WelcomeWelcome to the Doctoral School of Natural Sciences and (Bio-) Engineering (NSE). NSE is one of the three Doctoral Schools of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, the two others being the Doctoral School of Human Sciences (DSh) and the Doctoral School of Life Sciences and Medicine (LSM).
From 2009 on, the Vrije Universiteit Brussel will offer its PhD students the opportunity to take part in the Doctoral Training Program ('Doctoraatsopleiding'). The aim of this new Doctoral Training Program is to support the PhD students during their PhD project, to stimulate a qualitative research culture and to enable PhD students to develop a wider range of skills. The emphasis of the program lies on flexibility. In this way the Doctoral Training Program is tailored to the actual needs of individual PhD students. In concrete terms the programme will be organised in three Doctoral Schools: The Doctoral School of Natural Sciences and (Bio-) Engineering is directly linked to two Faculties, the Faculty of Sciences and (Bio-)Engineering Sciences and the Faculty of Engineering. The Faculty of Physical Education and Physiotherapy is an associate Faculty. The aim of NSE is to provide a specific Doctoral Training Program for the enrolled PhD students from the two Faculties in order to offer the students broad opportunities to increase their general and specific knowledge. This is important, not only at the level of the VUB and the Belgian Academic world, but also to gain better international visibility.
NewsMicheline's Life Cycle - A tale of oocytes, chromosomes, micronuclei & nanoparticlesSymposium in honour of the emeritate of Prof. Dr. M. Volders
SCK•CEN Day of the PhD'sThe Belgian Nuclear Research Centra organizes a 'Day of the PhD's' on October 6th 2011. In a conscious desire to increase its pool of highly specialized researchers and to tighten the links with the universities, SCK•CEN embarked, in 1992, on a programme to support PhD candidates and post-doctoral researchers. Today, about 50 young scientific researcher are supported by SCK•CEN and perform their work in research field that reflect the priority programmes and R&D topics of SCK•CEN. This "Day of the PhD's" aims at bringing together all our young scientific researchers, their promoters and colleagues at the universities, their mentors and other scientific collaborators at SCK•CEN, and the members of the Scientific Council, in order to present and discuss the ongoing PhD and post-doc research. Click here for more information.
PhD Conference - From PhD to Job MarketThe Doctoral Schools of the VUB and of Ghent University will once again join forces to organise the doctoral conference 'From PhD to Job Market'. This year's theme is 'From PhD to Industry' and, although everyone is welcome, the focus lies on PhD students from the natural sciences, life sciences and (bioscience) engineering.
PhD students who are registered for the conference can also register for one of the afternoon workshops: Introduction to Career Coaching, Intoduction to Entrepreneurship, Analysis of your Curriculum Vitae and Efficient Networking. Workshop - Entrepreneurship in the Life SciencesIs becoming a successful (bio-)entrepreneur your ambition? Are you interested in the fascinating world of life sciences entrepreneurship where a whole range of disciplines meet? Well, you're lucky! On 9, 10, 12 and 13 May 2011, VIB and VUB are organizing the first edition of their joined ‘Workshop Entrepreneurship in Life Sciences’ in Brussels (ICAB). This four-day high level course is designed to provide academics such as doctoral students and postdocs a thorough understanding of the topic. The lecturers are senior industry executives and experts from VIB and the VUB. All information concerning the content of this unique initiative can be found in the attached flyer or on the course website: www.businessandbiotechnology.com Call for logo-design DS NSEThe Doctoral School for Natural Sciences and (Bio-) Science Engineering launches a call for the design of a logo for the Doctoral School. Logo proposals can be submitted electronically by sending an e-mail to NSE@vub.ac.be before March 1 st, 2011. You can consult the contest regulations here. The winning design will be rewarded with a Fnac gift certificate with a value of €200. Seminar "Assembly of Bacterial Type VI Secretion Systems"
The Doctoral School of Life Sciences and Medicine organizes 4 Master Classes in the second semester of 2010-2011:Regular course unit "Embryonic Stem Cells" (GF-EMGE-11173) Regular course unit "Molecular Targets in Cancer Cells" (GF-IMMI-4267) Regular course unit "Molecular Targets in Infected Cells" (GF-MEBO-10207) Regular course unit "Adult Stem and Progenitor Cells" (GF-IMMI-11174) Additional dates: are available on the DS-lsm website http://www.vub.ac.be/phd/doctoralschools/lsm Catering: The DS provides sandwiches for the evening courses Please make your choice for the first semester master classes before 15 February through the form in enclosure. If you can only decide after 15 February, please let us know. Ask your promotor to sign the form; it is not necessary to ask the teacher's signature. The DS-lsm will do this for you.
