Hoofd Communicatie

Werkzaamheden
Als hoofd communicatie zorg je samen met de medewerkers van je afdeling voor een doeltreffende communicatie voor twee wetenschappelijke instituten, AMOLF en ARCNL. Daarnaast adviseer je de directies van de twee instituten over de communicatiestrategie.

Je schrijft en redigeert teksten over wetenschappelijke resultaten voor verschillende doelgroepen (denk aan persberichten, nieuwsberichten voor de website, digitale nieuwsbrief). Je speelt een actieve rol in het organiseren van outreach activiteiten voor de twee instituten. Ook ondersteun je onderzoekers op het gebied van wetenschapscommunicatie zodat ze hun onderzoek effectief overbrengen aan een breed publiek.

Als hoofd van de afdeling geef je leiding aan een team van vier medewerkers. Je geeft richting aan de inhoud van het werk van twee communicatiemedewerkers en twee medewerkers informatiebeheer, die zich richten op het openbaar maken van wetenschappelijke publicaties en onderzoeksresultaten, en het beheer van de bibliotheek.

Voor het succesvol uitvoeren van deze taken is het belangrijk dat je goede contacten onderhoudt met je collega’s en externe stakeholders. Zo heb je regelmatig overleg met de communicatiemedewerkers van andere NWO instituten en het bureau van de NWO-I koepelorganisatie.

Wat wij vragen
Je beschikt over HBO+/WO werk- en denkniveau. Je hebt een bèta opleiding en je hebt ervaring met het vak van communiceren, waardoor je de specialist bent om een complexe wetenschappelijke boodschap aantrekkelijk te presenteren aan verschillende doelgroepen.

Je houdt jezelf op de hoogte van communicatie- en sociaal maatschappelijke ontwikkelingen en vertaalt deze naar de uitvoering van het werk. Je beheerst de Nederlandse en Engelse taal uitstekend. Je beschikt over verantwoordelijkheidsgevoel en teamgeest. Leidinggevende ervaring is een pre, evenals affiniteit met informatiebeheer en de werkzaamheden van een wetenschappelijke bibliotheek.

Hier kom je te werken
De afdeling ondersteunt twee onderzoeksorganisaties; AMOLF en ARCNL. Bij deze organisaties op het Amsterdam Science Park werken in totaal circa 240 onderzoekers en 80 ondersteunende medewerkers. AMOLF initieert en verricht toonaangevend fundamenteel onderzoek aan nieuwe, strategisch belangrijke complexe molecuul- en materiaalsystemen, in samenwerking met de Nederlandse universiteiten en industrie. Zie ook www.amolf.nl.

Het Advanced Research Center for Nanolithography (ARCNL) verricht fundamenteel onderzoek aan de fysica en technologie van nano-lithografie, in het bijzonder voor toepassing in de halfgeleiderindustrie. Het ARCNL is een publiek-private samenwerking tussen ASML en meerdere kennisinstellingen. Zie ook www.arcnl.nl.

Wat wij bieden
De werksfeer op de twee instituten wordt in hoge mate bepaald door jonge, enthousiaste, veelal buitenlandse medewerkers. De communicatie is informeel en verloopt via korte lijnen. De secundaire arbeidsvoorwaarden zijn uitstekend. Inschaling vindt, afhankelijk van relevante kennis en ervaring, plaats in schaal 10 of 11, afhankelijk van opleiding en ervaring; maximaal € 5.870,- bruto per maand (incl. vakantiegeld en eindejaarsuitkering) bij een fulltime dienstverband. De omvang van het dienstverband is bespreekbaar, binnen het kader 32 - 40 uur per week. Het betreft een dienstverband van twee jaar, met de intentie van een aansluitend vast dienstverband.

Meer informatie?
Dr. Paula van Tijn

Instituutsmanager AMOLF

E-mail: p.v.tijn@amolf.nl

Telefoon: 020-754 7100

Solliciteren
Lijkt deze functie jou interessant? Solliciteer dan vóór 15 juni 2024 via onderstaande knop.

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Toward soft fluidic circuits that control the beating of a soft artificial heart

Work Activities
The Soft Robotic Matter group at AMOLF is seeking a Postdoc who will work together with the Holland Hybrid Heart (HHH) consortium on the design, fabrication and analysis of an artificial soft heart. The HHH consortium is a partnership between Erasmus MC, Eindhoven University of Technology, AMOLF, UTwente, Saxion, TU Delft, and several business partners. The consortium was awarded a 10M € grant by the Nederlandse Wetenschapsagenda. The HHH consortium aims in the next 7 years to conduct the necessary fundamental research, including the first chronic animal trials, to produce a soft artificial heart. The goal of the consortium is to mimic the natural contraction of the heart as much as possible, by generating a pulsatile flow, and coating the inside of the heart with a tissue-engineered lining. Our consortium acknowledges that this multidisciplinary project will only be successful if we work closely as a team.

