36 Postdoctoral Fellowship at University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

The Digital History Advanced Research Projects Accelerator (DHARPA) at C²DH is looking to hire a postdoctoral researcher as part of an ongoing project sponsored by the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR). The postdoctoral researcher will join an existing project team that includes two other postdoctoral researchers, three software developers, three PhD students, and an administrative assistant, along with principal investigator Sean Takats. As the project’s latest postdoctoral researcher, you will be primarily involved in outreach, working with the rest of the team to roll out the first public version of their new research software, as well as working on your own research project. Like the team’s other research software projects Zotero (https://zotero.org) and Tropy (https://tropy.org), DHARPA’s software (https://github.com/dharpa-project) is aimed at a wide audience of potential users. This postdoctoral position also includes a teaching responsibility of approximately 1.5 courses per year.

This is a fully funded position with an original duration of 2 years with a possibility to extend up to 5 years upon the performance and funding availability. The successful candidate is expected to develop safe and robust machine learning-based solutions for multilayer Ground-Air-Space 6G networks. The design strategies will be optimized for 1) Distributed RAN resource allocation, 2) 3D mobility management and routing and 3) risk minimization to guarantee constraints in dynamic topology of multilayer 6G environment.

The Developmental and Cellular Biology Group (led by Prof. Jens Schwamborn) at the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine utilizes human stem cells for modeling and experimental treatment of neurodegenerative disease. Projects in the lab are at the interface of systems biology and bio-medical research. In particular, we aim on developing novel, complex in vitro models that are specific for the human brain. Our main disease model is Parkinson’s disease.

In this particular project, we are looking for a postdoctoral researcher who is interested in using patient specific induced pluripotent stem cells for the generation of brain organoid and assembloid models for investigating Parkinson’s disease.

The successful candidates are expected to perform the following tasks:

• Work on project-relevant subjects from the last and current Release of the 3GPP radio access and/or core network standards, implement the features in MATLAB and/or OpenAirInterface software for computer simulations, and conduct theoretical research to submit proposals to the ongoing study or work items, with a view towards patenting and possible inclusion into the future Releases.
• Perform research on future communications networks topics including, but not limited to:
  • Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTNs)
  • Multicast and Broadcast Services (MBSs)
  • Uncrewed Aerial Vehicle (UAV), UA System (UAS) and Urban Air Mobility (UAM)
  • Experimental emulators, prototypes, testbeds and distributed research infrastructure test platforms
• Set up real-world testing both in the laboratory using emulators and software defined radios (SDRs), and in the field using drones or satellites, to validate research or project outcomes
• Disseminating results through foremost scientific publications and conferences in their fields
• Contribute to the development of research proposals for attracting funding through industrial, national, and European projects on the topic
• Publish research findings in the prestigious peer-reviewed journals and present at relevant conferences
• Contribute to different research projects, either coordinating technical contribution and/or preparing project deliverables
• Eventually, help in the supervision of PhD students

The objective of the SEaSons project is to investigate how different occupational groups imagine sustainable futures. In European latitudes, our assumption is that climate issues are experienced through the seasons and their relevance for food, transport, housing and energy. The study sets out with a qualitative study with a group of people we call ‘technical experts’, de facto stewards of sustainable climate action. At the same time their knowledge is – to varying degrees – marginal in the common discourses on transition politics and behavioral change. To reconstruct this knowledge, we will employ an innovative visual methodology combined with an interview methodology. Using pictures which refer to the everyday practices of our technical experts will allow us to bring into appearance their tacit and technical knowledge. The qualitative study will be complemented by a quantitative survey. The research has three goals: first, it seeks to identify the knowledge of technical experts, potential barriers to and drivers of sustainable action. Secondly, we want to develop participatory tools to allow different publics to engage with knowledge of sustainability. Thirdly, the study contributes to sociological research on the perceptions of the future concerning climate issues.

