A Post doc position in Aluminium oxide in the PIXEurope pilot line

The Integrated Optical Systems (IOS) group is looking for a motivated post-doc to help us setup and develop a 200 mm pilot microfabrication line for photonic integrated circuits (PICs) in the aluminium oxide platform. The IOS group is a world leader in the development of this photonic platform, which is currently being manufactured in the 100 mm MESA+ Nanolab microfabrication facility. Within the PIXEurope consortium, the process will be transferred to 200 mm manufacturing and a process design kit (PDK) of building blocks will be developed in the platform. You get a unique opportunity to help position Europe as a leader in integrated photonics.

Postdoctoral Researcher Organizing Human-Centric Industries

Join our NWO-funded research program Smart Skills@Scale in a unique four-year, full-time (1.0 FTE) postdoctoral position and help managers shape the future of a human-centric industry. We are seeking a postdoctoral researcher to study people management and leadership in Industry 5.0. This new industrial era is characterized by smart technology (including artificial intelligence, robotics, and mixed reality) that augments people, drives innovation responsibly, and fosters adaptive, inclusive, and empowering workplaces.

The responsible use of smart technology challenges managers to make complex people-related decisions. These include fostering human-machine learning (i.e., hybrid intelligence), involving employees in non-linear, multi-stakeholder technology implementation processes, balancing humanistic values with economic goals in digital transformations, and preventing the unwanted use of smart technology by workers.

Research Focus
Your research will help managers lead this transformation. You will examine how managers envision desirable futures of work in industry, make strategic decisions, and build conditions for employee-driven innovation where humans are simultaneously augmented by, and augmenting, smart technology. With industry, you will co-create interventions to support and lead managers and their teams through these socio-technical processes. The project’s precise focus can reflect your expertise and interests. Possible directions include, but are not excluded to:

• Decision-making, meaning-making, and sensemaking in industrial transformation
• Implementing and sustaining changes
• Human–technology collaboration, hybrid intelligence, and responsible digital innovation
• Leadership and organizational learning for sustainable change and managing organizational paradoxes
• Organizing for desirable futures of work
• (re-)designing Organizational routines and transformation in Smart Industry
• Participatory innovation, democratic organization of innovation, and employee voice/participation in decision-making
• Project management and multi-disciplinary teams in technology design processes
• Embodiment in learning, technology implementation and leader-member exchanges

About Smart Skills@Scale
This postdoctoral project is part of the 8-year large-scale Smart Skills@Scale project, which aims to support a robust, resilient workforce and a human-centric, sustainable, and resilient Smart Industry. This position is part of the research line that focuses on supporting organizations in their Industry 5.0 transitions, for example, by ensuring human-centric production cells and fostering the adoption and use of technology by production workers. You will collaborate with an EngD candidate who will design a serious game to support managerial decision-making, translating insights into a practical learning tool for industry. For more information about the entire project, please visit our website and LinkedIn page.

Your Role

• Conduct empirical research in Dutch small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to understand how managers lead employee-centered transformations related to smart technology adoption and use
• Contribute to academic knowledge and practical tools that strengthen human-centric technology use
• Publish in international journals and engage with industrial partners to create societal impact
• Take part in teaching (maximum 20%) and the opportunity to gain your University Teaching Qualification

Technicus – Battery Pilot Line & Digital Manufacturing

Wij zijn op zoek naar een technisch bekwame en digitaal vaardige technicus die ondersteuning biedt bij de implementatie, bediening, optimalisatie en digitale integratie van een nieuwe pilotproductielijn voor batterijen.

De functie maakt deel uit van een multidisciplinair onderzoeksinitiatief dat zich richt op het bevorderen van onderzoek naar batterijcelproductie, slimme fabricage, batterijmaterialen, batterijtesten en duurzame technologieën, waaronder elektrodeproductie, celassemblage en de vorming en afwerking van batterijen.

Wat ga je doen?

