Groningen University in Netherlands invites application for vacant PhD, Postdoc and Academic Positions, a public research university in the city of Groningen in the Netherlands

TT Assistant Professor (Edu) Computational Physics in Particle Physics & Gravity

Department:

Faculty of Science and Engineering

Hours:

38

Apply before:

September 30, 2022

We are looking for an early-career academic who is interested in starting a tenure track that focuses on education and who can strengthen our teaching and research in the field of computational physics, with connection and applications to particle physics and/or gravity. Computational methods play an increasingly important role in attempts to answer fundamental physics questions. This position adds expertise in the development of novel computational strategies to the existing research activities at the Van Swinderen Institute (VSI) in particle physics, gravity and cosmology and contributes in an essential way to computational aspects of the Physics Bachelor and Master programmes.

2-year Postdoc in Brain-inspired Inhibition in Deep Learning for image analysis

Department:

Faculty of Science and Engineering

Hours:

38

Apply before:

September 30, 2022

One of the main challenges in learning algorithms for vision applications is the determination of computational models that can generalize beyond the training distribution and that are robust to adversarial attacks. This will be the focus of the two-year postdoc position.

The selected candidate will be enrolled with the Information Systems group, University of Groningen, and will collaborate with ongoing PhD students on the above-mentioned topic. The ideal candidate must have a solid foundation in developing deep learning architectures for vision applications and a proven record of publishing high-quality papers.

TT Assistant Professor with education profile in Artificial Intelligence 3.6 FTE

Department:

Faculty of Science and Engineering

Hours:

38

Apply before:

September 30, 2022

We are looking for academics who are interested in starting a tenure-track that focuses on education and who can strengthen our teaching and research in the field of Artificial Intelligence. We offer four positions in different areas, and your field of education and research will predominantly lie in one of them:

  • Reinforcement Learning
  • Hybrid Intelligence
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Robotics

2 full-time PhD positions in Robust Learning of Sparse Representations

Department:

Faculty of Science and Engineering

Hours:

38

Apply before:

September 30, 2022

The high energy efficiency and generalization abilities in processing sensory information achieved by a mammalian brain are among the gold nuggets of neuromorphic computing. In contrast to conventional super/cluster/grid computing centers which take very large spaces and consume a great deal of energy, a human brain weighs less than 1500g and requires only 20w of power to operate. Emulating these remarkable abilities of the brain represents the pursuit of neuromorphic computing in achieving more with less.

Sparsity is among the key factors that contribute to high energy efficient processing in the brain. Neuroscientists believe that inhibition is a crucial property that results in sparse and thus highly energy efficient representations. Sparsity and inhibition are the focus of this joint project, which consists of two key objectives formulated in two complementary PhD Projects (PPs).

PhD position in Molecular Microbiology (1.0 FTE)

Department:

Faculty of Science and Engineering

Hours:

38

Apply before:

September 30, 2022

We offer an excellent opportunity to engage into an exciting PhD project that combines microbiology, chemistry, genomics and bioinformatics, in the context of a dynamic, international and enthusiastic work environment, with state-of-the-art equipment and exposure to national and international scientific collaborations.

Assistant Professor Qualitative Methods at Theory and History of Psychology Unit

Department:

Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences

Hours:

38

Apply before:

October 03, 2022

We are looking for a colleague with proficiency in qualitative methods; a researcher with psychological training and broad interests, motivated to get involved in teaching, teaching methods and supervision tasks in methodology and theoretical courses at the Department. We want a team player who would be willing to collaborate on a long-term with the Theory & History of Psychology Unit in teaching, management, and research.

PhD position in Natural Language Processing/Conversational AI (1.0 FTE)

Department:

Faculty of Arts

Hours:

38

Apply before:

October 03, 2022

Specifically, the selected PhD candidate will work on multilinguality-related challenges and opportunities, with the goal of enabling the development of conversational agents under data scarcity conditions. Besides enabling knowledge sharing among high- and low-resource languages and language variants, the project aims at empowering chatbots to handle code-switching utterances, which are common in many communities. Possible approaches to achieve this include, among others: (i) applying advanced cross-lingual transfer techniques to different components of a low-resource conversational agent, and (ii) building and evaluating large multilingual language models specialized on conversational data.

This PhD project offers a unique opportunity to work in an international research environment while acquiring valuable teaching experience: the PhD candidate is expected to conduct 0.1 fte teaching per year, during the second, third and fourth year of their appointment.

Post-doc in employee wellbeing and/or team functioning (1.0 FTE)

Department:

Faculty of Economics and Business

Hours:

38

Apply before:

October 03, 2022

As a postdoc, you will collaborate with established researchers of the OB group to advance current perspectives on (a) individual employees’ wellbeing and effectiveness and/or (b) team/organizational processes and outcomes. We are looking for someone who wants to further develop and refine their own ideas related to one of these research themes. In doing so, you will collect longitudinal, multi-source data at public and private companies linked to the Center of Expertise, write reports that offer practical recommendations to participating teams and organizations, and use the data to test hypotheses and write research papers.

Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Pharmacology of host-pathogen interactions

Department:

Faculty of Science and Engineering

Hours:

38

Apply before:

October 04, 2022

We are looking for an Assistant Professor who can strengthen our position in the field of Pharmacology of host-pathogen interactions. As evidenced by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the globally increased awareness of antimicrobial resistance, it is clear that research on host-pathogen interactions is of paramount importance and of the highest urgency. As such, one of the biggest scientific and societal challenges will be to identify new ways of therapeutically targeting host-pathogen interactions underlying infections and chronic diseases. This is particularly true for interactions with viruses, bacteria and fungi.

PhD positions Statistical methods for psychological test norming (2.0 FTE)

Department:

Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences

Hours:

38

Apply before:

October 12, 2022

The PhD candidates will work in the research group Psychometrics and Statistics within the psychology department. Research within our group focuses on a range of topics, including the evaluation and improvement of existing and new techniques of statistical analysis, interpretation and replicability of research results, and the evaluation and use of psychological tests. Our research has the explicit goal of contributing to the development of both theory and practice. We will work together with scientists from various disciplines within and outside the University of Groningen.

PhD position in Security and Privacy of Conversational AI Systems (1.0 FTE)

Department:

Faculty of Science and Engineering

Hours:

38

Apply before:

November 01, 2022

The development of conversational AI technology has seen rapid progress in recent years, both chat-based (a.k.a. text-based) and voice-based, enabled by large pre-trained language models. The technology is highly successful in conversational agents that support a large number of services, such as Alexa and Siri. In particular, in the Dutch ecosystem, diverse economic stakeholders share an ambition to develop increased technological autonomy in the area of conversational AI.

As part of a large consortium, this PhD project aims to develop auditing techniques for privacy protection in conversational agents and develop measures to make the agents more resilient against malicious attacks and/or information theft. 

3 Post-doctoral positions in: Single-molecule Protein Sequencing and enzymology

Department:

Faculty of Science and Engineering

Hours:

38

Apply before:

September 15, 2022

Several PhD and post-doctoral positions are available in the group of Giovanni Maglia at the University of Groningen in the field of single-molecule protein sequencing and single-molecule enzymology using nanopores. For the PhD position ad see: https://www.rug.nl/(…)ils=00347-02S0009H8P

Biological nanopores are an exciting new class of biosensors, which found practical application is in single-molecule DNA sequencing and single-molecule analysis.
We will focus on designing and engineering biological nanopores to recognize either peptides or individual amino acids in proteins. A wide variety of problems will be tackled, which will require designing nanopore, model protein substrates, engineering unfoldases and proteases. The nanopores will be tested using single-molecule electrophysiology techniques.

PhD position: Upscaling sediment-petrographic properties of a clastic reservoir

Department:

Faculty of Science and Engineering

Hours:

38

Apply before:

September 16, 2022

We are looking for a PhD student who will investigate the upscaling of petrographic heterogeneity of the Rotliegend sandstone reservoir of the Groningen gas field within a wider project entitled “The role of heterogeneity in controlling the geomechanical behavior of sandstone reservoirs”. The petrographic composition (detrital and authigenic mineralogy, sedimentary facies, grain shape and size, …) of the reservoir is thought to be one of the factors controlling its geomechanical behavior.

PhD position in Materials Chemistry and Photonic Materials (1.0 FTE)

Department:

Faculty of Science and Engineering

Hours:

38

Apply before:

September 16, 2022

The prospective Ph.D. student will work in an international and interdisciplinary team in a fast-paced, creative, and collaborative research environment as part of the Lerch group (www.lerchlab.com), based at the renowned Stratingh Institute. Embedded in the Advanced Research Center Chemical Building Blocks Consortium (ARC CBBC, https://arc-cbbc.nl/) and in close collaboration with the industrial partners (AkzoNobel, BASF, and Shell), the student will be exposed to both academic and industrial settings, addressing key-challenges to create together a more sustainable future.

Management/office-assistent Stratingh Instituut (0,7 fte)

Department:

Faculty of Science and Engineering

Hours:

27

Apply before:

September 19, 2022

Voor het Stratingh instituut zoeken wij een management/office assistent. Uw werkzaamheden zijn in het kader van het secretariaat van de onderzoeksgroep onder leiding van Professor Feringa in afstemming met de Personal Assistent van Prof. Feringa.

