NEON 'lights the way to zero emission energy and mobility'. If you become a researcher within NEON you will be actively involved in solving the interrelated challenges of climate, energy and mobility. NEON does this in close collaboration with companies and policy makers. Key to NEON is an interdisciplinary approach combining social, economic and technological expertise. In addition to producing excellent science, NEON aims at a large societal impact. One of the ways this will done is by publishing an annual New Energy Outlook for the Netherlands, which analyses the current state of the renewable energy and smart mobility transitions and summarizes all the research done within the project over the past year.
At TU/e we are inviting applications to join the NEON team.
- Vacancy A (1 PhD position) The NEON project: Energy demand and new market models
- Vacancy B (1 PhD position) The NEON project: Technical standards to accelerate the energy transition
- Vacancy C (2 PhD positions) The NEON project: Modeling the energy and mobility transition
- Vacancy D (1 PhD position) The NEON project: Modeling and evaluating the environmental effects of the energy and mobility transition
Vacancy D (1 PhD position) The NEON project: Modeling and evaluating the environmental effects of the energy and mobility transitionThis project aims to evaluate the actual contribution of new technologies to the energy and mobility transition by evaluating their environmental performance? We anticipate that this will require a mixed method approach, combining quantitative assessments with more qualitative research.
The starting point is the impact (environmental, sustainability, e.g. LCA) of these technologies over their life cycle. The challenges will be to do this for emerging technologies and future context; to link this to the integrated NEON model on energy systems, to show critical trade-offs; and to link it to societal readiness. We envision that the environmental performance interacts with different enabling conditions of the energy and mobility transitions. These enabling conditions are, by IPCC (2018), defined as: multi-level governance, technological innovation, behavior change, finance, policy and institutional capacity. These enabling conditions need to reinforce each other to accelerate the systems transitions. How do LCA-results interact with these enabling conditions? What role could environmental performance assessments play in accelerating systems transitions? For this position we are looking for students with a background in Environmental Sciences, Sustainability Sciences or Sustainable Energy Technologies.
OrganisationThe above PhD projects are embedded in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Innovation Sciences (IE&IS) of Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). TU/e is one of the world's leading research universities (ranked by the Times Higher Education Supplement). It is in particular well‐known for its joint research with industry (ranked number one worldwide by the Centre for Science and Technology Studies).
Within the Department IE&IS you will be affiliated with the research group Technology, Innovation & Society (TIS). The TIS group of the School of Innovation Sciences is an ambitious, international group. Our research focuses on understanding the development and use of technology in a societal context. Our staff teaches in the BSc program 'Sustainable Innovation', and the MSc program 'Innovation Sciences', as well as in university-wide programs for engineering students.
The department of IE&IS has a strong national and international reputation for both basic research in the academic community and applied research with industry. You will have the opportunity to benefit from that environment and to contribute to the ongoing research.