PhD student and Post-doc for Photoacoustic Breast Imaging
At the University of Twente, The Netherlands, we are developing photoacoustic imaging to address the limitations of the current technologies for breast cancer imaging. At this moment in our advanced research program within the Biophysical Engineering Group (BPE) with strong collaborations with the clinic, we are poised to make a major impact on the breast imaging paradigm.
We have two vacancies in the team that will develop a new instrument which enables full breast imaging on patients. The goal of this instrument is to detect and/or diagnose breast cancer with high resolution, sensitivity and reliability. This technology will be demonstrated in a study of up to 60 abnormalities (invasive ductal carcinomas and a sub-set of benign tumours) in patients.
The vacancies are for 1 PhD student and 1 Post-doctoral researcher. The successful candidates in collaboration with a technician and Masters students, will design and develop the Photoacoustic Mammoscope (PAM-II) and participate in its validation on patient trials. This will involve researching ultrasound detector elements from collaborators and selecting the most suitable material and architecture for a detector array. Further, design and development of a patient-instrument interface will be undertaken including an appropriate light delivery system. New image reconstruction algorithms that incorporate corrections for acoustic heterogeneities and that allow quantitation of optical absorption coefficient will be implemented. Comprehensive testing of hardware and image reconstruction algorithms will be done on phantoms. The instrument will at a certain point be installed in the Breast Care facility of a hospital where the clinical trials will take place.
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November 18th, 2008
2 PhD students of Semiconductor Components
Enschede, 7500 AE, (Overijssel), 38 hours per week University of Twente
Job description
2 PhD students Semiconductor Components
Tasks
The first Ph.D. student will use a custom-built, modern CVD system to deposit high-quality dielectric layers. These layers will be patterned and characterized for their optical properties, using in-situ and ex-situ measurements. Supervision will be given by experts in CVD and experts in optical characterization of the University of Twente. The student will cooperate closely with staff of the research group of Integrated Optics (IOMS). The aim is to develop waveguides and ring resonating structures at much lower process temperatures than presently common, to allow CMOS wafer post-processing.
The second Ph.D. student will study band-to-band light emission from silicon. This emission behaviour is not well understood and only recently, researchers have made silicon LEDs with this principle, that have a reasonable power efficiency. The study will involve the development and testing of new models describing the light generation process; and a verification of these models by electrical and optical measurements. For both, the infrastructure (device modeling software, optical and electrical testing equipment, light-emitting devices) is already in place. The student will work closely with a Ph.D. student responsible for the realization of new silicon LED’s.
Requirements
University Graduate
Tasks
The first Ph.D. student will use a custom-built, modern CVD system to deposit high-quality dielectric layers. These layers will be patterned and characterized for their optical properties, using in-situ and ex-situ measurements. Supervision will be given by experts in CVD and experts in optical characterization of the University of Twente. The student will cooperate closely with staff of the research group of Integrated Optics (IOMS). The aim is to develop waveguides and ring resonating structures at much lower process temperatures than presently common, to allow CMOS wafer post-processing.
The second Ph.D. student will study band-to-band light emission from silicon. This emission behaviour is not well understood and only recently, researchers have made silicon LEDs with this principle, that have a reasonable power efficiency. The study will involve the development and testing of new models describing the light generation process; and a verification of these models by electrical and optical measurements. For both, the infrastructure (device modeling software, optical and electrical testing equipment, light-emitting devices) is already in place. The student will work closely with a Ph.D. student responsible for the realization of new silicon LED’s.
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February 3rd, 2008
PhD for the project “Cultural, Political and Religious Ideologies and the Appraisal of New Media”
Enschede, 7500 AE, (Overijssel), 38 hours per week University of Twente
Job description
PhD Cultural, Political and Religious Ideologies and the Appraisal of New Media
The PhD position is part of a prestigious and exciting international research project in philosophy named “Evaluating the Cultural Quality of New Media”. This five-year project, which includes six researchers and involves collaboration with leading international scholars and research centres, has as its aim to develop a framework for better normative analyses of new media and new media culture, especially in relation to their contribution to the quality of life (”the good life”) and the quality of society. Project leader is Prof. Dr. Philip Brey. The project is part of a new international Centre of Excellence in Ethics and Technology (http://www.ethicsandtechnology.eu) of the departments of philosophy of Twente University, Delft University of Technology and Eindhoven University of Technology.