Within the HHH consortium, your focus will be on controlling the beating of the HHH. You will explore how previously proposed pneumatic circuits can be used with liquids to transform a continuous inflow from a hydraulic pump into pulsating output that will activate the soft artificial muscles in the heart. The goal is to design soft fluidic circuits that, together with the soft artificial heart, will passively adapt to variations in physiological conditions (e.g., blood pressure) without the direct need for electronic sensing. To design such a fluidic circuit capable of passively adjusting to changing physiological conditions, you will also contribute to a numerical system model based on the electronic-fluidic analogy. You will use measured data from the artificial heart in these simulations. Further validation of the model will be done by comparing the results with mock-loop experiments performed within the consortium. In general, there will be active collaboration with researchers in the Soft Robotic Matter Group and within the Holland Hybrid Heart consortium.

Qualifications
We welcome applications from motivated candidates from a diverse range of fields (E.g. Mechanical Engineering, Applied Physics, Material Science, Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science). A background in non-linear mechanics, soft robotics or mechanical metamaterials is an advantage, although we are open to candidates with a diverse range of backgrounds given sufficient motivation. You need to meet the requirements for a doctors-degree and ideally must have research experience in a non-Dutch academic environment. We are looking for candidates that enjoy collaborating in a team, and that have a go-getter mentality in combination with a sound appetite for experimental and numerical work.

Work environment
AMOLF is a part of NWO-I and initiate and performs leading fundamental research on the physics of complex forms of matter, and to create new functional materials, in partnership with academia and industry. The institute is located at Amsterdam Science Park and currently employs about 140 researchers and 80 support employees. www.amolf.nl

The Soft Robotic Mater group @AMOLF (See also: www.overvelde.com) focuses on embodied intelligence within soft robotic devices, aiming to create autonomous robots capable of effective operation in their environments. To realize this goal, the group's focus lies at the intersection of soft robotics and mechanical metamaterials. The group employs a combination of computational, experimental, and analytical tools to investigate how shape, non-linearities, and feedback can be strategically utilized to embody intelligent behavior in mechanical systems. The objective is to explore innovative - yet simple - avenues that extend the frontiers of knowledge, all while remaining dedicated to addressing real-world challenges that have a meaningful impact on society. We provide a highly collaborative and supportive environment, both within the group and institute, and through national and international collaborations.

Working conditions

• The working atmosphere at the institute is largely determined by young, enthusiastic, mostly foreign employees. Communication is informal and runs through short lines of communication.
• The position is intended as full-time (40 hours / week, 12 months / year) appointment in the service of the Netherlands Foundation of Scientific Research Institutes (NWO-I) for the maximum duration of 3 years
• Salary is in scale 10 (CAO-OI) which starts at 4.065 Euro’s gross per month, and a range of employment benefits.
• AMOLF assists any new foreign Postdoc with housing and visa applications and compensates their transport costs and furnishing expenses.

More information?
For further information about the position, please contact

dr. ir. J.T.B. (Bas) Overvelde
Group leader Soft Robotic Matter Group
E-mail: overvelde@amolf.nl
Phone: +31 (0)20-754 7100

Application
You can respond to this vacancy online via the button below.

Please send your:

• Resume;
• Motivation on why you want to join the group (max. 1 page).

It is important to us to know why you want to join our team. This means that we will only consider your application if it entails your motivation letter.

Applications will be evaluated on a rolling basis and as soon as an excellent match is made, the position will be filled.

Online screening may be part of the selection.

Diversity code
AMOLF is highly committed to an inclusive and diverse work environment: we want to develop talent and creativity by bringing together people from different backgrounds and cultures. We recruit and select on the basis of competencies and talents. We strongly encourage anyone with the right qualifications to apply for the vacancy, regardless of age, gender, origin, sexual orientation or physical ability.

AMOLF has won the NNV Diversity Award 2022, which is awarded every two years by the Netherlands Physical Society for demonstrating the most successful implementation of equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI).

