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De Groep Wetenschap en Technologie, departement Biosystemen, afdeling MeBios onderzoekt de interactie tussen biologische systemen en fysieke processen. De nadruk ligt op het meten van eigenschappen van biologische producten en procesvariabelen, de analyse van de gemeten signalen door middel van geavanceerde statistische methoden, proces- en apparatuurontwerp, optimalisatie en controle. Wiskundige modellen om de werkingsprincipes van biologische systemen op verschillende ruimtelijke en temporele schaal te beschrijven, zijn hiervoor essentieel.

This research project is shouldered by the Faculty of Economics and Business – Leuven and Kortrijk. The research will be conducted under the supervision Prof. L. Sels (Department Work & Organisation Studies - WOS) and Prof. J. Bruneel (Department Management Strategy & Innovation - MSO), in the framework of the ‘Kenniscentrum voor Coöperatief Ondernemen’.

Als stafmedewerker van de Dienst Internationalisering maak je deel uit van het dynamische en geëngageerde team dat, onder leiding van de vicedecaan internationalisering, meewerkt aan de realisatie van internationalisering van onderwijs en onderzoek als strategische prioriteit van de faculteit. 

Als medewerker van de Dienst Internationalisering maak je deel uit van het dynamische en geëngageerde team dat, onder leiding van de vicedecaan internationalisering en het diensthoofd, meewerkt aan de realisatie van internationalisering van onderwijs en onderzoek als strategische prioriteit van de faculteit.

The main working place of the candidate will be the Laboratory of Process Microbial Ecology and Bioinspirational Management (PME&BIM) at the Group T Leuven Campus. PME&BIM is embedded within the Technology Cluster of Bioengineering Technology (CBeT), Department of Microbial and Molecular Systems (M2S), KU Leuven. PME&BIM is internationally recognized for its research in the field of applied microbiology and microbial ecology. PME&BIM studies the role and ecology of microbial communities and members thereof in diverse natural and man-made environments or processes to better understand and manage these processes. More particularly, PME&BIM aims to gain more insights in the modulatory role of microbes in these habitats by the use of state-of-the-art molecular microbiological methods, and focuses both on pathogenic and beneficial microbes. Study domains include agricultural production and crop protection, food and beverage production, and biofilm management.

The Center of Human Genetics (Centrum Menselijke Erfelijkheid, CME) at the KU Leuven, has a strong international reputation in the field of clinical genetics and is a pioneer in the development of new genetic an genomic technologies, both for fundamental research and diagnostics. CME is structurally connected with the University Hospitals of Leuven an the Flemish Institute for Biotechnology (VIB).

Within the Center of Human Genetics, we are looking for a Staff Member with specific expertise in cytogenetics and molecular genetic testing of solid tumors.

As TEM expert, you are responsible for research and application aspects in a lab setting of TEM and FIB tools serving the internal imec logic, memory and future CMOS and post CMOS programs.

Build and manage a portfolio of customers.

Ben jij een geboren organisator met een vooruitstrevende blik? Help ons mens en innovatie samen te brengen!

Design of large area flexible imager systems

Als Procesingenieur ben je verantwoordelijk voor de introductie en optimalisatie van verscheidene processen in onze pilootproductielijn.

Om de resultaten en de zelfredzaamheid van onze pilootproductielijn te verhogen is imec op zoek naar gemotiveerde technische bachelors voor de functie van CD-SEM Technician. 

You will develop algorithmic solutions for complex problems in broadband wireless and coherent radars. 

Als onze nieuwe Export Control Officer werk je voor één van de meeste geavanceerde R&D setups van de wereld.  

You will play a key role in the establishment of highly multiplexed in situ RNA-profiling of single cells as well as fourth-generation sequencing technology that preserves the spatial coordinates of RNA and DNA sequences within tissue sections. Thus you will enable localized sequencing reads within single cells in their original histological tissue context, and the detection and visualization of transcripts from 100s to 1000s of genes at unprecedented accuracy and with spatial inter- and intracellular coordinates.

At the Power Electronics Group of the Department of Electrical Engineering ESAT / ELECTA located at EnergyVille, several PhD students and post-docs are working on modeling and applications of power electronics. We currently have a PhD position available.

You will be a member of the Thin Film Process Engineering (TFE) team. The team is responsible for the development of many diverse types of processes that will be used by both internal and external customers in their Research and Development projects, on the deposition and anneal tools in both the 200mm and 300mm cleanrooms. In addition, the team is also responsible for the control and improvement of existing processes that are used by the same customers.