PhD position in TR-ARPES (1.0 FTE)

Department:

Faculty of Science and Engineering

Hours:

38

Apply before:

September 19, 2022

In our group, we study the electronic structures of quantum materials by time- and angel-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) and scanning probe microscopy (STM, AFM). Quantum materials, such as graphene and topological insulators, are materials that exhibit quantum properties and emergent phenomena at a macroscopic scale, and often exhibit peculiar electronic band structure. ARPES is a powerful technique that can be used to directly measure the electronic band structure of materials, and time-resolved ARPES (TR-ARPES) can even track changes in the electronic band structure upon excitation of the material with light. Studying the excited band structure of materials is, unfortunately, not trivial, as one has to overcome limitations set by the available time and energy resolution, and minimize the impact of various experimental artefacts. As TR-ARPES offers the best possibility for measurements of quantum materials outside of equilibrium, this PhD project will entail developing a TR-ARPES setup to optimise the achievable the time and energy resolution. 

Communication Officer – Student Recruitment and Information Events (0.7 FTE)

Department:

Faculty of Science and Engineering

Hours:

27

Apply before:

September 19, 2022

We are looking for a communication officer who can support the organization of our national and international recruitment and information activities. You will be working in a small team that operates in a big organization, which is always on the move. For many international prospective students, you will be the first person to interact with us via various channels on behalf of our Faculty. As your tasks will be diverse, you will need to combine your organizational skills to manage ongoing projects, and at the same time be able to pick up other tasks quickly. You are familiar with working in an international setting, find it easy to communicate with people from different layers in an organization, and are a fast learner.

PhD positions on the topic “Optimization under Uncertainty” (2.0 FTE)

Department:

Faculty of Economics and Business

Hours:

38

Apply before:

September 26, 2022

Within this project you will study multistage stochastic optimization problems involving integer decision variables. The goal is to develop new theory and solution methods for these highly challenging problems. In particular, the focus will be on developing and implementing efficient convex approximations for these problems and deriving guarantees on their performance. The newly developed solution methods will be applied to real-life cases such as designing a sustainable hydrogen supply chain for the Northern Netherlands and asset liability management for pension funds.

TT Assistant/Associate Professor Structural Biology-Electron Microscopy 1.0 FTE

Department:

Faculty of Science and Engineering

Hours:

38

Apply before:

September 27, 2022

We are looking for a tenure-track Assistant to Associate Professor with outstanding knowledge of and experience in high-resolution single particle cryo-Electron Microscopy and/or cryo-Electron Tomography (together “cryo-EM”) to establish an excellent research line to study the structure-function relationships of proteins, biomolecular complexes, and/or the analysis of (sub)cellular structures. For this, the GBB institute provides an extremely well-performing in-house FEI Talos Arctica; its set-up and workflow have been optimized to provide one of the best performing 200 kV microscopes globally for high-resolution cryo-EM studies. In addition, there is access to two FEI Titan Krios TEMs via the national EM facility NeCEN in Leiden.

Postdoc in UHV STM studying energy storage in molecules (1.0 FTE)

Department:

Faculty of Science and Engineering

Hours:

38

Apply before:

September 27, 2022

The aim of the present postdoc position is to carry out molecular self-assembly investigations directed at the ensemble behaviour of molecules with scanning tunnelling microscopy/spectroscopy (STM/S) measurements at temperatures between 5 K and room temperature under ultrahigh vacuum conditions as well as under ambient conditions. In particular, the STM investigations should shed light on the rotational and conformational states of the molecules at different temperatures, also in dependence of their environment. With the help of the tip, switching of such a rotational or conformational state shall be performed with the goal to store energy within such a manipulated state and to possibly use it in the future for the fabrication of a basic solid state device.

Hoogleraar Taalbeheersing van het Nederlands (1,0 fte)

Department:

Faculteit der Letteren

Hours:

38

Apply before:

September 29, 2022

Welke rol speelt taal in communicatieprocessen? Wat is de functie en het effect van talige boodschappen in bijvoorbeeld overheidscommunicatie? Hoe kan het beheersen van de Nederlandse taal helpen de sociale ongelijkheid te verkleinen?
Zulke vragen naar de werking van communicatieprocessen waarin taal een rol speelt, staan centraal in het onderzoek naar Taalbeheersing van het Nederlands.
Wij zijn op zoek naar een nieuwe Hoogleraar Taalbeheersing van het Nederlands die actief wil bijdragen aan de verdere ontwikkeling van onze academische gemeenschap in Groningen. In deze functie geef je leiding aan de onderzoeksgroep, en draag je bij aan de verdere ontwikkeling van de opleidingen Nederlands en Communicatie- en Informatiewetenschappen.

Applicatiebeheerder (0,8-1,0 fte)

Department:

Bibliotheek Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

Hours:

38

Apply before:

September 30, 2022

Je bent een enthousiaste applicatiebeheerder, klant- en resultaatgericht, accuraat en technisch vaardig. Je kunt je in je klanten inleven, begrijpt de functionaliteit van een applicatie en schept er eer in om je gebruikers een optimale gebruikerservaring te bieden. Je werkt als van nature samen met de technisch beheerders en leveranciers om samen de applicaties storingsvrij te laten draaien. Je hebt inzicht in applicatiearchitectuur en goede manieren om applicaties te koppelen en deelt die inzichten graag met je omgeving.

