PhD position Awareness and Tool Creation in Ancient Humans and Future Robots

Doctoral candidates will be offered a 4-year period of employment in principle, but in the form of 2 employment contracts. An initial 1,5 year contract with an official go/no go progress assessment within 15 months. Followed by an additional contract for the remaining 2,5 years assuming everything goes well and performance requirements are met.

Salary and benefits are in accordance with the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities, increasing from € 2541 per month in the first year to € 3247 in the fourth year. As a PhD candidate you will be enrolled in the TU Delft Graduate School. The TU Delft Graduate School provides an inspiring research environment with an excellent team of supervisors, academic staff and a mentor. The Doctoral Education Programme is aimed at developing your transferable, discipline-related and research skills.

The TU Delft offers a customisable compensation package, discounts on health insurance and sport memberships, and a monthly work costs contribution. Flexible work schedules can be arranged. For international applicants we offer the Coming to Delft Service and Partner Career Advice to assist you with your relocation.

Are you interested in this vacancy? Please apply by 28 August 2022 via the application button and upload a letter of motivation, CV, contact details of three referees, two examples of written work (e.g. thesis, published papers), and one A4 paper with an outline of your approach to this project, i.e. the methodology and scope of -data collection, -data deposition and planning for this project.

First interviews will take place on 8 and 9 September 2022 with a possible second round on 13 September. Note that invited candidates will requested to give a short presentation. Start date as soon as possible from 1 October 2022.

A pre-employment screening can be part of the selection procedure.

You can apply online. We will not process applications sent by email and/or post.

Acquisition in response to this vacancy is not appreciated.

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