Roles & Responsibilities
The Nanyang Technological University School of Materials Science and Engineering (NTU MSE) is looking for a highly motivated and experienced candidate to join us as Research Fellow (RF). The RF will join a 3-years research project funded by Singapore National Research Foundation (NRF). The research project is an interdisciplinary joint project of HUJI (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and NTU (Nanyang Technological University) aiming to develop a replicable, data-centered, autonomous, sustainable, intelligent, computational urban farming system for whole-plant yield optimization.

In this multidisciplinary project, a unique multimodal indoors remote sensing high-throughput plant phenotyping (HTTP) system is incorporated with whole plant and environmental sensing system all data is to be fused and analyzed with AI techniques to optimize yield of indoor crops under solid and hydroponic substrates. The successful candidate will take part in developing and starting the data collection from this unique HTTP system and should be a constructive team member while maintaining independent research.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Operating a LemnaTec indoors HTPP system and pre-processing in LemnaTec environment (C-Sharp)
  • Remotely sensed data fusion and analysis with PlantDitech information (including plant, soil/substrate as well as environmental information)
  • Assist in the daily operation of compu-farm and control farm when needed.
  • Ensure compliance with health and safety in all aspects of the research work
  • Supervise junior research staff, undergraduate and graduate student projects
  • Manage logistical issues and laboratory inventory
  • Coordinate collaborative work within multidisciplinary team and external collaborators
  • Generate periodic progress report as required by funding agency
  • Disseminate research results in high quality peer-reviewed journals and/or international conference

Job Requirements:

  • PhD degree in biological engineering systems, agricultural engineering, remote sensing, electronic engineering or related fields
  • Experience with high-throughput phenotyping system (e.g., LemnaTec) preferred
  • Experience with plant hyperspectral imaging, RGB, thermal imaging preferred
  • Excellent programing skills (e.g., Python) and statistical data analysis
  • Experience with machine learning (e.g., PLS, GP, NN)
  • A track record of research ability and demonstrated contribution to research (e.g., research publications, grant applications, patents) required
  • Excellent knowledge in English
  • Good communication and writing skills
  • Good coordination/project management skills
  • Able to plan and execute experiments with minimal supervision
  • Able to take initiative to improve processes and troubleshoot problems
  • Able to organize well and adhere to deadlines

2nd OSCARS Open Call for Open Science projects & services – LAUNCH EVENT – 15 November 2024

We are pleased to invite you to the launch event of the OSCARS 2nd Open Call for Open Science projects and services, to be held…

European Life Science RIs Position Paper on FP10

Driving Innovation and Collaboration: A Strategic Vision for European Life Science Research Infrastructures in Framework…

PHENET & IPPN Coffee sessions

Announcement of Coffee session series: Are you focusing on plant phenotyping or envirotyping topics in your research and…

AgroServ’s Second Call for Proposals is Now Open!

We are excited to announce the opening of AgroServ’s second call for proposals. AgroServ provides access to 143 services from…

Horizon Europe-funded MICROBES-4-CLIMATE project kicks-off

31 Partners from 13 Countries unite to address climate change risks for biodiversity and for agricultural and forestry…

New Call for European Research Projects towards agroecology

The partnership AGROECOLOGY, pre-announcing upcoming call on “Fostering agroecology at farm and landscape levels”

Discuss how to make the best use of FLEX data on January 18, 2024 in Bonn!

Learn more about solar-induced fluorescence, an innovative method of remote sensing, and participate in the workshop "Potential…

PHENET training course on February 15, 2024

The next PHENET training course is in cooperation with de.NBI (German Network for Bioinformatics Infrastructure) and FAIRAgro.…

International collaboration targets global food challenges

The memorandum of understanding formalises a commitment to cooperation in enabling crop improvement via advancements in plant…

6th Call for Trans-national Access – Beyond Atmospheric Science

The 6th ATMO Transnational Access call opened this week until 31 January 2024 and focuses on multidisciplinary projects, which…

ALL-Ready – The EU Agroecology Living Lab and Research Infrastructure Network

The ALL-Ready pilot network is essentially a small-scale testbed to experiment, and to provide feedback on the various tools,…

IPPS2024

The next International Plant Phenotyping Symposium, IPPS2024 will take place from October 07. – 11. 2024, in Lincoln…

EPSO Young Plant Scientist Award 2024

The awards will cover registration (waived by the Local Host) and travel (economy, max. 400 €, reimbursed by EPSO) to the…

AgroServ – First Call for Proposals Open to Scientists from Academia and the Industry

The Horizon Europe project AgroServ, with the participation of EMPHASIS, is pleased to announce the official launch of its…

EMPHASIS training on affordable phenotyping in Matera-Metaponto, Italy

It enabled an in depth discussion between the course participants and plant phenotyping experts from EMPHASIS member countries.

SusCrop / FoPD video contest on sustainable crop production

National funders in the European Research Area Network on Sustainable Crop Production (SusCrop ERA-net) opened the video…

IPPS Research Topic in frontiers

IPPS 2022 - Plant Phenotyping for a Sustainable Future: IPPN, together with WUR, has launched a research theme on borders.