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PhD in Biophysics: Chaperone-guided formation of single protein complexes

Work Activities
Do you want to discover how multi-protein assemblies are produced without error? The aim of this project is to reveal this vital cellular process at the single-molecule level. Our research group has been at the vanguard of studying chaperone-protein interactions using optical tweezers, which allows one to follow the movements and folding steps of individual proteins. We’ve shown striking sequences of molecular events that underlie chaperone functions, and are invisible with other methods. Here you will focus on a new frontier: how chaperones and ribosomes work together to synthesize and fold multi-protein assemblies.

You will directly follow the unknown dynamics of ribosome translation, protein folding and assembly, and chaperone guidance. This is enabled using optical tweezers combined with single-molecule fluorescence, which detect changes in individual molecules at nanometer and millisecond resolution. Direct collaboration with our partners provides complementary genome-wide in-vivo data (see below). This first single-molecule look at chaperone-guided protein-assembly biogenesis may reveal a host of unexpected phenomena. You will drive the conceptual development of new experimental schemes, the use of cutting-edge single-molecule fluorescence and manipulation methods, the adaptation of existing biochemical protocols, the AI-driven automated analysis of complex data, the formulation of new models, and the writing of scientific papers that explain your findings.

We form a lively and close-knit research group of about 10 PhD students and postdocs, which work together in small teams on various projects in a highly supportive and social atmosphere that extends to the other research groups at the AMOLF institute, which is housed in a modern building in the east of Amsterdam.

You will be part of a collaboration with leading groups at Heidelberg University and the ETH in Zurich, which use novel sequencing and cryo-EM methods. By working within this motivated group of young scientists, you will obtain a unique training, understanding and skill set in this expanding field. By integrating these approaches, you will provide insights of unprecedented detail, spanning from the cellular to the atomic level, from in vivo to in vitro, from genome-wide patterns to molecular mechanisms, and from bacteria to human cells.

Qualifications
We have a number of positions available. We are looking for outstanding experimental physicists or chemists with an interest in single-molecule techniques, programming skills to handle complex data, and who thrive in a diverse, collaborative, and supportive environment. Excellent verbal and written English skills are essential. You meet the requirements for an MSc-degree to ensure eligibility for a Dutch PhD examination.

Work environment
AMOLF is a part of NWO-I and initiate and performs leading fundamental research on the physics of complex forms of matter, and to create new functional materials, in partnership with academia and industry. The institute is located at Amsterdam Science Park and currently employs about 140 researchers and 80 support employees. www.amolf.nl

About the group:

https://www.sandertanslab.nl
amolf.nl/research-groups/biophysics

Working conditions

• The working atmosphere at the institute is largely determined by young, enthusiastic, mostly foreign employees. Communication is informal and runs through short lines of communication.
• The position is intended as full-time (40 hours / week, 12 months / year) appointment in the service of the Netherlands Foundation of Scientific Research Institutes (NWO-I) for the duration of four years
• The starting salary is 2.781 Euro’s gross per month and a range of employment benefits.
• After successful completion of the PhD research a PhD degree will be granted at a Dutch University.
• Several courses are offered, specially developed for PhD-students.
• AMOLF assists any new foreign PhD-student with housing and visa applications and compensates their transport costs and furnishing expenses.

More information?
For further information about the position, please contact

Prof. dr. ir. Sander Tans
tans@amolf.nl
https://www.sandertanslab.nl
Phone: +31-(0)20-754 7100

Application
You can respond to this vacancy online via the button below.

Please annex your:

• Resume;
• Motivation on why you want to join the group (max. 1 page).

It is important to us to know why you want to join our team. Hence, we will only consider your application if it contains your motivation letter.

Applications will be evaluated on a rolling basis and as soon as an excellent match is made, the position will be filled.

Online screening may be part of the selection.

Diversity code
AMOLF is highly committed to an inclusive and diverse work environment: we want to develop talent and creativity by bringing together people from different backgrounds and cultures. We recruit and select on the basis of competencies and talents. We strongly encourage anyone with the right qualifications to apply for the vacancy, regardless of age, gender, origin, sexual orientation or physical ability.

AMOLF has won the NNV Diversity Award 2022, which is awarded every two years by the Netherlands Physical Society for demonstrating the most successful implementation of equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI).

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Postdoc: Chaperone-guided formation of single protein complexes

Work Activities
Do you want to discover how multi-protein assemblies are produced without error? The aim of this project is to reveal this vital cellular process at the single-molecule level. Our research group has been at the vanguard of studying chaperone-protein interactions using optical tweezers, which allows one to follow the movements and folding steps of individual proteins. We’ve shown striking sequences of molecular events that underlie chaperone functions, and are invisible with other methods. Here you will focus on a new frontier: how chaperones and ribosomes work together to synthesize and fold multi-protein assemblies.

