36 Postdoctoral Fellowship at University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

The applicant will investigate how to effectively incorporate quantum-mechanical properties into machine learning models to enrich the quality of molecular property predictions. The respective prediction goals can be so-called ADMET properties, i.e., absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion, and toxicity of drugs and other organic molecules. The work is situated in the following two domains: On the one hand, the work concentrates on the application of molecular and quantum mechanical methods for the exploration of 3D structures (conformers) and electronic properties of them (e.g. dipole moment and polarizability). On the other hand, machine learning will be employed for accurate prediction of ADMET properties based on local and global descriptors for the compounds (e.g. inclusion of 3D structure and quantum chemical properties).

The successful applicant will be affiliated with the Institute for Teaching and Learning situated within the Department of Education and Social Work (DESW). S/he will be part of a team in the dynamic organizational context of a growing globally-connected research university. The postdoctoral researcher will work in a team in the area of physical education lead by Dr. Claude Scheuer on subjects such as active school settings, primary physical education teacher education and inclusive primary physical education. The ideal candidate has substantive interests in primary physical education and related relevant topics (like e.g. physical activity during the school day, the education of primary school teachers teaching physical education or the inclusion of all children in physical education), in international collaboration and exchange with institutional partners in European projects, and would like to contribute to an international and multilingual team.

Successful candidates will join a young, strong, and motivated FINATRAX Research Group of the SnT. We are an interdisciplinary research group with backgrounds in many fields, including information systems, engineering, economics, computer science, psychology, and political science. Currently, we work on multiple projects in the energy sector, involving research on industrial flexibility, smart electric vehicle charging, and electricity market forecasting (more info at https://wwwen.uni.lu/snt/research/finatrax/projects).

The Translational Neuroscience (TN) group at the LCSB, headed by Prof. Dr. Rejko Krüger, creates an essential bridge between basic research and the clinic so that effective prevention, diagnosis and therapy may help the patients in Luxembourg and beyond. The group represents a translational platform, integrating clinical research with fundamental science. The TN group manages the first National Centre of Excellence in Research in PD (NCER-PD https://parkinson.lu/) and other national (e.g. https://www.parkinsonnet.lu), and international projects (https://www.catalysteurope.eu/ https://epnd.org ), which are aimed at valorising the results of NCER-PD, creating impact for patients and citizens in Luxembourg and translating this successful approach into new transversal projects in biomedicine.

This Postdoc position can be extended up to five years; initial employment is foreseen for 24 months. We therefore seek an individual with the will and ability to develop and establish his/her own research activity in the field of magnetic neutron scattering on magnetic materials. Suggestions for a possible research topic should be outlined in a two-page research statement (to be included in the application documents). Topics different from the above mentioned ones (e.g., Weyl physics and topological spin structures) are explicitly welcomed.

You are part of the small team of the UniGR-CBS coordination unit and work with the border researchers of the cross-border Interdisciplinary Competence Center from Luxembourg, Germany, France and Belgium. Your tasks will serve the implementation of the UniGR-CBS development plan and mainly include:

• Development and application of third-party funded projects in the fields of research, networking and/or science-policy-interface
• Participation in the working groups of the UniGR-CBS
• Participation in and support of the activities and events of the UniGR-CBS
• Support of the UniGR-CBS coordination in day-to-day business

The Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH) is looking to hire a postdoctoral researcher to work on Project WARLUX – „Soldiers and their communities in WWII: The impact and legacy of war experiences in Luxembourg“ (https://www.c2dh.uni.lu/projects/warlux-soldiers-and-their-communities-wwii-impact-and-legacy-war-experiences-luxembourg). Project WARLUX collects their biographies and investigate their individual profiles from the perspective of their social background, trajectories during the war and their life in the post-war period.

The University of Luxembourg is seeking to hire a highly motivated and an outstanding researcher in the area of optimization performance of interference-limited wireless communication systems for its Interdisciplinary Centre of Security and Trust (SnT), within the Signal Processing and Communications (SigCom) research group, led by Prof. Björn Ottersten and Dr. Symeon Chatzinotas.

The successful candidate will primarily contribute to the large EU research project Lux4QCI – Luxembourg Experimental Network for Quantum Communication Infrastructure). The project is part of the Digital Europe Program (DIGITAL) and aims to deliver the first experimental quantum communication infrastructure (QCI) network in Luxembourg. A distinctive feature is the by-design integration between the terrestrial and the satellite segment. Lux4QCI envisions making Luxembourg a QCI front-runner and a hub for secure key distribution across the EU. To achieve those goals, Lux4QCI will identify use cases of interest for application scenarios of quantum key-distribution (QKD)-enhanced secure communications. The intended QCI will be nationally deployed through multiple terrestrial optical fibres running hundreds of kilometers and interconnecting at least 5 points of presence. The network will rely on a hybrid configuration combining multiple QKD technologies over a range of multihop topologies (e.g. star, serial, and tree). The intended architecture contains an orchestrator collocated with a node. The orchestrator consists of a network manager with SDN/network-function virtualisation (NFV) algorithms for flow management/routing, a quantum key-distribution network (QKDN) controller, which performs routing control of key relay, and a QKDN manager, which monitors the status of the QKDN and assists the key management system (KMS) for key-management operations.

