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Improving biosensor performance through mathematical modeling (IRO scholarship)

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Promoter: Guy Vandenbosch and Jeroen Lammertyn

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Description: In nowadays society, food quality and safety are crucial themes. Whereas in industrialized countries, the importance of these issues is considered evident, and consequently the necessary budgets are invested, this is not always possible in the case of developing countries. Easy and cheap detection of directly related phenomena like food allergy, detection of toxins and pathogens, and also cheaper techniques for waste water and soil monitoring would help enormously.
Recently, the MeBioS-Biosensor research group (www.biosensors.be) of prof. Lammertyn has developed an innovative technology based on fiber optic surface plasmon resonance (SPR). The biosensor has a great potential as reusable, cost-effective and label free biosensor for measuring antibody-antigen, DNA hybridization and DNA-protein interactions. This means that this sensor can contribute considerably in the multitude of applications listed above. To this goal, special attention will be paid to design the biosensor - through modeling - as a low cost portable device for ‘in the field’ measurements.
The optical fiber probes are composed of many (bio)nanostructured layers. First the fiber is sputtered with a 50 nm gold layer which is then covered with a protein repulsive self assembled monolayer of mixed polyethylene glycol (PEG). Following streptavidin is attached to the PEG‘s carboxyl groups to serve as a versatile binding element for biotinylated ssDNA or proteins. In a first test the ssDNA coated SPR-fibers were successfully evaluated as a nucleic acid biosensor through a DNA-DNA hybridization assay. In a second assay the fiber optic SPR biosensor was functionalized with ssDNA aptamers as bioreceptor molecules. Finally, antiobody-antigen interactions were studied. The biosensor proved not only to be useful for DNA and protein quantification purposes, but also to reveal the binding kinetics occurring at the sensor surface. Although low limits of detection and quantification are obtained many medical and food diagnostic applications require even lower detection limits. Hereto the fiber optic sensor needs further optimization with respect to the electromagnetic signal transduction.
The fact that the sensor structure is multilayered generates a direct link with the research group ESAT-TELEMIC. Prof. Vandenbosch’s team has developed its own electromagnetic solver, called MAGMAS3D, based on the method of moments, and focusing on arbitrary multilayered structures (see www.esat.kuleuven.be/telemic/antennas/magmas/). MAGMAS3D has taken many years to develop, 5 Ph.D. projects and numerous Master thesis projects. The availability of MAGMAS3D is a unique asset since the source code is available and fully accessible for modification and extension. This is not the case for commercial solvers, where only the executable is available. This means that the MAGMAS3D code can be extended in the direction of new research goals, studying new types of topologies. In principle MAGMAS is applicable in any field of science where electromagnetics is important. The purpose of this PhD. is to adjust, improve and extend the existing MAGMAS software, in close cooperation with the MAGMAS development team, and to apply it for optimization purposes of the abovementioned biosensor configuration. This PhD. work includes both theoretical aspects as well as practical experiments and will be supervised by both promoters.

Key words: electromagnetic modeling, food safety and monitoring techniques, biosensors

Latest application date: 2009-12-31

Financing: iro-scholarship

Type of Position: scholarship

Duration of the Project : 4 years

Research group: Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT)

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Non-contact life detection system for natural disaster situations (IRO scholarship)

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Promoter: Dominique Schreurs

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Description: Natural disaster situations such as floods and earth quakes often lead to major damages like collapsed houses and buildings. In such emergency situations, time is primordial to detect trapped persons. The aim of this PhD is to develop an inexpensive, portable life detection system based on the principle of radar. It should measure vital functions, such as heart and respiratory rates, and be able to estimate the number of persons trapped. As it is of importance that the parameters be optimised to allow sufficient penetration through building debris, the design is to be tailored as according to the local circumstances, such as typical building materials, in the PhD candidate’s country of origin.

Key words: natural disasters, life detection, radar, microwave engineering

Latest application date: 2009-12-31

Financing: iro-scholarship

Type of Position: scholarship

Source of Funding: IRO

Duration of the Project : 4 years

Research group: Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT)

Remarks: The applicant should have a degree in electronic engineering. If the applicant is not familiar yet with microwave techniques, the knowledge can be acquired through the pre-doc.

