11 Postdoctoral Fellowship at University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Are you passionate about Deep Learning and Medical Imaging, specifically Adaptive Radiotherapy? Do you want to research more on generative models, neural fields, geometry, segmentation, reinforcement learning? Then this position, embedded in the POP-AART lab between the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI) and Elekta is the right fit for you.

We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher with either Computer Vision, Machine Learning, or Applied Mathematics background to join a team of 15+ researchers (1+1 years contract); a team that is connected with the ELLIS Network of Excellence in AI; a team with consistent and strong presence in the top Machine Learning, as well as Computer Vision conferences and journals.

We have an urgent need to better understand the social media engagement of youth. Social media supports the specific developmental needs of youth, such as those for social connection. However, the increased sensitivity of the developing brain to social rewards may place youth especially at risk of compulsive use. In addition, youth’s sensitivity to social influence exposes another potential vulnerability, given that not all information is trustworthy. In this project we will focus on novel computational models to capture the complex interactions between developing motivational and cognitive processes, and specific social media affordances. We will take a multi-method approach relying on social media trace data, experience sampling, the development of novel ecologically valid experimental tasks, and neuroimaging.
 

The team will consist of the PI, two PhDs and one Postdocs, as well as a large network of collaborators and co-supervisors.  The total funding for this project is 2M euros for a period of 5 years and is divided over two main work packages. (for more detail WPs see here).

The Complex Cyber Infrastructure (CCI) research group at the University of Amsterdam conducts research in the area of complex infrastructure services provisioning including cloud resource, optical and hybrid networking for high performance and data intensive application (also referred to as Big Data). CCI research also include Big Data architecture, trusted data exchange and federated infrastructure services, network and application security, microservices and programmable networks for the Future Internet and Internet of Things (IoT). The CCI group is involved in a number of national and EU funded project contributing to the development of the novel concepts in the area of new and emerging technologies.

The CCI group is looking for a Postdoc Researcher to work on the EU funded project GreenDIGIT that will address the challenges of achieving sustainability and reduced environmental impact of the current and future European Research Infrastructures (RI) by addressing a complex of tasks to reduce carbon footprint and environmental impact in the continuum of resources (IoT, Far-Edge, Edge, Cloud), supporting the whole research and data lifecycle. The CCI will focus on developing sustainable architecture that will be instrumental in optimising the efficiency of scientific workflows and algorithms running within the RIs, optimise the management configuration, and the overall performance, while reducing energy consumption. Special attention will be given to the experimental research automation and data management infrastructure, interoperability with EOSC and international testbeds.

We are currently seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow to join a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Project, CurboSupport, funded by the Dutch Research Foundation (NWO). The project aims to identify optimal combinations of carbohydrates and proteins that enhance the production of beneficial digestion and fermentation products within various segments of the intestine. These products are crucial for promoting metabolic health, bolstering immunity, and supporting brain health.

In recent years, there has been growing recognition of the vital role played by gut microbiota in producing metabolites essential for overall host health. This encompasses products vital for immune function, metabolic well-being, and, more recently discovered, brain health. Studies have revealed that gut microbes influence cognitive function and the brain’s reward system, which regulates appetite, through the production of short-chain fatty acids and compounds like tryptophan-metabolites.

However, it’s understood that different segments of the intestine have distinct requirements. Therefore, the overall goal of the project is to identify strategies that stimulate the production of beneficial microbial metabolites in various parts of the large intestine to promote metabolic and brain health, while simultaneously enhancing immunity in the small intestine using specific dietary fibers or combinations thereof.

Achieving this will necessitate a deep understanding of microbial metabolic processes and their spatial adaptation to different protein and carbohydrate combinations, which constitutes the primary focus of this vacancy. Ultimately, this research will enable us to predict which combinations are most beneficial for the host. The position will be situated within the group “Microbiome Engineering” which recently transitioned from the university of Groningen to the University of Amsterdam. The group’s mission is to explore the role of the microbiome in human health. Working alongside a team of microbiologists, molecular biologists, biochemists, and neurobiologists, you will play a key role in establishing connections between microbiome adaptation in the gut environment, human health, in particular, gut-brain axis, and the development of diseases such as Parkinson’s disease. 

We are looking for a researcher carrying out part of a project on the socio-ecological impact of postgrowth housing scenarios. The overall project is intended to study the relation between income, housing tenure and ecological footprint, as well as to build possible scenarios of a socially just and ecologically sustainable housing system. The aim is to demonstrate differences in environmental impact that different existing and future housing models have. We will start with The Netherlands and them work at EU-level.

The Catalysis Engineering group focuses on developing sustainable chemical processes by combining chemical engineering, chemistry and materials science. We are looking for three highly motivated postdoctoral researcher to work in a project funded by the European Union.

Plastics have become essential in our daily lives. However, at the same time, they create a serious wasteproblem. Recycling waste plastics is of great importance for a sustainable society. Chemical recycling isone of the promising options to close the loop of plastics use. In this project, which is part of the recentlygranted EU project PLASTICE, we will develop liquefaction route for recycling the plastics waste, in collaboration with other partners of the consortium. This applied project aims to translate the results from the lab to a larger scale.

The Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) and the department of Mediastudies currently have a vacant PhD position as part of the ERC funded research project Eco-Islam in Indonesia: Media, Institutions, Publics, led by principal investigator dr. Leonie Schmidt. ASCA is one of the five Research Schools within the Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR). ASCA is home to more than 120 scholars and 160 PhD candidates, and is a world-leading international research school in Cultural Analysis. ASCA members share a commitment to working in an interdisciplinary framework and to maintaining a close connection with contemporary cultural and political debates.

Are you eager to work as a postdoc in the field of experimental quantum sensing with ultracold atoms, in the lively international research group of Profs. Philippe Bouyer and Florian Schreck?

Our research group focusses on harnessing the wave-like properties of cold atoms to realize new types of quantum sensors for fundamental physics, geoscience, and real-world applications such as position, navigation and timing. We have extensive experience developing state-of-the-art matter-wave interferometers for sensing accelerations, rotations, magnetic fields, and testing fundamental theories of gravity and electrodynamics.

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We are looking for an experienced researcher to aid the development of a transportable inertial quantum sensor with cold atoms. This project included the development of a new experiment at UVA aiming at using advanced quantum control techniques to perform continuous atom interferometry. It also includes a collaboration between the Quantum Gas group at UVA, the University of New Brunswick in Canada, and quantum-tech companies Q-CTRL in Australia and the Quantum Valley Ideas Lab in Canada for the joint development of a transportable gravimeter. You will play a crucial role in developing metrology models for the inertial quantum sensor operation, and for building and assembling hardware components. You will have the opportunity to work for extended periods in Canada and interact directly with leading experts in academia and industry.

Are you a eager to apply optical clocks to real-world challenges and to explore new optical clock operating principles, all in a lively international research group?

Our Ultracold Strontium Gases Group is offering a postdoc position on our QuantumDelta NL (QDNL) Ultracold Atom Quantum Sensing Testbed. QDNL advances quantum technology and brings it closer to applications by collaborating with industry, startups and users.  Our group is headed by Prof. Florian Schreck and is part of the Quantum Gases & Quantum Information (QG&QI) cluster at the Institute of Physics (IoP) of the University of Amsterdam (UvA). We exploit ultracold Sr for quantum simulation, quantum sensing, and quantum computing.