Netherlands: 4 PhDs in Control Engineering & Smart Optics

Deadline: 4 March 2014

Job description

The positions are defined within the framework of the ERC Advanced grant of Prof. Michel Verhaegen entitled "Integrated Real-time Feedback Control and Post-processing for Image Restoration" (iCON). Within this project a new methodology will be developed for designing the high-resolution imaging equipment of the future in application fields like microscopy, astronomy, optical coherence tomography and nanoscopy. The design methodology integrates and expands novel, model-based control methodologies with smart optical components, starting from the outset of the design of the high-resolution imaging system. The new researchers will have the opportunity to work in a multidisciplinary team of international experts. This will allow both the realization of new, innovative, fundamental systems and control contributions as well as the opportunity to demonstrate their practical relevance via state-of-the-art demonstrators in astronomy and microscopy.

There are 4 objectives in this project. A brief outline with the starting dates for the PhD students is as follows:
Objective 1 (PhD - Feb. 2014): System identification of spatial-temporally varying dynamical systems
Objective 2 (PhD - Feb. 2014): Wavefront reconstruction and experiment design with active optics
Objective 3 (PhD and Post-doc - Jan. 2015): Distributed robust feedback control and updating for adaptive, real-time image resolution enhancement
Objective 4 (PhD and Post-doc - Jan. 2015): Integration of real-time feedback control and post-processing.

Additional information

Michel Verhaegen
+31 (0)15-2785204
m.verhaegen@tudelft.nl