Assistant Professor Urban data for design

Are you interested in exploring how open science and open data about the built environment can accelerate sustainable urban development, and do you have the expertise to play a leading role in this? 

Urban data and digitalisation are essential instruments to face the complexity of contemporary interdisciplinary sustainable urbanisation challenges, such as the energy transition, the transition towards a circular built environment, and the transformation towards just, resilient, inclusive, and healthy cities.

We are looking for an Assistant Professor whose research and teaching will focus on how FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) urban, geo-based data and Open Science can steer and guide sustainable urbanisation, as part of studies on urban change processes.  

The position will bridge the domains of geo data science on the one hand and urban and landscape design on the other hand.

RESEARCH
The research challenges of this position focus on how to steer and guide sustainable urban and landscape design using FAIR data about the built environment and Open Science. How can open data/science approaches be integrated in studies on urban change processes in order to steer responsible and suatainable urbanisation? What are the technical, conceptual, and methodological challenges and opportunities? How will open data and digitalisation influence the design and planning of landscapes and urban areas?

EDUCATION
The challenge for education is firstly to teach open data/science approaches in urban and landscape design studies: How to work with open data and tools to design buildings, landscapes and urban areas (BIM/GIS and design tools; urban and building simulation tools)? Secondly, our students need to gain data literacy to understand how FAIR data and digital technologies can guide the design of sustainable urban areas. This will help them to use open data about the built environment to their full potential in urban/landscape design and related planning and decision-making processes, and at the same time have a responsible and critical standpoint.

The educational tasks of the position are more particularly:

• To integrate the use of FAIR urban, geo-based data into design education within the BSc Architecture (‘Bouwkunde’) and the MSc tracks Urbanism and Landscape Architecture.
• To help our students to develop technical skills: how to find, prepare and use FAIR data about the built environment for sustainable urban/landscape design? How to perform data analysis and simulations to study the impact of urban and landscape designs on e.g. accessibility, spatial integration, noise, water/flooding, wind comfort, daylight/shadow, energy.
• To help students gain understanding of the opportunities and challenges of open urban data and digitalisation in studies on sustainable urbanisation.

We are looking for an Assistant Professor with a relevant background to tackle these urban data challenges in our design research and education. The specific focus area of the position will be further detailed by the selected candidate in collaboration with the research and teaching staff in the Section, Department and Faculty.

The position will be embedded in the Section Urban Data Science (UDS) and will be co-coordinated by the educational coordinator of the Department of Urbanism. The section UDS focuses on governance and technologies underpinning open geo-data and the integration with Building Information Models. The section aims at designing, developing, and implementing open data and open source solutions to model cities, buildings, and landscapes in 3D for environmental and urban studies. Open Science is an important principle of our research. The section UDS is also the main provider of education in the MSc Geomatics, hosted in the same Faculty. It is a multidisciplinary group including computer scientists, geomatics engineers, and geographers.

The candidate has:

• A PhD degree in a topic related to (open) urban/GIS data and using these data in urban/regional/environmental/landscape design or spatial planning.
• Proven expert level GIS knowledge and experience (data and software).
• Scientific skills, as demonstrated by peer-reviewed publications or by other work/achievements.
• Affinity with education and multidisciplinary teaching, preferable holding a University Teaching Qualification certificate (or the ambition to acquire this within a short period of time).
• The ambition to see educational innovation as part of her/his career plan.
• Communication, networking, and collaboration skills.
• Experience in supervision of MSc students.

Salary and benefits are in accordance with the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities. 

The salary for an assistant professor position is min. €3.974 to max. €6.181 per month gross (salary scale 11-12). Depending on the working experience and education level of the candidate.

Besides the salary you also receive an annual holiday payment of 8% and an end of year bonus payment of 8.3%.

The TU Delft offers a customisable compensation package, a discount on health insurance and sport memberships, and a monthly work costs contribution. Flexible work schedules can be arranged.

A tenure-track position is offered for six years. In the fifth year we’ll decide if you will be offered a permanent faculty position, based on performance indicators agreed upon at the start of the appointment. We expect that you have the potential to grow towards an Associate Professor and/or Full Professor role in the future.

Inspiring, excellent education is our central aim. We expect you to obtain a University Teaching Qualification (UTQ) within three years if you have less than five years of teaching experience. This is provided by the TU Delft UTQ programme. TU Delft sets high standards for the English competency of the teaching staff. The TU Delft offers training to improve English competency. If you do not speak Dutch, we offer courses to learn the Dutch language within three years.

For international applicants we offer the Coming to Delft Service and Partner Career Advice to assist you with your relocation. An International Children’s Centre offers childcare and there is an international primary school.

Delft University of Technology is built on strong foundations. As creators of the world-famous Dutch waterworks and pioneers in biotech, TU Delft is a top international university combining science, engineering and design. It delivers world class results in education, research and innovation to address challenges in the areas of energy, climate, mobility, health and digital society. For generations, our engineers have proven to be entrepreneurial problem-solvers, both in business and in a social context.

