Postdoctoral Fellowship: High Throughput Sers for - Amsterdam, Nederland - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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Amsterdam, Nederland

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Geplaatst door:

Daan Van den Berg

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Beschrijving

Amsterdam 1 / 1 Faculty of Science Researcher / Postdoc Postdoc W&N Gebouw Closes on Three year fellowship combining assay development and high-throughput SERS readout platform design.

We will deliver a turn-key system that makes highly multiplexed SERS-based molecular fingerprinting widely available, easy and fast.

Your function:

Despite decades of innovation, SERS-based sensing platforms seldom transition from proof-of-concept, academic demonstrations to applied, market-ready products.

A key bottleneck is the lack of suitable read-out methodologies, where highly sophisticated SERS sensors are analysed by confocal Raman microscopes, one spot at a time.

Over the past few years, we have taken initial steps towards providing better solutions (_Nature Nanotech._
15, & _Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. _
61, e However, a broadly-applicable turn-key solution is still lacking but could revolutionise SERS-based sensing.

During this three-year postdoctoral fellowship, you will develop a platform technology that leverages tailored SERS assays, enabled by a novel high-throughput readout technology that we will establish in parallel.

With the support of our interdisciplinary team, you will lead this ambitious project and:

Develop a barcoded SERSsensor library
Design SAMbased digital fingerprinting assays
Implement a highthroughput SERS readout platform
Benchmark and optimise the combined assay/platform technology
Systematically demonstrate the technology's broad applicability, from anticounterfeiting to wine analysis.
Explore thusfar inaccessible SERS strategies enabled by our readout technology

Your profile:

PhD degree in Chemistry, Nanotechnology, or Physics
Experience with SERS, selfassembly/colloidal chemistry, nanophotonics, Raman spectroscopy/microscopy
Experience with optical instrumentation, programming and hardwaresoftware interfacing is a plus
Excellent written and oral communication skills
Excited about interdisciplinary research as part of multidisciplinary and diverse team
Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to collaboratively work with other researchers

What do we offer?:

A fully funded three year postdoctoral fellowship with ample room for personal development in a socially engaged organisation

We offer:

A salary of minimum € 3.226,00 (Scale 10) and maximum € 5.090,00 (Scale 10) gross per month, on a fulltime basis. This is based on UFO profile Researcher 4. The exact salary depends on your education and experience.
The appointment will initially be for 1 year. Subject to a positive evaluation, the contract will be extended for a total duration of 3 years.
Plenty of room to acquire new skills to develop a highlycompetitive research portfolio.

We also offer you attractive fringe benefits and regulations

Some examples:
- a full-time 38-hour working week comes with a holiday leave entitlement of 232 hours per year. If you choose to work 40 hours, you have 96 extra holiday leave hours on an annual basis. For part-timers, this is calculated pro rata.

8% holiday allowance and 8.3% endofyear bonus

- contribution to commuting expenses
- space for personal development
- a wide range of sports facilities which staff may use at a modest charge

About us:

Faculty of Science

Researchers and students at VU Amsterdam's Faculty of Science tackle fundamental and complex scientific problems to help pave the way for a sustainable and healthy future.

From forest fires to big data, from obesity to malnutrition, and from molecules to the moon:
we cover the full spectrum of the natural sciences. Our teaching and research have a strong experimentally technical, computational and interdisciplinary nature.

We work on new solutions guided by value-driven, interdisciplinary methodologies.

We are committed to research, valorisation and training socially engaged citizens of the world who will make valuable contributions to a sustainable, healthy future.

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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