The postdoctoral researcher will be working under the supervision of Professor Niovi Vavoula. In particular, the Postdoctoral Researcher will be in charge of:

• Conduct research and contributing to other activities falling into the scope of the research projects, in particular: drafting research papers, prepare the scientific materials of project meetings; contributing to project events’ organisation
• Conduct own research in the related topics and publication of articles in scientific reviews and contributions to conferences
• Assist with teaching activities, one to three hours a week and contribute to tutoring students
• Contribute to preparing further research proposals
• Offer research assistance and coordinating young researchers working in the same field

As a Postdoctoral Researcher, you will develop and implement federated analytical workflows tailored for health research. You will apply AI/ML algorithms to analyse a diverse range of data types, including clinical, molecular (-omics), and (sensor/mobile and PROMs/PREMs) within a federated environment. Additionally, you will innovate state-of-the-art federated AI/ML methods, to ensure privacy and data security in clinical research. To augment federated analysis, you will be generating synthetic data using ML techniques, such as Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). Your workflows and methods will be incorporated by a multidisciplinary team into the CLINNOVA platform for federated data management and analysis. You will take an active role on project activities and effectively disseminating findings to the project members and the scientific community through project meeting, conferences and publications. Your main tasks will include:

The project “PHysics- and data-driven multiscale modeling design of layered lead halide perovskiTe mAterials for Stable phoTovoltaICs” (PHANTASTIC) joins the efforts and competence of five scientific groups from the Université de Mons (Belgium), INSA of Rennes (France), Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (Israel), Technical University of Dresden (Germany), and the University of Luxemburg (Luxemburg). The global aim is to improve the long-term stability of 3D lead halide perovskites, the main limiting factor for the broad application of the material in industry.

The role of the TCP group, led by Prof. Alexandre Tkatchenko from the University of Luxemburg, is to develop reliable, efficient, and accurate machine learning force fields (MLFF) for molecular dynamics simulation of systems sizes ranging from ~1000 to 100.000 atoms while preserving the predictive power of first-principles modeling. Moreover, such simulations should correctly reproduce the formation and propagation of defects. This is a must-have requirement for any MLFF used to improve the stability of any material in general and 3D lead halide perovskites in particular. The novel equivariant MLFFs will be used with state-of-the-art training and sampling approaches, efficient DFT calculations, and recent developments in vdW methods to achieve this goal. These push the project to the frontiers of modern MLFF capabilities, making it challenging, engaging, and impactful.

The research group focuses on wireless/satellite communications and networking and is headed by Prof. Symeon Chatzinotas. The research areas focus on the formulation, modeling, design, and analysis of future 5G and beyond communication networks that are capable of supporting new services in a cost-efficient manner. Use cases of interest include IoT verticals, unmanned aerial vehicles, integrated satellite-space-terrestrial networks, quantum communications and key distribution, spectrum management and coexistence, tactile Internet, and autonomous transportation. As far as technical enablers are concerned, we leverage expertise on massive MIMO cell-free communications, smart-radio environments through the use of intelligent surfaces, machine-type and ultra-reliable and low-latency communications, edge computing and caching, RAN slicing, and network softwarization and visualization. Finally, due to the large-scale nature, complexity, and heterogeneity of 5G and beyond networks, for their analysis and optimization, we use tools such as artificial intelligence/machine learning, graph theory and graph-signal processing, and convex/non-convex optimization. Furthermore, our activities are experimentally driven and supported by the SDR CommLab, the SDN Lab, the 5G-Space Lab, our SW Simulators, and our Facilities. For further information, you may refer to https://wwwen.uni.lu/snt/research/sigcom

A two-year postdoctoral position in engineering is available at the Chair for ‘Urban Water Management’ (Prof. Dr. Joachim Hansen), Department of Engineering. The successful candidate will be hired in the frame of the STORMWATER project funded by the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) under the Bridges call 2023 (Principal Investigator: Dr. Silvia Venditti), with the company Luxplan as a partner. The project aims to develop a novel Constructed Wetland design for stormwater run-off management. The candidate will develop a non-target monitoring workflow for stormwater runoff characterization in close collaboration with Prof. Emma Schymanski, head of Environmental Cheminformatics, Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) at the University of Luxembourg. This workflow will serve to prioritize, identify and later quantify relevant compounds present in stormwater runoff. The acquired knowledge will be used to adapt the design of the constructed wetlands towards a better elimination of emerging contaminants (pesticides, biocides, tyre additives) etc. Additional tasks are:

The successful candidate will join the SVV research group headed by Prof. Domenico Bianculli. The team focuses on the development and design of reliable, safe, and secure software systems, carrying out both upstream activities such as requirements quality, as well as downstream verification & validation activities, such as software testing and runtime verification. For further information, you may refer to https://www.uni.lu/snt-en/research-groups/svv

This is a fully funded position for 23 months within a large, national research project (INSTRUCT – INtegrated Satellite-TeRrestrial Systems for Ubiquitous Beyond 5G CommunicaTions). The project is run in close cooperation with SES (https://www.ses.com/). Therefore, the objectives of the project are aligned with the research interest of SES towards their next-generation of satellite systems.

