PhD: Leading Paradoxes in Infrastructure Twin Transition

Delft; Netherlands; Remote; EUR 38,000 - 49,000; Full time

Job summary

TU Delft in Delft, Netherlands, invites applications for a PhD position on Twin Transition of Infrastructure: Paradoxical Leadership. The project studies how infrastructure leaders navigate tensions between digitalisation and sustainability in decision-making.

You will conduct longitudinal fieldwork, interviews, observations and document analyses, publish in journals, and collaborate with an interdisciplinary supervisory team and industry partners.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in construction management, civil engineering, project management, business administration, information systems or a related field.
• Strong interest in leadership, organisational change, digitalisation, sustainability and infrastructure.
• Affinity with empirical research methods, especially qualitative interviews, case study research, observations, document analysis and, ideally, ethnographic work.
• Ability to connect academic ideas with challenges faced by infrastructure organisations and public-sector stakeholders.
• Strong analytical skills and a genuine curiosity about how people make decisions under competing demands.
• Excellent written and spoken English. Dutch is an advantage, but this is not specified as a formal requirement for this PhD project.
• The ability to work independently while successfully collaborating with a multidisciplinary research team.
• Willingness to conduct fieldwork in infrastructure organisations and to contribute to publications, presentations and stakeholder engagement during the PhD trajectory.

Responsibilities

• Longitudinal, embedded case study in the Dutch infrastructure domain with qualitative interviews, observations and document analyses.
• Publish in journals, present at conferences and participate in stakeholder-focused activities such as workshops and knowledge-sharing events.
• Collaborate with an interdisciplinary supervisory team and industry and academic partners on Infra-PaX.

Skills

Leadership interest

Analytical skills

English proficiency

Education

Master's degree in construction management, civil engineering, project management, business administration, information systems or a related field

Job description

TU Delft in Delft, Netherlands, invites applications for a PhD position on Twin Transition of Infrastructure: Paradoxical Leadership. The project studies how infrastructure leaders navigate tensions between digitalisation and sustainability in decision-making.

You will conduct longitudinal fieldwork, interviews, observations and document analyses, publish in journals, and collaborate with an interdisciplinary supervisory team and industry partners.