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1. PhD position in Distributed Control for Highly Reliable Communication

Summary of Doctoral Project:

Traditional resource allocation in telecommunication networks is based on the scarcity of bandwidth. As such, state of the art techniques are focusing on distributing resources to users so that to satisfy some minimum throughput-latency service requirement. Free space optical (FSO) satellite networks present, however, an extremely large bandwidth. Focus should be on severe throughput reductions or outages due to a rather variable channel which needs to be accurately predicted. This project targets the creation of a proof-of-concept Software Defined Network (SDN) platform with distributed intelligence in order to allow for reliable communication under every sort of uncertain channel. As such, each intelligent agent in the SDN, placed within the satellites themselves will infer the consequence to global behaviour (e.g. network congestion and/or delay) based on local perturbation (e.g. bad channel, mixed traffic requirements) and perform proactive actions (e.g. reroute traffic via different satellite-links).

Last Application Date: 30 Apr 2022

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2. PhD position on Accumulation-Mode BIdiswitch Farm for energy efficient battery

Summary of Doctoral Project:

The project is financed by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) in the domain Applied and Engineering Sciences (TTW). You will carry out the research at the University in Enschede, The Netherlands, and several experienced supervisors (Dr. Ray Hueting, Prof. Gert Rietveld) will give you daily guidance. Collaboration is an important aspect of the PhD position. You first of all will extensively collaborate with a PhD student and experiences scientific staff members of the Mescoscale Chemical Systems (MCS) group, part of the department of Science and Technology. In addition, you will work in close collaboration with a wide span of companies such as IQE, Nexperia, and NXP Semiconductors.

Last Application Date: 15 May 2022

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3. PhD position in Statistics

Summary of Doctoral Project:

The statistics research group at the University of Twente invites applications for a fully funded PhD position in statistics. The successful PhD candidate will conduct research with respect to the statistical theory of time series analysis. In particular, you will work on multiscale characterizations of multivariate correlated observations through ordinal pattern analysis. The analysis of multivariate and high-dimensional time series has become increasingly important and faces theoretical and practical challenges due to the massive production of temporally dependent data in fields such as macroeconomics, finance, genomics, or neuroscience. In the context of the advertised PhD position, this makes way for interdisciplinary collaborations with, e.g., the biomedical signals and systems group at University of Twente.

Last Application Date: 24 Apr 2022

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4. PhD position “Biogeomorphological evolution of salt marshes under wave 

Summary of Doctoral Project:

In this PhD project, you will investigate how a salt marsh evolves over time and how it interacts with wave and tidal forcing with a combination of field measurements and numerical modelling. Emphasis will be given on the cross-shore width and the edge of the salt marsh, and under which conditions the salt marsh grows seawards or retreats landwards. The resilience of salt marshes with changing climate is a pressing question since the extent of a salt marsh will have a direct impact on coastal flood defense strategies. The focus of this research will be on natural salt marshes as well as on hybrid solutions with human-made structures partially sheltering salt marshes (e.g. brushwood dams). To determine the evolution of a salt marsh, process-based vegetation growth models will be incorporated into hydrodynamic models and small-scale biogeomorphological processes will be scaled up to quantify their impact on wetlands.

Last Application Date: 29 Apr 2022

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5. PhD position on Internet Path Security

Summary of Doctoral Project:

The goal of this PhD project is to study how we can increase Internet path security in the context of the current Internet. This work will build on existing ideas, such as RPKI and BGPsec, but also the things we can learn from novel Internet architectures such as SCION, and novel initiatives such as the proposed Autonomous System Provider Authorization (ASPA) standard. We also envisage the potential to extend path security beyond the IP domain, e.g., incorporating path information on lower layers of the OSI model, all the way down to the physical layer (as the Internet is ultimately also vulnerable to physical attacks).

Last Application Date: 31 May 2022

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6. PhD position in Federated Monitoring and Automated Response

Summary of Doctoral Project:

Real-time monitoring is essential for threat detection and response. Many different monitoring approaches have been proposed in the state-of-the-art and several tools are available on the market. However, the complexity and dynamism of modern distributed environments pose a critical challenge to such tools, which are limited in terms of scalability and visibility. Additionally, in such distributed architectures it is crucial to correlate observed insights (e.g., indicators of compromise) to track lateral movement. The goal of this PhD Project is to research novel methodologies to monitor distributed environments, ultimately aiming at threat detection, automate the extraction, learning, and correlation of cyber threat intelligence (CTI), and reason about effective and transferable threat response strategies.

Last Application Date: 31 May 2022

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7. PhD position in Dynamic Knowledge Modeling for Lifecycle Security

Summary of Doctoral Project:

The goal of this PhD project is to study and develop dynamic knowledge modelling approaches that provide structured knowledge on security-relevant aspects of a critical infrastructure based on real-time or historical data about the infrastructure. To validate the results of the project, we want to design and prototype a monitoring and decision-support system based on the notions of digital twin and DevSecOps. The functionality of this system should include: collection and storage of data about the critical infrastructure, access to data and transformation into structured knowledge, API for accessing the knowledge.

