Research Fellow at Imperial College London

A Research Fellow position is available in the Centre for Environmental Policy within the Faculty of Natural Sciences at Imperial College London. The position will be based in the Centre for Energy Policy and Technology (ICEPT), one of the UK’s leading centres for research and policy advice at the interface of energy policy and technology. The Opportunities for Climate Mitigation and Sustainable Development (OPTIMISM) project is funded by...

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Multiple vacancies: fully funded PhD studentships and postdoc positions

We are soliciting applications for multiple fully-funded PhD student vacancies in the FORSIED research group. Applications by top postdoctoral candidates will be considered as well.

Topics of interest:

Network and knowledge graph embedding.
Visual analytics, information visualization.
Representation learning.
Nonlinear dimensionality reduction (variants of UMAP, t-SNE,…).
Data mining algorithms on graphs / networks.
Topological data analysis.
Recommender systems.
Natural language processing (word embedding, conversational agents).
Deep learning approaches for these tasks.
Privacy, fairness, and explainability in machine learning and data science.
Applications to areas including biology (single-cell data), human resources (job-applicant matching), media and entertainment (catalog management).
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For PhD applicants:

Required:
A relevant Master’s degree (data science, artificial intelligence, computer science, physics, electrical engineering, mathematics).
Top-of-class performance (at least top 5% from top-100 institutes, at least top-1% from other institutes).
Three positive reference letters (solicited by us, no need to include these in your application).
Proven programming experience in Python.
English language level: C1 (CEFR), 95 (TOEFL), 7 (IELTS), or assessed as equivalent during the interview.
A solid background in at least three of the following: linear algebra; machine learning; deep learning; information theory; advanced algorithms; data mining; topological data analysis; information visualization / visual analytics; human computer interaction; recommender systems; natural language processing; privacy, fairness, and explainability in data science and machine learning.
Desired:
Strong programming skills in Python and other languages as proven by open source software projects.
Experience with machine learning frameworks (pytorch, keras, etc).
Experience with Spark.
Prior publications in top conferences or journals.
For Postdoctoral research positions:

Required:
Same as for PhD positions, additionally including:
A strong publication track record (in top conferences and journals such as ICLR, KDD, NeurIPS, VIS, ICML, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, IEEE PAMI, JMLR, Machine Learning journal, etc.) on one of the relevant topics.
An eagerness to co-advise PhD and Master student projects.
Context:

These positions are funded in the context of three large research projects:

A large (EUR 1.6M) European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator grant, FORSIED.
A large (EUR 2.1M) FWO Odysseus Group I grant.
A substantial investment (EUR 12M annually) by the Flemish government in AI research, within which we play a leading role.
The research team currently consists of around 10 researchers, and is led by Prof. Tijl De Bie. The reputation of our research team is evidenced by substantial amounts of prestigious funding, high impact publications, and the organization of major international conferences in the area, including as general and program chairs. It is embedded within the IDLab of Ghent University, as well as the UGent Artificial Intelligence institute.

Ghent University:

Ghent University is the largest university in Belgium, and a leading research-intensive university world-wide, ranking consistently within the top-100 in international rankings that value research.

The city of Ghent in Belgium, at the heart of Europe:

Belgium is a small country at the heart of Europe, benefiting from one of the best social security and healthcare systems in the world.
Ghent is a picturesque historical but vibrant town, with an international mindset and an active startup scene. It is home to a large expat community. You will find it easy to get around speaking just English.
Brussels (30 mins), Amsterdam (2 hours), Paris (2.5 hours), London (3 hours) are all within a short train ride’s distance.

Application procedure:

Applications are welcome until all positions are filled. A first cut-off date is Sunday 23 June, with Skype interviews scheduled to take place end of June and early July. To be considered, applications must include:

A Concise CV (any format).
A motivation letter (~1 page).
A list of 3 referees with their contact details, and whether they can be already contacted.
For PhD applicants: a trannoscript of your Masters degree.
Applications should be sent by email to tijl.debie@ugent.be. IMPORTANT NOTE: the subject line of your email should be structured as follows (whichever applies):

“[PhD application 2019] first name, last name”
“[Postdoc application 2019] first name, last name”
Emails with different subject lines will probably be overlooked.