Application manager (0.8-1.0 FTE)

Department:

Bibliotheek Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

Hours:

38

Apply before:

September 30, 2022

ou are an enthusiastic application manager who is customer and goal-oriented, precise and technically capable. You empathise with the customer, understand the functionality of an application and see it as your duty to provide an optimal user experience. It is second nature to you to work with technical managers and suppliers to ensure that all applications run faultlessly. You have knowledge of application architecture and good techniques for connecting applications, and you are happy to share these insights with those around you.

Tenure Track Assistant Professor (education profile) in Computational Biology

Department:

Faculty of Science and Engineering

Hours:

38

Apply before:

September 30, 2022

We are looking for a tenure track Assistant Professor with an educational profile, who will teach computational courses and integrate computational skills in existing courses with the aim to create learning lines in the use of modern computational methods throughout the BSc curricula in Life Science and Technology, Chemistry and (possibly) Biology. The candidate is expected to use creative modern computational concepts such as artificial intelligence and machine learning to model biological molecules, protein-ligand interactions, up to metabolic pathways and cells.

PhD in Privacy-preserving/ Decentralized Processing of Genomic Data (1.0 FTE)

Department:

Faculty of Science and Engineering

Hours:

38

Apply before:

September 30, 2022

In this PhD project, we are broadly interested in the development of techniques for privacy-preserving processing of genomic data over decentralized infrastructures. The work will involve the integration of (novel/existing) privacy-enhancing technologies including, but not limited to, zero-knowledge proofs, multi-party computing, homomorphic encryption and differential privacy to distributed ledgers to enable various genome-wide association studies between multiple organizations.

Tenure Track Assistant Professor Business Ethics and Sustainability (1.0 FTE)

Department:

Faculty of Economics and Business

Hours:

38

Apply before:

September 05, 2022

The post offers exciting opportunities to researchers working in the field of business ethics and sustainability. You conduct independent research and aim to publish in high-ranked international journals recognized by the research school of the Faculty in the field of business ethics and sustainability, broadly construed. Moreover, you have good teaching skills and are interested in developing these further. You will contribute to the courses in the BSc and MSc programs offered by the Faculty on topics such as business ethics, corporate social responsibility, sustainability, climate change, and energy transition. Moreover, you may be involved in the supervision of Bachelor’s and Master’s theses.

HR-adviseur (0,6 fte)

Department:

University Services

Hours:

23

Apply before:

September 05, 2022

Als HR-adviseur ben je voor leidinggevenden en medewerkers het gezicht en aanspreekpunt voor HR gerelateerde zaken. Je adviseert en begeleidt leidinggevenden in de breedte op operationele en tactische vraagstukken. Je onderhoudt een regelmatig werkcontact en je neemt deel aan overleggen, zodat je grondig, tijdig en gedegen advies kunt verstrekken over personele vraagstukken. Je vertaalt vragen uit de lijn in analyses en adviezen op basis van managementinformatie. Je initieert en coördineert met betrekking tot toepassing, implementatie en uitvoering van HR-beleid en – producten. Je neemt vanuit HR deel aan benoemingsadviescommissies ten behoeve van de werving en selectie. Je coördineert en bewaakt de administratieve en procedurele afhandeling van arbeidsovereenkomsten en de wijzingen daarop. Je controleert (digitale) mutaties en past waar nodig mutaties en brieven aan. Je volgt de ontwikkelingen van de CAO-NU op rechtspositioneel- en arbeidsvoorwaardelijk gebied en weet hiervan een vertaalslag te maken voor leidinggevenden en medewerkers. Daarnaast adviseer je over de inzet van tweedelijns dienstverlening in samenspraak met ketenpartner(s), waarbij je de voortgang en kwaliteit bewaakt. Je werkt nauw samen met de senior HR-adviseurs die zich met name richten op strategische vraagstukken en bent zodoende betrokken bij beleidsveranderingen door het leveren van signalen/input voor beleid, de implementatie, de evaluatie en de bijstelling ervan.

PhD position on Sustainable health behavior change (1.0 FTE)

Department:

Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences

Hours:

38

Apply before:

September 05, 2022

This PhD position at the Psychology department is part of the larger consortium project “Healthy living as a service”, funded by the NWO. The aim of the larger project is to generate knowledge about how people can permanently improve their lifestyle using information and sensor technology. Very different sensor and information technologies will provide individuals and groups with useful information from various sources (e.g., the physical environment, their own body), to support healthy and sustainable choices. In the larger project, studies will be conducted on the build environment, Artificial Intelligence, group cultures, and behavior change (the present project).

Postdoc Welbevinden en veerkracht van aanstaande leraren (0,8 fte)

Department:

Faculteit Gedrags- en Maatschappijwetenschappen

Hours:

30

Apply before:

September 05, 2022

De Lerarenopleiding van de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen is op zoek naar een postdoctoraal onderzoeker voor het in kaart brengen van interventies/initiatieven gericht op het bevorderen van welbevinden en veerkracht van aanstaande leraren (1,5 jaar voor 0,8 fte).