Last Application Date: 31 May 2022

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8. PhD in understanding the current state of cybersecurity with the help of macro …

Summary of Doctoral Project:

The Twente University Centre for Cybersecurity Research has a vacancy for a PhD Position in understanding the current state of cybersecurity with the help of macro and micro level indicators. A rational security decision at the firm level should result in maximum organizational utility. Unfortunately, security managers need to constantly take decisions under uncertain circumstances and constrained budgets in order to make their organizations cyber safe. It is hard for decision makers to determine on how and how much to invest in security without understanding it’s expected future benefits or to comment on whether or not to pay the ransom after a breach of their IT systems without knowing their alternatives.

Last Application Date: 31 May 2022

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9. PhD position on Material learning with dopant network processing units

Summary of Doctoral Project:

This position is part of the Horizon Europe Pathfinder project HYBRAIN (www.hybrain.eu). HYBRAIN’s vision is to realize a radically new technology for ultra-fast and energy-efficient edge AI inference based on a world-first, unique, brain-inspired hybrid architecture of integrated photonics and unconventional electronics with collocated memory and processing. As the most stringent latency bottleneck in CNNs arise from the initial convolution layers, we will take advantage of the ultrahigh throughput and low latency of photonic convolutional processors (PCPs). Their output is processed using cascaded analog electronic linear and novel nonlinear classifier layers.

Last Application Date: 30 Apr 2022

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10. PhD position in Engineering Novel Organ-on-a-chip platforms for Fibrotic Diseases

Summary of Doctoral Project:

The 4-year project is funded through the “Open Technology Program” of the Dutch Science Organization NWO and aims to develop a next-generation model for fibrotic diseases, using an organ-on-a-chip approach. This model will include several essential physical and chemical disease-related parameters (adequate oxygen level, appropriate physical and biochemical stimuli, etc.). Fibrosis is central in different diseases and associated with poor patient outcomes. Yet, despite its high prevalence, knowledge on the disease progression is limited and no good anti-fibrotic treatments are available. As a representative fibrotic disease, systemic sclerosis will be considered.

Last Application Date: 31 May 2022

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11. PhD position in IC Design group

Summary of Doctoral Project:

Are you interested in a PhD position at the ICD group? We have access to advanced CMOS fabrication technology nodes and a well-equipped laboratory for evaluation of test-chips. We offer a very collaborative atmosphere and you will benefit from our broad knowledge and experience. A team of well-known professors in the field (professors Bram Nauta, Eric Klumperink, Anne-Johan Annema, Ronan van der Zee, Mark Oude Alink and Harijot Singh Bindra) will supervise you in this position. Since we will invest a lot of our time in your education, development and career, we have to be very selective in our admission process for PhD students.

Last Application Date: 31 Jul 2022

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12. PhD Position “Thin-Film Piezoelectric Actuators”

Summary of Doctoral Project:

We are looking for a motivated and skilled PhD student to carry out research on the fundamental physics questions on the growth and characterization of piezoelectric thin films and usage of these films as building blocks for actuators with multiple degrees of freedom. The XUV Optics Group at Twente has started a new multidisciplinary research program on these topics. We develop forefront fundamental research, relevant to high tech applications (www.utwente.nl/xuv/). The research will take place in a state-of-the-art thin film laboratory within the MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology at the University of Twente, in collaboration with various academic and industrial partners. The XUV group has a track record in developing thin film physics and holds several records in functional film properties, including the reflectivity of thin film multilayer optics.

Last Application Date: 30 Apr 2022

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13. PhD Candidate “Deep learning based object outline extraction from airborne …

Summary of Doctoral Project:

Maps are quickly becoming outdated, about 10 % of the objects change annually. This project focuses on methods to automatically interpret newly acquired sensor data to detect and to update the changed objects in the digital topographic map. The sensor data includes high resolution 2D aerial image data and 3D laser scanner data. Our approach is to use the existing (old) topographic maps to learn how various objects appear in these 2D and 3D datasets. The PhD researcher’s task is to design a deep learning approach to generate correct object boundaries in vector format from the airborne sensor data. Closely connected to the task of semantic segmentation of data is the delineation of the data into object boundaries. How does the boundary of an object appear in the map, and can we transfer this knowledge to draw accurate object polygons from sensor data?

Last Application Date: 6 May 2022

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14. PHD position in NWO-funded Perspectief programme Optical Wireless Superhighways

Summary of Doctoral Project:

In this project, focusing on physical layer security, we will demonstrate authentication for quantum and classical communication links with Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs), remotely read out via a single-spatial-mode. We will use a new class of PUFs that can be read out through standard optical fibres or free-space links. Our implementation of single-mode PUFs exploits the time/frequency domain for the encoding challenge / response space. Together with the PUFs, we will develop tools to generate challenge-forming few-photon light pulses and to validate PUF responses at the few-photon level, with the aim of a proof-of-principle demonstration using the terrestrial free-space optical link developed by consortium partners.

Last Application Date: 1 Jun 2022

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15. PhD position on distributed reliable and secure distributed applications

Summary of Doctoral Project:

The aim of the PhD assignment is to analyze the reliability issues and based on the analysis and research, design and develop a prototype system that addresses these deficiencies. The candidate is expected to work at the University of Twente jointly in a larger team of other PhD students through the TUCCR program and Cisco (Netherlands, France, and USA) simultaneously while working with colleagues at Ecole Polytechnique Paris. You will be working under the supervision of prof.dr Paul Havinga (University of Twente) and dr. Peter Bosch (Cisco).

Last Application Date: 30 Apr 2022

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