As Senior Process Engineer you will have a significant number of responsibilities and will therefore be highly influential in helping to team achieve their many KPIs, goals and targets.

You will support our business in intellectual property and licensing matters.

Imec enjoys a world-class reputation in integrated circuit and system design and in IC-process-technology development. Combining these skills, imec’s Imager SoC group develops specialty image sensors using its own proprietary technology.  Within imec’s “Semiconductor Technology and Systems” unit, our group’s research activities focus on the development of specialty CMOS-based image sensors based on our proprietary and unique wafer technologies for imaging. The development of these image sensors is beyond state of the art and these image sensors will be integrated into tomorrow’s biomedical, pharmaceutical and industrial imaging applications.

You will belong to Imec’s wide and famous analog design team of which the Imager SoC group is a part.

As a project engineer for integrated circuit (ASIC) test solutions within imec.IC-link you act as the technical support interface between our international customers, our assembly and test partners. You take up responsibility for the full project management including planning, definition of test solution, characterization and qualification of our customer’s integrated circuits.

De GDPR is hot en dat zal u geweten hebben. Als jurist met een passie voor privacy & IT-recht voert u audits uit bij een brede waaier aan klanten. Op basis van de bekomen informatie rapporteert en adviseert u de klant op een onderbouwde en correcte manier. U zal hierbij steeds samenwerken met onze IT-specialisten om de klant zo volledig mogelijk te kunnen adviseren.

Als jurist gespecialiseerd in merkenrecht beheert u op zelfstandige wijze uw eigen portefeuille aan klanten en hun merkendossiers. Dit zal gefaseerd gebeuren in functie van uw kennis en ervaring. U rapporteert rechtstreeks aan en staat in nauw overleg met de verantwoordelijke van het IP-departement. U krijgt hierbij de kans volledige trajecten van A tot Z te beheren. Een boeiende uitdaging maar ook een verantwoordelijkheid.

Als ervaren jurist heeft een contract schrijven voor u (bijna) geen geheimen meer. U kent uw klassiekers (algemene in- en verkoopsvoorwaarden, distributiecontracten, agentuur, franchise, etc.) en ziet een uitdaging in de onbenoemde contracten (licentiecontracten, matrijscontracten, R&D contracten, etc.).

If you love data wrangling and transforming data into actionable insights, we would love to talk to you. Cumul.io is looking for a solutions engineer (f/m), a jack of all trades combining data, dashboards, and a customer-centric mindset.

You will be embedded in the MECO (Motion Estimation Control and Optimization) research team of the KU Leuven Department Mechanical Engineering. The MECO team focusses on the identification, analysis and control of mechatronic systems such as autonomous guided vehicles, robots, and machine tools. It combines theoretical innovations with experimental validations on lab-scale as well as industrial setups. The theoretical research benefits from the team’s expertise on numerical optimization, while MECO’s practical knowhow and industrial collaboration are supported by its participation in Flanders Make - a strategic research center for the manufacturing industry.

The Laboratory for Cell Metabolism (Department of Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences) and the Laboratory for Lipid Biochemistry and Protein Interactions (Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine) at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven, Belgium) are looking for a Postdoctoral researcher to contribute to a joint project funded by the KU Leuven. Our labs have made seminal contributions to the unraveling of peroxisomal lipid and reactive oxygen species metabolism and have generated multiple loss-of-function mouse models to decipher the importance of peroxisomal metabolism for tissue homeostasis. 

As our new IT Security Coordinator, you’ll serve a growing multi-site organization of 4,000 people and an R&D setup that is one of the world’s most advanced.

The work will be performed within the research division STADIUS ('Stadius Centre for Dynamical Systems, Signal Processing, and Data Analytics') at the Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT) at KU Leuven, Europe’s most innovative university (Reuters, 2018). STADIUS's major research objective is to contribute to the development of improved digital (control and signal processing) systems that incorporate advanced mathematical modeling techniques as a crucial new ingredient.

As Finance Systems and Process Specialist you guarantee the development, documentation and implementation of financial systems, processes and controls.

Septentrio is looking for an enthusiastic Embedded Software Engineer to join its System Level Products development team. Together with your colleagues, you will work on the development of state-of-the-art embedded software running on satellite navigation products capable of centimeter-level-precision positioning. You will contribute to the development of new features. Starting from requirements, you design, implement, unit-test, debug and document new product features. Your colleagues and you continuously refine and extend the core functionality and user interface of Septentrio products, making them easy to use and configure for the customer.

