work within the new research group on Data-Driven Scientic Computing led by Olga Mula, located at CASA, the Center for Analysis, Scientic Computing and Applications of TU Eindhoven. The goal of the group is to develop algorithms mixing the strengths of physics-based PDE methods with the ones offered by data-driven machine learning approaches. Both strategies have classically been considered separately, despite that they often provide complementary descriptions of the same reality. The group will address the growing need to combine them in an optimal way, using strategies that will depend on the application. The candidate’s research project will consist in developing numerical methods for inverse problems where the goal is to recover the state of a physical system based on a limited set of noisy partial observations. The study will focus on physical phenomena that are modeled with high-dimensional PDEs involving strong advection effects. Examples of such equations can be conservation laws, transport or kinetic equations, Fokker-Planck equations, or Mean Field Game Equations.
Application Deadline: 15/06/2022
6. Postdoc CAT-2 quantum protocols
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowships:
Quantum Delta NL has started a large national project in support of quantum technologies. The Catalyst-2 (CAT2) subproject concentrates on the development of quantum key distribution and “Quantum Internet” applications. The department of Mathematics and Computer Science at TU Eindhoven has one PhD vacancy and one postdoc vacancy for theoretical work in CAT2. The research will concentrate on theory related to the QKD testbed under development in Eindhoven. quantum cryptography beyond QKD, e.g. key recycling, unclonable encryption, unclonable credentials, quantum PUFs etc. The project has good opportunities for collaboration with other departments at TU Eindhoven and with other Dutch universities.
Application Deadline: 19/06/2022
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7. Postdoc on Plant sensing using RF
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowships:
So far the wireless communications have been very much mobile phone centric. The next wave in wireless technology will be about sensing the environment. There are many straightforward applications in the automotive industry, medical domain, material inspection and material characterization. One appealing application is sensing the health status of the plants. The information about plant health status contributes a lot to improve overall efficiency in agriculture, which is of vital importance to ensure food availability in the coming decades. The mission of the 4TU Plantenna project is to develop vegetation-integrated, energy harvesting, autonomous sensors that measure in-plant and environmental parameters at high resolution and low cost. Sensor information will be used to develop methods for early detection of plant-stress and environmental strain. This in-turn will enable optimizing water and nutrient application schemes for climate smart agriculture, improve drought protection and support decision making for environmental protection and climate resilience. The existing systems for sensing plant health status are providing excellent performance, but are bulky and expensive, making them inconvenient for massive deployment. We at Eindhoven University of Technology strongly believe in miniaturization and cost reduction as well as in massive deployment while providing sufficient performance and user friendliness.
Application Deadline: 12/06/2022
8. PD in “Design of active mechanical metamaterials &their experimental validation”
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowships:
We are looking for a highly creative and motivated postdoctoral candidate to join Mechanics of Materials section at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). The position is in the group of prof. Marc G.D. Geers, and will be co-supervised by Ron H.J. Peerlings and Ondrej Rokos. Context. Metamaterials owe their name to unprecedented effective behavior that typically cannot be found in natural materials, such as being ultra-stiff & ultra-light, having auxetic behavior, or negative compressibility. Such behavior typically emerges from metamaterials’ micro-structural morphology rather than from the properties of individual material constituents. Recent trends in metamaterial design aim at their actuation, using, e.g., discrete mechanical, pneumatic, thermal, chemical, or electromagnetic actuation. Metamaterials thus offer a significant design space, which can be exploited in numerous engineering applications such as artificial muscles, medical robotics including minimum invasive surgery, bio-implants, soft robotics, or self-folding systems.
Application Deadline: 12/06/2022
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9. PostDoc on quantitative microscopy of anisotropic colloidal self-assembly
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowships:
For the development of new materials, we need control over the structure of matter on multiple length scales to gain novel mechanical, optical or electronic functionalities. One of the most promising design strategies in materials science is the fabrication of molecular, nanoparticle and colloidal building blocks which can spontaneously self-organize into larger complex superstructures. Such new materials find increasing use in many everyday applications, ranging from electronic devices to coatings and paints, and to the food and drug industry. The reason that the full potential of these materials has not been exploited yet, is that their preparation depends sensitively on directing the self-assembly of the building blocks into the desired predesigned structures. This project aims at visualizing the relationship between building block characteristics and order/disorder in these soft materials to understand and ultimately control the self-assembly process. In this project, you will investigate the role of shape anisotropy in colloidal building blocks and interactions on self-assembly processes. For this you will synthesize the required colloidal systems and investigate the systems with high resolution confocal laser scanning microscopy. You will develop and employ quantitative anisotropic particle tracking routines to explore nucleation and growth of superstructures and to reveal the role of orientational and translational degrees of freedom.
Application Deadline: 12/06/2022
10. 2 Postdocs ERC project FAST: social tipping dynamics Sustainability Transitions
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowships:
We are offering 2 postdoc positions (3 years with possible extension) on the research team of the ERC project FAST. The FAST project aims to explain and model social tipping dynamics and interventions in energy transitions. Existing models that form the basis for energy transition scenarios typically do not include the positive feedbacks resulting from the interactions between civil society and energy transitions. Yet these interactions have been identified as important drivers and barriers of energy transitions and as crucial in triggering the social tipping dynamics that can accelerate the energy transition. Social tipping dynamics in energy transitions occur when a small change or intervention has a large effect on emission reductions. Postdoc 1 will work on a discourse analysis and a cross country survey to identify the social and behavioral factors that contribute to social tipping dynamics. Postdoc 2 will contribute to a novel class of simulation models of such social tipping dynamics. The project combines quantitative and qualitative research approaches, and the postdocs will be part of a multidisciplinary team working on accelerating sustainability transitions. The PI of the project is Floor Alkemade and the team also includes 3 PhD students.
