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- Study at WUR Bachelor's Master's - Collaborate with WUR - Themes - Study at WUR - Collaborate with WUR - About WUR - EngD position on smart sensors for health monitoring via breath gas analysis Career at WUR About us - Plenty of variety and challenges - Pleasant working atmosphere - Time for personal development - Proper work-life balance - Internationally leading Your job Are you interested in engineering, health and building new technology? Then we are looking for you! We are seeking an amazing Engineering Doctorate (EngD) candidate to help us unravel what we can measure in breath and understand physiology. Every breath you exhale carries information about the health of your body and its systems. Trace gases can signal the presence of chronic or acute disorders, or give insight into respiratory or metabolic status. Imagine if you could breathe into a small device a few times a day, and it would tell you this information? A smart breath sensing device like that could be highly valuable, for instance to consumers and patients wanting to monitor and optimize their health in a home setting, or to workers operating outside the reach of regular medical care and diagnostic equipment. As an Engineering Doctorate (EngD) candidate in this project, you will design a system and develop a first feasibility prototype for such a device, based on photonic sensing technology and advanced data analysis techniques. Your responsibilities include: - scoping the most promising application areas for this breath sensing device and do an in-depth user journey mapping for one or multiple selected applications; - design and develop a system architecture based on established design principles and stakeholder requirements; - scoping out the most promising gases to target, from both a technological and (health) application perspective; - planning and conducting benchtop spectroscopy experiments; - data analysis, quantifying sensitivity and p...