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Funded postdoc in developmental neurobiology, U Mass-Amherst

The Pallas lab will be moving from Georgia State University to the University of Massachusetts- Amherst in summer 2019. We are looking for a highly motivated postdoc who is well-trained in electrophysiological approaches to understanding development and plasticity of mammalian visual function. Our interests include: the roles of patterning genes and neural activity in directing the construction of the synaptic connectivity responsible for visual perception; the mechanisms that allow recovery of visual function following injury or sensory deprivation; the regulation of critical periods of synaptic plasticity; and the evolution of developmental mechanisms. Our approaches include in vivo and in vitro electrophysiology, pharmacological manipulation of neural activity, imaging of neurons and neural pathways, gene and protein expression assays, manipulation of gene expression using viral vectors, use of transgenic and knockout mice, and behavioral assays of perception. The successful candidate will receive strong mentoring by a supportive PI. ...

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Research Fellow Position in Seizure Prediction

We have a Research Fellow opening through a collaboration between the University of Melbourne and Monash University for someone to develop and crowdsource machine learning and data science approaches to solving seizure prediction. Seizure prediction will enable the generation of warnings so a person with epilepsy can move to safety, or activation of electrical stimulation or drug delivery to prevent seizures. Our team leverages unique long-term human brain activity data to find novel, clinically relevant solutions to seizure prediction, and publishes these findings in the highest impact neurology journals (Lancet Neurology, Nature Reviews Neurology, Nature Neuroscience, Brain, PNAS).

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Postdoctoral Researcher in Computer Science at University of Helsinki

for a three-year fixed-term period (the starting date of which can be negotiated) in the area of applied interaction design, data science, or digital humanities. Particularly, we desire people whose interests would align with developing tools and workflows to study complex phenomena in massive collections of text and structured data. Application areas include how the relationship between politics and media has developed in the 21st century, how claims to fame are argued in EU food origin protection requests, what the geographical and dialectical distribution of themes in folk poetry is, how the public sphere developed in the 18th and 19th centuries, and more.

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Post-doctoral Fellow in Embedded Information Processing

The research group on Computer Engineering (https://www.tec.ee.ethz.ch), as a part of the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering (https://ee.ethz.ch) at ETH Zurich(Swiss Federal Institute of Technology https://www.ethz.ch), has an opening for a post-doctoral fellow. The Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory offers a creative international environment, a possibility to conduct highly competitive research on a global scale and involvement in teaching.
Post-doctoral Fellow in Embedded Information Processing
The position is devoted to scientific research in the area of embedded information processing, in particular for applications in mobile systems, internet of things, cyberphysical systems or sensor networks. The research is driven by our installations at several field sites in high alpine regions (permafrost research and early warning) as well as air pollution monitoring, but also involves diverse applications on a much smaller scale. Our current research focus relates to fundamental challenges like highly dependable wireless protocols, embedded machine learning and edge computing, and low energy data processing and decision-making.

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Postdoctoral position Mechanisms of Inflammation

A postdoctoral position is available in Fabio Martinon's laboratoryat the Department of Biochemistry, University of Lausanne(UNIL), Switzerland.( http://www.unil.ch/central/en/home.html ).

The Department of Biochemistry is part of the Faculty of Biology and Medicine and offers an outstanding environment for a successful postdoctoral career. The research campus is located in Epalinges (north of Lausanne), and is part of the Center of Immunity and Infection (CIIL) that also includes the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research (LICR) and several groups of the Lausanne University Hospital CHUV. The research focus is on Cell biology, Immunology and Cancer.

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PhD Position in Heart Rate Variability, Dynamics and Control During Exercise (SNSF)

This project will investigate the natural, physiological phenomenon known as heart rate variability (HRV). HRV arises from the regulatory activities of the autonomic nervous system which causes fluctuations in heart rate (HR) over short and long timescales. It is important to better understand the characteristics of HRV, and to develop accurate and robust systems for automatic control of HR for various exercise modalities such as cycle ergometry and treadmill exercise. This is because HR is a convenient-to-use variable that is widely adopted to characterise exercise intensity and to prescribe exercise-training and rehabilitation programmes.

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Postdoctoral position in ancient plant genomics in ERC-funded project TIMBER

The project
The project ‘TIMBER’ Northern Europe's timber resource - chronology, origin and exploitation, led by Aoife Daly, has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 677152). In this project, timber in Northern Europe is being studied, to attain a precise chronology for trade of timber over a long time period (c. 1100 to 1700). Using material and textual evidence to identify the source of timber (provenance) the aim is to map the trade in this construction material and to show the regional and temporal fluctuations in timber exploitation and availability. Using a multi-disciplinary approach (archaeological analysis, archival research and a range of archaeological sciences) on a variety of specific case studies, the team is working together to analyse the sources and destinations of traded timber through time.

