Lecturer Hydraulic and Offshore Structures

We are delighted to welcome an enthusiastic lecturer with a focus on education in the field of Hydraulic and Offshore Structures. The field brings together challenges related to structural mechanics and material engineering, fluid mechanics and geotechnical engineering.

Your education activities will focus on hydraulic structures, particularly on structural aspects and design of civil engineering structures in the marine, coastal and wet onshore environments, with applications related to the energy transition, flood protection, floating/submerged urban developments etc. A background  and track record in one or more of these fields would be particularly welcome. We expect an inspiring lecturer, who will develop attractive educational programs to address the current and future needs in the field. Given the challenges of ageing infrastructure, climate change and increasing functional demands, it is essential to develop and transfer more knowledge of the performance and design of hydraulic structures. A good network in academia, the private sector, government and research institutes is relevant.

An important responsibility is the development and teaching of one or more BSc/MSc courses and (co-)supervision of BSc/MSc students, project teams and design projects. In the education programme, currently under re-design, new developments in the hydraulic and offshore engineering field should be continuously implemented. We also expect that the new lecturer takes a leading role in developing different forms of education (online, blended, etc.) where appropriate.

The lecturer position focusses on education.

The distribution between education and research or other tasks is approximately 80:20. A small portion of the position’s responsibilities is devoted to management activities such as participation in department and faculty committees.

Department of Hydraulic Engineering
The position is located within the Department of Hydraulic Engineering at the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences. Our research and education agenda is driven by societal needs to design, engineer, and manage human interventions in the natural environment, for purposes such as flood safety, navigation, nature development, and recreation. To that end, the department aims at thorough understanding of the behavior of rivers, coasts, estuaries, and seas, as well as interventions in these systems. The department consists of five groups: Coastal Engineering; Rivers, Ports, Waterways and Dredging Engineering; Environmental Fluid Mechanics, Hydraulic Structures and Flood Risk, and Offshore Engineering. Building on close working relationships with Deltares, Rijkswaterstaat, industry and other Dutch research organizations, joining our group also means you become embedded in an entire country with a long history of coastal know-how.
The Lecturer will be working in the Offshore Engineer (OE) and the Hydraulic Structures and Flood Risk group (HSFR). The OE group conducts applied and fundamental research of value to the offshore engineering community and society as a whole. Alongside the research activities, the group is strongly involved in education within the Offshore and Dredging Engineering interfaculty curriculum. Both the research and education are carried out in close cooperation with the energy-oriented companies focused on offshore engineering developments. The HSFR group focuses on research and education related to hydraulic engineering systems and structures, probabilistic design and flood risk management. The group aims to do top-level research and provides excellent academic education for future generations of (hydraulic) engineers. Research and education are based on the traditionally strong Dutch skills in flood protection (e.g. Delta works) and recently developed approaches in the field of reliability- and risk-based design of hydraulic infrastructure.