At TU Delft we embrace diversity as one of our core values and we actively engage to be a university where you feel at home and can flourish. We value different perspectives and qualities. We believe this makes our work more innovative, the TU Delft community more vibrant and the world more just. Together, we imagine, invent and create solutions using technology to have a positive impact on a global scale. That is why we invite you to apply. Your application will receive fair consideration.

Challenge. Change. Impact!

The Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment has a leading role in education and research worldwide. The driving force behind the faculty’s success is its robust research profile combined with the energy and creativity of its student body and academic community. It is buzzing with energy from early in the morning until late at night, with four thousand people studying, working, designing, conducting research and acquiring and disseminating knowledge. Our faculty has a strong focus on ‘design-oriented research’, which has given it a top position in world rankings.

Staff and students are working to improve the built environment with the help of a broad set of disciplines, including architectural design, urban planning, building technology, social sciences, process management, and geo-information science. The faculty works closely with other faculties, universities, private parties, and the public sector, and has an extensive network in the Netherlands as well as internationally.

Click here to go to the website of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment.

Department of Urbanism
The Department of Urbanism in the Faculty of Architecture conducts education and research in the fields of Urbanism, Landscape Architecture, and Geo-information. The department uses the Delft approach, an multidisciplinary and integrated  approach that combines urban design, spatial planning, landscape architecture, environment technology, urban studies and geo-information. The department has a very good reputation worldwide in the field of research and education. Urbanism is best known for its ‘unity of urbanism’, which combines the creativity of design with scientific research methods. This combination is highly regarded in professional practice, research and education.

For more information about this vacancy, please contact prof dr Jantien Stoter, e-mail: [email protected] (only per mail).

For more information about the application procedure, please contact Caro Coemans, HR advisor,
email: [email protected] .  

The position will remain open until October 9, 2022 (local Dutch time: UTC time + 2hrs.) You must apply via the “Apply now” button. Applications via e-mail will not be processed.  

To apply, please submit the following documents:

• A letter of application and a detailed CV.
• A list of “top 3 articles” related to this position.
• A brief description of a course or lecture that you gave/coordinated/developed about (open) urban, geo-data based data (science) or digitalisation for urban design/landscape architecture/planning processes.
• Maximum 2 pages with 1) a research statement with your vision on research directions of this position; 2) a teaching statement with your vision and ambitions for education.
• The name of three references, with contact information.

Please note:

• You can apply online. We will not process applications sent by email and/or post.
• A pre-Employment screening can be part of the selection procedure.
• Acquisition in response to this vacancy is not appreciated.

Are you interested in exploring how open science and open data about the built environment can accelerate sustainable urban development, and do you have the expertise to play a leading role in this? 

Urban data and digitalisation are essential instruments to face the complexity of contemporary interdisciplinary sustainable urbanisation challenges, such as the energy transition, the transition towards a circular built environment, and the transformation towards just, resilient, inclusive, and healthy cities.

We are looking for an Assistant Professor whose research and teaching will focus on how FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) urban, geo-based data and Open Science can steer and guide sustainable urbanisation, as part of studies on urban change processes.  

The position will bridge the domains of geo data science on the one hand and urban and landscape design on the other hand.

RESEARCH
The research challenges of this position focus on how to steer and guide sustainable urban and landscape design using FAIR data about the built environment and Open Science. How can open data/science approaches be integrated in studies on urban change processes in order to steer responsible and suatainable urbanisation? What are the technical, conceptual, and methodological challenges and opportunities? How will open data and digitalisation influence the design and planning of landscapes and urban areas?

EDUCATION
The challenge for education is firstly to teach open data/science approaches in urban and landscape design studies: How to work with open data and tools to design buildings, landscapes and urban areas (BIM/GIS and design tools; urban and building simulation tools)? Secondly, our students need to gain data literacy to understand how FAIR data and digital technologies can guide the design of sustainable urban areas. This will help them to use open data about the built environment to their full potential in urban/landscape design and related planning and decision-making processes, and at the same time have a responsible and critical standpoint.

The educational tasks of the position are more particularly:

• To integrate the use of FAIR urban, geo-based data into design education within the BSc Architecture (‘Bouwkunde’) and the MSc tracks Urbanism and Landscape Architecture.
• To help our students to develop technical skills: how to find, prepare and use FAIR data about the built environment for sustainable urban/landscape design? How to perform data analysis and simulations to study the impact of urban and landscape designs on e.g. accessibility, spatial integration, noise, water/flooding, wind comfort, daylight/shadow, energy.
• To help students gain understanding of the opportunities and challenges of open urban data and digitalisation in studies on sustainable urbanisation.

We are looking for an Assistant Professor with a relevant background to tackle these urban data challenges in our design research and education. The specific focus area of the position will be further detailed by the selected candidate in collaboration with the research and teaching staff in the Section, Department and Faculty.