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PhD position in Faculty of Educational Sciences

The internationally esteemed Faculty of Educational Sciences at the University of Helsinki is Finland’s leading unit of research and teaching in educational sciences and teacher education. The aim of the Faculty’s research and teaching is to optimally realise the cultural and social potential of people for the benefit of individuals and humanity.

The Faculty of Educational Sciences invites applications for the position of
DOCTORAL STUDENT

The appointment is for a fixed term (1 September 2019–30 August 2022).

The duties of the doctoral student include dissertation work and the completion of doctoral studies. The doctoral student will carry out research related to education in the Connected Classroom Nordic (CCN) project. CCN is part of the Nordic Centre of Excellence: Quality in Nordic Teaching (QUINT), funded by NordForsk

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Postdoctoral Researcher - "Functional Soft Material".

We are soliciting applications for a Postdoctoral Researcher position at the Deep-Sea Nanotechnology Research Group, Research Center for Bioscience and Nanoscience.

Details of the activity of the group can be found at:
http://www.jamstec.go.jp/cebn/deepsea_nano/e/index.html

The successful applicant will be expected to develop clean chemical processes inspired by the unique physicochemical properties of deep-sea extreme environments and to use them to fabricate functional soft materials. For examples of bottom-up nano-emulsification (https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201301403) and ultrafast radical polymerization https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.7b00293, go to the associated URLs.

[Relevant Research Fields]
Materials chemistry, colloid and surface chemistry, polymer chemistry, applied physics, any other fields related to materials science

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UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL PhD Assistant,

Information Management Institute, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Neuchâtel
Where: Neuchâtel
When: starting from 01.09.2019 or upon agreement
Period: maximum 4 years, with annual renewal
Salary: according to the University regulations
Academic qualifications:
Master degree in one of the following domains: Computer Science, Information Systems, Applied
Mathematics, Operations Research; or an equivalent noscript.
Job denoscription:
Teaching - Labs and seminars for the courses offered by the institute (bachelor and master level), conducted
in French or English; student support, exam preparation.
Research - The candidate is committed to achieve a PhD thesis in one of the Institute's fields of competence:
data analysis (data mining, machine learning, big data) or knowledge representation (ontologies).

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3 Postdocs in the field of climate dynamics and earth system modelling (1.0 FTE)

JOB DESCRIPTION
The Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research invites applications for 3 Postdoctoral Researchers in the field of climate dynamics and earth system modelling. The successful candidates will be part of the EU-funded H2020 project “Tipping Points of the Earth System” (TiPES), funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 820970) and will work on (1) earth system modelling of palaeoclimate, (2) theoretical concepts for climate sensitivity and (3) tipping in stochastic climate models.

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PhD Research Fellowship position in Planetary Sciences

Job denoscription
A PhD Research Fellowship position in Planetary Sciences is available at the Centre for Earth Evolution and Dynamics (CEED) at the University of Oslo (UiO).

The fellowship period is for 4 years, with 3 years devoted to carrying out one of the two project alternatives given below. The position also entails a compulsory work load of 25 % that may consist of teaching, supervision duties, and research assistance.

No one can be appointed for more than one PhD Research Fellowship period at the University of Oslo. Starting date no later than 01.10.2019.

There is the choice between two topical options:

A) Mars a habitable planet?

Two missions will land on Mars early 2021 (ExoMars2020 and Mars2020). Both will be dedicated to the study of whether Mars have been once a habitable planet and whether there are relics of life to be found. Mars2020 will also cache samples for future return to Earth. Using spectral and other remote sensing data to describe the composition and morphology, and using cratering statistics to establish a timeline will be the tasks of this project. This work can be complimented by experimental assessment of environmental conditions throughout Martian history.

B) Earth-like exoplanets

Two missions (Plato and Ariel) will in the late 2020ies provide exciting new data on planets in earth-like orbits and of earth-like size. Will we find another Earth? Using all currently available data for exoplanets and our understanding of planetary system evolution, the goal is to examine how likely it is that we will find a planet in similar conditions like those of our Earth. One of the goals is to predict the potential planets from star composition, condensation sequences, degassing, and star planet interaction. This approach is highly challenging as it covers the entire planet formation and evolution, but also allows for a large diversity of studies, which have been performed so far only for gas and ice giants. These will be compared to currently known earth-like planets and future discoveries.