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Analog interface circuits for advanced 3D-stacked imagers

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Promoter: Georges Gielen

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Description: Silicon-based image sensors are finding their way into more and more application domains, as the level of integration and miniaturization is drastically increasing: automotive, biomedical, security and surveillance, industrial etc. These emerging applications pose a number of requirements on the silicon-based image sensor that can be summarized by means of the following trends: increasing number of pixels at higher fill factor, smarter image sensors, combined sensitivity to both the visual spectrum as well as to (near) infrared (NIR) or ultraviolet (UV). Within the context of a project to develop a generic platform for future silicon-based image sensor applications, this PhD thesis will investigate and design innovative analog interface circuits that enable 3D-stacked imagers. Emphasis is on both architectural work and detailed circuit design and implementation.

Key words: analog integrated circuits - sensor interfaces - smart imagers

Latest application date: 2010-11-30

Financing: available

Type of Position: scholarship

Duration of the Project : 4 years

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Research group: Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT)

Remarks: project and PhD start on Jan 1, 2010

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Designing reliable analog circuits in unreliable technologies

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Promoter: Georges Gielen

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Description: Reliability of electronic systems is important for many applications. Especially in safety-critical applications such as biomedical or automotive, absolute reliability needs to be guaranteeds, essentially aiming for zero-ppm dropout or failure rates. This therefore calls for self-repairing zero-ppm electronic systems, by developing circuit/architectural design techniques and a design framework for building reliable and robust electronic systems using advanced and increasingly unreliable semiconductor technologies.

Today, reliability is guaranteed intrinsically by the technology: technologies are developed such that in all yielding chips that satisfy the tests after fabrication, no part anywhere in the chip staying within the stress bounds (e.g. voltage bounds) given by the technology, will fail during the lifetime of the chip. Unfortunately, due to nano-scale realities with many time-varying degradation mechanisms and increasing variations, reliability can no longer be guaranteed at the technology level and risks to become a show-stopper for the development of novel electronic systems. Recent design solutions on exploiting and introducing hardware redundancy to enhance reliability and reliability-aware power management only marginally improve product lifetimes while several orders of magnitude improvement are necessary.

To overcome the reliability bottleneck for analog/mixed-signal circuits, this PhD project aims at improving the reliability of these circuits with at least an order of magnitude, bringing it close to the ideal limit of “zero ppm”, even when using unreliable nanometer silicon technologies. This is accomplished on the one hand by developing circuit/architectural design techniques to make systems self-repairing w.r.t. reliability problems, and on the other hand by developing novel failure-resilient analog circuit design techniques that can cope with (time-varying) degradation mechanisms and variability by self-repair rather than pure redundancy. This requires monitoring or measuring of the effects on chip after fabrication, and then changing the circuits over time through reconfiguration and/or recalibration. The methodology will be illustrated through design and measurements of actual analog/mixed-signal test circuits with largely improved performance/reliability compared to the state of the art.

Key words: analog & mixed-signal integrated circuits - reliability

Latest application date: 2010-12-15

Financing: available

Type of Position: scholarship

Duration of the Project : 4 years

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Research group: Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT)

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BCRYPT: Belgian Fundamental Research and Cryptology and Information Security

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Promoter: Bart De Decker

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Description: In the last decade, the insight has grown that developing secure software implementations is much more challenging than originally anticipated: the discipline of information security engineering has as goal to bridge the gap between the world of mathematics and modeling and that of building secure systems.

This research track focuses on design methodologies and policies for privacy-preserving and anonymous services.

Key words: secure software engineering, composition, software vulnerabilities, design methodologies, privacy, anonymity

Latest application date: 2009-12-31

Financing: available

Type of Position: scholarship

Link: https://www.cosic.esat.kuleuven.be/bcrypt/

Research group: Department of Computer Science

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Switzerland Computational Linguistics: PhD Studentship, University of Geneva
University or Organization: University of Geneva
Department: Computer Science Department
Job Location: Geneva, Switzerland
Web Address: http://cui.unige.ch
Job Rank: PhD Studentship
Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; Statistical Machine Translation
Description:
Applications are invited for a PhD position in the Computational Learning
and Computational Linguistics (CLCL) group of the University of Geneva
(http://clcl.unige.ch/). The successful candidate will pursue research in
connection with a project on statistical machine translation funded by the
Swiss National Science Foundation, in collaboration with researchers in
Geneva’s Linguistics Department and the IDIAP Research Institute.