As Product Validation Engineer, you shall be defining, executing and documenting tests for the latest models of integrated high-end GNSS receivers. Starting from the detailed design specifications and product requirements you will contribute to the validation plan to ensure full test coverage. Additionally, you are responsible to execute acceptance testing and validation of product subsystems and accessories according to their detailed specification requirements (mainly hardware) and to integrated product validation (including hardware and software elements).

As our new Information Security Officer, you’ll serve a growing multi-site organization of 4,000 people and an R&D setup that is one of the world’s most advanced.

As Process Engineer Dry Etch, Strip & Implant you will be responsible for the standard dry etch, strip and implant processes and tools.

We are looking for experienced analog, RF and millimeter wave IC design researchers who can participate actively in the innovation and design of future systems and applications.

To strengthen our design team, we are looking for an experienced analog design engineer. The applications within our usual focus are extremely challenging with regards to signal integrity and power consumption. We are hence looking for a designer with a strong background and affinity in low-power and low-noise analog design for biomedical/neural sensing applications. As an analog design engineer researcher, you will become part of a team to develop novel circuits and ICs. 

It is the goal of this postdoctoral research to acquire this understanding and thereby identify killer impurities. The systematic investigation will consist of fabricating reference OLEDs by vacuum evaporation, exposing them to a series of controlled environments of chemicals, and perform analysis to map relationships and bring understanding of the phenomena. Specifically, chemical as well as opto-electronic analysis is foreseen, supported by modelling. Several types of OLEDs will be compared: phosphorescent, fluorescent and TADF.

City of Things is thé reference within Europe for international and local players who want to test and validate IoT and AI services, applications and technologies in a large-scale, lifelike Smart City context. And as an Smart City System Architect, you will help shape it!

Imec has a substantial and growing program on millimeter-wave radar sensors. Our radar activities include the design and implementation of these advanced mixed-signal CMOS SoCs in as well as building application-level demonstrators.

Dramatic cost and size reduction has made it possible to use radars in exciting new application domains such as smart vehicles, smart building, smart cities, e-health; IoT in general. Depending on the application, radar processing ranges from basic operations (filters, FFTs) to very sophisticated. Adding machine learning on top really opens up a whole new set of possibilities: classification, tracking, health monitoring, automation, etc. We are currently looking for an experienced researcher in machine learning and signal processing to grow our radar team.

Septentrio is a leading supplier of highly accurate GPS/GNSS receivers for demanding applications, requiring accuracies in the decimeter or centimeter range, even under difficult conditions. We provide board level OEM modules as well as system level GPS/GNSS receivers to our global customer base in machine control and construction, land and marine survey, mobile mapping, UAV’s, GIS and more.

Septentrio is headquartered in Leuven, Belgium and has offices in Torrance, CA (US), Hong Kong, Shanghai and Tokyo and partners throughout the world. For our offices in Leuven, Septentrio is seeking to hire a highly motivated Board Level Products Group Manager.

The Research Group Health Psychology at KU Leuven (https://ppw.kuleuven.be/ogp/generalinformation) aims at unraveling how psychological and somatic variables interact in health and disease from a biopsychosocial perspective. Both fundamental and applied research is being conducted to understand how bodily sensations such as breathlessness are psycho(physio)logically processed and how neural, cognitive, emotional, learning and social processes contribute to the initiation and maintenance of chronic somatic symptoms, illness and disability. 

Flanders Make researchers are developing technologies for design and production of high-performant, flexible and autonomous machines and vehicles. For additive manufacturing the next step is an evolution from a prototyping instrument toward a fast and stabile 3Dprinter in a productive series environment. New solutions are tested on our demonstration and validation infrastructure in controlled conditions.

As a  researcher in multidisciplinary design optimization, you will have the opportunity to work on challenging optimization problems  and apply various optimization techniques to generate solutions for machine designers. Typical design problems are constraint-based and multi-objective, requiring advanced non-linear mixed-integer solvers. 

The work will be performed within the research division STADIUS ('Stadius Centre for Dynamical Systems, Signal Processing, and Data Analytics') at the Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT) at KU Leuven, Europe’s most innovative university (Reuters, 2018). STADIUS's major research objective is to contribute to the development of improved digital (control and signal processing) systems that incorporate advanced mathematical modeling techniques as a crucial new ingredient.