Application Deadline: 15/06/2022
11. PostDoc on Fetal movement for fetal wellbeing detection
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowships:
Pregnancies that are threatened by complications such as asphyxia, are often preceded by slight adaptations in the fetal movement pattern, including reduced fetal movements. Often this is one of the first signs. To improve early detection of fetuses at risk, we will develop reliable and easy-to-use methods to detect fetal movement and its relevant parameters. Early identification allows timely intervention and may thus aid in the prevention of severe complications. The project combines two strengths: physiological insights from physical models with pattern recognition from data-driven models. To this end you will develop algorithms that can be exploited to quantify fetal movements. Availability of accurate detection and prediction fetal movements allows for effective and timely intervention and may thus contribute to improved perinatal outcome. The proposed approach of your research includes: 1) Identification and evaluation of available methods for fetal movement detection, and the physiological relation between specific movement patterns and clinical outcome. 2) Development of a new monitoring modality, capable of reliable and easy-to-use fetal movement in a clinical setting, with potential for transfer to home setting. 3) Performing a feasibility study to verify the new monitoring modality in a (pre)clinical setting. 4) Contributing to setting up a prospective study for testing the new monitoring modality and set-up a database of fetal movement patterns across different risk levels, from which risk stratification will be feasible.
Application Deadline: 31/05/2022
12. Postdoc Dynamic Regulation of Photosynthesis in light-Acclimated Organisms DREAM
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowships:
The DREAM is a PATHFINDER research project involving several academic partners, research institutes and industrial partners. DREAM is going to introduce disruptive technologies for measuring, monitoring and enhancing lighting efficiency in controlled environments to improve plants and enable their parsimonious cultivation. To this end, kinetic information and dynamics of photosynthetic regulation will be studied via multisinewave and fluctuating illuminations. The research in the DREAM project at Control Systems Group will focus on the frequency domain data driven linear/nonlinear modeling of dynamic behavior of conditioned algae/ plants subjected to fluctuating illumination (lighting). The candidate will closely collaborate with SONY, CNRS, Jülich Institute.
Application Deadline: 30/06/2022
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13. Post-Doctoral Researcher Mammalian Synthetic Biology
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowships:
The Alliance Center for Living Technologies is a newly founded virtual center aimed at fostering collaboration between Utrecht University (UU), University Medical Center Utrecht (UMCU), Wageningen University and Research (WUR), and the Technical University Eindhoven (TU/E) in the area of synthetic biology. As a post-doc within this center you will actively collaborate with these partners in the area of synthetic biology, cellular engineering and chemical biology. Job description We are looking for a candidate interested in applying synthetic biological techniques to mammalian cells with the goal of developing orthogonal cell-cell communication technologies that can be applied in diagnostics or cell therapy. The approach is positioned at the interface of cell biology, chemical biology and synthetic biology. We are looking for an experimental scientist with an affinity for cellular engineering of mammalian cells.
Application Deadline: 29/05/2022
14. Post-doc on modeling cardiac growth and remodeling
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowships:
The Cardiovascular Biomechanics group of the department of Biomedical Engineering at the Eindhoven University of Technology is looking for a post-doc in the field of cardiac electromechanics and who specifically will contribute to the BRAV3 project (https://projectbrave.eu). The BRAV3 project aims to develop a regenerative treatment for ischemic heart disease: an innovative biological ventricular assist device (BioVAD) that is mounted onto the ischemic heart and contributes to cardiac pump function. Unlike traditional mechanical support devices, a successful BioVAD would be able to grow and remodel in time. Our contribution to the project is to generate design criteria for the BioVAD based upon computational modeling of the electromechanical interaction between heart and BioVAD. Models for the short-term interaction are currently being developed by a third year PhD student in the finite element platform Fenics (https://fenicsproject.org/).
Application Deadline: 30/06/2022
15. Postdoc: Reliability of Low Hit Spare Parts
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowships:
The postdoc will work in the context of the PrimaVera project (primavera-project.com), a national consortium involving several universities and industrial partners. This prestigious project is one of the 17 projects of the funded by the Dutch Academy of Sciences in the context of the national Dutch Science Agenda. Within PrimaVera, the postdoc will work on a subproject that pertains specifically to developing mathematical models for the accurate prediction of machine reliability, the remain-ing useful lifetime (RUL) and the failure rate. There are multiple challenges associated with this research direction due to among others scarcity of failures, dependencies between components and heterogeneous data with different time scales. Both frequentist and Bayesian approaches will be explored, building upon the available limited literature. Moreover, these models will serve as the basis for spare part and inventory management policies and preventive maintenance planning by integrating learning and decision making. A promising possible approach is to incorporate a Bayes-ian learning approach to the stochastic optimisation problem. However, the limitation of this ap-proach is that it requires knowledge of the underlying stochastic model and it suffers from compu-tational complexity issues outside of conjugate updating families.
Application Deadline: 14/06/2022
