A public educational institution is seeking a Postdoc researcher for a Horizon Europe project. The project aims to accelerate the transformation of the built environment towards climate resilience and circularity, with a strong social perspective. It combines innovative construction technologies, digital workflows, multi-level governance approaches, and participatory processes to support the development and implementation of resilient renovation strategies.
Through demonstration pilots across Europe, the project provides practical frameworks for municipalities, practitioners, and stakeholders to evaluate and implement sustainable construction and renovation pathways.
What you do
- Contribute to the development of a multi-scale assessment framework for resilient and circular strategies.
- Assess and classify existing products, product systems, and building configurations in accordance with the assessment framework and the project’s demonstrator contexts.
- Establish data structures that enable the exchange and integration of this information within those contexts.
- Develop a user-friendly, intuitive digital interface to enable decision-making of circular and resilient building pathways for built environment stakeholders (governance bodies, construction companies, and individual users).
- Test and validate the developed digital workflows through pilot applications, ensuring applicability across different building typologies, spatial scales, and data availability conditions.
- Assess integrated construction and renovation strategies, covering structural systems, façades, and building equipment across different building typologies, climatic conditions, and hazard contexts.
- Translate assessed technologies and pathways into decision-ready parametric datasets and a structured database, enabling direct integration into digital planning workflows.
- Collaborate with research groups within the Faculties of Architecture and the Built Environment, and Civil Engineering and Geosciences.
What they ask
- A PhD degree in Civil Engineering, Architectural Engineering, Building Technology, or a related field.
- Demonstrated experience working in one or more of the following areas: resilience planning, decision support systems, building technology, sustainability assessments.
- Demonstrated knowledge of building and/or geographic information systems, data structures, or software integration is a must.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills in English.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team, and to build collaborative, interdisciplinary/transdisciplinary networks.
- Motivation to develop digital solutions supporting sustainable and climate-resilient built environments.
- Work experience in multi-institutional projects is not essential but will be considered an asset.
Profile
- You contribute to solutions that truly make a difference.
- You turn knowledge into concrete solutions for the challenges of today and tomorrow.
- You focus on themes such as energy, climate, digitalization, artificial intelligence, and smart mobility.
- You will have the opportunity to take initiative, collaborate with others, and grow as a professional.
- You will join an international community of professionals and students.
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