International Student Advisor

As an International Student Advisor within the Degree Mobility Team, you will be in daily contact with incoming international students seeking admission to one of our English-taught Master's programmes. Your main task is to inform and advise the very culturally diverse target group of students throughout the entire process of application and admission.

• Inform international students, mainly via email, telephone and education fairs
• Provide information and advice on the range of programmes, admission requirements and studying at VU Amsterdam
• Process the applications and the evaluation of foreign diplomas
• Provide onsite support for students during the arrival and introduction weeks
• Contribute to the development and overall improvement of the programmes and processes as well as to the pre-defined objectives of the team
• Evaluate and analyse data from the programmes for which you are responsible
• Contribute to a positive team spirit and an open work culture
• Actively participate in various consultations within and outside of the department, as well as participation in various programmes and projects

PhD Position in ML Accelerator Programming for HPC and Scientific Computing

The growing computational demands of Machine Learning (ML) have led to the rise of spatial devices explicitly designed for ML workloads, such as the Cerebras Wafer Scale Engine, AMD Versal AI Engine, and Tenstorrent Blackhole.

Although these accelerators can offer performance and efficiency gains to application domains beyond ML (e.g., computational sciences, big data analytics, graph processing), their potential in these areas remains unexplored. This is largely due to the lack of comprehensive software ecosystems, making them difficult for experts to use and inaccessible to domain scientists.

In this PhD project, you will help bridge this gap by demonstrating best practices and by developing programming tools and methodologies that democratize access to ML accelerators and other spatial devices for the wider scientific community.

Your duties
As a PhD student, you will develop and lead original research. Your work will combine quantitative research, theoretical investigation, software design and development, and experimental validation. Specifically, you will:

• identify and characterize workloads and application domains that benefit from ML accelerators, understanding when and how they can accelerate diverse applications
• develop methodologies and open-source software tools for computing specialists to facilitate application development and reduce time-to-solution
• enable accessible programming for domain scientists, providing them with high-level tools and training resources to productively use ML accelerators without requiring deep hardware or low-level programming expertise

As part of this position, you will be encouraged and supported to refine and drive your own research within the project scope, publish and present your findings at top-tier systems and HPC venues, develop and maintain open-source software, and contribute to teaching and community outreach. The ultimate goal is for the successful candidate to produce a dissertation that leads to a PhD degree in 4 years.

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR 2: DATASCIENCE IN SPORT AND HEALTH

You will be expected to:

• teach courses and supervise student research projects at the Bachelor’s, Master’s (including Research Master’s), and PhD level, with a focus on data science
• initiate and conduct high-quality research that expands the use of data science within the department
• acquire external research funding and build national and international collaborations
• contributing to departmental governance and committees
• engage in impact-oriented activities beyond academia

Medewerker huisvesting

Het Services team bemiddelt in huisvesting voor internationale studenten en staf die verbonden zijn aan de VU. Ter vervanging van één van onze collega's zijn we op zoek naar een tijdelijke collega voor de periode van een jaar vanaf maart 2026.

Jouw taken
Je bent het aanspreekpunt voor studenten en medewerkers die op zoek zijn naar huisvesting, daarnaast onderhoud je contacten met huisvesters en andere afdelingen binnen de VU. De dagelijkse werkzaamheden bestaan uit:

• het verwerken van huisvestingsaanvragen van studenten en staf
• informeren en beantwoorden van vragen van studenten via mail, (online) afspraken, chatsessies, webinars en bij open dagen
• samenwerken met interne en externe stakeholders: Andere VU afdelingen en huisvesters
• (mede) plannen en organiseren van werkzaamheden en het bewaken van deadlines
• bijhouden en monitoren van data uit verschillende systemen

Assistant Professor Security, Cloud Computing and Big Data

Do you want to contribute to foundational and experimental security (FSec Group: https://vu.nl/en/about-vu/faculties/faculty-of-science/more-about/foundational-and-experimental-security-computer-science), with a focus on Cloud computing, the use of data analysis and AI techniques to quantify, evaluate, and understand security? Do you want to work in close collaboration with our colleagues in system security, software engineering, and artificial intelligence? Then, please apply for this Assistant Professor (career track) position at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU).

The research of the Foundational and Experimental Security Group is at the intersection between Security, Software Engineering, and Risk Analysis.

We aim at the formalization and sound empirical evaluation of security methodologies and solutions from risk assessment and threat analysis to mining software vulnerabilities and analyzing Java and cloud microservices. The empirical approach allows us to solve security problems and defend against adversaries that are real instead of dark lords of our own making, using various applications as test cases. We are particularly interested in how AI, Data Science, or Machine Learning techniques can be used to quantify and assess software and system security from open source software to cloud services.

Understanding and quantifying large repositories of data is key to making security effective in practice, and expertise in this area is a prerequisite, as is expertise in the design of such data analysis using, e.g., mining large software repositories, or other empirical research methods.

We consider collaboration with industry a plus, as it is a great source of challenging problems to solve, as well as data to analyze. See our group page (https://vu.nl/en/about-vu/faculties/faculty-of-science/more-about/foundational-and-experimental-security-computer-science) for more information or VU’s work.

Your duties
The position includes research, education, and management (40%, 40%, 20%) and contains, among others, the following responsibilities:

• Conducting research in cloud computing, artificial intelligence and data analytics, software engineering, and security
• Supervising PhD students
• Teaching in the Bachelor's and Master's programmes of the Department of Computer Science, either in computer science or artificial intelligence
• Supervising MSc/BSc student research projects in the Department
• Contributing to and writing research grant proposals
• Contributing to administrative tasks