The successful candidate will contribute to new control solutions for satellites and space systems with a main focus on a national research project in collaboration with LuxSpace Sàrl (https://www.luxspace.lu/), a member of the network of OHB companies. This project aims at the development of novel sensing and control approaches to enable a higher degree of autonomy for microsatellites in constellations and for the distributed control of autonomous formation flight of microsatellites. Together with LuxSpace, the research results will be implemented in a development tool and tested using suitable multi-satellite test scenarios. In addition, the candidate will also be involved in other research projects related to the control of spacecraft and space robots. In general, the candidate is expected to perform the following tasks:

GNSS Reflectometry (GNSS-R) is an innovative remote sensing method exploiting signals of GNSS after reflection from the Earth’s surface. The postdoctoral project investigates spaceborne GNSS-R for soil moisture, sea ice classification and altimetry. In this context, the successful candidate will improve and develop new retrievals of Essential Climate Variables (ECV) and other valuable remotely sensed products from a constellation of Earth-observing nanosatellites. The successful candidate will develop algorithms that will allow us to better understand present day soil moisture variability for more accurately modelling the water cycle. In this project, the effects of variable soil moisture on theoretical ground reflections in both perfect conditions as well as under realistic noise will be simulated. The multi-constellation space-borne GNSS-R data will be used then to understand the sensitivity of the hydrological measurements to surface roughness, vegetation, and other parameters such as incidence angle. Additionally, reflected signals at grazing angle will be investigated for sea ice detection and classification. The post-doc researcher will be a member of the Geophysics Laboratory working on the development and implementation of innovative deep learning techniques for the space-borne GNSS-R studies. In summary, the successful candidate is expected to perform the following tasks:

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Successful candidates will join a young, strong and motivated FINATRAX Research Group. The research group conducts research on digital technologies like Blockchain, Digital Identities, AI, and IoT. FINATRAX has two career paths: academic and industrial. Candidates will decide whether they want to pursue the academic track where they focus on publications and work on grant projects or the industry track, where they focus on cooperation with our industrial partners and project management.

Successful candidates will join a young, strong and motivated FINATRAX Research Group. The research group conducts research on digital technologies like Blockchain, Digital Identities, AI, and IoT. FINATRAX has two career paths: academic and industrial. Candidates will decide whether they want to pursue the academic track where they focus on publications and work on grant projects or the industry track, where they focus on cooperation with our industrial partners and project management.

Successful candidates will join the young, vibrant, and interdisciplinary FINATRAX Research Group, which builds bridges between business research and information systems engineering. The group conducts research on the application and the impact of digital technologies like DLT/Blockchain, Digital Identities, Machine Learning/AI, and IoT/5G on organisations from both the private and public sectors. The group consists of doctoral and post-doctoral researchers from diverse backgrounds (e.g., policy, business, technology), united in pursuit of sustainable technologies that positively impact society. 

As the successful candidate, you will join the Security, Reasoning, and Validation (SeRVal) group of the SnT led by Prof. Yves Le Traon and Prof. Mike Papadakis. The SerVal group has strong expertise and a well-known reputation in software engineering, including software testing and automated debugging. This is evident with quality publications in reputable Software Engineering venues, e.g., ICSE, TSE, and FSE.

The candidate will work on a project supported by the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR), in collaboration with Dr. Ezekiel Soremekun (Research Associate at SeRVal, SnT), Prof. Mike Papadakis (Deputy head of SeRVal, SnT), and Prof. Marcel Böhme (Faculty at Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy (MPI-SP)).The candidate will contribute to research in the area of Software Engineering, in particular, Software Testing and Automated Debugging.

In this project, the candidate will build practical techniques for automated debugging and software testing, i.e., tools applicable in software development environments. Among many tasks, the candidate will conduct experiments examining the performance of testing and debugging techniques in real-world settings. The project will also investigate human factors in testing and debugging, i.e., how developers test and debug (via surveys/interviews, and human studies).

Successful candidates will join a young, strong, and motivated FINATRAX Research Group of the SnT. We are an interdisciplinary research group with backgrounds in many fields, including information systems, engineering, economics, computer science, psychology, and political science. Currently, we work on multiple projects in the energy sector, involving research on industrial flexibility, smart electric vehicle charging, and electricity market forecasting (more info at https://wwwen.uni.lu/snt/research/finatrax/projects).