Wij zijn op zoek naar een recent gepromoveerde onderzoeker in de onderwijswetenschappen, psychologie of aanverwante wetenschappen met affiniteit voor en ervaring met het thema welbevinden en veerkracht gericht op (aanstaande) leraren.

Post-doc Preservice teachers’ well-being and resilience (0.8 FTE)

Department:

Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences

Hours:

30

Apply before:

September 05, 2022

We are looking for a recent PhD researcher in the Educational sciences, Psychology or related sciences with affinity for and experience with the topic of well-being and resilience focused on (prospective) teachers.

The postdoc will work at the Department of Teacher Education in a project within NRO program ‘Collaborative Research on National Program Education Themes MBO-HO (https://www.nro.nl/(…)erwijs-themas-mbo-ho). The project is titled ‘Preservice teachers’ well-being and resilience’.

Docent Klinische psychologie / Experimentele psychopathologie (0.,4 – 0,8 fte)

Department:

Faculteit Gedrags- en Maatschappijwetenschappen

Hours:

30

Apply before:

September 05, 2022

De Faculteit Gedrags- en Maatschappijwetenschappen van de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen is op zoek naar een docent op het gebied van Klinische psychologie en Experimentele psychopathologie. Deze positie is binnen de afdeling psychologie.

In het onderwijs wordt van de kandidaat verwacht dat hij/zij zelfstandig onderwijs verzorgt van reeds ontwikkelde en reguliere onderwijsonderdelen. Het gaat zowel om basisvakken in het Bachelor programma (zoals een research practicum rond een klinisch onderwerp), als ook om gevorderde cursussen in de master-tracks en practica diagnostiek of behandeling. De werkzaamheden bevatten bijvoorbeeld het begeleiden van practica, het beoordelen van verslagen, ondersteuning bij de coördinatie van de cursussen en het nakijken van toetsen. Afhankelijk van de achtergrond en reeds opgedane werkervaring van de kandidaat levert hij/zij een bijdrage aan het begeleidingsproces van theses. Waar nodig onder supervisie van senior collega’s. Het onderwijs binnen de faculteit wordt in verschillende (hybride) werkvormen gegeven, zowel in het Engels als in het Nederlands. Het is mogelijk om 10% van de aanstelling te besteden aan het doen van wetenschappelijk onderzoek om de eigen onderzoekslijn te verstevigen.

High Performance Computing/Cloud Linux sysops/devops (1,0 fte)

Department:

Centrum voor Informatie Technologie

Hours:

38

Apply before:

September 05, 2022

Je bent betrokken bij belangrijke ontwikkelingen binnen het HPC-team. Zo wordt momenteel het huidige algemene rekencluster vervangen door een nieuw cluster, die we door middel van OpenStack gaan orchestreren. Hiermee kunnen we delen van onze infrastructuur dynamisch toekennen aan projecten of specifieke groepen onderzoekers, zowel bare-metal als gevirtualiseerd. Ook is het team de grondlegger van het EESSI-project, waarmee wetenschappelijke software geautomatiseerd gebouwd en geïnstalleerd wordt. De software stack kan door onderzoekers op onze, op andere HPC-clusters en op de werkplek gebruikt worden. Onze fysieke en virtuele infrastructuur, wordt ontwikkeld middels de DevOps methode en geautomatiseerd uitgerold.

Allround HR-adviseur (0,8-1,0 fte)

Department:

Bureau van de Universiteit

Hours:

38

Apply before:

September 05, 2022

Je start met een overleg tussen de allround HR-adviseurs om kennis en ontwikkelingen met elkaar te delen. Daarna heb je tijd gereserveerd om een aantal personele mutaties af te handelen en een advies voor het faculteitsbestuur voor te bereiden die een uitzondering vraagt op het staande beleid. Vervolgens voer je een arbeidsvoorwaardengesprek in het Engels met een nieuw aan te stellen assistant professor uit India. Rond de middag ga je met een aantal collega’s een rondje wandelen of een koffie halen in de Foodcourt van de Zernike Campus. Na het sparringsmoment met een leidinggevende over de functie-indeling in haar team ga je naar een ander gebouw op de Campus voor een sollicitatiegesprek met een kandidaat voor de positie van onderzoeksmedewerker. Als je nog tijd hebt, bel je tot slot nog met een juridisch HR-expert over een arbeidsrechtelijk gezien lastige casus waar je zijn hulp goed bij kunt gebruiken.