The candidate will develop novel methods and techniques for data format inference, transformation, and verification in the context of high-speed satellite command data streams.

The successful candidate will work with an academic supervisor from the University of Luxembourg and with an industrial supervisor from SES, and join a strong and motivated research team led by Prof. Domenico Bianculli. The candidate is also expected to spend at least 25% of his/her time at the SES headquarters in Betzdorf, Luxembourg.

We are seeking a highly qualified Research Associate (Postdoc) candidate in quantum quantum computing. Applicants are expected to possess a strong understanding of wireless communications networks and the specific challenges they present, particularly those related to beyond 5G networks. Furthermore, applicants should be well-versed in leveraging quantum computing to effectively address and overcome these challenges. The ideal candidate will possess not only a solid theoretical understanding of these technologies, but also a demonstrated ability to apply their knowledge through hands-on experience. We are looking for an individual who is able to thrive in a dynamic and fast-paced environment, and who is committed to driving innovation and advancement in the field of quantum information sciences.

You will expand the the functionality of PathoFact through additional contextual information and a broader set of annotations and employ additional ML/AI-based methods to improve the identification of virulence factors as well as antibiotic resistance genes and biosynthetic gene clusters. You will, in collaboration with our project partner at EMBL-EBI, hosting and maintaining the MGnify pipeline, mature the software stack to enable easy deployment within MGnify pipelines. This will lead to computational solutions which will be applied to relevant datasets to establish a baseline of the prevalence and abundance of these microbiome-derived genes and to compare these aspects, thereby resolving the microbiome-borne pathogenic potential in a variety of diseases. You will closely interact with project partners at the University of Luxembourg and EMBL to advance from the identification of new virulence factors in silico to the assessment of the pathogenicity of these virulence factors in vitro and in vivo. You will furthermore support data management and analysis on servers of the group as well as the University of Luxembourg’s High Performance Computing Cluster.

The UNITE project (UNified framework of faulT identification) aims at integrating the prediction and localization of faults in a continuously evolving software system as pre- and post-fault identification activities. The project involves analyzing the co-evolution of code elements and tests, leveraging these co-evolutionary relationships as a bridge between past and present fault identification activities to construct a unified fault identification framework. The candidate of this project will actively contribute to engineering this integrated framework for fault identification and conduct a longitude study of its impact on software debugging and maintenance within a continuously evolving system.

The candidate will contribute to the Software Engineering research agenda of Serval. The candidate’s research will focus on code quality assurance, code analysis and more generally on the engineering of TrustWorthy systems.

The SigCom research group carries out research activities in the areas of signal processing for wireless communication systems including satellite communications and radar systems and is currently expanding its research activities in exploring several emerging use cases of next generation wireless communications systems. For details, you may refer to the following: https://wwwen.uni.lu/snt/research/sigcom

Successful candidates will join the young, vibrant, and interdisciplinary FINATRAX Research Group, which builds bridges between business research and information systems engineering. The group’s work is organised around four emerging technologies (Digital Identities, Machine Learning, Blockchain (DLT), and the Internet-of-Things) and three focus industries (Financial Services, Public Sector, Energy). The group consists of doctoral and post-doctoral researchers from diverse backgrounds, including business, technology, and policy. They are united in pursuit of sustainable technologies that have a positive impact on society. For further details, please visit our website: https://www.uni.lu/snt-en/research-groups/finatrax/

Successful candidates will join the young, vibrant, and interdisciplinary FINATRAX Research Group, which builds bridges between business research and information systems engineering. The group’s work is organised around four emerging technologies (Digital Identities, Machine Learning, Blockchain (DLT), and the Internet-of-Things) and three focus industries (Financial Services, Public Sector, Energy). The group consists of doctoral and post-doctoral researchers from diverse backgrounds, including business, technology, and policy. They are united in pursuit of sustainable technologies that have a positive impact on society. For further details, please visit our website: https://www.uni.lu/snt-en/research-groups/finatrax/

This is a fully funded postdoc position for 2 years within an ESA project (TANNDEM-Demodulator based on Artificial Neural Network). Therefore, the objectives of the postdoc are defined in accordance with the TANNDEM directions toward reducing complexity and resources in the receiver, as well as increasing the performance for integrating satellites on 5G networks. More precisely, the work aims at designing artificial neural networks for different functionalities in the physical layer.

