The PhD position in circular business models & value chains is part of project LICHEN BLADES funded by the Dutch funding agency NWO. In the LICHEN BLADES project, we will work on a circular blade design that will realize the functionality for first use-cycle (wind) and successive use-cycles, enabling blades with reduced carbon footprint, and designed for re-use opportunities.
This specific PhD project will focus on circular business models and value chains for the LICHEN BLADES project. The aim is to develop circular business models and value chains that capture financial as well as environmental value and to develop tools and methods that contribute to the success of circular windturbine blades. While the PhD candidate is expected to work independently on their research agenda, the project will also take place in close collaboration with project stakeholders from academia, such as colleagues from project lead TU Delft, and stakeholders from businesses in the windturbine industry.
Skills and requirements for potential PhD candidates:
Fixed-term contract: 4 years.
Fixed-term contract: 4 years. Expected starting date: October 2022.
The School of Business and Economics (SBE) is one of the youngest Faculties of Business and Economics in the Netherlands. It has a distinctive international profile and is Triple Crown accredited. It provides high-quality education and conducts excellent research with an international perspective. SBE strongly believes in creating close collaborations with its academic partners and societal stakeholders, its students and alumni, and with businesses and organisations in the Limburg Euregion, the Netherlands, Europe and the rest of the world.
Maastricht University (UM), located in the heart of Europe, is the most international university in the Netherlands with half of our students and one third of academic staff coming from abroad. In total, UM represents 100 different nationalities. UM is a stimulating environment where research and teaching are complementary, where innovation is our focus and where talent can flourish. Research is characterised by a multidisciplinary, thematic, and collaborative approach, and with education, forms the core of UM.
Maastricht Sustainability Institute (MSI) is part of the School of Business and Economics at Maastricht University, and with its focus on sustainable development in research and education centrally at the interface of science, policy and society. The institute offers the Master programme Sustainability Science, Policy and Society (which attracts a large international, multidisciplinary student population) and is working on a new Master programme in Sustainable Business. The institute provides also sustainability education at bachelor level. The multidisciplinary staff (ca. 40 persons) has an interdisciplinary working style and transdisciplinary interest for addressing sustainability problems.
For more information you can contact MSI: msioffice@maastrichtuniversity.nl.
You can send your application to this e-mail: recruitment-sbe@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Don't forget to mention AcademicTransfer and the job number: AT2022.276 in your letter.
Applications must be submitted via email no later than 24 July 2022, 23:59 (CET/ Dutch time) as one PDF file containing all materials to be given consideration. Interviews are scheduled in mid-August.
To apply, send an e-mail to recruitment-sbe@maastrichtuniversity.nl and attach all your materials in English in one PDF file named: lastname_firstname_yearofbirth.pdf. Your application shall include:
· Motivation letter
· Detailed CV
· Names and contact details of two references
· Grade transcripts and BSc/MSc diploma
· Research statement (through the research statement, the applicants have the chance to present a research problem that interests them and propose how it might be investigated. The research problem should be preferably related to the topic of the advertised PhD position). Max 1500 words.
Applications must be submitted via email no later than 24 July 2022, 23:59 (CET/ Dutch time) as one PDF file containing all materials to be given consideration. Interviews are scheduled in mid-August.
To apply, send an e-mail to recruitment-sbe@maastrichtuniversity.nl and attach all your materials in English in one PDF file named: lastname_firstname_yearofbirth.pdf. Your application shall include:
· Motivation letter
· Detailed CV
· Names and contact details of two references
· Grade transcripts and BSc/MSc diploma
· Research statement (through the research statement, the applicants have the chance to present a research problem that interests them and propose how it might be investigated. The research problem should be preferably related to the topic of the advertised PhD position). Max 1500 words.
Make sure to apply no later than 24 Jul 2022 23:58 (Europe/Amsterdam).
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