VIB Research Training Course (VRTC) - overview of planned events More information on these events can be found on the VRTC webpage
VIB/VUB Workshop Entrepreneurship in Life Sciences - 9,10,12 and 13 May 2011 - Brussels Flanders and Brussels have a strong tradition in life sciences, particularly in biomedical and agro-food life sciences. Over the years, several entrepreneurs have shown that valorization of fundamental scientific research can ultimately lead to the inception of a successful spin-off company. For those innovators, it took more than scientific excellence to be successful. They had to engage in fascinating fields such as Intellectual Property Rights, Human Resources, financial management, negotiations & agreements and business development. Is becoming a successful entrepreneur your future ambition? Are you interested in this fascinating world where a whole range of disciplines meet? Then you are lucky as the four day long ‘Workshop Entrepreneurship in Life Sciences’ is a unique opportunity to gather required skills in a single intensive course. Experts in business economics and tech transfer from the VUB and VIB, together with senior executives from industry, document key concepts, familiarize you with the life sciences industry profile, comment on current business models and deliver you a practical guide on how to start your future life sciences company!
Topical Day on Bioinformatics: “From Base to Byte and back” Vrijdag 19 november 2010 - SCK-CEN te Mol Topical Days hebben als doel nieuwe concepten en hedendaagse ontwikkelingen voor een breed publiek te brengen en om nieuwe samenwerkingsverbanden mogelijk te maken.
Friday 19 November 2010 - SCK-CEN in Mol Topical Days aim to bring new concepts and trends to the broad public and to foster new collaborations.
VUB PhD Research Day 2010The Central PhD Office and the 3 Doctoral Schools join forces to present the first VUB PhD Research Day on Friday the 28th of May 2010. In recent years we have seen similar successful initiatives from different individual faculties which inspired us to organise a first time great event in honor of all our PhD students of all disciplines. Currently, there are approximately 1200 researchers preparing a PhD at the VUB. By organising the PhD Research Day we would like to give them the opportunity to meet each other and to present their projects to the entire VUB community. The event is meant to be inspiring and we hope to bring our researchers closer together.
