Assistant/Associate Professor of Interconnected Systems for Smart Industry

Section Transport Engineering & Logistics (TEL), Dept. of Maritime & Transport Technology, invites applicants for an Assistant/Associate Professorship that will strengthen its competences in the area of interconnected systems and Smart Industry. 

Global challenges on resource availability, pollution, and energy usage force industry to rethink current processes and practices. With new technological trends in the areas of autonomization, connectedness, AI, and energy tech there is a strong need for proposing and investigating new methodologies and insights to design the next generation of industrial systems and processes, which are characterized by their large-scale interconnected systems’ nature.

Do you have a fascination for Industry 4.0/5.0 concepts and logistics-enhancing methods in rapidly developing environments with high levels of digitization, modularization, and robotics? Or do cyber-physical (production/transport) systems and the underlying technology inspire you?  And do you pursue a large-scale, multi-machine, systems-of-systems perspective in your research?

Embedded in the department of Maritime & Transport Technology, you advance the state-of-the-art with your research line inspired in particular by industrial challenges in the ports & maritime area. You bring in your own methodological perspective as fundamental basis of your research and pursue these ideas towards both qualitative and quantitative assessment of smart industry systems. These ideas include concepts spanning smart equipment to network (supply chain) level, and involve proposing new systems-of-systems design concepts. You position your perspective in relation to the other areas of expertise from section to TU Delft level to create added value from cooperation. 

As assistant/associate professor, you will be entrusted responsibilities for initiating and carrying out high-level research projects and publishing research in leading journals. Cooperation within the academic community, the private sector, government and/or EU or Dutch national projects are part of your job. Bringing in practical experience within the transport or maritime industry is highly valued. 

As part of your assistant/associate professorship, you contribute to relevant MSc education, such as the MSc track Multi-Machine Engineering (hosted by Section TEL), which educates the fundamentals of large-scale system design and operation, and their applications in the complex logistics and production area. This track adopts an interdisciplinary perspective, in which (1) mechanical systems expertise, (2) operations & maintenance, and (3) multi-machine system interactions are brought together for increasing efficiency, safety, and sustainability. You have the opportunity to develop courses and supervise Master students in their final year, reflecting the developments of your research, involving both online and practical teaching competences.  In addition, you will supervise PhD candidates in their development towards independent, self-reflective researchers.