With a team of researchers you make technological breakthroughs happen in manufacturing industry. 

You develop advanced controllers for smart and interconnected systems (machines, robots and vehicles). 

As a robotics research engineer, you develop control strategies for assembly and explore the opportunities offered by the “state of the art” of robot & cobot applications. 

You simulate multi-physical models for the design of smart machines and vehicles or develop and validate control algorithms. 

The laboratory for Disease Mechanisms in Cancer (Department of Oncology, KU Leuven) is looking for a motivated postdoctoral researcher. Our team has a long-standing interest in studying the biology of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), and in particular we focus on the role of mutations in ribosomal proteins and their association with other mutations in ALL. Accumulation of mutations in ALL does not occur randomly, and particular lesions show significant co-occurrence or mutually exclusivity in the leukemia cells. This project aims at studying the molecular biological mechanisms by which co-occurring oncogenic events in T-cell ALL cooperate with each other to drive leukemia development, and how this can result in new vulnerabilities of the leukemia cells to drug treatment.

We seek a junior scientist who is willing to step into a PhD-track, with good laboratory skills and a broad background and interest in biological systems,environmental exposure (silica – metals – fine particles), who will be responsible for mainly WP1 and WP4 – the work in WP2 & 3 will mainly be executed in parallel by a young clinician.

The researchers will have access to a stimulating research environment within the Mathematics Department of KULeuven and within the network of team forming the Horizon 2002 project AIDA (www.aida-space.eu) funded by the European commission.

The research will take place in the MECO (Motion Estimation Control and Optimization) research team of the Department Mechanical Engineering of KU Leuven. The MECO research team focusses on modelling, estimation, identification, analysis and optimal control of motion and motion systems such as mechatronic systems or machine tools. It combines theoretical contributions (development of design methodologies) with experimental knowhow (implementation and experimental validation on lab-scale as well as industrial setups). The theoretical research benefits from the group’s expertise on numerical optimization, especially convex optimization. MECO is member of Flanders Make - the strategic research center for the manufacturing industry.

The Department of Accounting, Finance and Insurance offers a dynamic, stimulating and pleasant working environment. Moreover, AFI enjoys a strong international reputation and is part of a wide network consisting of other universities, companies and institutions.

PhD position starting Sept 1st in the laboratories of Karl Farrow (NERF) and Lieve Moons (Neural Circuit Development and Regeneration Research Group, Dept. Biology, KU Leuven). Candidates are expected to have a degree in life sciences, physical sciences or engineering, with a strong interest in neurodegenerative diseases and repair strategies. Prior experience in imaging, histology, molecular biology or computer science is an advantage.

As part of its research commitment to the field of Intellectual Property Law and with the support of the 'Special Research Fund' (Bijzonder Onderzoeksfonds, BOFZAP), established by the Flemish Government, the Faculty of Law of the Humanities and Social Sciences Group at KU Leuven announces an open position for a fulltime academic staff member within the KU Leuven Centre for IT and IP law (CiTiP).

We offer a two-year postdoctoral position funded by the EU ITEA3 project PAPUD "Profiling and Analysis Platform Using Deep Learning” (https://itea3.org/project/papud.html). The principal investigator is Prof. Sien Moens. The scope of the project is to build a universal model for data analytics using deep learning in order to help today’s businesses to make sense out of data.

You will be embedded in the Robotics Research Group at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Division of Production engineering, Machine design and Automation (PMA). The group has pioneered robotics research in Europe since the mid-1970s and was among the first to develop active force feedback for assembly operations.

You will be embedded in the Robotics Research Group at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Division of Production engineering, Machine design and Automation (PMA). The group has pioneered robotics research in Europe since the mid-1970s and was among the first to develop active force feedback for assembly operations.

The lab of Dr. Seuntjens studies basic processes of neurogenesis and neural migration within the developing brain. We investigate how different species generate neuronal diversity, and how neurons communicate while migrating towards their final destination. Faults in these processes often result in neurodevelopmental disorders in human. We use the mouse to model such disorders, and to study the underlying molecular mechanisms. We also aim to identify common evolutionary mechanisms of building large and complex brains through the study of nervous system development and regeneration in non-model organisms (killifish, octopus). 