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9 PHD POSITIONS ON ANALOG AND RF INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DESIGN

JOB DESCRIPTION
The University of Twente is located in the east of the Netherlands. It offers a dynamic campus, excellent facilities and the possibility to work in- and with- famous research groups.

Professor Bram Nauta’s Integrated Circuit Design (ICD) group focuses on various aspects of analog and Radio Frequency (RF) Integrated Circuits (IC). The group's motto is “fundamental solutions for practical problems” and under this vision, it has contributed many fundamental new ideas in circuit design. The IC Design group has made high-impact inventions in analog filters, thermal noise cancelling amplifiers, ultra-low power analog to digital converters, software-defined radio, mixer-first receivers, N-path filters and sub-sampling phase locked loops. The group is a world leader and initiator of many new research directions, which also find their application in industrial products. The group has a strong collaboration with the global semiconductor industry.

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Postdoctoral researcher in computational chemistry

We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher in organic computational chemistry, temporary position for two years.

This postdoctoral project aims at the investigation of three-center-four-electron halogen and tetrel bond complexes. The specific task of the postdoctoral researcher will be the computational denoscription of the complexes of N-C-N and N-C-N complexes. Being part of a collaborative project the postdoctoral researcher will be involved into a multidisciplinary chemical environment and will take part of discussions with synthetic organic chemists and NMR spectroscopists.

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Research Assistant, School of Management

The post holder will contribute to scientific research, commercialisation and software development efforts for projects in computer security and the Internet of Things, following the university policies, goals, and objectives; comprehensively investigate and develop technical solutions to meet the research objectives and assist in technical report writing.

Funded by Agor IP, post holder will be employed by the School of Management in Swansea University but will work on a collaborative project with University of Wales Trinity Saint David (UWTSD) computing school. The post holder will have full access to UWTSD facilities and resources and will be based in labs in the SA1 Campus working with the academics at UWTSD

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NMR : Research Scientist/Postdoctoral Fellow

KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS:

PhD in Biomolecular NMR with 1-2 years of postdoctoral research experience with peer-reviewed publications in the relevant field
Demonstrated track record in setting up NMR experiments in-house by operating, calibrating 600 and 800 MHz NMR instrumentation is essential
Expertise in any of the NMR techniques like Water LOGSY, STD, NOESY, HSQC, etc., applied to the study of protein:ligand complexes and fragment-based drug discovery is essential
Experience in backbone and sidechain assignments using 3D NMR experiments is essential
Hands on experience in recombinant protein expression, purification and N15 labeling is desirable
Working knowledge of techniques like FPLC, circular dichromism, isothermal calorimetry (ITC), dynamic light scattering (DLS), Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) etc., would be an advantage·
The candidate should be able to collect, process data and interpret protein ligand interactions and if needed develop new experiments/pulse programs and analysis noscripts.

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Opportunities for PhD scholarships in Health Economics 2020, Monash University

If you are looking for a rigorous graduate training, and want to make a substantial research contribution to the economics of health and health care, the Centre for Health Economics at Monash University offers a fully funded PhD in Health Economics.

Generous scholarships covering all fees and a stipend, plus travel costs are available for suitably qualified individuals. There are further opportunities for travel and the potential to study for up to one year at one of our partner institutions in Europe or USA.

PhDs are available in all areas of health economics, but we specifically encourage those within the current research programs of our experienced supervisors. For more information on who we are and what we do and the range of our current research interests, click here.

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Doctoral position in work and organizational psychology: Future of Work (80-100%), ETH Zurich

The research will be conducted within the NCCR Digital fabrication and aims at understanding how new technologies change human work and the organization of work in the field of architecture and construction. In collaboration with research teams in architecture and engineering, methods will be developed and validated that support socio-technical design where technological innovation happens in line with desired scenarios for the future of work.
We offer excellent working conditions, affiliation with an internationally recognized and highly motivated research team, and outstanding opportunities for enhancing one's own academic and practice-oriented competencies and networks.
We are looking for a candidate with a master's degree in work and organizational psychology (or a similar degree), a strong interest in multidisciplinary research, knowledge in both qualitative and quantitative research methods, and an excellent command of both German and English.

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