You will directly follow the unknown dynamics of ribosome translation, protein folding and assembly, and chaperone guidance. This is enabled using optical tweezers combined with single-molecule fluorescence, which detect changes in individual molecules at nanometer and millisecond resolution. Direct collaboration with our partners provides complementary genome-wide in-vivo data (see below). This first single-molecule look at chaperone-guided protein-assembly biogenesis may reveal a host of unexpected phenomena. You will drive the conceptual development of new experimental schemes, the use of cutting-edge single-molecule fluorescence and manipulation methods, the adaptation of existing biochemical protocols, the AI-driven automated analysis of complex data, the formulation of new models, and the writing of scientific papers that explain your findings.

We form a lively and close-knit research group of about 10 PhD students and postdocs, which work together in small teams on various projects in a highly supportive and social atmosphere that extends to the other research groups at the AMOLF institute, which is housed in a modern building in the east of Amsterdam.

You will be part of a collaboration with leading groups at Heidelberg University and the ETH in Zurich, which use novel sequencing and cryo-EM methods. By working within this motivated group of young scientists, you will obtain a unique training, understanding and skill set in this expanding field. By integrating these approaches, you will provide insights of unprecedented detail, spanning from the cellular to the atomic level, from in vivo to in vitro, from genome-wide patterns to molecular mechanisms, and from bacteria to human cells.

Qualifications
We have a number of positions available. We are looking for outstanding experimental physicists or chemists with an interest in single-molecule techniques, programming skills to handle complex data, and who thrive in a diverse, collaborative, and supportive environment. Excellent verbal and written English skills are essential. You meet the requirements for an MSc-degree to ensure eligibility for a Dutch PhD examination.

Work environment
AMOLF is a part of NWO-I and initiate and performs leading fundamental research on the physics of complex forms of matter, and to create new functional materials, in partnership with academia and industry. The institute is located at Amsterdam Science Park and currently employs about 140 researchers and 80 support employees. www.amolf.nl

About the group:

https://www.sandertanslab.nl
amolf.nl/research-groups/biophysics

Working conditions

• The working atmosphere at the institute is largely determined by young, enthusiastic, mostly foreign employees. Communication is informal and runs through short lines of communication.
• The position is intended as full-time (40 hours / week, 12 months / year) appointment in the service of the Netherlands Foundation of Scientific Research Institutes (NWO-I) for the duration of 2+ years
• Salary is in scale 10 (CAO-OI) which starts at 4.065 Euro’s gross per month, and a range of employment benefits.
• AMOLF assists any new foreign Postdoc with housing and visa applications and compensates their transport costs and furnishing expenses.

More information?
For further information about the position, please contact

Prof. dr. ir. Sander Tans
tans@amolf.nl
https://www.sandertanslab.nl
Phone: +31-(0)20-754 7100

Application
You can respond to this vacancy online via the button below.

Please annex your:

• Resume;
• Motivation on why you want to join the group (max. 1 page).

It is important to us to know why you want to join our team. Hence, we will only consider your application if it entails your motivation letter.

Applications will be evaluated on a rolling basis and as soon as an excellent match is made, the position will be filled.

Online screening may be part of the selection.

Diversity code
AMOLF is highly committed to an inclusive and diverse work environment: we want to develop talent and creativity by bringing together people from different backgrounds and cultures. We recruit and select on the basis of competencies and talents. We strongly encourage anyone with the right qualifications to apply for the vacancy, regardless of age, gender, origin, sexual orientation or physical ability.

AMOLF has won the NNV Diversity Award 2022, which is awarded every two years by the Netherlands Physical Society for demonstrating the most successful implementation of equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI).

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PhD-student: Physical learning machines

Work Activities
The Learning Machines group seeks motivated PhD students to join our team working on learning in physical systems. What are learning machines? Imagine your favorite artificial intelligence \ machine learning system figuring out how to solve a task, possibly classifying images of cats and dogs; now imagine a physical material doing the same thing – without any computer involved! In our group, we strive to understand the fundamental principles of learning in the real world; how simple building blocks give rise to emergent desired complex behaviors and functionalities. Such learning machines blur the lines between inanimate and living systems, between materials and computers, and redefine our understanding of natural and artificial intelligence. We use modelling and experimental data to develop and understand ways in which such physical learning is realized, and design new types of learning machines capable of solving complex engineering problems on their own. Some examples include neuromorphic computers (physical machine learning algorithms) and novel meta-materials with unique properties.