The Leuven Institute for Research on Information Systems (LIRIS) coordinates research in the area of information technology and management in organizations. This research embodies: fundamental issues of business information and knowledge in organizations, applied research, and research on the use and implications of digital information throughout society.

As a member of our team of three research managers, you play a key role in supporting the Production Engineering research group in expanding its externally funded research portfolio.

The planned PhD work will be executed in the framework of a Belgian Directorate-General Development Cooperation(DGD) project “Safeguarding vegetatively-propagated crop diversity to nourish people now and in the future”. The study will focus on an efficient and fast strategy to develop a cryopreservation protocols for new species with focus on those crops providing food security in the global South.

You will conduct scientific research activities on the loading in the foot-ankle complex more specific (1) develop and test a multi-scale workflow to study cartilage stresses and strains and their effect on the cartilage constituents in patients with hindfoot OA presenting malalignment, (2) develop a statistical shape model of the mid- and hindfoot.

The Public Economics research group is part of the Department of Economics of the KU Leuven, and conducts both theoretical and applied research on issues such as social security and taxes, microsimulation, health care, public finances, education, and normative welfare economics and decisions of the household.

The KU Leuven Laboratory of Food Chemistry and Biochemistry (LFCB) and Soft Matter, Rheology and Technology lab (SMaRT) are recruiting a highly motivated person for conducting research on the interface of food chemistry and rheology. 

Exploring wafer level growth of van der Waals materials 

As a material expert you will be part of The Thin Films group, responsible for the development, characterization and optimization of deposition processes for dielectrics and metals. 

This PhD project involves EEG data collection, evaluation of the new brain decoders developed by colleague PhD students with an engineering background, and hypothesis-driven neuroscience research.

We are looking for a research engineer with interests in medicine, mechanics and material sciences and that isn’t drawn back by performing tests on ex-vivo tissue.

You will be embedded in the Robotics (ROB) group of the KU Leuven Department of Mechanical Engineering.

You will be technically responsible for the project activities of the design group.

You will be embedded in the Robotics (ROB) group of the KU Leuven Department of Mechanical Engineering.

We are looking for a RESEARCHER (M/F) with the ambition to complete a doctoral programme in four years.

You will be involved in a research project at the crossroads between art/design and science. Your task will be to investigate the current state of the art on the use of creative forms of dissemination in a European academic context. 

You will be working in the clinical department of endocrinology of UZ Leuven, which is a part of the research unit clinical and experimental medicine, which again is part of the CHROMETA department KULeuven.

We are looking for an experience researcher to join our team and to lead our experimental research related to Selective Laser Melting

The two successful candidates will be selected to work on a research project coordinated by the Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law (an interdisciplinary centre that performs research on ethical and societal issues with regard to innovations in biomedical research and health care, www.cbmer.be), and the Life Sciences & Society Lab (an interdisciplinary group that studies the social aspects and implications of the life sciences, https://soc.kuleuven.be/ceso/l... ).

The KU Leuven has an extensive PhD program in Economics and Business. Usually, a PhD takes 4-5 years, including course work in advanced economics. For more information: http://feb.kuleuven.be/eng/leuven/edu/phd/.

You will study the scientific state-of-the-art on the analysis of time series data within domains such as Machine Learning, Data Mining and Data Science. 

The PhD candidate will focus on the development of acoustic trim materials for noise abatement. 

The PhD candidate will work on the development of a parametric Model Order Reduction strategy to translate detailed 3D joint models into mathematical black-box representations while maintaining the direct dependencies to the relevant model parameters. 

The aim of this project is to develop robust Reduced Order Methods (ROM) that can be applied to damage modelling in composites at the micro- and meso-scale.

The aim of this project is to develop robust Reduce Order Methods (ROM) which can be applied for multi-scale noiseand vibration harshness (NVH) simulation of composite, 3D printed and meta-material structures.

If you love making sense of data and helping others to do so, we would love to talk to you. Cumul.io is looking for a presales & customer success colleague (f/m), a jack of all trades combining data, dashboards, and a customer-centric mindset.

If you wake up sharp every morning with your internal compass set on the creation of 'big fish' opportunities, we would love to talk to you. Cumul.io is looking for a sales executive colleague (f/m), a jack of all trades who is not easily discouraged and knows how to be politely persistent.

EASI, Best Workplace sinds 2015 is op zoek naar een enthousiaste en ambitieuze collega om het consutlancy team in Leuven te komen versterken!

Research assistantship is available to work in the domain of International Trade.