First AI4Life Open Call

With this Open Call, we want to reach out to life scientists that need help to improve their image analysis workflows, data,…

Call for contributions to a special Issue: Phenotyping functional traits in plants

Plant phenotyping has seen rapid development in methods and technologies over recent decade leading to the establishment of…

European research and innovation programmes 2014-2027

The public consultation on the EU’s Horizon research and innovation programmes 2014-2027 will be open until 23 February. This…

EPSO Young Plant Scientist Award 2023

The European Plant Science Organisation wishes to encourage the development of ideas and imaginative thinking in the plant…

EMPHASIS Implementation Project „EMPHASIS-GO” has started

Once operational, EMPHASIS is intend to provide multiple high-level services for the plant phenotyping and related communities…

Phenet

Europe urgently needs to find pathways towards agroecological transition of agroecosystems in support to food security, climate…

IPPS 2022

7th International Plant Phenotyping Symposium - Conference Dates (incl. pre- & post-conference dates): September 26-30, 2022

New book: Advances in plant phenotyping for more sustainable crop production

The book reviews the wealth of research on advances in plant phenotyping to meet this challenge, including new technologies…

CEPLAS invites applications for 21 Postdoctoral Research Associates

The Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences CEPLAS invites applications for 21 Postdoctoral Research Associates (100 %, EG 13…

EMPHASIS contributes to European project AI4Life on Artificial Intelligence

Machine learning (ML) has enabled and accelerated frontier research in the life sciences, but democratised access to such…

EMPHASIS contributes to European project AgroServ on Agroecology

The Horizon Europe project AgroServ, led by AnaEE and CNRS, gathers more than 70 partners and has recently been granted of 15M€…

EOSC-Life: Workflowhub

Computer Vision in Plant Phenotyping and Agriculture (CVPPA) Workshop at ICCV 2021

This workshop plans to showcase the challenges raised by working on computer vision for plant phenotyping and agriculture.…

Opinion Paper: EU Consortium calls for “Designing the Crops for the Future; The CropBooster Program”

The authors call for international action and propose a pan-European research and innovation initiative, the CropBooster…

MLCAS2021 launches Crop Yield Prediction Challenge

In this competition, you will utilize a dataset consisting of 103,365 performance records over 13 years and 150 locations with…

Wheat Initiative gains new coordinator from Julius-Kuehn-Institute for their Alliance for Wheat Adaption to Heat and Drought (AHEAD) program

In 2021, the Wheat Initiative welcomes Dr. Stefanie Hagemann, as the new AHEAD Global Coordinator. Dr. Hagemann started working…

Wheat Initiative call for best phenotyping webinar in WEBINAR COMPETITION

WHEAT PHENOTYPING & ABIOTIC STRESS TOLERANCE: LATEST APPROACHES & FINDINGS

Wheat Initiative calls for your (wheat) research video in their VIDEO COMPETITION

WHEAT PHENOTYPING AND ABIOTIC STRESS TOLERANCE: FROM THE BENCH TO THE FIELD, FROM VISUAL SCORES TO ROBOTICS

New Special Issue in Plant Phenomics

Plant Phenomics, a Science Partner Journal, is now accepting submissions for a special issue titled Advances in Proximal…

Final EPPN2020 call for transnational access now closed

The EPPN2020 project has provided transnational access for researchers from public and private sectors from Europe and beyond…

Greece: Intelligent system to monitor health of olive groves

Verticillium wilt is a major problem for olive growth and very difficult to detect at early stages of infestation. The project…

Austria: New high-throughput phenotyping platform at Vienna BioCenter Core Facilities (VBCF)

The PHENOPlant phenotyping platform is designed for non-invasive, morphometric and physiological high-throughput phenotyping of…

Sweden: A virtual tour of the Biotron at SLU Alnarp

On 27 May 2021, NordPlant organized a virtual tour of the Biotron at SLU Alnarp. The Biotron is a facility for modern plant…

Italy: Successful first Phen-Italy call for access to plant phenotyping infrastructures

Great success of the Phen-Italy call for access to the Italian plant phenotyping infrastructures! More than twenty applications…

Greece: Lab-in-the-field, multi-spectral imaging technology for early warning of plant stress and pathologies

The Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania, the Hellenic Agricultural Organization Dimitra and QCELL, the inventor of…

New tools for data sharing in plant research

Three new data management tools designed to help plant researchers with data analysis, visualisation and integration following…

Italy: Phen-Italy launches first call for access to national phenotyping infrastructures

The Italian Plant Phenotyping Network Phen-Italy has launched a call to fund access to plant phenotyping participating…

EOSC-Life publishes midterm Achievements Brochure

The European Open Science Cloud project EOSC-Life, which EMPHASIS participates in, has just published a digital brochure…

RI-VIS publishes three white papers on international cooperation between research infrastructures

As part of the RI-VIS project, a team of European research infrastructures, led by EMPHASIS, has just published three white…

Belgium: VIB and ILVO jointly obtain regional funding to establish the ‘EMPHASIS-Belgium’ consortium as national node of EMPHASIS

With the ambition of “phenotyping future crops”, a new consortium - EMPHASIS-Belgium - has been established as the Belgian node…

Plant Phenotyping for a Sustainable Future

Contributions to the special issue are welcome and may include research papers as well as review articles. Authors should…

Present your research to the community: PhenomicsWebinars relaunch in new format

Now open: abstract submission for the upcoming season of the newly revised PhenomicsWebinars series on plant phenotyping.

RI-VIS Publishes White Paper on African-European Research Infrastructure Cooperation

A team of European research infrastructures, led by EMPHASIS, has published a White Paper entitled "Recommendations towards…

What kind of bioinformatics do plant scientists need?

Your input is needed: the German Network for Bioinformatics Infrastructure de.NBI would really appreciate if you could take a…

Special Issue: “From Phenotyping to Phenomics—Techniques for Exploring Plant Traits and Diversity”

This Special Issue aims to bring together a range of research papers that cover plant phenotyping at large-scale from hundreds…

Belgium: VIB acquires CropDesign site from BASF and launches its first agricultural biotechnology incubator

VIB, a leading life sciences institute in Flanders, has signed an agreement with BASF to acquire its CropDesign site in Nevele,…

Get involved

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.

Get involved

Privacy Preference Center