PhD position: Innovative financial instruments for sustainable landscapes

Department:

Faculty of Economics and Business

Hours:

38

Apply before:

September 05, 2022

The need for halting biodiversity loss and maintaining and improving other ecosystem services and landscape quality is broadly felt across the world and this motivates the project: Good intentions in nature and landscape conservation by stakeholders are often hindered by the lack of financial resources. During the last decades, nature conservationists and entrepreneurs have initiated experiments with new financial instruments. In several of these, ‘customers’ pay for ecosystem services (i.e. those cultural, regulating or provisioning services not covered by regular markets). However, the most efficient and effective ways for doing so are unclear, especially since information and transaction costs are high. Combining expertise in sustainable finance, ecosystem services, and nature and landscape valuation, this project engages in a series of experiments with landscape securities as a standardized low-transaction-cost form of financial support, held by both businesses and citizens. The project joins forces with the Northern Netherlands National Parks and NWB Bank and other important stakeholders in a co-production of knowledge approach. The experiments are place based and builds among others on the greenmapper software developed by the University of Groningen (www.greenmapper.org).

High-Performance Computing/Cloud Linux SysOps/DevOps (1.0 FTE)

Department:

Centrum voor Informatie Technologie

Hours:

38

Apply before:

September 05, 2022

You will be involved in important developments within the HPC team. For instance, the current general computing cluster is now being replaced by a new cluster, which we are orchestrating via OpenStack. In this way, we can dynamically assign parts of our infrastructure to projects or specific groups of researchers, both through the bare-metal server as well as virtually. The team is also the founder of the Electronic Exchange of Social Security Information (EESSI) project, through which academic software is automated, built, and installed. The software stack can be used by researchers through our HPC cluster, through other HPC clusters, and in their workplaces. Our physical and virtual infrastructure is developed through the DevOps method and is rolled out in an automated manner.

Docent Sociale Psychologie (0,6 fte)

Department:

Faculteit Gedrags- en Maatschappijwetenschappen

Hours:

15

Apply before:

September 05, 2022

De Faculteit Gedrags- en Maatschappijwetenschappen van de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen is op zoek naar een docent op het gebied van de Sociale Psychologie. Van de kandidaat wordt verwacht om zelfstandig onderwijs te verzorgen van reeds ontwikkelde en reguliere onderwijsonderdelen, waaronder cursussen in het bachelor programma, het begeleiden van werkgroepen en het begeleiden van bachelor – en mastertheses. Het onderwijs binnen de faculteit wordt zowel in het Engels als in het Nederlands gegeven.

Programmamaker Studium Generale Groningen (0,8 fte)

Department:

Bureau van de Universiteit

Hours:

30

Apply before:

September 05, 2022

Als programmamaker van Studium Generale heb je een brede maatschappelijke en wetenschappelijke interesse, met een goede ‘neus’ voor multidisciplinaire invalshoeken. Je draagt in samenwerking met collega’s zorg voor de inhoudelijke ontwikkeling en realisatie van programma’s op het gebied van wetenschap, cultuur en maatschappij. Je initieert en onderhoudt contacten met (internationale) gastsprekers en diverse samenwerkingspartners, ontwikkelt nieuwe programmavormen en denkt mee over een gevarieerde programmering voor onze doelgroepen. De werktijden zijn gespreid van maandag tot en met donderdag (met regelmatig avondwerk). Een werkdag kan bestaan uit research voor een nieuw programma, zoeken naar de juiste sprekers en het juiste format en het schrijven en redigeren van publiciteitsteksten. ‘s Avonds begeleid en introduceer je sprekers.

Tenure Track Education: Citizen Science (0.8-1.0 FTE)

Department:

Faculty of Science and Engineering

Hours:

38

Apply before:

September 06, 2022

We are looking for an early-career academic who is interested to start a tenure track that focuses on education and who can strengthen our teaching and research in the field of public engagement with science and specifically citizen science.

Citizen Science is an important element of Public Engagement with Research. It serves as an interactive means of science education and communication, and co-constructing scientific knowledge across a wide range of science and engineering disciplines. Citizen Sciences can engage citizens in all phases of the research process; from agenda setting, through data collection and analysis, to creating impact.

Docent Klinische & Ontwikkelingsneuropsychologie (0,4 fte)

Department:

Faculteit Gedrags- en Maatschappijwetenschappen

Hours:

15

Apply before:

September 07, 2022

n het onderwijs wordt van de kandidaat verwacht dat hij/zij zelfstandig onderwijs verzorgt van reeds ontwikkelde en reguliere onderwijsonderdelen, zoals vakken in het Bachelor programma. Het onderwijs binnen de faculteit wordt in verschillende (hybride) werkvormen gegeven, zowel in het Engels als in het Nederlands. Afhankelijk van de achtergrond en reeds opgedane werkervaring van de kandidaat levert hij/zij een bijdrage aan het begeleidingsproces van theses. Waar nodig onder supervisie van senior collega’s.

Postdoctoral Researcher Photopharmacology (1.0 FTE)

Department:

Faculty of Science and Engineering

Hours:

38

Apply before:

September 08, 2022

The Postdoc will be involved in the design and execution of multi step syntheses of novel photo-labile compounds with direct and continuous feedback from partners involved in real life medical applications. Optimization of current targets in both structure and synthetic route will be the initial goal, after which designing a practical and pragmatic scale up route will follow.