The research group focuses on wireless/satellite communications and networking and is headed by Prof. Symeon Chatzinotas . The research areas focus on the formulation, modelling, design, and analysis of future 5G and beyond communication networks that are capable of supporting new services in a cost-efficient manner. Use cases of interest include IoT verticals, unmanned aerial vehicles, integrated satellite-space-terrestrial networks, quantum communications and key distribution, spectrum management and coexistence, tactile Internet, and autonomous transportation. As far as technical enablers are concerned, we leverage expertise on massive MIMO cell-free communications, smart-radio environments through the use of intelligent surfaces, machine-type and ultra-reliable and low-latency communications, edge computing and caching, RAN slicing, and network softwarization and visualization. Finally, due to the large-scale nature, complexity, and heterogeneity of 5G and beyond networks, for their analysis and optimization we use tools such as artificial intelligence/machine learning, graph theory and graph-signal processing, and convex/non-convex optimization. Furthermore, our activities are experimentally driven and supported by the SDR CommLab, the SDN Lab, the 5G-Space Lab, our SW Simulators, and our OTA Facilties. For further information, you may refer to https://wwwen.uni.lu/snt/research/sigcom

Successful candidates will join the young, vibrant, and interdisciplinary FINATRAX Research Group, which builds bridges between business research and information systems engineering. Our work is organised around four ‘decentralisation technologies’: Blockchain (DLT), Digital Identities, Federated Learning, and the Internet-of-Things. The group consists of doctoral and post-doctoral researchers from diverse backgrounds (e.g., business, technology, and policy), united in pursuit of sustainable technologies that positively impact society. For more information, please visit our website: https://wwwen.uni.lu/snt/research/finatrax/projects.

Next to other activities, the successful candidates will have the opportunity to engage in a research collaboration with Spuerkeess, Luxembourg’s leading national financial institution. This partnership aims for applying ideas from decentralized finance (DeFi) to an institutional environment, providing for highly relevant but unique research topics. The project includes, among other topics, providing customers with DeFi-related services and constructing decentralized versions of other existing services or processes. Candidates have the opportunity to directly interact with a renowned financial institution to learn their perspective on emerging digital technologies such as DeFi, co-create novel ideas, position their research, and evaluate novel solution ideas and prototypes.

The LCSB is strategically extending its international collaboration network and has in this context allocated funding to further develop bridges with internationally renowned centres of excellence in neurodegeneration research. It is funding several bridging post-doc positions between a research group at the LCSB and a research group at a partner institution in Europe.

The selected post-doctoral researcher will perform research both at the LCSB and at the partner institution and will thus have regular stays at the partner laboratory. He/she will act as a bridge to foster the collaboration as well as regular exchanges between the researchers on both sites. The selected project will focus on understanding the underlying mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases and/or in developing new avenues for diagnostic or therapeutic interventions in neurodegenerative diseases.

The successful candidate will join the young, strong and motivated SpaceR research group focused on increasing the autonomy of aerial, planetary and orbital robotics for on-earth applications, space exploration, on-orbit servicing and manufacturing, and space resource utilization. This innovative research group is led by Prof. Miguel Olivares-Mendez.

