Resilient Infrastructure Professor: Research & Teaching Lead

Delft; Delft; Remote; EUR 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

TU Delft’s System Engineering Section, within the MAS Department of TPM, invites applications for an Assistant/Associate Professor in Resilient Infrastructure. You will advance research and education on resilient critical infrastructures, integrating systems engineering, modelling and participatory approaches.

You will teach, supervise PhD candidates and students, seek external funding, and collaborate across disciplines to address societal challenges.

Qualifications

• Hold a relevant Master’s degree and PhD in industrial engineering, systems engineering, systems analysis, environmental engineering or another methodologically relevant field.
• Strong publication and research track record, appropriate to your career stage.
• Ability and vision to develop competitive research proposals and secure external research funding.
• Enthusiasm for academic teaching and supervision, and can teach courses related to design, modelling and simulation at Bachelor’s and Master’s level.
• Excellent command of the English language, both spoken and written.
• Dutch language preferred but not required at the start; willingness to learn Dutch within two years.

Responsibilities

• Teach and coordinate courses in core educational programmes, contributing to students’ knowledge of systems thinking, modelling and complex socio-technical challenges.
• Develop and apply methods to analyze, model and design interventions to address resilience of complex socio-technical critical infrastructures.
• Investigate socio-technical characteristics of infrastructure systems and cascading effects across vital societal functions.
• Publish research and contribute to national and international collaborations.
• Acquire research funding and supervise PhD candidates and postdoctoral researchers.
• Supervise Bachelor’s and Master’s students and contribute to development of educational programmes.
• Strengthen methodological expertise through mixed-methods research, building on systems engineering, agent-based modelling and participatory design.

Skills

Strong analytical skills

Strong communication skills

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Teaching

Supervision

Research track record

Excellent English

Willingness to learn Dutch

Education

Master’s degree

PhD in relevant field

Job description

TU Delft’s System Engineering Section, within the MAS Department of TPM, invites applications for an Assistant/Associate Professor in Resilient Infrastructure. You will advance research and education on resilient critical infrastructures, integrating systems engineering, modelling and participatory approaches.

You will teach, supervise PhD candidates and students, seek external funding, and collaborate across disciplines to address societal challenges.