The Skeletal Biology and Engineering Research Center focuses its research on the understanding of the cellular and molecular basis of skeletal tissue formation, remodeling and repair.
The Center thereby aims to develop treatments for skeletal disorders, in particular regenerative strategies for cartilage, bone and joint repair. These approaches include the manufacturing of novel class Advanced Therapeutic Medicinal Products, towards we work in full integration with engineers, clinicians and biologists.

This 4-year multidisciplinary research project, funded by the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO) will examine the impact of neural and psychological mechanisms on the perception of breathlessness in healthy individuals and in patients with respiratory disease (COPD, asthma)as well as anxiety. Moreover, respective interrelations of these mechanisms with physical activity and other patient characteristics will be studied. The PhDstudent will carry out several studies that aim to assess these aspects in are habilitation context as well as in laboratory settings.

The Center for Contextual Psychiatry (CCP) is a multidisciplinary and internationally oriented research center, widely recognized for its expertise in the design, application, and analysis of studies and clinical trials using Experience Sampling Methodology in the context of Mental Health research. The CCP is headed by prof. Inez Myin-Germeys. The CCP currently consists of 25 researchers from a wide range of backgrounds (psychology - psychiatry - statistics - philosophy - movement sciences - ...). The Center is part of the Department of Neurosciences in the School of Medicine at KU Leuven, one of the most renowned research universities in Europe.

Development of state of the art image sensors for biomedical, pharmaceutical and industrial applications.

The financial controller manages all corporate finances in cooperation with the CEO and supports all company processes from a financial point of view.

Postdoctoral position on the topic of multilingual text mining. The goal is to build interlingual representations that allow multilingual topic modelling, content classification (e.g., opinion and argumentation mining) and question answering. This postdoctoral position will be funded by the EU ITEA3 grant PAPUD and offers a contract for two years. The position will start as soon as possible.

A postdoctoral position is available in the Laboratory of Bioengineering and Morphogenesis at KU Leuven, Belgium. Our research focuses on understanding the relationship between cell fate and morphogenesis in bioengineered organoid model systems. In particular, we aim at exploring the role of mechanics during differentiation and morphogenesis of human neural tube and paraxial mesoderm organoids.

The selected candidate will conduct his/her research work in the frame of the European project MUSA (Microbial Uptakes for Sustainable management of major bananA pests and diseases) with special focus on analyzing the effect of plant growth promoting microorganisms under abiotic (drought) stress conditions.

Unravelling advanced materials with Scanning Probe Microscopy.

De succesvolle kandidaat wordt ingeschakeld in de didactische teams van de statistiekcolleges, die op heel regelmatige basis samenkomen voor overleg, en waarin de know how voortdurend wordt bijgespijkerd.

Inspiring strategic leader to manage the Etch Process Development team.

The MeBioS Biophotonics group at the KU Leuven Department of Biosystems investigates the physical properties of biological materials in order to develop new sensor technologies for the agro-food chain. The fundamental research activities focus on measurement of the optical properties and exploitation of this information to develop novel sensor technologies. In our applied research these technologies are combined with advanced statistical techniques for quality assessment and optimization of agro-food products. 
 

The production engineering group of the PMA division - department of mechanical engineering is looking for one PhD student in the field of advanced manufacturing engineering. The position is available immediately at campus Arenberg (Leuven). The production engineering group at KU Leuven has a long history of innovative developments in the areas of hybrid processes, additive manufacturing and micro-manufacturing. You will join our team of researchers to work on a project focusing on establishing novel process sensing and decision-making strategies, based on in-depth process knowledge, for the control of advanced machining and laser assisted manufacturing processes.

The Laboratory for Cytogenetics and Genome research at the Genter for Human Genetics develops tools for genome analyses. One major challenge of contemporary genome analysis is the de novo assembly of genomes. Currently, we are implementing whole genome Illumina sequencing, PacBio single molecule sequencing for de novo genome assemblies and we are exploring the use of PacBio sequencing for haplotyping. .

A consortium of five Belgian universities is seeking PhD students, post-doctoral researchers and computer scientists to work in the framework of the PARAMOUR project (Decadal Predictability and vAriability of polar climate: the Role of AtMosphere- Ocean-cryosphere mUltiscale inteRactions) funded by the program EOS –The excellence of Science. PARAMOUR aims at revealing fundamental drivers of climate variability and assessing climate predictability in high latitudes by using coupled regional climate models in both hemispheres.