Phd Student: Polyester Based Artificial Leather

**Who are we?** Avantium Corporate Technologies and the Industrial Sustainable Chemistry group of HIMS (UvA) are working on the (plastic) materials transition. In this project we will develop sustainable artificial leather to replace fossil-based artificial leather such as PVC. The project is a collaboration between the UvA (ISC, HIMS), Avantium Corporate...

PhD Position in Inclusive Design with Artificial Intelligence **Faculteit/Dienst**:Faculteit der Natuurw., Wiskunde & Informatica**Opleidingsniveau**:Master**Functie type**:Promotieplaats**Sluitingsdatum**:30 november 2024**Vacaturenummer**:13441 **Keywords**: Artificial Intelligence, Inclusivity, Design, UI/UX- Since the introduction of conversational...

**About the project**: Medical imaging plays an essential role in disease detection, diagnosis, and aftercare. The accessibility to medical imaging is however challenged by the high costs of imaging devices, availability and required expertise of personnel to operate these devices and to analyze and interpret the resulting images. Our NWO-funded project,...

**Jouw functie**: More than a quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions come from the food production chain. Replacing animal proteins in our diets with plant-based alternatives drastically reduces these emissions. Plant-based diets are also healthier. However, current plant-based alternatives to dairy and meat do not have the desired taste, texture or...

**Department**: - Corporate Technology **Office**: - Science Park **Location**: Amsterdam **Technologist Bio Based Polyester Development**: Avantium is one of the pioneers in the area of developing sustainable technologies for a fossil-free future. We are looking for a Technologist in our Novel Polyesters Team. The team focuses on developing processes...

PhD Position on Cooperation through Reputation in Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning **Faculteit/Dienst**:Faculteit der Natuurw., Wiskunde & Informatica**Opleidingsniveau**:Master**Functie type**:Promotieplaats**Sluitingsdatum**:2 oktober 2024**Vacaturenummer**:13345 - Have you always wanted to design artificial agents that learn how to cooperate with each...

What are you going to do ? This project focuses on developing and applying a state-of-the-art computational framework for studying electro-catalytic reactions and designing improved catalyst materials. You will: develop a protocol for setting up, training, and applying neural network potential based molecular dynamics simulations for catalyst...

Avantium is one of the pioneers in the area of developing sustainable technologies for a fossil-free future. We are looking for a Technologist in our Novel Polyesters Team. The team focuses on developing processes for producing polyesters from biomass and CO2 based monomers. The team is part of the Corporate Technology Business Unit, where several new...

**Your function**: With the current hype around generative AI and large language models (LLMs), one approach to partly mitigate the lack of common-sense reasoning of systems relying solely on machine learning (ML) is **neuro-symbolic AI**, i.e., synergistically combining the neural AI tradition via deep learning and artificial neural networks and the...

PhD Position in Machine Learning to Predict Enzyme Specificity **Faculteit/Dienst**:Faculteit der Natuurw., Wiskunde & Informatica**Opleidingsniveau**:Master**Functie type**:Promotieplaats**Sluitingsdatum**:06.11.2024**Vacaturenummer**:13466- - The position is part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Network program “Modelling the Biochemistry of Terpene...

**PhD-student: Eco-design of thin Si PV**: **Work Activities**: Eco-design, or sustainable design, plays a crucial role in the development of solar cells by minimizing environmental impact through use of resources, energy conservation and emissions. In Si heterojunction (SHTJ) cells, reducing the silicon wafer thickness enables more active solar cell area...

Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) has vacancies in the Machine Learning research group for two enthusiastic talented **PhD students (m/v/x)** within Peter Grünwald’s ERC Advanced Grant Project FLEX (FLEXible Statistical Inference). **Job description**: Most statistical methods require that all aspects of data collection and inference are determined...

**Function description**: - The labs of Alan Gerber (Amsterdam UMC - Location VUmc) and Fred van Leeuwen (Netherlands Cancer Institute, NKI) are teaming up to crack the code of gene regulation of tRNA genes. In a project supported by ZonMW, we will address how the hundreds of tRNA genes in our genome are regulated in their own unique way in response to...

**Work Activities**: Did you know high-energy electrons can serve as efficient sources of optical excitation of matter? Our group has developed cathodoluminescence microscopy, in which we use 1-30 keV electrons in a scanning electron microscope (SEM) to excite nanomaterials. The oscillating electric field carried by the electron serves as a broadband (0-30...

Are you inspired by building human-centric, explainable, and collaborative AI? There is a vacancy for a 4-year PhD position in the Intelligent and Autonomous Systems research group at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam. **Job description**: Are you passionate about human-AI teamwork? Unfortunately, users often do not understand current AI...

PhD in Marketing **Faculty/Services**:Faculty of Economics and Business **Educational level**:Master **Function type**:PhD position **Closing date**:20 January 2025 **Vacancy number**:13723 **Come work for the EB** **This is what you will be doing** **Tasks and responsibilities**: - Identifying novel research questions based on real-world phenomena...

PhD in Marketing **Faculteit/Dienst**:Faculteit Economie & Bedrijfskunde **Opleidingsniveau**:Master **Functie type**:Promotieplaats **Sluitingsdatum**:20 January 2025 **Vacaturenummer**:13723 - Come work for the EB - This is what you will be doing - Tasks and responsibilities: - Identifying novel research questions based on real-world phenomena or...

**Your function**: **Project**: How nanoscale molecular processes at synapses control memory formation **Project description**: Synaptic plasticity, the ability to modify synaptic strength in response to neuronal activity, plays a central role in the capacity of the brain to encode memories. It is thus important to understand the molecular events that...

Jouw functie Immuuntherapie heeft de behandeling van veel kankersoorten in korte tijd veranderd. Recent onderzoek van onze groep heeft getoond dat behandeling met immuuntherapie zeer effectief is bij de meerderheid van de patiënten met vroegstadium darmkanker met grotere kans op genezing. In klinische een aanpalende translationele studies onderzoeken we...

PhD Positions, Project 'Spatiotemporal Reconstruction of Interacting People for Perceiving Systems' **Faculteit/Dienst**:Faculteit der Natuurw., Wiskunde & Informatica**Opleidingsniveau**:Master**Functie type**:Promotieplaats**Sluitingsdatum**:31 oktober 2024**Vacaturenummer**:13444 - The Computer Vision lab provides 3 fully-funded PhD positions as part of...