18 Postdoctoral Fellowship at University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

We seek a creative scientific developer to work within a pioneering team to build and implement new tools for modelling X-ray spectral-timing data from observations of compact objects by existing and future missions. The project will be carried out as part of the Dutch national astronomy research school’s (NOVA) support towards the new X-ray spectral-timing mission eXTP, and the EU-funded AHEAD2020 project to develop new high-energy astrophysics infrastructure over the coming years.

Are you looking for a challenging, but rewarding job in a dynamic setting? The Integrative Model-based Cognitive Neuroscience (IMCN) Research Group within the Brain & Cognition department at the University of Amsterdam is looking for a postdoctoral researcher on the topic of decision-making mechanisms of deep brain networks. The IMCN Research Group aims to bridge the gap between neuroscience and cognition. Members of the IMCN have a range of skills from neuroanatomy and neurochemistry, to mathematical psychological modelling.

We have developed a device to simultaneously characterize molecular structure and size by combining microfluidic technology with infrared spectroscopy (both conventional and nonlinear). This device produces two- and three-dimensional spectra, in which the different species present in a solution are separated based on their infrared frequencies and their size: InfraRed Diffusion-Ordered SpectroscopY (IRDOSY). We have already carried out proof-of-concept experiments and built a functional model of the device, see https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.202213424

We offer a two-year postdoctoral position as part of a joint research project between QuSoft and TOYOTA, that is exploring the possibilities of quantum computing in research and development use cases, in particular quantum optimization as part of machine learning workflows. You will be employed at the Institute for Informatics (IvI) at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), and you will be a member of QuSoft, the Dutch research institute for quantum software, which houses experts on all topics in quantum computing. Together, the local institutes form a rich research ecosystem with opportunities to work together with computer scientists, physicists and mathematicians from the various groups situated at the Amsterdam Science Park.

We invite applications for a postdoctoral research position at the GRAPPA (Gravitation Astroparticle Physics Amsterdam) center of excellence, at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). The position will start in fall 2023 and will be for the duration of two years (with a possible extension of another year depending on funding). The research interests of GRAPPA include multi-messenger astrophysics, dark matter and dark energy, the early Universe, gravitational waves and strong gravity.

This post doc project investigates the interaction between the EU and China as a leading power in global (digital) politics and AI development (see subproject III). In EU policy discourse, China is frequently held up as a negative example of government abuse of AI for oppressive aims. And in the current geopolitical climate, China is increasingly portrayed as the primary competitor of an American-European alliance. At the same time, global standards agreement in the AI field will also require Chinese buy-in. Equally, bilateral trade in AI-powered devices will require some level of shared standards or regulatory agreements. The goal of the project is to understand how the EU interacts with China in the field of AI standard setting, and why so. Based on that, it assesses alternative future scenarios for such engagement and their relative merits and ancillary effects.

Are you an expert in philosophical Logic, and familiar with formal and/or probabilistic approaches to meaning and causality? Do you have a track record of publishing in leading journals in Logic, language and/or AI? Are you an inspiring teacher who is competent to teach in the area Philosophy of AI? If so, we hope you will apply for our vacancy for an at least 2.5-year postdoctoral researcher in the area of Logic and Language. This position also has a significant teaching component (research: teaching ratio is 70:30).

Are you excited about carrying out research in theoretical particle physics? Do you have ideas you would like to explore in a collaborative environment? The theoretical particle physics group at the University of Amsterdam is looking for a postdoctoral researcher interested in precision calculations of observables in the Standard Model and possible extensions, collider physics, quantum chromodynamics or related topics.

Are you excited about carrying out research in theoretical particle physics? Do you have ideas you would like to explore in a collaborative environment? The theoretical particle physics group at the University of Amsterdam is looking for a postdoctoral researcher interested in the physics of sterile neutrinos.

Come and join us to work on algorithmic solutions to challenges in conversational intelligence! We are a diverse team of researchers based at multiple universities in the Netherlands, with expertise in information retrieval, natural language processing, machine learning, and customer psychology. As part of the LESSEN project, which is funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO), we will work together with industrial stakeholders to develop chat-based conversational agents for lesser resourced tasks, domains, and scenarios. Scientific challenges of the project are (i) the development of neural architectures that are compute and resource efficient; (ii) domain adaptation and data augmentation; and (iii) safety, privacy, and transparency. This Postdoc project aims to (i) develop benchmark datasets within and across different research projects within LESSEN; (ii) develop a metrics for a holistic, fair, accessible, reproducible, and continuous evaluation; (iii) coordinate the evaluation process in the entire LESSEN project.

The goal of this project/position is to develop and implement a beyond-ideal GRMHD numerical simulation framework that incorporates viscous and resistive MHD effects for binary neutron-star merger and supernova simulations. This framework will allow us to include different sources of viscosity and resistivity in the simulations and probe their observational signatures in the gravitational waves and kilonova/supernova lightcurves. We will start by implementing a viscous GRMHD extension of our well-established Einstein Toolkit GRMHD solver GRHydro following already established formulations. In a second step we will work closely with nuclear and quantum physicists to include detailed viscous and nuclear effects in these simulations. We will use the outputs from these simulations to predict the ejecta amount and composition and gravitational wave signatures of these events and to assess the detectability of these signatures in current GW+EM observational data.

The Korteweg-de Vries Institute for Mathematics is offering a 2 year postdoc position in stochastic analysis in the Applied Probability Research group, on the NWO VIDI project “Numerical analysis for stochastic differential equations in Riemannian manifolds”. The goal of this project is to develop and analyse numerical schemes for SDEs in Riemannian manifolds. Simulations of SDEs in Riemannian manifolds are used in statistics for analysing geometrically constrained data. Simulations are also used in cell biology, data visualisation, and image recognition. This project however is of a more theoretical nature: our goal is to develop suitable approximation schemes and analyse their convergence rates. The post-doc may also set up/maintain her/his own line of research, provided it has connections this project.

Are you a theorist looking for an opportunity to develop new theoretical and computational tools for quantum logic spectroscopy and work closely with experiments? The theory group of Arghavan Safavi-Naini is part of the institute of theoretical physics (ITFA) at the University of Amsterdam and QuSoft. We work closely with theory groups at QuSoft and experiments within the Quantum Gases and Quantum Information (QGQI) cluster to develop new technologies for quantum simulation and computing. We develop computational tools and theoretical methods to study out-of-equilibrium quantum many-body systems with applications to quantum enhanced metrology and quantum information theory.

We are looking for two PhD candidates and one Postdoctoral researcher who will work on the interdisciplinary METAHEALTH project, which includes an ethnographic panel study, the Sarphati Etnografie, and focuses on health as a social practice, in particular on oral and gut microbiome health, in families living in vulnerable positions. Employment will be at the University of Amsterdam, department of Sociology, with embedment in the programme group Political Sociology. A third PhD candidate is recruited at ACTA.

 

(18) Postdoctoral Fellowship Position

Postdoc Fellowship Position summary/title: Postdoctoral Researcher Gendered Mobilities

Deadline : 20 November 2022

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