CAMPUSTALKS 2010 -DUURZAAMHEID 3 MAART 2010@KK (12-14U)Op initiatief van het huidig VUB rectoraat werd eind 2009 gestart met de Taskforce Duurzaamheid met het oog op de strategische ontwikkeling van een duurzaamheidsvisie voor VUB in parallel met de versterking van de VUB/ULB/UAB netwerking. Een eerste publieke evenement in dit kader is Campustalks Duurzaamheid op 3 maart van 12u tot 14u in het Kultuurkaffee van VUB op de campus Etterbeek. Het is de bedoeling actueel onderzoek en projecten voor te stellen van VUB/ULB/UAB/alumni die zich focussen op ecologische, sociale en economische duurzaamheid. Have an inspiring lunch in Kultuurkaffee and get by with the latest efforts on sustainability, served in 20 images, each shown for 20 seconds. No more, no less. This keeps presentations concise, the interest level up and room for CROSSTALKING afterwards. Presentations will be held in the languages of the capital, being a mix of English, French and Dutch. SPEAKER’S LINE UP • Willy Baeyens (Analytical and Environmental Chemistry, VUB) Campustalks is a new initiative inspired by Pecha Kucha* Night Brussels, developed and organized by CROSSTALKS and supported by the rectorateof Vrije Universiteit Brussel. This 5th edition is initiated by VUB’s Taskforce Sustainability, aiming at the development of a strategic and sustainable long term vision for the university. The idea is to present research and projects currently running at VUB, ULB, EhB and/or by alumni with a focus on More info and registrations at http://crosstalks.vub.ac.be/new_events/about_campustalks.html “WHAT’S THAT IN YOUR POCKET?”LECTURE by Gene Frantz Symposium - Doctor Honoris Causa John Gurdon - 10th of December 2009To celebrate the awarding of a Joint Doctor Honoris Causa degree to John Gurdon by the ULB and the VUB, a symposium around cloning and stem cells is being organised by Eric Bellefroid and Luc Leyns. Young Researchers Meeting - 30th of November 2009A small meeting of PhD students and young researchers within the Earth System Science is organised to provide an informal setting to interact about the various research themes. This meeting will offer an excellent opportunity to get acquainted with the people of ESSC.
VUBPRESS publishes your doctoral thesisAs an academic publisher VUBPRESS offers PhD students the possibility to publish their doctoral thesis in a professional way, at competitive prices, with an extensive and flexible service going far beyond a mere 'printing' assignment. Download more information here.
First year-report of the Doctoral School of Natural Sciences and (Bio-) Engineering (DS NSE)The year report of the first year of the DS NSE (2008-2009) can be downloaded here. The report is only available in Dutch.
Info-session VIB PhD Training Course "VPTC"We kindly invite you to an introductory talk about the VIB PhD Training Course "VPTC", a dynamic interdisciplinary training program that will be launched early October in close collaboration with Flemish science-oriented Doctoral Schools. VIB's Integration Manager, Dr. Geert Van Minnebruggen will document the program in +/- 30 minutes and will subsequently host your questions. The Get-to-know "VPTC" event will take place on Wednesday the 16th of September at 2pm, Auditorium D0.08 (Campus Etterbeek).
Seminar: Speeding up MATLAB applicationsBEgrid, VSC and CÉCI in collaboration with Mathworks organise a seminar “Speeding up MATLAB applications” that takes place on 19 June 2009 at the Are you constantly looking to boost your application performance? Are you dealing with problems that are computationally or data intensive? Does the competitive landscape demand that you harness any available compute resource to solve problems in ever shorter time? Join us for the 2009 Speeding Up MATLAB Applications Tour to learn how you can enhance the performance of your MATLAB applications and take advantage of computing resources from multi-core desktops to large-scale resources such as clusters, grids, and clouds. Presentation and Live Demonstrations: Parallel Computing with MATLAB. In this introductory talk, you will learn how you can use MathWorks parallel computing tools to tackle your compute-intensive and data-intensive problems using hardware systems available to you. You will see how you can adapt your applications to take advantage of these systems without making significant investments in reprogramming. Master Class: Speeding Up MATLAB Applications. In this in-depth technical session, you will learn strategies to speed-up your MATLAB applications, including techniques for optimizing your MATLAB code and taking advantage of the latest hardware. Please register for this event at: http://www.mathworks.nl/company/events/seminars/seminar37513.html Meetings of the NSE council
The first meeting of the NSE Council took place on January 16, 2009, and the second one on March 27. The members of the NSE Council are the Deans of the two member faculties, Prof. Luc Leyns and Prof. Rik Pintelon (chair persons of the PhD Monitoring Committees of the Faculty of Science and (Bio-) Engineering Sciences, and the Faculty of Engineering, respectively). Other members are representatives of PhD students and post-doctoral fellows.
Information sessions on Doctoral Schools/Doctoral Training Program VUB.
To inform all interested PhD students, professors and other members of the staff of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, the Central PhD Office organizes information sessions on the PhD Training Programme and the |
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