Προκήρυξη:
Summary: Candidates with a background in photonics and/or signal processing are invited to apply to work at the Brussels Photonics Team B-PHOT, under supervision of Professor Heidi Ottevaere, at Vrije Universiteit Brussel – VUB and Dr. Willem Hoving, from Anteryon BV, Eindhoven. The successful candidate will be part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network (ITN), xCLASS, funded by the European Union under Grant Agreement 765635. Two positions are located in Brussels and two in Eindhoven.
Objective: The goal of these PhD research programs is to contribute to the development of a disruptive extremely compact, yet high-performance optical spectrometer system for the visible and infrared wavelength range, consisting of a novel micro-spectrometer platform and a miniaturized tuneable light source, optimized for high-volume production and applicable in various application domains such as health care, quality control and food safety monitoring. A combination of optical system and advanced image reconstruction methods will be deployed for reaching this objective.
DESIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
The candidate must have a Master degree in Physics/Electrical Engineering and Electronics or a Master degree in Mathematics. The candidate should have good knowledge and interest in both experimental and theoretical modelling work. Interest in the broader field of light sources and measurement technologies/optical spectroscopy is required. Knowledge in the field of inverse problems & signal processing and a track record in scientific publications are great assets.
The candidate should have excellent communication skills in English (both in speaking and writing), should be able to work both in a team and independently, and should demonstrate initiative.
Candidates will be required to meet the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Early Stage Researcher eligibility criteria: (http://ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions/). In particular, at the time of appointment candidates must have had less than four years full-time equivalent research experience and must not have already obtained a PhD. Additionally, they must not have resided in Belgium or in The Netherlands for more than 12 months in the three years immediately before the appointment. This excludes short stays such as holidays or compulsory national service.
ABOUT THE EMPLOYER
4 Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) will be hosted across this network and will perform research at the Brussels Photonics Team (B-PHOT) of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), a renowned research group in the field of photonics and spectroscopy, or the Electronics and Informatics Department (ETRO) of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, experts in sensor read-out and data processing, and at Anteryon (ANT), an innovative industrial producer of medium- and high-volume optical components located in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Two positions are located in Brussels and two in Eindhoven.
VUB B-PHOT is a leading center of expertise in optics and photonics in domains such as photonic lab-on-chips, optical spectroscopy, free-form optics, optical fiber sensors, non-linear optics and semiconductor micro-lasers. With over 25 years of experience B-PHOT is internationally recognized for its fundamental and applied research. A multidisciplinary team of 50 highly skilled researchers and engineers push the boundaries of light technology for industrial innovation applied in health care, food safety, IoT, telecom, green energy, aerospace, mobility and Industry 4.0.
VUB ETRO (Electronics and Informatics department) belongs to the Faculty of Engineering Sciences at the VUB and is part of the strategic research center imec. ETRO has built a large international collaboration network with industrial partners, academic institutions and R&D centres, and participates in a numerous fundamental, strategic and applied research projects in these domains. ETRO performs research on the representation, transmission, analysis, quality assessment and visualization of multidimensional signals. In multi-dimensional data compression, ETRO has been active for more than 20 years in various research areas, including predictive and transform-based coding of images, video and meshes, near-lossless compression, multiple description coding, joint source and channel coding, error concealment, distributed video coding, visual quality assessment, and optimized media transmission over networks.
Anteryon BV is an innovative industrial producer of medium- and high-volume optical components located in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. It spun out from Philips Electronics in 2006 and currently realizes a turnover of 12M€ with 125 employees. Anteryon has a track record of more than 30 years in the R&D and manufacturing of optical systems and optical solutions, both on component and product level. The core technologies of Anteryon are glass replication, surface structuring and optomechanical/optoelectronic assembly. Our first generation mass-manufactured replicated lenses were used more than 25 years ago in optical pick-up heads for CD and DVD players. Today’s main products of Anteryon are high-quality, low-power diode laser modules, beam scanning systems and optoelectronic assemblies employing replicated optics as key components