Tasks
The aim of the PhD project is to perform a study of interpretations and evaluations of new media and their consequences that are made by representatives of major ideologies or worldviews, with the aim of assessing how they relate to conceptions of the good life and the good society held by these ideologies. It will involve a study of liberal, communitarian, conservative, religious and post materialist evaluations of new media, and will try to assess how the benefits and harms of new media cultures are and can be evaluated within these ideologies. It will also provide normative critiques of current ideological stances regarding new media.
Requirements
University Graduate
Profile
A Master’s degree or equivalent degree in philosophy, preferably with a background in ethics and/or social or political philosophy.
Consideration will also be given to candidates with a multidisciplinary Master’s degree on a topic relevant to the project and some background in philosophy, and to exceptional (international) candidates with only a bachelor’s degree in philosophy.
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February 3rd, 2008
To carry out the recently awarded Dutch (NWO) research project entitled “Graphs for Abstract Interpretation of Languages” (GRAIL), we are offering a position for a PhD student (fully funded) for a period of four years.
- Deadline for applications: December 15th, 2007
- Project start date: January 2008, or as soon thereafter as possible
The Context
The project takes place at the Formal Methods and Tools chair of the University of Twente. This chair is part of the Department of Computer Science, one of the largest academic departments for computer science in the Netherlands. Project leader is Dr. Arend Rensink.
The Project
Graphs for Abstract Interpretation of Languages (GRAIL)
As more and more systems in our everyday environment contain major software parts, and we are depending on such systems more and more (we are counting on them), the importance of the dependability of the embedded software is increasing. Unfortunately, there are still very few generally applicable methods for software verification, i.e., the ensurance of its correct functioning under all circumstances. Reasons for this are, one the one hand, the degree of expertise necessary for existing verification methods, and on the other, their poor embedding in the average software development trajectory. An important practical objection is, moreover, that current verification methods typically assume the existence of a sufficiently detailed and precise model of system behavior. In practice such models hardly ever exist, and the time and expertise to construct them is missing. Examples of methods that are being used widely in practice are therefore typing and testing, neither of which necessarily depends on the pre-existence of models.
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November 6th, 2007
The Netherlands Fellowship Programmes (NFP) are demand-driven fellowship programmes designed to foster capacity building within organizations in 57 countries in development by providing training and education to their mid-career staff members. The NFP are funded by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs from the budget for development cooperation.
The need for education and training must occur within the organization of the applicant. This means that applicants must be nominated by their employers. In fact, applications without the support of an employer will not be considered.
Nuffic (the Netherlands Organization for International Cooperation in Higher Education) administers the NFP on behalf of the Minister for Development Cooperation. The Minister determines the policy that governs the framework of the NFP programme. Nuffic manages and monitors the programmes as a whole. The Dutch organizations selected to provide the required education and training are responsible for awarding and administering the fellowships.
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September 23rd, 2007
We offer a Ph.D.-student position in the Solid State Physics group (SSP) of the
University of Twente.
The research of SSP is an integral part of the MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology. Well-defined morphological patterns and functional patterned molecular coatings will be studied to improve control of the wettability of surfaces. Both the macroscopic and microscopic features of such structures and their collaborative effects will be studied. The molecular coatings for wetting control will be applied by two different techniques, microcontact printing and shadow-mask evaporation. Both the influence of the length scale and the anisotropy of the patterns on the macroscopic wettability are of interest. The combination of length scales in the micron range with those in the nanometer range is promising for gaining improved wettability control, especially in gradient patterned surfaces. Nanometer sized structure will be implemented by means of ion beam induced erosion, both in 0D (dots) and 1D (stripes).
This project aims at a fundamental investigation of the interrelationships between roughness and functional coating. The laboratory scale experiments will be performed with mainly optical tools (ADSA-P and interference microscopy), combined with high-resolution microscopy (AFM and possibly LEEM). The findings are thought to be relevant for application in high-tech printing technology.
Organisation:
University of Twente, MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology The MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology at the University of Twente trains graduate students and PhD-students and conducts interdisciplinary research in the fields of nanotechnology, microsystems, materials science and microelectronics.
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December 4th, 2006