PhD position Humor and Free Speech (1.0 FTE)

Department:

Faculty of Arts

Hours:

38

Apply before:

September 09, 2022

We are offering a 48-month PhD position (full time, 1.0 FTE) within the project ‘Forensic Humor Analysis: Rethinking Offensive Humor and Its Legal Regulation’, funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) with a five-year Vidi grant (Principal Investigator: Dr Alberto Godioli, University of Groningen). The appointed candidate will have an expertise in humanities-based humor research – with particular regard to literary, cultural and/or linguistic approaches to humor –, as well as a strong interest in working within an interdisciplinary context.

Management/Office-assistent FSE – cluster Biology (0,6 fte)

Department:

Faculty of Science and Engineering

Hours:

23

Apply before:

September 12, 2022

Bij het cluster Biology van de School of Science & Engineering (SSE) komt een management assistent positie beschikbaar voor de ondersteuning van de masteropleiding Behavioural, Cognitive and Neuroscience.
De management assistent maakt deel uit van een clusterteam dat gezamenlijk, met opleidingscoördinatoren, management assistenten en studieadviseurs, de opleidingen in het cluster ondersteunt. De management assistent werkt nauw samen met de andere medewerkers van het cluster Biology en de SSE. Het clusterteam wordt aangestuurd door een teamhoofd.

Projectmanager (0,8-1,0 fte)

Department:

Bibliotheek Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

Hours:

38

Apply before:

September 12, 2022

Wat ga je doen?
Je gaat aan de slag binnen de afdeling Ontwikkeling & Innovatie. Hier werken ontwikkelaars, beheerders, consultants en projectmanagers samen aan de ontwikkeling en het beheer van de applicaties. Je werkplek is in de UB, midden in de bruisende Groningse binnenstad.

Als Projectmanager stort je je op innovatieve projecten waarbij de UB kartrekker is. Hierbij werk je samen met interne partners, zoals faculteiten en het UMCG, en met (internationale) externe partners. Hierbij kan je denken aan leveranciers en het consortium van de Nationale Bibliotheek en andere Universiteitsbibliotheken (UKB).

Project manager (0.8-1.0 FTE)

Department:

University of Groningen Library (UB)

Hours:

38

Apply before:

September 12, 2022

PhD position in Frisian speech technology (1.0 FTE)

Department:

Faculty of Arts

Hours:

38

Apply before:

September 12, 2022

Recent advances of machine learning have led to substantial improvements in speech technology. These advances have mostly been focused on languages with many resources available, such as English. However, there are a gamut of compelling scientific challenges for lesser-resourced languages. In this project, the scope therefore will be on the regional language Frisian, which is spoken in the Northwest of the Netherlands. Specifically: (1) Frisian synthesis: building on existing approaches (e.g., those at Campus Fryslân), investigating techniques to improve the quality of the voice, and/or e.g., develop approaches to make the synthesis reflect the diversity of Frisian varieties, (2) Frisian automatic speech recognition (ASR): building on and improving existing approaches, also allowing for recognition of regional variety in Frisian, and/or (3) investigating the development of a search system for unlabelled acoustic Frisian data. The exact focus depends on the interests and background of the applicant, provided the focus is on speech technology for Frisian.

Tenure Track Assistant Professor with education profile in Accounting (1.0 FTE)

Department:

Faculty of Economics and Business

Hours:

38

Apply before:

September 12, 2022′

To strengthen our teaching and research in accounting and control, we are seeking a tenure-track assistant professor who focuses on education. The assistant professor will be located within the department of Accounting (Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), University of Groningen, The Netherlands). Candidates with teaching interests in the various areas of accounting and control (e.g., corporate governance, financial accounting and reporting, and management accounting and control) are invited to apply.

Business Developer ‘Digitalisering’ en ‘Energie & Circulariteit’ (0,8 – 1 FTE)

Department:

Universitair Medisch Centrum Groningen

Hours:

Apply before:

September 12, 2022

Een grote groep onderzoekers weet de weg naar de markt prima te vinden. Maar nog niet iedere onderzoeker is bekend met het naar de markt brengen van onderzoek. Dat is ook niet zo gek. Onderzoek valoriseren is namelijk nog niet altijd een vanzelfsprekendheid. Daarom vinden wij het screenen & scouten van onderzoek met marktpotentieel heel belangrijk.