The position will be embedded in the Section Urban Data Science (UDS) and will be co-coordinated by the educational coordinator of the Department of Urbanism. The section UDS focuses on governance and technologies underpinning open geo-data and the integration with Building Information Models. The section aims at designing, developing, and implementing open data and open source solutions to model cities, buildings, and landscapes in 3D for environmental and urban studies. Open Science is an important principle of our research. The section UDS is also the main provider of education in the MSc Geomatics, hosted in the same Faculty. It is a multidisciplinary group including computer scientists, geomatics engineers, and geographers.

The candidate has:

• A PhD degree in a topic related to (open) urban/GIS data and using these data in urban/regional/environmental/landscape design or spatial planning.
• Proven expert level GIS knowledge and experience (data and software).
• Scientific skills, as demonstrated by peer-reviewed publications or by other work/achievements.
• Affinity with education and multidisciplinary teaching, preferable holding a University Teaching Qualification certificate (or the ambition to acquire this within a short period of time).
• The ambition to see educational innovation as part of her/his career plan.
• Communication, networking, and collaboration skills.
• Experience in supervision of MSc students.

Salary and benefits are in accordance with the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities. 

The salary for an assistant professor position is min. €3.974 to max. €6.181 per month gross (salary scale 11-12). Depending on the working experience and education level of the candidate.

Besides the salary you also receive an annual holiday payment of 8% and an end of year bonus payment of 8.3%.

The TU Delft offers a customisable compensation package, a discount on health insurance and sport memberships, and a monthly work costs contribution. Flexible work schedules can be arranged.

A tenure-track position is offered for six years. In the fifth year we’ll decide if you will be offered a permanent faculty position, based on performance indicators agreed upon at the start of the appointment. We expect that you have the potential to grow towards an Associate Professor and/or Full Professor role in the future.

Inspiring, excellent education is our central aim. We expect you to obtain a University Teaching Qualification (UTQ) within three years if you have less than five years of teaching experience. This is provided by the TU Delft UTQ programme. TU Delft sets high standards for the English competency of the teaching staff. The TU Delft offers training to improve English competency. If you do not speak Dutch, we offer courses to learn the Dutch language within three years.

For international applicants we offer the Coming to Delft Service and Partner Career Advice to assist you with your relocation. An International Children’s Centre offers childcare and there is an international primary school.

Delft University of Technology is built on strong foundations. As creators of the world-famous Dutch waterworks and pioneers in biotech, TU Delft is a top international university combining science, engineering and design. It delivers world class results in education, research and innovation to address challenges in the areas of energy, climate, mobility, health and digital society. For generations, our engineers have proven to be entrepreneurial problem-solvers, both in business and in a social context.

At TU Delft we embrace diversity as one of our core values and we actively engage to be a university where you feel at home and can flourish. We value different perspectives and qualities. We believe this makes our work more innovative, the TU Delft community more vibrant and the world more just. Together, we imagine, invent and create solutions using technology to have a positive impact on a global scale. That is why we invite you to apply. Your application will receive fair consideration.

Challenge. Change. Impact!

The Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment has a leading role in education and research worldwide. The driving force behind the faculty’s success is its robust research profile combined with the energy and creativity of its student body and academic community. It is buzzing with energy from early in the morning until late at night, with four thousand people studying, working, designing, conducting research and acquiring and disseminating knowledge. Our faculty has a strong focus on ‘design-oriented research’, which has given it a top position in world rankings.

Staff and students are working to improve the built environment with the help of a broad set of disciplines, including architectural design, urban planning, building technology, social sciences, process management, and geo-information science. The faculty works closely with other faculties, universities, private parties, and the public sector, and has an extensive network in the Netherlands as well as internationally.

Click here to go to the website of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment.

Department of Urbanism
The Department of Urbanism in the Faculty of Architecture conducts education and research in the fields of Urbanism, Landscape Architecture, and Geo-information. The department uses the Delft approach, an multidisciplinary and integrated  approach that combines urban design, spatial planning, landscape architecture, environment technology, urban studies and geo-information. The department has a very good reputation worldwide in the field of research and education. Urbanism is best known for its ‘unity of urbanism’, which combines the creativity of design with scientific research methods. This combination is highly regarded in professional practice, research and education.

For more information about this vacancy, please contact prof dr Jantien Stoter, e-mail: [email protected] (only per mail).

For more information about the application procedure, please contact Caro Coemans, HR advisor,
email: [email protected] .  

The position will remain open until October 9, 2022 (local Dutch time: UTC time + 2hrs.) You must apply via the “Apply now” button. Applications via e-mail will not be processed.  

To apply, please submit the following documents:

• A letter of application and a detailed CV.
• A list of “top 3 articles” related to this position.
• A brief description of a course or lecture that you gave/coordinated/developed about (open) urban, geo-data based data (science) or digitalisation for urban design/landscape architecture/planning processes.
• Maximum 2 pages with 1) a research statement with your vision on research directions of this position; 2) a teaching statement with your vision and ambitions for education.
• The name of three references, with contact information.

Please note:

• You can apply online. We will not process applications sent by email and/or post.
• A pre-Employment screening can be part of the selection procedure.
• Acquisition in response to this vacancy is not appreciated.