Candidates should have a solid background in computer science or
computational linguistics. They should have excellent programming skills as
well as communication skills in English (and ideally in French as well).
Preference will be given to candidates with a strong interest and/or
experience in machine learning or statistical methods, and in computational
linguistics or natural language processing. A strong academic record,
excellent analytical skills, and a clear aptitude for autonomous, creative
research will be priority selection criteria.
Funding is guaranteed for 3 years through a Swiss National Science
Foundation PhD studentship, with a possible extension for a fourth year.
Starting salary will be around the range 3300-4400 CHF/month (gross)
depending on the conditions of employment (1 CHF = 0.66 EUR).
The position is available starting 1 March 2010 or soon thereafter. We will
begin considering applications immediately, and will give priority to
applications received before 30 November 2009.
How to apply:
Applicants should send their curriculum vitae, academic transcripts
indicating their degrees and all their courses with grades, a statement of
purpose, and names and addresses (with e-mail and telephone number) of at
least two references to the email address James.Henderson@unige.ch, or to
the postal address given below. Electronic applications are strongly preferred.
Informal inquiries should be directed to Dr. James Henderson at
James.Henderson@unige.ch or Dr. Paola Merlo at Paola.Merlo@unige.ch.
About the institution:
CLCL is an interdisciplinary group between the Artificial Intelligence
Laboratory of the Computer Science Department and the Laboratory for the
Analysis and Technology of Language of the Linguistics Department. Further
information on related research activities of the CLCL group can be found
on the CLCL group’s website (http://clcl.unige.ch/) and on the home pages
of Dr. James Henderson (http://cui.unige.ch/~hendersj/) and Dr. Paola Merlo
(http://www.latl.unige.ch/personal/paola.html).
The University of Geneva is one of the leading research universities in
Europe and offers excellent working conditions, as well as a stimulating
scientific environment. The University of Geneva wishes to increase the
proportion of female academic staff and, for this reason, especially
welcomes applications from women.
Keywords: computational linguistics, natural language processing, machine
learning, machine translation
Application Deadline: 07-Dec-2009
Mailing Address for Applications:
Dr James Henderson
CUI – University of Geneva
Battelle bâtiment A
7 route de Drize
Carouge, Geneva CH-1227
Switzerland
Email Address for Applications: James.Henderson@unige.ch
Contact Information:
Dr James Henderson
Email: James.Henderson@unige.ch

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FINLAND; 12 PhD Positions at VTT Graduate School
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland is an impartial and multitechnological R&D organisation that provides high-end technology solutions and innovation services. VTT promotes the development of industries and public services, the wellbeing of society, the health and safety of the environment, and improves the knowledge base for political decision-making. From its wide knowledge base, VTT can combine different technologies, create new innovations and a substantial range of world-class technologies and applied research services, thus improving sustainable development in the society and competitiveness and competence of industries world-wide.

VTT is launching an international graduate school in the beginning of 2010 to attract new, motivated researchers. We are looking for 12 new PhD students that are expected to contribute to development of our prominent technological competences.
Job description
PhD students participate in high level research work at VTT on selected strategically relevant topics within a collaborative project environment. PhD work is done for four consecutive years under professional scientific supervision by highly experienced and competent senior researchers. The PhD thesis should be finalized within the four-year period and fulfil high level scientific standards. The open positions are related to applied materials, bio and chemical processes, energy, information and communication technologies, and microtechnologies and electronics.
Expectations
•a solid academic background with an MSc in relevant fields
•scientific ambition, motivation and strong interest in cutting-edge research
•team working skills in an international working environment
•inventiveness and initiative personality
•good analytical and problem solving skills
•excellent English language skills
We offer you
•an opportunity to contribute to the strategic capabilities of a world-class research organization
•outstanding PhD supervision by top research scientists of your field
•excellent prospects for personal development
•an innovative work community for aspiring researchers
•a work contract for 1 + 3 years
•assistance with housing and other relocation issues
Schedule

Please apply before the 31st of December 2009. PhD positions can be started flexibly during spring 2010.
Apply to Graduate School positions
http://careers.fi/vtt/careers.cgi?lang=uk
Additional information
Johanna Buchert
Vice President, Strategic Research
+358 20 722 5146
Riitta Tolvanen
Senior Vice President, HR
+358 20 722 4075
Ritva Vainio
Relocation issues
+358 20 722 7030
Positions for PhD students – VTT Graduate School starts in spring 2010
http://www.vtt.fi/careers/vtt_graduate_school.jsp?lang=en

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PhD Scholarship in Bio Engineering

A 3-year PhD scholarship is available at the Department of Electrical Engineering in the Biomedical Engineering group from January/February 2010.

