10 Postdoctoral Fellowship at Vrije University Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Vrije University Amsterdam, Netherlands invites online Application for various Postdoctoral Fellowship in their different Departments. We are providing a list of Postdoc Fellowship positions available at Vrije University Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Eligible candidate may Apply as soon as possible.
(01) Postdoctoral Fellowship Position
Postdoc Fellowship Position summary/title: POST-DOC IN BIOPHYICS OF PHOTOSYNTHESIS
Plants have evolved elaborate feedback mechanisms to protect themselves from excess sunlight, which involve rearrangement and structural dynamics of light-harvesting proteins in the photosynthetic membrane. The candidate will employ advanced time-resolved infrared and fluorescence spectroscopy to assess in vivo protein structural dynamics in photosynthetic membranes, and thereby solve an important puzzle in our understanding of photoprotection in photosynthesis. This project is part of the recent consortium grant Nanoscale Regulators of Photosynthesis, with research partners at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Wageningen University and Research, Leiden University and Groningen University.
Postdoc summary/title: POSTDOCTORAL POSITION IN GEOMICROBIOLOGY AND (BIO)GEOCHEMISTRY
Specifically, the main goals are to determine the mineralogical, chemical and microbial composition of carbonate minerals that have been formed under a wide range of physicochemical conditions (pH, T, salinity, etc). This work is important for interpreting carbonates in natural systems and their use in paleo-environmental reconstructions and the search for life in other planets.
Postdoc Fellowship Position summary/title: POSTDOC POSITION: IMPLEMENTATION AND UPSCALING OF NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS
The Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) has a new position for a postdoctoral (PD) researcher in the field of environmental economics. The PD will become a member of a new 4-year interdisciplinary research team at IVM, which aims to develop change-pathways to enhancing the implementation of nature-based solutions, thereby increasing resilience of society against climate change, biodiversity loss and other environmental pressures. The PD project will closely collaborate and be supervised by Prof. Pieter van Beukering, Prof. Wouter Botzen, Dr Marije Schaafsma and Dr Mark Koetse, and will also be involved in supervision and collaboration with a PhD candidate who will be recruited on the topic of nature-based solutions.
Postdoc Fellowship Position summary/title: POSTDOC POSITION TRAVEL BEHAVIOUR ANALYSIS AND MODELLING
For the European cooperation project ENHANCE we are looking for a postdoc to analyse and model travel behaviour in (sub)urban areas. The project aims to enhance sustainable travel in small cities and outer metropolitan areas and takes a closer look at the 15-minute city concept. This planning concept promotes that residents have their most important services locally accessible through short walking, cycling and public transport trips and is aimed at limiting greenhouse gas emissions, reducing air pollution, and creating more healthy living environments. The ENHANCE project is designed to understand the barriers for the application of 15mC principles in outer metropolitan areas and small cities and provide evidence to improve local planning decision-making.
Postdoc Fellowship Position summary/title: POSTDOC WORK, HEALTH AND RETIREMENT
Population ageing has become a driver for policies that encourage healthy and economically productive ageing. Among other things, the state pension age is increasing to promote the extension of paid working lives and, consequently, to reduce the fiscal pressure of state pensions on federal government. The consequences for the health of workers who have to work longer are likely to be substantial. Healthpath is a multidisciplinary study that is conducted by a consortium of social scientists and epidemiologists, with the aim of explaining why some workers experience healthier pathways to retirement than others. To this end, a new longitudinal study will be designed and conducted among a representative sample of Dutch workers. As a postdoc you will collaborate within he Healthpath team. You will lay the conceptual foundation for the Healthpath longitudinal study, by means of literature research, interviews and focusgroup meetings with domain experts and by constructing causal models (Directed Acyclic Graphs). At the department of Sociology you will collaborate with Prof. M. (Martijn) Huisman and Dr. M. (Mariska) van der Horst.
Postdoc Fellowship Position summary/title: POSTDOC POSITION: ECONOMIC VALUES OF NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS FOR CLIMATE CHANGE RISK
The Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) has a new position for a postdoctoral (PD) researcher in the field of environmental economics. The PD will become part of a new 4year interdisciplinary research program (ARCADIA) funded by Horizon Europe, which aims to develop change-pathways to increase climate-resilience of EU regions by means of implementing nature-based solutions. The PD project will closely collaborate and be supervised by Prof. Wouter Botzen and Dr Mark Koetse, and will also be involved in supervision and collaboration with a PhD candidate who will be recruited for this project.
Postdoc Fellowship Position summary/title: POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER ‘AFFECTIVE BORDERS’
We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher who will work on the border site in Amsterdam and will complement the work done by the PI. The prospective postdoctoral researcher will document and analyze how emotions are embodied, exhibited, and explained by the border guards while at work. The researcher will investigate the ways in which the atmosphere at work is shaped by these entangled emotions and will explicate how the multi-level distribution of power is at times met with resistance or welcoming acceptance.