We offer two different career paths for scientific staff, depending on their focus on an academic or industry career. In our academic track, candidates focus on publications, research grants, teaching experience, and community engagement, while maintaining a positive relationship to industry to get access to first-hand research data. In our industry track, candidates will prepare themselves for a career in industry or in a start-up while utilitzing their previous theoretical knowledge. They will build relationships with our industry partners while having freedom to pursue their own ideas in an innovative and dynamic environmen

The University of Luxembourg seeks to hire a highly motivated and outstanding researcher in the area of Optical communication at its Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability, and Trust (SnT). SnT is a centre carrying out interdisciplinary research in secure, reliable and trustworthy ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) systems and services. SnT is active in several international research projects funded by the European Space Agency and the EU7th framework program. For further information, you may check: www.securityandtrust.lu, and https://www.uni.lu/snt-en/research-groups/SIGCOM/

The Centre is rapidly expanding its research activities and is seeking a highly motivated Researcher who wishes to contribute to its partnership and research projects. The successful candidate will perform theoretical and experimental research on Optical Systems applied for future communication, imaging, and radar systems.

We’re looking for people driven by excellence, excited about innovation, and looking to make a difference. If this sounds like you, you’ve come to the right place!

The successful candidates will join the Computer Vision, Machine Intelligence and Imaging (CVI²) headed by Prof. Djamila Aouada. He/she will carry out research in computer vision and machine learning, with an extensive development of deep learning approaches for object pose estimation. This position will require conducting full scale experiments, including data acquisition, training and validation at the SnT Zero-G Lab. CVI² offers the opportunity to work on multiple research projects (in cooperation with industrial partners such as LMO, POST, ARTEC 3D and DataThings and/or national and international academic collaborations).

As a researcher you will push the boundaries of data visualisation in digital history. Embedded in a team of committed historians, designers, and developers you will advocate the use of data visualisation at the centre and seek for new opportunities to demonstrate its potential. Furthermore, you will collaborate with our partner institutions in Luxembourg and all over the world to establish new paradigms for data visualisation. We expect you to disseminate the results of your research widely. In your day to day work you will consult colleagues at the centre on tailor made solutions for their data visualisation challenges. In a strategic perspective, your goal is to shape the discourse on data visualisation in the wider community of digital humanities and history.

As the successful candidate, you will primarily contribute to a partnership project with BGL – BNP Paribas, one of the major banks in Luxembourg. The title of the project is “AI for AI” and it concerns the design of an AI ‘metamodel’ tool that will monitor and improve AI algorithms effectiveness and robustness, allowing their application to business-critical use cases at scale. The objective of this project is to develop automated means to continuously monitor the performance of AI models (including NLP models) developed by BGL BNP Paribas and to determine when and how to retrain these models in order to improve their performance. Achieving these objectives requires addressing crucial research challenges such as the definition of proper quality metrics across the bank’s use cases, the identification and explaination of the limitations and blanks spots of the models, and the design of sustainable improvement mechanisms. Overall, the project supports BGL BNP Paribas in scaling-up their AI and data science activities through ground-breaking research, thereby enabling the widespread dissemination of AI products and services throughout the bank. The project is held in close collaboration with BGL-BNP Paribas and, as the successful candidate, you will be expected to program prototype tools showcasing the practical benefits of your research outcomes.

The University of Luxembourg (UL) is seeking to hire a post-doctoral fellow within the Apsia Research Group led by Prof. Peter Y A Ryan.

The APSIA research group working on various information security directions with the focus on post-quantum security. In particular, the subgroup ‘’Quantum Lab’’ research directions include post-quantum cryptography, quantum cryptography, deniability in quantum cryptography and communication, quantum key exchange, quantum information theory, quantum voting schemes, etc.

The Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine (FSTM) contributes multidisciplinary expertise in the fields of Mathematics, Physics, Engineering, Computer Science, Life Sciences and Medicine. Through its dual mission of teaching and research, the FSTM seeks to generate and disseminate knowledge and train new generations of responsible citizens, in order to better understand, explain and advance society and environment we live in.

This is a fully funded position with an original duration of 2 to 4 years with a possibility to extend up to 5 years upon the performance and funding availability. The successful candidate is expected to work on emerging topics and novel challenges in the 6G Communications Networks, which are not limited to:

• Robust and scalable AI-based resource allocation and management for 6G, including risk-aware, physics/rule-based AI
• Task/Goal-oriented and Semantic based communications design for 6G
• Novel PHY layer design and optimization for 6G: Reflective intelligent surface, mmWave, Terahertz, joint communications and sensing
• Quantum communications and computation in 6G
• Autonomous network management and control for 6G multilayer ground-air-space networks
• 6G use cases: metaverse, digital twins, tactile internet