The student will have access to a state of the art laboratory to work on a variety of projects using humans, or animals. Research topics include but are not restricted to: 1) developing an interface between neural activity recorded from motor cortex and a functional neuromuscular stimulation system to activate paralyzed muscles, 2) studying the role of the motor cortex during human walking 3) elucidating the structural and functional organization of the motor cortex.

The student is supervised in a mentoring environment; experiments as well as a considerable amount of data analysis are done in close collaboration with the advisor. Additionally, the student will have the opportunity to work on a regular basis with senior researchers who come to do collaborative work in the laboratory. The training environment is rich, varied and purposefully guided. A solid training in electrical engineering, bioengineering, or physiology/neuro-science is required.

Qualifications
Candidates should have a master's degree in engineering or a similar degree with an academic level equivalent to the master's degree. Knowledge of Matlab or a programming language would also be beneficial.

Interested candidates should contact Dr. Charles Capaday, chc@elektro.dtu.dk

Approval and Enrolment
The scholarships for the PhD degree are subject to academic approval, and the candidates will be enrolled in one of the general degree programs of DTU. For information about the general requirements for enrolment and the general planning of the scholarship studies, please see the DTU PhD Guide.This usually takes 1-2 months from filing the application until the student can start.

Salary and appointment terms
The salary and appointment terms are consistent with the current rules for PhD degree students.

Further information
Further information is available at www.elektro.dtu.dk or from Dr Charles Capaday, tel: +45 4525 3911, e-mail: chc@elektro.dtu.dk

Application
We should have your online application by December 15, 2009. Please open the link “apply for this job online” and fill in the application form and attach your application and CV. The application must include curriculum vitae and documentation of a completed master’s diploma including grades.

All interested candidates irrespective of age, gender, race, religion or ethnic background are encouraged to apply.

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Up to 15 PhD positions at Faculty of Natural Sciences and Technology (NT- 82/09)


The Faculty of Natural Sciences and Technology (NT) at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) invite applicants for until 15 PhD research fellowships. The fellowships are open to applicants in all areas of research covered by the faculty. Further information on the faculty and its six departments is available at http://www.nt.ntnu.no .

The applicants are awarded PhD fellowships on a competitive basis, to help recruit talented candidates for the PhD programs administered by the faculty at http://www.ntnu.no/nt/english/phd

Applicants must have completed a master degree (MSc, MEng) or provide documentation of equivalent training in a field relevant to research pursued at one of NT’s departments, and must satisfy the formal grades requirements for admission to the PhD programmes at NTNU.

Promising candidates who deliver their master thesis within 1st of July are encouraged to apply. Regulations concerning the PhD at NTNU can be found at http://www.ntnu.no/nt/forskerutdanning/

In order to be accepted as a PhD candidate the grades of the MSc study have to be sufficiently high (in Norway: B/2.5 or better), or the applicant has to document a similar level through later scientific work. Candidates from universities outside Norway are kindly requested to send a Diploma Supplement or a similar document, which describes in detail the study and grade system and the rights for further studies associated with the obtained degree: http://ec.europa.eu/education/polici...iploma_en.html

Moreover, the candidates have to contact a relevant research group at the faculty to define a project. An outline of the project, signed by both the applicant and his/her prospective supervisor (faculty member in that research group) should be included with the application.

The appointment of the PhD research fellow will be made according to Norwegian guidelines for universities and university colleges and to the general regulations regarding university employees. Applicants for the position must agree to participate in organized doctoral study programs within the period of the appointment and have to be qualified for the PhD-study. A contract will be drawn up regarding the period of appointment.

The national labour force must reflect the composition of the population to the greatest possible extent. It is therefore a major political objective to achieve a balance of age and gender and to recruit persons with an immigrant background. Immigrants are encouraged to apply for this post. NTNU wants to increase the proportion of women in its scientific posts. Women are encouraged to apply.