Postdoc Fellowship Position summary/title: POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER MODELLING DROUGHT-HUMAN DYNAMICS IN THE CONTEXT OF CLIMATE SERVICES
Understanding the feedback between drought and society is of pivotal importance for achieving a resilient future and avoid possible lock-ins and maladaptation. While different models have been proposed to represent the human influence on natural water systems, models that formalize the feedback between adaptation actions and water resources (quantity and quality) during drought at different temporal scales are still limited. The Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) of VU Amsterdam has wide expertise on researching systemic interactions between physical and social systems, and has a growing portfolio of research projects and teaching in this field. For this postdoc position, you will join the Department of Water and Climate Risk and closely collaborate with the Department of Environmental Economics. In this Postdoc position you will develop a system dynamic modelling framework to unravel the interplays and feedbacks between society and drought. In particular, you will investigate how socio-economic conditions and adaptation actions responding to climate services (for instance, sub-seasonal to seasonal drought forecasts) can influence the water system on longer (decadal and climate) time scales. This will allow to unravel how adaptation actions based on climate and water (level and salinity) information can lead to different planning decisions and consequently different drought-resilience pathways. This position is funded through the European projects ICISK (https://icisk.eu/), which aim to co-produce the next-generation Climate Services that meet the climate information needs of citizens, decision makers and stakeholders at the spatial and temporal scale relevant to them. The work will be carried out at IVM. You will work in close collaboration with the consortium members of ICISK. Our institute values diversity, we therefore especially encourage applications from women and other groups traditionally under-represented in the discipline.
Postdoc Fellowship Position summary/title: POSTDOC POSITION ON INTERACTION PATTERNS FOR POLYVOCAL KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION
For Hybrid Intelligence systems to have effective and appropriate interactions with various users, these systems will need to be sensitive to and aware of the diversity of the users and the perspectives they might have. Knowledge Graphs provide representation formats and mechanisms to represent multiple perspectives yet questions remain how multi-perspective or polyvocal information can be elicited in Hybrid Intelligence scenarios through interaction with various end users. This research project within the larger Hybrid Intelligence programme is a collaboration between VU and UTwente. The project will be situated in a number of ongoing digital cultural heritage and digital humanities collaborations such as Pressing Matter, InTaVia and Clariah. The PD will be able to collaborate with heritage partners through ongoing collaborations that are maintained in the context of the ICAI Cultural AI lab and similar collaborations spearheaded by UTwente. Within the project, we will focus on the domain of cultural heritage where several existing Knowledge Graphs describing tangible and intangible heritage data are available. Your research will investigate the effectiveness ofvarious interaction design patterns to elicit polyvocal annotations of existing objects and enrichments of existing Knowledge Graphs in that domain. Here, the variety and the perspective of the users (cultural, geographical, gender etc) is to be taken into account. The research question on how to elicit such information in an ethical and responsible manner is a crucial part of this research. If you are passionate about user interaction design patterns, cultural heritage information, and Hybrid Intelligence and curious to join us in this exciting research, then we are looking for you!
Postdoc Fellowship Position summary/title: POSTDOC POSITION IN BRILLOUIN MICROSCOPY
The cell is an intricate machinery that still fascinates scientists almost four centuries after its discovery. Surprisingly, there is so much that is still undiscovered about cells. The field of cell mechanobiology connects cellular processes and the mechanics of the cell including elasticity, stiffness, viscoelasticity, and adhesion. This field gained increasing attention after it was discovered that the mechanical properties of cells can be used to inform cell physiology and pathology. Therefore, uncovering the role of cell mechanics on cellular processes in disease and health is particularly important. Various methods have been developed in order to study cell mechanics. Although most of these methods are invasive and not suitable for continuous monitoring of living cells with high temporal and spatial resolution, some of these technologies intrinsically are very powerful and through novel approaches, their potential can be fully exploited. Brillouin microscopy and micro/nano-indentation are very interesting technologies in this sense. The micro/nano-indentation method uses contact forces to measure elastic/viscoelastic. While this can provide high transverse spatial resolution on the nanometer scale, measurements are averaged along the contact (axial) direction and rely heavily on mechanical models to extract E values. Brillouin microscopy provides an alternative and complementary assessment of material elasticity and viscosity through measurement of the longitudinal modulus in the GHz frequency range. Even though it is a slow and low signal-to-noise ratio technique, it can directly ‘image’ viscoelastic properties of living matter in 3D and in a noncontact, label-free, and high-resolution fashion. A whole new hybrid approach that combines the best of micro/nano indentation with Brillouin microscopy could open up new possibilities in cell/tissue mechanics. Toward this goal, we will develop this hybrid technology; micro-indentation-assisted Brillouin microscopy. This technology currently does not exist, which can open up new possibilities to investigate cellular mechanics at a different level.
About The Vrije University Amsterdam, Netherlands –Official Website
The Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam is a public research university in Amsterdam, Netherlands, founded in 1880, and consistently ranks among the top 150 universities in the world by major ranking tables. The VU is one of two large, publicly funded research universities in the city, the other being the University of Amsterdam (UvA). The literal translation of the Dutch name Vrije Universiteit is “Free University”. “Free” refers to independence of the university from both the State and the Dutch Reformed Church. Both within and outside the university, the institution is commonly referred to as “the VU”. Although founded as a private institution, the VU has received government funding on a parity basis with public universities since 1970. The university is located on a compact urban campus in the southern Buitenveldert neighbourhood of Amsterdam and adjacent to the modern Zuidas business district.
In 2014, the VU had 23,656 registered students, most of whom were full-time students. That year, the university had 2,263 faculty members and researchers, and 1,410 administrative, clerical and technical employees, based on FTE units. The university’s annual endowment for 2014 was circa €480 million. About three quarters of this endowment is government funding; the remainder is made up of tuition fees, research grants, and private funding.
The official university seal is entitled The Virgin in the Garden. Personally chosen by Abraham Kuyper, the Reformed-Protestant leader and founder of the university, it depicts a virgin living in freedom in a garden while pointing towards God, referring to the Protestant Reformation in the Netherlands in the 16th and 17th century. In 1990, the university adopted the mythical griffin as its common emblem.
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