Researcher/project leader in the field of fycotoxins

Do you consider the availability of safe and wholesome food for the entire world population one of the great challenges of our era? Do you want to contribute to safe and balanced diets by securing well designed and well executed analyses of food? Are you eager to take on the challenge of improving analytical techniques in this field for the team, by using state-of-the-art measurement systems such as LC-(HR)MS? This might be the next step for you! We, the Natural Toxins team of Wageningen Food Safety Research (WFSR – part of Wageningen University and Research) is looking for an ambitious researcher in the field of marine and cyanobacterial toxins.

What will you do?

• act as the researcher/project leader for a number of projects, mainly on governmental tasks, but also in food safety related public-private collaboration (PPS)- and EU-projects;
• publish your research results in scientific journals and present them at international conferences;
• participate in the National Reference Laboratory on phycotoxins in shellfish and building and maintaining an (inter)national scientific network;
• proactively look for new opportunities in e.g. PPS- and EU-calls and write research proposals in the field of (phyco)toxins;
• improving the way of working in our labs by the use of advanced LC-MS techniques.

Your team
The team in which the position is vacant, conducts research on plant toxins, mycotoxins and phycotoxins in food, feed and water. The team aims to strengthen the scientific relevance of WFSR in all three areas mentioned. The emphasis of the phycotoxin research within WFSR is on regulated marine toxins in edible species such as shellfish. Therefor we monitor the presence of various toxins in wide variety of matrices. However, we also pro-actively look at emerging toxins and non-traditional vectors. We also collaborate with water managers and drinking water companies on the field of cyanobacterial toxins.

The fycotoxin group is part of a larger team of 24 professionals. You collaborate with colleagues in your team, but also with other research teams within WFSR, Wageningen University & Research (WUR) and outside our organization.

You will work here

2 PhD positions in large-scale computer systems for AI, big data, and 6G apps

The AtLarge research group [https://atlarge-research.com/] at the Department of Computer Science at VU Amsterdam invites applications for two PhD positions, fully funded for 4 years each, in the context of a national-scale 6G Future Networked Services (FNS) project. The two PhD candidates will pursue research within the large, long-term, national project FNS, and be embedded in the AtLarge research team focusing on Massivizing Computer Systems, that is, designing, building, deploying, testing, benchmarking, analyzing, and optimizing large-scale distributed systems, and supporting a variety of applications in AI, big data, scientific computing, and business-critical workloads.

These positions provide an excellent opportunity to develop deep expertise in modern systems while tackling real-world challenges that span software, hardware, and large-scale complex software ecosystems. Concretely, the two positions provide each with a unique opportunity (1) to pursue research aligned with the group's research interests, toward a modern software and hardware infrastructure that supports 21st-century societal needs funded by the FNS project until 2030 and beyond by other projects in the team, (2) to integrate into a large local team and with international partners, and (3) to identify and pursue high-quality scientific research across areas of computer systems, including but not limited to:

Your duties

• Systems across the digital continuum, cloud datacenter, edge, endpoint, 6G;
• Distributed systems and cluster management (e.g., orchestration with Kubernetes), and general management and scheduling techniques (e.g., workflow management, for serverless);
• High-performance computing and hardware/software acceleration (e.g., GPUs, NPUs, FPGAs);
• Systems, programming models, and runtimes for scientific and high-performance computing;
• Runtime systems, compilers, and programming language technologies (e.g., language VMs);
• Large-scale data analytics and stream processing systems;
• Digital twins and system-scale simulation;
• Systems for virtual worlds, interactive experiences in modifiable virtual worlds;
• Cloud computing and mobile networking (e.g., 6G networking);
• AI for Systems and Systems for AI – applied across all the other topics listed here, and beyond;
• Emerging computing paradigms and technologies (e.g., Operational Data Analytics, new serverless beyond FaaS, WebAssembly, disaggregated resources, sustainable computing beyond energy-use reduction, ML accelerators used also for HPC);
• More topics in designing, building, deploying, testing, benchmarking, experimenting with, evaluating, analyzing, and optimizing large-scale software and hardware systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Design computer systems and implement prototypes that address research questions at any/all levels of modern software and hardware ecosystems;
• Design, conduct, and analyze experiments to evaluate system properties such as performance, scalability, reliability, sustainability, and cost-efficiency across various platforms and workloads;
• Conduct reproducible and open-science compliant research, ensuring that code, data, other artifacts, and experimental results are well-documented and publicly shareable when appropriate, aiming to receive the relevant reproducibility badges from ACM and IEEE;
• Develop and/or extend tools and frameworks for monitoring, benchmarking, tuning, and modeling and simulation of distributed and large-scale systems;
• Participate in the research-oriented education processes our team and Department are conducting, e.g., through supervision of Honours Programme, BSc, and MSc research projects;
• Contribute to our unique training sessions, which our team has pioneered in the Netherlands, and that help develop tens of young researchers each year;
• Collaborate with faculty, postdocs, and fellow PhD students to integrate insights across multiple research areas, including networking, runtime systems, high-performance computing, and data-intensive infrastructures, and across the Department of Computer Science at the VU;
• Engage in international collaborations and research visits, facilitated by our research team or on your own, to expand the reach and network for your research;
• Disseminate research outcomes through publications in top-tier conferences and journals, and select contributions on early ideas to workshops, informing professionals through tutorials and demos, and in general presenting scientific and technical results to the international community.