Internship and International Mobility Officer FSE (0,8 – 1,0 fte)

Department:

Faculty of Science and Engineering

Hours:

38

Apply before:

September 12, 2022

Wij zijn op zoek naar een proactieve medewerker met een juridische achtergrond, affiniteit met Hoger Onderwijs en internationalisering voor de volgende werkzaamheden:

  • Het opzetten en verzorgen van informatievoorziening voor studenten over (nationale en internationale) stages, met onder andere

 heldere communicatie en voorlichting over de procedure(s), incl. te downloaden stappenplan met tijdlijn en modelovereenkomsten, bijv. via de website, Student Portal en tijdens voorlichtingsactiviteiten (zoals de Business Days) houden van een spreekuur voor studenten met vragen over de formele kant van een stage
 zorgdragen voor de juridische borging van de stages en de bescherming van de belangen van de student en de RUG
 bieden van ondersteuning aan studenten, opleidingen en bedrijven in bijzondere situaties zoals extra-curriculaire stages, externe projecten, stages door non-EU studenten, en voor studenten van andere onderwijsinstellingen die bij de FSE stage willen lopen (incoming interns)

Admissions Officer Bachelor programmes Campus Fryslân (0.8 FTE)

Department:

Campus Fryslân

Hours:

30

Apply before:

September 12, 2022

Medewerker Mobility Office (0,5–1,0 fte)

Department:

Faculteit Gedrags- en Maatschappijwetenschappen

Hours:

38

Apply before:

September 14, 2022

Onze nieuwe collega wordt aangesteld bij het Onderwijsinstituut van GMW. Het Onderwijsinstituut biedt op verschillende terreinen ondersteuning voor het onderwijs. Bij deze afdeling werken ca. 40 medewerkers. De Medewerker Mobility Office zal werkzaam zijn bij de Mobility Office en is ondersteunend aan de Exchange Coördinator. De Mobility Office coördineert de uitwisseling van studenten en staf binnen en buiten Europa. Studenten worden uitgewisseld voor zowel studie als stage. Op dit moment beheert de Mobility Office meer dan honderd uitwisselingscontracten en maken meer dan 130 studenten per jaar gebruik van de mogelijkheid tot uitwisseling.

PhD Discovering the psychology of communicating tipping points for social change

Department:

Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences

Hours:

38

Apply before:

September 14, 2022

We are looking for a highly motivated candidate for the following 4-year PhD position on the NWO SSH Open Competition funded project: Now or never: Discovering the psychology of communicating tipping points for societal change.

Post-doc Fundamentals in µ-milling of steel with ultrashort pulse laser 1.0 FTE

Department:

Faculty of Science and Engineering

Hours:

38

Apply before:

September 15, 2022

Topic of research: Fundamentals in ultrafast and ultra-smooth micro-milling of steels with high power ultrashort pulse laser

Ultrashort pulse (USP) laser offers an innovative manufacturing technology that does not require hazardous chemicals. USP laser allows precise and thermal damage-free removal of materials (ablation) for a wide-range of scientific, medical and industrial applications. Precise local energy deposition is one of the main advantages of USP laser that reduce the heat affected zone. These unique properties of ultrashort laser pulses make USP laser ablation a good alternative to other micro-machining processes for ultimate process quality of materials removal. However, its potential is limited by the low ablation rate and the complexity of the associated laser technology. On the other hand, the use of more powerful pulse lasers to increase the ablation rate may result in unwanted effects such as plasma shielding, melting and thermal damage from heat accumulation. Precise micro-milling of steels with ultrashort pulse laser ablation is very challenging but a key enabling technology for many applications. This research project aims understanding the fundamentals in ultrafast and ultra-smooth micro-milling of steel components with USP laser in order to provide in-depth knowledge for industrial applications in smart and precise manufacturing processes.

Bijzondere leerstoel Leo Polak: Strafrechtfilosofie (0,2 fte)

Department:

Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid

Hours:

8

Apply before:

September 15, 2022

Binnen de Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid van de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen is vanwege de Stichting Leo Polak een bijzondere leerstoel gevestigd met als leeropdracht ‘Strafrechtfilosofie’. De leerstoel is onbezoldigd; de te verrichten taken nemen gemiddeld een dag per week in beslag (0,2 fte).
De bijzondere leerstoel Strafrechtfilosofie is ondergebracht bij de vakgroep Transboundary Legal Studies (TLS), sectie Rechtsfilosofie. Uiteraard is het de bedoeling dat zowel in onderwijs als in onderzoek verbanden worden gelegd met de vakgroep Strafrecht en Criminologie.

PhD Positions in: Single-molecule Protein Sequencing and enzymology (2.0 FTE)

Department:

Faculty of Science and Engineering

Hours:

38

Apply before:

September 15, 2022

Several PhD and post-doctoral positions are available in the group of Giovanni Maglia at the University of Groningen in the field of single-molecule protein sequencing and single-molecule enzymology using nanopores. For the Postdoc position ad see: https://www.rug.nl/(…)ils=00347-02S0009H9P

Biological nanopores are an exciting new class of biosensors, which found practical application is in single-molecule DNA sequencing and single-molecule analysis.
We will focus on designing and engineering biological nanopores to recognize either peptides or individual amino acids in proteins. A wide variety of problems will be tackled, which will require designing nanopore, model protein substrates, engineering unfoldases and proteases. The nanopores will be tested using single-molecule electrophysiology techniques.

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