• Implementeren, bedienen en onderhouden van pilot line-machines voor batterijproductie, waaronder meng-, coating-, assemblage- en testapparatuur (zoals gloveboxsystemen).
• Bijdragen aan de digitalisering van productieprocessen door inzet van dataverzameling, monitoring en procesbesturing (bijv. met sensoren, PLC’s, SCADA of MES-systemen).
• Installeren, kalibreren en testen van apparatuur en software, met aandacht voor veiligheid en kwaliteit.
• Ondersteunen van onderzoekers bij experimenten, productieproeven en data-analyse.
• Zorgen voor technische documentatie, handleidingen, onderhoudsregistraties en veiligheidsprotocollen.
• Onderhouden van faciliteiten, beheren van materialen en toezien op veilige opslag van chemicaliën en componenten.
• Coördineren van werkzaamheden met interne en externe partners, en bijdragen aan een veilige, efficiënte en duurzame werkomgeving.

PhD opening: Intra-wave modeling of coastal nourishment morphodynamics

This research position is part of the NWO-funded SOURCE program: Sand nOURisment strategies for sustainable Coastal Ecosystems. The SOURCE philosophy is that carefully planned sand nourishments in the present will create the required and desired resilient and dynamic multifunctional coastal landscapes of the future.

SOURCE will deliver the scientific knowledge, models and design tools to develop and evaluate nourishment strategies in a multi-stakeholder co-creation process. Our Living Labs are two sand nourishments along the Dutch coast. These will be co-designed, monitored and evaluated by the SOURCE consortium. There are in total 12 positions - PhD, Post-Doc and other researchers - at 8 academic institutes. They will collaborate closely with 25 partners from government organizations, research institutes, nature organizations and industry.

Within the SOURCE program, your project aims to unravel controlling cross-shore sand transport processes at various scales, such as bottom boundary layer processes, vertical turbulence and sand mixing, and effects of wave breaking. To do so you will develop a detailed research model to describe intra-wave cross-shore sand transport and morphodynamics (e.g. OpenFoam). The model will be validated using lab and field data. Finally, the research model will be used to inform the development of a more practical numerical model (e.g. Delft3D) that will be developed within another SOURCE PhD project to predict nourishments’ lifetime, spreading and impacts on coastal state indicators.

Being part of the SOURCE team implies close interaction with your UT supervisors as well as fellow researchers within the consortium, especially with knowledge institute Deltares. Regular consortium meetings will accommodate knowledge exchange with our partners, increasing the relevance and impact of our research. Furthermore, you will present your work at (inter)national conferences and publish your findings in journal papers and a PhD thesis.

PhD-student position on mass production of pancreatic organoids using microfluidic micromaterials

Are you passionate about combining material science, microfluidic technology and biofabrication strategies towards real-world applications ? We offer an impactful PhD-student position in the Leijten Laboratory within the Department of BioEngineering Technologies as part of a recently funded National consortium (ENW-XL, PanCreaTE). In this consortium, we will engineer functional Pancreata by combining iPSCs, organoid-forming micromaterials, and volumetric 3D bioprinting. This approach represents a beyond-state-of-the-art solution to engineer living functional tissues with function-endowing architectures to treat patients suffering from type-2 diabetes.

You will use highly advanced microfluidic devices to produce immunoprotective hollow hydrogel microcapsules that will form iPSC-derived pancreatic organoids. You will explore different strategies to improve the functional performances the in-capsule organoids formation. Moreover, you will pioneer the annealing of the organoid-forming microgels into large microporous living materials that contain perfusable capillary-like networks. Furthermore, you will combine these fabrication strategies with light-based volumetric biofabrication to create implantable engineered pancreata. You will therefore work on the multidisciplinary interface of microtechnology, materials science, (stem)cell biology, and additive manufacturing. You will thereby be trained to develop a wide skill set, which will include tissue engineering, 3D bioprinting, bioink development, advanced photopolymerization, materials characterization, induced pluripotent cell culture and differentiation, and writing high impact scientific publications.