We offer PhD positions that are focused on the theoretical understanding of physical learning and physically realizable learning rules. The project will involve analytical and computational modelling of physically and biologically inspired systems, and the development and characterization of physical methods by which such systems can learn.

The aim of one project is to develop and analyze new methods by which diverse dynamical systems are able to learn. Our goal is to connect these ideas to real-life biological learning systems, such as slime molds (e.g. Physarum Polycephalum, living fluidic networks) as well as systems in our own bodies (immune and vascular systems). Such systems exist in complex changing environments and must adapt (learn) to survive. We would like to know how the simple learning rules implemented by such systems gives rise to diverse and intricate behaviors in nature. Can we mimic this behavior to create novel synthetic materials?

The aim of another project is to study the interplay of structure, interactions and function in physical learning systems. We aspire to understand how structure and topology develops in learning systems, as well as how such structures hint at the functions these systems learn to perform. The goal of this project is to understand why actual learning systems look like they do. Why are certain structural motifs (hierarchies and gating structures) so common in the brain and machine learning algorithms? How does learning itself gives rise to such networks?

Qualifications
We seek candidates with a strong background in physics, biophysics, electrical\mechanical engineering, materials science, or computer science with an interest in learning, broadly defined, in physical, biological or computational systems. Excellent candidates with training in any area of science or engineering will be considered. PhD candidates must meet the requirements for an MSc degree. Good verbal and written communication skills in English are required. Other advantageous qualities include experience with coding (Python\Matlab) and numerical methods, as well as familiarity with concepts in machine learning. We strongly believe in the benefits of an inclusive and diverse research environment, and welcome applicants with any background.

Work environment
The Learning Machines group is a new group at AMOLF, led by Dr. Menachem Stern. It focuses on the development of fundamental understanding and theories regarding learning, from a physical perspective, under real world constraints. The group aims to bridge knowledge gaps between computational and biological learning, as well as to design physical learning machines that autonomously solve hard inverse design problems. For an introduction to this new and exciting field, see Stern and Murugan, Ann. Rev. Cond. Mat. Phys (2023).

Our group members work closely together with extensive support from the group leader and AMOLF resources in all aspects of design, realization, and interpretation of computational models of physical learning. Within the group as well as among the different groups at AMOLF, we have a strong focus on stimulating development of students in all professional aspects, as well as collaborations with other researchers at AMOLF and beyond. Moreover, we work closely together with international groups and companies. For more information, see Group Learning-machines

Working conditions

• The working atmosphere at the institute is largely determined by young, enthusiastic, mostly foreign employees. Communication is informal and runs through short lines of communication.
• The position is intended as full-time (40 hours / week, 12 months / year) appointment in the service of the Netherlands Foundation of Scientific Research Institutes (NWO-I) for the duration of four years
• The starting salary is 2.781 Euro’s gross per month and a range of employment benefits.
• After successful completion of the PhD research a PhD degree will be granted at a Dutch University.
• Several courses are offered, specially developed for PhD-students.
• AMOLF assists any new foreign PhD-student with housing and visa applications and compensates their transport costs and furnishing expenses.

More information?
For more information, you can contact:

Dr. Menachem Stern
Group leader (Learning Machines)
E-mail: m.stern@amolf.nl
Phone: +31 (0)20-754 7100

Application
You can respond to this vacancy online via the button below.
Please annex your:

• Resume;
• Motivation on why you want to join the group (max. 1 page).

It is important to us to know why you want to join our team. This means that we will only consider your application if it entails your motivation letter.

Applications will be evaluated on a rolling basis and as soon as an excellent match is made, the position will be filled.

Online screening may be part of the selection.

Commercial activities in response to this ad are not appreciated.

Diversity code
AMOLF is highly committed to an inclusive and diverse work environment: we want to develop talent and creativity by bringing together people from different backgrounds and cultures. We recruit and select on the basis of competencies and talents. We strongly encourage anyone with the right qualifications to apply for the vacancy, regardless of age, gender, origin, sexual orientation or physical ability.

AMOLF has won the NNV Diversity Award 2022, which is awarded every two years by the Netherlands Physical Society for demonstrating the most successful implementation of equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI).

Commercial activities in response to this ad are not appreciated.