The successful candidate will join the CryptoLux research team led by Prof. Alex Biryukov. He or she will contribute to a research project on future directions in cryptography and IT security and is expected to perform the following tasks:

• Shaping research directions and producing results in one or more of the following topics:
  o    Applied Cryptography (symmetric, lightweight, AE, White-box etc.)
  o    Financial cryptography, cryptocurrencies, blockchain  technologies
  o    Privacy enhancing technologies (Tor, zero-knowledge, eID, etc.)
• Disseminating results through scientific publications
• Providing guidance to Ph.D. and M.Sc. students

We offer an attractive Research Associate (Postdoc) position in close cooperation with our partners. The successful candidate will join the Computer Vision, Machine Intelligence and Imaging (CVI²) research group headed by Prof. Djamila Aouada to conduct exciting research and development in the field of Computer Vision. For more details, please check: https://cvi2.uni.lu/

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 SVV research group is headed by Prof. Lionel Briand. The team focuses on the development and design of reliable, safe, and secure software systems, carrying out both upstream activities such as requirements quality assurance and architecture analysis, as well as downstream verification & validation activities, primarily software testing and analysis.

The University of Luxembourg is looking for its Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine, Department of Mathematics, for one Post-doctoral researcher in Mathematics (Geometry and Geometric analysis), in the group of Jean-Marc Schlenker. The position is partly funded by the FNR OPEN project CoSH (Convex Surfaces in Hyperbolic Geometry) and some contribution to the project is expected.

The post-doctoral researcher will be working at the Luxembourg Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management (LCL) as well as together with the FINATRAX Research Group of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability, and Trust(SnT).

The postdoctoral fellow will be involved in the RareCom project entitled: “From rare to common disease: Use of ATP13A2-deficient iPSC-based models for drug discovery in Parkinson’s disease”.The aim of this FNR-funded project is to investigate the role of the lysosomal protein ATP13A2 in the context of neurodegeneration. Patient-derived cellular models will be used to uncover disease mechanisms and to uncover novel therapeutic candidates.

As a researcher you will push the boundaries on research data management and re-use by implementing best practices at scale while conducting genuine research for new approaches to efficient data management. You will collaborate with our partner institutions in Luxembourg and all over the world to establish data flows between archives and historians at the C2DH. We expect you to disseminate the results of your research internally and externally as appropriate. In your day to day work you will further develop our current practices for the creation of data management plans together with the colleagues at the center, you will become a point of reference for the use, creation and exploitation of data sets, you will encourage best practices for data modelling and collection, train researchers in data management and provide guidance on GDPR issues. From a more strategic perspective you will reinforce our strategy for data conservation and long-term accessibility and re-use by developing policies and guidelines.

The Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences (FHSE) brings together expertise from the humanities, linguistics, cognitive sciences, social and educational sciences. People from across 20 disciplines are working within the Faculty. Along with the disciplinary approach a very ambitious interdisciplinary research culture has been developed.

The faculty’s research and teaching focuses on social, economic, political and educational issues with the common goal of contributing to an inclusive, open and resourceful society. The FHSE offers four Bachelor and 15 Master degrees and a doctoral school providing students with the necessary knowledge and high-qualified skills to succeed in their future career.

The University of Luxembourg is seeking a Research Scientist to work at the intersection of philosophy/ethics and computer sciences at the newly established Centre of Digital Ethics.

The successful candidate will be expected to contribute to the development of the new Centre both conceptually and organizationally. A particular emphasis lies on the interdisciplinary collaboration between colleagues from the different Faculties and Centres of the University of Luxembourg.

Successful candidates have a unique opportunity of participating in the shaping of a challenging and innovative research themes, as well as contributing to the ambitious research agenda of the CritiX lab, supported by the Luxembourg National Research Fund, FNR, the European Commission and several other projects and industry partnerships, including with Intel Labs and Huawei (https://wwwen.uni.lu/snt/research/critix/research_projects). Candidates will be given excellent conditions for the development of their research skills, in terms of working conditions, mentoring and laboratory facilities.

The Management Group within the Department of Economics and Management is looking for a Research Scientist in Innovation and Entrepreneurship who will conduct impactful research leading to publication in leading business and management journals, deliver strong teaching and student experience in business education and contribute to program development, and finally acquire external research funding through active engagement with Industry and funding agencies. An intermediate position between a postdoctoral fellowship and an assistant professorship, the Research Scientist offers more academic independence than a traditional postdoctoral position, while assuming some greater responsibilities.

The goal of the Research Scientist is to contribute to our teaching offerings and to build up/maintain a bridge between academic excellence and industry relevance.

You will engage in the teaching activities of the department, both in Bachelor/Master programs and in life-long learning activities. You are expected to teach a broad range of finance topics with a specific focus on Asset Management, Financial institutions, or Data science. You will also contribute to the development of new programs that cater to the needs of the students and the financial industry in Luxembourg

You will be the content oriented link between the academic finance profession and the financial industry, financial regulators, and national and supranational institutions. You will boost scientific knowledge dissemination and diffusion related to academic research and teaching through organizing academia-meets-industry events, life-long learning activities, and social media. You can also conduct your own research in Asset Management and/or Sustainable Finance, and identify, apply for, and manage research funding.