06 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.

Are you interested in how the neocortex and thalamus interact with each other in the mammalian brain? Do you like physiological and behavioral experiments in rodents and wish to make ground-breaking discoveries? Are you excited by new ideas, new techniques, and unconventional approaches? If your answers are all yes, this project might be for you.

The project entitled “Understanding parallel communication in the brain using novel micro-optical probes” has recently been awarded the prestigious NWO M1 Grant that supports 36-month postdoctoral research. The project aims to understand how the enigmatic higher-order thalamic nuclei influence the cortex via parallel pathways. To do so, we will take an unprecedented approach combining a novel micro-optical probe (that has been recently developed) with electrophysiology, optogenetics, and calcium imaging in the rodent brain in vivo. We are looking for a highly skilled and enthusiastic postdoctoral researcher to conduct the research.

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 Van ‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS) is one of eight institutes of the Faculty of Science of the University of Amsterdam. (UvA). HIMS performs internationally recognized research in molecular sciences, both curiosity as well as application driven. This is partly done in cooperation with the chemical, energy, flavour & food, medical and high-tech industries. Within the Synthesis and catalysis cluster, the Organic Chemistry Group (SOC) is looking for a postdoctoral researcher. The postdoctoral researcher will perform the research in the laboratory of the SOC group in collaboration with AstraZeneca (dr. Magnus Johansson).

We are looking for a junior researcher to conduct qualitative research for the Knowledge Frontiers project (British Academy, UK) entitled ‘Towards post-growth cities: the cultural politics of mobility transitions in London and Barcelona’, which examines contestations of progressive green urban mobility initiatives, which we cautiously consider to be potential post-growth mobilities initiatives, i.e. aimed at curbing the propensity towards endless economic growth in cities, in a socio-ecologically just and equitable way. We focus more specifically on a Low Traffic Neighbourhood (LTN) in Islington, London and a superblock in Eixample, Barcelona as case studies, that have been the object of contestation and countermobilization. We will examine these contestations from an explicitly cultural lens, combining, as per the requirements of the grant, social science and humanities theories and methodologies. More specifically, we aim to draw on urban history, affect (and non-representational) theories and literatures around sociocultural imaginaries, while relying on archives, participant observation, interviews and document analysis for data collection purposes. With this interdisciplinary, cultural political framework, we aim to contribute to and enrich the emerging field of post-growth planning and mobilities.

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.