Associate Professor Stochastic Air Transport Operations

The transition of air transport to climate-neutral operations is driving the development of revolutionary new technologies, such as hydrogen-powered and hybrid-electric aircraft. Such developments add to the complexity and deep uncertainty of future operations, posing significant challenges to modelling capabilities. Exploring the latest computing technologies, you will develop innovative methodologies to take on these challenges as Associate Professor in Stochastic Air Transport Operations at TU Delft. Build your research trajectory to realise your vision. And work with European airports, regulators and leading manufacturers and airlines to drive decision-making geared to the future of air transport.

Centring your research around stochastic operations research, you will focus on the long-term challenges in air transport operations. You will harness stochastic optimisation, data analytics, queuing theory, reinforcement learning, and mathematics for business. To conduct your research, you will attract funding and build your team of PhD students, whom you’ll supervise to completion. You will also maintain and expand your network of European aviation stakeholders. And you will work closely with academics across the Faculty and University to unlock the potential of our DelftBlue supercomputer, and research into quantum and other emerging computational paradigms.

Disseminating knowledge and representing TU Delft in international forums are, of course, part and parcel of your senior role. You will also teach and supervise our talented MSc and BSc students, and contribute to our curriculum, developing courses. Your home base will be the 25-strong and growing team of Air Transport & Operations, where your fellow team members are highly motivated academics, PhD students, postdocs, lecturers and project managers. We contribute to major European projects and share an ambition to contribute to the operational feasibility of sustainable solutions. Fostering an open, friendly and collaborative atmosphere, we will help you evolve and grow your academic career. And you, in turn, will coach your more junior academic colleagues.

You share our drive to accelerate the future of sustainable air transport operations.

Collaborating with industrial, regulatory and academic partners comes natural to you as you take the lead in developing unique research lines. You harness your communication skills to convince stakeholders and teams of your vision and research proposals, driving meaningful results. And you know how to inspire, teach and mentor students, while building your own competencies.

You also have:

• A PhD in Mathematics, Operations Research, Aerospace or Aerospace Operations, or Computer Science, with a strong mathematical component.
• Experience of stochastic operations research.
• A track record of leading research projects and scientific publishing.
• The Dutch universities’ Basic Teaching Qualification BKO, or the willingness to acquire this qualification.
• A good command of spoken and written English, as you’ll be working in an internationally diverse community and with international partners. As you’ll be working with Dutch-speaking partners as well, you also speak Dutch, or are willing to learn the language.

Salary and benefits are in accordance with the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities (based on scale 13: € 6.002,00 - € 7.305,00). A permanent contract is offered and the position is open for 38 hours per week. The TU Delft offers a customisable compensation package, a discount on health insurance and sport memberships, and a monthly work costs contribution. Flexible work schedules can be arranged.

Inspiring, excellent education is our central aim. We expect you to obtain a University Teaching Qualification (UTQ) within three years if you have less than five years of teaching experience. This is provided by the TU Delft UTQ programme.

TU Delft sets high standards for the English competency of the teaching staff. The TU Delft offers training to improve English competency. If you do not speak Dutch, we offer courses to learn the Dutch language.

For international applicants, TU Delft has the Coming to Delft Service. This service addresses the needs of new international employees and those of their partners and families. The Coming to Delft Service offers personalised assistance during the preparation of the relocation, finding housing and schools for children (if applicable). In addition, a Dual Career Programme for partners is offered. The Coming to Delft Service will do their best to help you settle in the Netherlands.

Delft University of Technology is built on strong foundations. As creators of the world-famous Dutch waterworks and pioneers in biotech, TU Delft is a top international university combining science, engineering and design. It delivers world class results in education, research and innovation to address challenges in the areas of energy, climate, mobility, health and digital society. For generations, our engineers have proven to be entrepreneurial problem-solvers, both in business and in a social context.

At TU Delft we embrace diversity as one of our core values and we actively engage to be a university where you feel at home and can flourish. We value different perspectives and qualities. We believe this makes our work more innovative, the TU Delft community more vibrant and the world more just. Together, we imagine, invent and create solutions using technology to have a positive impact on a global scale. That is why we invite you to apply. Your application will receive fair consideration.

Challenge. Change. Impact!

The Faculty of Aerospace Engineering at Delft University of Technology is one of the world’s most highly ranked (and most comprehensive) research, education and innovation communities devoted entirely to aerospace engineering. More than 200 science staff, around 270 PhD candidates and close to 3000 BSc and MSc students apply aerospace engineering disciplines to address the global societal challenges that threaten us today, climate change without doubt being the most important. Our focal subjects: sustainable aerospace, big data and artificial intelligence, bio-inspired engineering and smart instruments and systems. Working at the faculty means working together. With partners in other faculties, knowledge institutes, governments and industry, both aerospace and non-aerospace. Working in field labs and innovation hubs on our university campus and beyond.

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