Professor of Environmental Technology & Design

Job description
The Professor of Environmental Technology and Design will take the lead in the chair's educational tasks within the department and the faculty, assisting in curriculum development and ensuring that educational programmes reflect current research. He or she will also teach within the faculty, principally ‘flagship lectures’ at the bachelor and master levels, will participate in final-year studios in the Urbanism and Landscape Architecture MSc tracks and will supervise PhD students. The Chair is expected to acquire and conduct scientific research projects and to participate as a partner in national and international research projects, as well as to publish in and edit prominent international scientific journals, conferences and national professional media publications. The Chair will take the lead in at least one of the U-Lab research programmes, preferably the Metropolitan Metabolism subprogramme. In addition, the Chair will maintain relationships with practice, including the Dutch practice of Urban Design. As one of the four core chairs of the department, the Professor of Environmental Technology and Design will have management tasks in the Daily Board of the Department of Urbanism, eventually chairing the department and becoming a member of the Management Team of the Faculty of Architecture.

The complete job description of the Professor of Environmental Technology and Design is available at www.urbanism.nl.

Requirements
We seek a front-runner in academic research with strong national as well as international connections and an affinity for the relevant professional practice, the interplay between academic research and practice and the implementation of the results of academic research in practice. The candidate must be capable of further expanding upon the research programme, partly by encouraging others to submit work to academic publications in the field and by further improving the quality of these submissions. He she must be capable of acquiring research contracts from industrial parties and relevant Dutch and EU funding agencies. The candidate must have proven abilities in teaching, including studio work. In addition, he or she must have proven management skills in an academic context and the capacity to cooperate within the section, the department, and with the other chairs on sustainable development of the department and the Delft Research Initiatives.

Conditions of employment
TU Delft offers an attractive benefits package, including a flexible work week, free high-speed Internet access from home, and the option of assembling a customised compensation and benefits package (the 'IKA'). Salary and benefits are in accordance with the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities.
TU Delft sets specific standards for the English competency of the teaching staff. TU Delft offers training to improve English competency.

For more information about this position, please contact Prof. V. J. Meyer, phone: +31 (0)15-2785963, e-mail: V.J.Meyer@tudelft.nl. For general information about the application procedure, you may contact Mendy Jansen, phone: +31 (0)6-39251082, e-mail: m.jansen@tudelft.nl.

Contract type: Temporary, 5 years

Organisation
Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) is a multifaceted institution offering education and carrying out research in the technical sciences at an internationally recognised level. Education, research and design are strongly oriented towards applicability. TU Delft develops technologies for future generations, focusing on sustainability, safety and economic vitality. At TU Delft you will work in an environment where technical sciences and society converge. TU Delft comprises eight faculties, unique laboratories, research institutes and schools.

Department
Architecture
Urbanism is the academic discipline concerned with understanding the spatial organisation and dynamics of urban areas and with comparing, evaluating and inventing new ways to maintain the balance between public and private, the built and the unbuilt, and local and global perspectives. Urbanism underpins practical action to shape the urban environment in a sustainable way.

The Department of Urbanism in the Faculty of Architecture at Delft University of Technology was established in 1948 and since then has contributed to academic knowledge of the urban environment and design and planning interventions. It provides education for reflective professional practice.
Within the Chair of Environmental Technology and Design, the emphasis will be on the translation of global change into concrete handles and levers for urban design. This angle springs from the Dutch context in which the craftsmanship and technical know-how of urban construction is part of the societal context.
The mission of the new chair is combining proven and promising techniques and methods in resilient designs. The chair will research by design the optimum balance between human needs, the technical possibilities and the conditions of the ecological system.
Urbanism is the enriching combination of design and planning. The new chair will have design as its focus, but planning definitely will be an important means towards more sustainable cities.

Additional information V. J. Meyer
+31 (0)15-2785963
V.J.Meyer@tudelft.nl

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