Hockeytrainer/coach DHC Men 1 & 2

Feeling with student sports
Student life, study pressure, exams and internships can have an impact on the performance and presence of players and team. The new trainer/coach is expected to be able to deal with this well. In addition, training courses can be offered by you (partially) in English if the group requests it. The association has international students.

Participation, presence, team player
The board of DHC Drienerlo believes it is important that the trainers are involved in the association by maintaining regular contact with fellow hockey trainers and the selection teams. This includes showing interest on Sunday in the performance of other teams and attendance at events and tournaments organized by the association and department of sports and culture of the University of Twente.

Enthusiasm, passion and ambition
As a new [(head) coach for the Men’Training Team, you show initiative, are enthusiastic and able to challenge the selection of DHC Drienerlo on a technical-tactical level. As a trainer, you know how to motivate people and get the best out of themselves. You want to continuously improve the team, the individual and yourself and are not afraid to come up with new ideas in the direction of the association, but also in the direction of the organization.

Collaborate, team player, colleague
As a trainer of DHC Drienerlo you will be appointed within a broad team of sports teachers/trainers and coaches across more than 30 sports. These sports teachers are enthusiastic and proactive team players who serve as an example for student athletes and student board members. You will be part of the Campus and Facility Management service department, the Sports & Culture department. The team of Sports Instructors is responsible for high-quality sports education and regularly initiates moments of further training, intervision and team building. You are part of this.

Volleyball coach Men's 2 promotion class

Feeling met studentensport
v.v. Harambee is een studentenvolleybalvereniging. Dat betekent dat veel leden naast het sporten ook druk zijn met andere dingen: Het studentenleven, tentamen- en stageperioden. Deze aspecten kunnen invloed hebben op de prestaties en aanwezigheid van spelers en het team. Van de nieuwe trainer wordt verwacht dat hij/zij daar goed mee om kan gaan. Tegelijkertijd mag de trainer zeker een bepaalde instelling verwachten van een Heren 2 op het gebied van aanwezigheid, inzet en motivatie. Duidelijke afspraken en communicatie tussen trainer en team zijn daarbij belangrijk.

v.v. Harambee heeft veel spelers die de Nederlandse taal niet (volledig) beheersen. Het is daarom van groot belang dat de trainer de Engelse taal op een goed niveau beheerst om training te kunnen geven aan deze spelers.

Participatie en samenwerking
v.v. Harambee vindt het belangrijk dat de trainer betrokken is bij de vereniging. Dit betekent actieve samenwerking en afstemming met andere trainers. Goede en open communicatie met de trainers van Heren 1 en 3, maar ook met de technische commissie is daarbij essentieel. Aanwezigheid binnen de club bij andere wedstrijden of activiteiten wordt zeer gewaardeerd.

Enthousiasme, passie en ambitie
Als trainer toon je initiatief, ben je enthousiast en ben je in staat Heren 2 uit te dagen op technisch-tactisch vlak. Je weet mensen te motiveren en het beste uit hunzelf te halen. Je wilt het team, de spelers en jezelf continue verbeteren en je bent hierbij niet bang om met nieuwe ideeën te komen