Postdoc: Nature-Driven Facades for Healthy Homes

Delft; Netherlands; Remote; EUR 47,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

TU Delft's Environmental and Climate Design section seeks a postdoc researcher to advance nature-driven building skin concepts for the Nature 4 homes project, a 5.5‑year multidisciplinary initiative.

You will bridge academic insights with professional and societal perspectives through interviews, co-design workshops, citizen-science approaches, and data from surveys, physiological and thermal measurements, and biodiversity studies in collaboration with consortium partners.

Qualifications

• PhD in building engineering, meteorology, civil engineering, or related fields.
• Demonstrable affinity and interest in the built environment (building scale) 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.
• Being able to start at December 1, 2026.

Responsibilities

• Conceptualize nature-driven building skin solutions and refine KPI and data protocols.
• Contribute to publications, deliverables, workshops, and interviews with consortium partners.
• Bridge academic concepts with professional and societal perspectives through interviews and co-design activities.
• Collaborate with interdisciplinary partners from academia, society, and industry.
• Coordinate citizen science approaches with living lab studies including surveys, measurements, monitoring, and modelling.

Skills

Collaboration

Interdisciplinary teamwork

Co-creation

Dutch (optional)

Education

PhD in building engineering or related fields

Job description

TU Delft's Environmental and Climate Design section seeks a postdoc researcher to advance nature-driven building skin concepts for the Nature 4 homes project, a 5.5‑year multidisciplinary initiative.

You will bridge academic insights with professional and societal perspectives through interviews, co-design workshops, citizen-science approaches, and data from surveys, physiological and thermal measurements, and biodiversity studies in collaboration with consortium partners.