[Announcements] Postdoctoral position in Flexible Electronics, Sensors and Smart Textiles, University of Sussex (UK)

[Daniel Roggen]

*** Postdoctoral position in Flexible Electronics, Sensors and Smart 
Textiles, University of Sussex (UK) ***

The Flexible Electronics Laboratory at the University of Sussex is 
looking for a postdoctoral researcher to work with Dr Niko Münzenrieder 
on the research-intensive project "Shape sensing textile for orthotics - 
SmartSensOtics 
<http://gow.epsrc.ac.uk/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/R013837/1>".

This 3 year project aims to develop a textile sleeve with an integrated 
array of stretchable sensors. The goal is to quantify the shape and the 
pressure applied to body parts covered with the textile sleeve, and 
hence to offer a digital alternative to traditional plater cast moulds. 
The developed textile will be used by our industrial and healthcare 
partners to improve the process of manufacturing orthotics in the UK and 
low income countries. This project is in collaboration with a orthotics 
company based in the south of UK, a healthcare institution form Kenya, 
and a major European research institute.

Your role will be to develop and fabricated novel highly stretchable 
strain and pressure sensors on polymer substrates, and to use flexible 
thin-film transistors to create a sensor matrix inside a commercial 
textile fabric. This will be done inside our recently refurbished class 
100 cleanroom and in collaboration with international partners. Data 
collection and processing will be done in collaboration with a second 
full time postdoctoral researcher.

Additionally, you will support the proof of concept and evaluation of 
the system with our local partner in Kenya, to optimize the textile for 
its application in a low income country.

This project is based at the growing Flexible Electronics Group 
<http://www.sussex.ac.uk/strc/research/flex>within the Sensor Technology 
Research Centre at the University of Sussex. This project gives the 
opportunity to collaborate with multiple international partners from 
industry and research which offers the possibility to gather industrial 
experience as part of the project and regular meetings. It also gives 
possibility to patent and commercialize some of the research outcomes. 
Finally, project meetings, field trips to Africa, and presentations at 
scientific conferences will involve numerous international travels.

For any further information and informal inquiry contact Dr Niko 
Munzenrieder: n.s.munzenrieder at sussex.ac.uk 
<mailto:n.s.munzenrieder at sussex.ac.uk>

Application information: 
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/about/jobs/research-fellow-flexible-electronics-ref-2993

-- 
Dr Daniel Roggen
Reader (Associate Professor) in Sensor Technology
Head of the Wearable Technology Lab
Director of the Sensor Technology Research Centre
University of Sussex, UK

@: daniel.roggen at ieee.org
http: www.sussex.ac.uk/strc/research/wearable | danielroggen.net
skype: droggen

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