45 Postdoctoral Fellowship at National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore

A Postdoctoral Fellow position is available in the research project that is focused on an innovation in air-conditioning (AC) and fan systems to achieve low energy cooling at warmer indoor temperature setpoints without compromising occupant satisfaction. It involves the synergistic contribution from adaptability in AC design and operation in combination with 2 levels of fan control (at the ceiling level and at the individual level).

The National University of Singapore invites applications for Research Fellow for “Mechanistic study of therapy-resistance in gynaecology and its clinical application in molecular prognosis and novel therapeutic strategy” in the Department of Biochemistry, NUS Centre for Cancer Research, and Department of Chemistry with collaboration with basic scientists, clinicians and chemists.  Appointments will be made on a one-year contract basis from 2 Jan 2022 for the possibility of extension for 3 years. We are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic candidate who is able to work together with the Principle Investigator, research staffs and clinical collaborators to drive a research project independently.

The postdoctoral fellowship is intended for outstanding active researchers to work on a mixed methods study that examines the demographics of childless older populations, pathways to childlessness, and the well-being of childless older persons in Singapore and Thailand. The postdoctoral fellow will work closely with PIs A/Prof Bussarawan (Puk) Teerawichitchainan (Sociology, National University of Singapore) and A/Prof Christine Ho (Economics, Singapore Management University) in overseeing research project management, conducting data analysis, writing and publishing research papers.

This position is for postdoctoral research in the exciting areas of either CO2 capture, CO2 conversion, and halide perovskite materials in the Andrew B Wong Group, which is affiliated with the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS) as well as with the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS).

• Work on electrical and optical simulation of tandem solar cell currently developed at SERIS, and improve the functions and ease-of-use for the simulation package.
• Perform characterisation on in-house fabricated solar cells (I-V, EQE, UV-VIS, TRPL, Ellipsometry), and collect data as input parameters for the simulation package.
• Propose fabrication processing insight, through information gained from characterisation and simulation.
• Further develop simulation and characteristaion capabilities, by combining his expertise with SERIS’s capabilities.

The Energy Studies Institute (ESI) is a research institute in the National University of Singapore seeking to advance the understanding of energy policy issues by conducting independent research and analysis. We are looking for researchers to join a multi-disciplinary team carrying out research projects on a range of energy issues that are of concern to Singapore and the region. We have vacancy for a researcher in the fields of energy systems modelling and optimization for the resilience of future energy systems. This is a position for the Future Resilient Systems program (https://frs.ethz.ch).

Hepatology lab is mainly working on understanding the virology and viral immunology mechanisms involved at different phases of the Chronic Hepatitis. Lab is in collaboration with national and international research teams both academics and biopharma companies with a wide range of projects and high through put techniques. In this role you will be directly reporting to Prof. Lim Seng Gee. We are looking for a research fellow to join our team and kickstart new projects on proteome and transcriptome analysis of viral infection status using patient samples (core biopsies/ Plasma or serum). You are also expected to oversee the ongoing projects and mentor junior lab members (research assistants and lab techs).

The National University of Singapore (NUS) is recruiting a full-time researcher to be jointly appointed in the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health (SSHSPH) and Lloyd’s Register Foundation Institute for the Public Understanding of Risk (LRFIPUR). Founded in 1905, NUS is consistently ranked among the world’s top 30 universities and Asia’s top 2 universities. It is an innovative, research-intensive university with over 36,000 students from 100 countries.

The National University of Singapore invites applications for one highly motivated Research Fellow specializing in the study of placental function and maternal adaptation, and impact on pregnancy outcomes in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. A/Prof Chan Shiao-Yng’s ([email protected]) laboratory is involved in understanding placental and fetal development in normal and pathological pregnancies, gestational diabetes, preterm labour and implications for the developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD). One area of particular interest is LCMS lipidomics being used to understand placental lipid metabolism, alongside other multi-omic platforms and a range of molecular biological approaches. Studies will also be conducted in in collaboration with other departments with the university and beyond.

An exciting position is available with the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine’s Centre for Holistic Initiatives for Learning and Development (CHILD) for an enthusiastic, collaborative senior research fellow (research scientist) with strong quantitative skills. The scientist will work within highly transdisciplinary teams across multiple projects aiming to support families and early child development. A primary, but not exclusive, focus would be the DADSCAN (Dads Advancing Data for development of Singaporean Children and Adolescents Now!) project. DADSCAN is a joint endeavor with A*STAR’s Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences (SICS) that seeks to accelerate context-specific insights from world-class, population-based, parent-child cohorts towards scalable interventions, with a specific focus on the father’s role in preconception to early child health and development.

• To shape and formulate adsorbents (e.g., MOFs and COFs) for carbon capture
• To coordinate with other teams on TSA studies and pilot-scale studies
• To collect sorption equilibrium and kinetics data
• To perform structure control and scaling-up of the identified adsorbents

Applicants are invited for the position of Research Scientist or Associate Scientist to participate in experimental and/or CFD studies for Aerodynamics research.

 

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Postdoc Fellowship Position summary/title: Research Fellow, Institute of Real Estate & Urban Studies

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The Research Fellow will be responsible for undertaking in-depth research in machine learning and big data for the Grab-NUS AI Lab to solve real-world transportation challenges with rigorous research in AI and data science. Phase II of the Grab-NUS AI Lab will focus on computer vision, NLP, and AI explainability. The research should lead to both publications in top-tier international conferences and journals, as well as real-world industry implementations. He/she will be working closely with the Principal Investigator and lab members on one or more research projects together with Grab data scientists on interesting and challenging real world datasets and problem statements.

