Postdoc: Nature-Driven Facades for Cooler Homes

Delft University of Technology; Delft; On-site; EUR 40,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

ABP pension scheme

Health insurance discount on дополнes

Flexible working week

232 leave hours per year

Job summary

Delft University of Technology invites a postdoc to conceptually develop nature-driven facade solutions for the Nature 4 Homes project. You will build a structured KPI database, refine protocols, and contribute to publications, workshops, and co-design interviews with partners from academia, industry, and public sectors.

The role links academic insights with societal needs, including citizen science integration, living labs, and thermal/biodiversity data analysis across multiple disciplines.

Qualifications

• PhD in building engineering, meteorology, civil engineering, or related fields.
• Demonstrable affinity and interest in the built environment and climate change.
• Excellent collaboration skills with academic, scientific, and industrial partners.
• Experience with co-creation, societal aspects, or human perception of built environment.
• Dutch language proficiency is considered a plus.

Responsibilities

• Conceptualize nature-driven building skin solutions and KPI database.
• Bridge academic concepts with societal perspectives via interviews and co-design workshops.
• Collaborate with interdisciplinary project partners from academia, society, and industry.
• Prepare integration of citizen science approaches with living lab studies, including data from surveys and physiological measurements.

Skills

Affinity for built environment

Collaboration skills

Co-creation experience

Dutch language proficiency

Start date December 2026

Education

PhD in building engineering

PhD in meteorology

PhD in civil engineering

PhD in related fields

Job description

Delft University of Technology invites a postdoc to conceptually develop nature-driven facade solutions for the Nature 4 Homes project. You will build a structured KPI database, refine protocols, and contribute to publications, workshops, and co-design interviews with partners from academia, industry, and public sectors.

The role links academic insights with societal needs, including citizen science integration, living labs, and thermal/biodiversity data analysis across multiple disciplines.