PhD fellowships at NTNU are awarded for a period of 3 years but may be prolonged for a total period of 4 years incl. 25 % of teaching duties.

Further information on these fellowships can be obtained from the vice-dean for research, Åse Krøkje, phone +47 73 59 61 26, email Ase.Krokje@nt.ntnu.no or the dean, Bjørn Hafskjold, phone +47 73 59 44 87, email bjorn.hafskjold@nt.ntnu.no, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Technology, NTNU.

The positions will be administratively connected to the department where the main supervisor is located.

The start salary for the PhD research fellow is set at code 1017, level 45, NOK 355 400 (before tax) in the Norwegian state salary scale. 2% of the salary will be deducted at source as a mandatory premium to the Norwegian State Pension Fund.

The application must include curriculum vitae with information on the candidate’s prior training, exams, and work experience and in addition a brief outline of the project.

Applications with CV and other documents should be submitted electronically through this page (Apply for this job). Preferably we want the attachments in one file.

The reference number of the position is NT-82/09
Application deadline is 2010-01-25.

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PhD student position in ferroelectric devices and agile microwave circuits based on them

Reference number 2009/206
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Application deadline 2009-12-15
Our research at the Physical Electronics Laboratory is focused on new materials, devices and circuits for applications in microwave systems including (but not limited) mobile phones. We fabricate novel devices and evaluate these in various circuit demonstrators. Our laboratory has developed agile microwave components and circuits in a number of national (Swedish) and European Commission supported projects partly in collaboration with Ericsson AB and other European companies.

Job description
The project focuses on development of tunable microwave devices using smart functional materials and their applications in agile microwave circuits. Novel Film Bulk Acoustic wave Resonators (TFBAR) will be developed for applications in information and communications systems based on microwave (wireless) technologies. The tunable TFBARs are essentially new (patented) components based on electric field induced piezoelectric effect in paraelectric phase ferroelectrics. They allow development of radically new components, such as frequency selective switches (patented) and filters useful, for example, in mobile handsets. The tunable TFBARs allow drastic reduction of the size, power consumption and phase noise in one of the key microwave circuits - voltage controlled oscillators (VCO). The proposed novel components may be used also in a wide range of systems based on microwave technology such as sensors, wireless sensor systems, RF identification tags, radars (a utomotive, defense, space) etc.The work will include experimental study of the tuneable electro-acoustic properties of ferroelectric films at microwave frequencies, modelling of tuneable FBARs based on ferroelectric films, design/simulation and experimental characterisation of the microwave circuits (tuneable filters, VCOs, etc.) You will collaborate with other research staff members and PhD students from different disciplines. The devices will be fabricated at the Nanofabrication Laboratory at MC2, Chalmers. The project is supported by the Swedish research Council (Vetenskaprådet).
Qualifications
MS degree in electrical engineering or/and applied physics, knowledge/experience in circuit/microwave theory/design/simulation/measurements. We believe you are interested in applied science, creative and curious in a future career as a researcher. You find problem solving stimulating and like challenges. You are driven by curiosity, goal-oriented, and enjoy working in a team. We also believe you have good communication skills, good analytical and experimental skills and good ability to work independently towards the goals expressed in the project plans. We are encouraging women to apply for this position.
Application procedure

The application shall be written in English and include the following items:

1. An application of a maximum of one A4 page containing your specific qualifications for the position
2. Attested copies of education certificates, including grade reports and other documents
3. Curriculum Vitae
4. Letters of recommendation and name of reference persons (optional)

The application shall be sent electronically as pdf or zipped documents. Please use the button at the foot of the page to reach the application form.

If any material is not available electronically or cannot be transferred to pdf format, the material can be sent as a hard copy to Registrar. The applicants name and the reference number (2009/206) must be written on the first page of the application.
Address:
Registrar
Chalmers University of Technology
SE-412 96 Göteborg
Sweden
Further information
Spartak Gevorgian
Microtechnology and Nanoscience -MC2
Tel.: +46 31-7721727, +46 31 747 3294
email: spartak.gevorgian@ chalmers.se
Union representatives

• SACO: Jan Lindér
  
• ST: Marie Wenander
• SEKO: Johan Persson

All reachable via Chalmers exchange: +46 31 772 10 00

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