• Conduct literature review on maritime innovation ecosystem
• Analyse patents and journal publications (bibliometrics analysis) using software (guidance will be provided)
• Present and document results
• You have the opportunity to enrol in part-time NUS graduate programmes at subsidised fees subjected to course entry requirements and eligibility

• Conduct literature review on maritime innovation ecosystem
• Analyse patents and journal publications (bibliometrics analysis) using software (guidance will be provided)
• Present and document results
• You have the opportunity to enrol in part-time NUS graduate programmes at subsidised fees subjected to course entry requirements and eligibility

Analyse patents and journal publications (bibliometrics analysis) using software (guidance will be provided)

Present and document results You have the opportunity to enrol in part-time NUS graduate programmes at subsidised fees subjected to course entry requirements and eligibility

• Conduct literature review on maritime innovation ecosystem
• Analyse patents and journal publications (bibliometrics analysis) using software (guidance will be provided)
• Present and document results
• You have the opportunity to enrol in part-time NUS graduate programmes at subsidised fees subjected to course entry requirements and eligibility

A Bioinformatics Postdoctoral Fellow (PDF) position is available immediately at the Cancer Science Institute (a part of The National University of Singapore) in the laboratory of Dr. Sriram Sridharan. The research will focus in the broad area of replication stress, DNA damage and genome integrity. This is an exciting opportunity to deploy expertise in computational biology in an active multidisciplinary environment. The PDF will develop novel bioinformatics pipeline(s) to analyze and integrate unpublished/publicly available genomic(s) datasets. The objective is to establish new biomarkers as well as to generate experimentally testable hypotheses. The generated biomarkers and hypotheses will be tested in clinical/experimental datasets in collaboration with wet-lab scientists.

The National University of Singapore invites applications for Research Fellow in the Department of Clinical Imaging Research Centre (CIRC) Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. CIRC is a dedicated molecular imaging research centre. It is equipped with on-site capability for the preparation of PET radiopharmaceuticals in a state-of-the-art GMP-certified facility. CIRC is positioned to support both academic and commercially led clinical research programs, with dedicated clinical imaging facilities area advanced modalities of PET-CT and PET-MRI.  For more details on what we do, do visit https://medicine.nus.edu.sg/circ/. Appointments will be made on a two-years contract basis with the possibility of extension.

A Bioinformatics position is available immediately at the Cancer Science Institute (a part of The National University of Singapore) in the laboratory of Dr. Sriram Sridharan. The research will focus in the broad area of replication stress, DNA damage and genome integrity. This is an exciting opportunity to deploy expertise in computational biology in an active multidisciplinary environment. The candidate will develop novel bioinformatics pipeline(s) to analyze and integrate unpublished/publicly available genomic(s) datasets. The objective is to establish new biomarkers as well as to generate experimentally testable hypotheses. The generated biomarkers and hypotheses will be tested in clinical/experimental datasets in collaboration with wet-lab scientists.

The Research Fellow (RF) will work closely with the cardiology branch in the Department of Paediatrics, NUH, in uncovering cardiac disease development in paediatric patients with the aim to translate our findings towards patient care. The RF’s primary role will be to assist with ongoing projects by validating and performing experiments, analysing and interpreting results and effectively communicating the findings.

The NUS Centre for International Law (CIL) is launching the CIL ASEAN Research Fellowship Programme (ARF) for Oceans Law and Policy. The objective of the ARF is to further develop research capabilities and knowledge of scholars and/or government officials from ASEAN member states by immersing them in a dynamic and supportive research environment where they can enhance their understanding of oceans law and policy.  The ARF Programme (Oceans Law and Policy) provides an exciting opportunity to engage with and learn from other oceans law and policy scholars and experts in the CIL Oceans Law and Policy Team.  CIL may also provide the ARF with other opportunities to attend regional and international conferences, workshops and symposiums as well as other scholarly opportunities. 

A Research Engineer position is available in the research group of Asst Prof Mike Z. Shou, at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore (NUS).  The Research Engineer will work closely with the Principal Investigator (PI) on one or more research projects about video understanding and creation.   

This position involves working on a project related to path planning and collision avoidance for autonomous vehicles (AVs), based on deep reinforcement learning, and in particular communication learning among agents (i.e., vehicles), as well as between AVs and infrastructure (e.g., traffic lights). The objective of this position includes contributing to the model development, solutioning, and implementation of robust decentralized controllers for safe traffic junction management by AVs using machine learning methods. The role involves the opportunity to work with the research team within the National University of Singapore in which the team leaders are from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Specialists from a high technology company.  The successful candidate will be self-motivated with an outstanding track record in computer science, machine learning (in particular, reinforcement learning), or transportation and related disciplines. The main research tasks for the project include but will not be limited to:

The modelling work will be closely collaborated with ongoing experimental work in Singapore. Applications are sought from PhD students with high motivation, drive and passion for creativity and independence. Applicants are expected to have strong background and experience in molecular simulation/machine learning/density-function theory calculations.

Institute of Operations Research and Analytics (IORA) at National University of Singapore (NUS) offers an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated Research Fellow to work on and manage analytics projects with our industry partners. The projects aim to develop new analytics tools utilizing unique datasets and research and experimental development on machine learning techniques. Your project management and technical skills are the foundation of this role as you will be working within multidisciplinary and international project team of leading researchers. As an important and integral member of our research team, you will be managing some of our industry projects and working closely with faculty members, research scientists, and PhD students. Our researchers can mine terabytes of data, develop mathematical models and algorithms to derive new insights. Part of your job is to communicate complex data and algorithms into simple conclusions that will empower our industry partners to act based on the research insights. Your business knowledge, interpersonal/communication skills are therefore a requirement to thrive in a multi-functional leadership team.

Applications are sought from those with high motivation, drive and passion for creativity and independence. Applicants are expected to have strong background and experience in molecular simulation/machine learning/density-function theory calculations.