PhD on Integrative Planning Support Systems for Urban Nature-Based Solutions

Are you thrilled at the prospect of designing and developing cutting-edge information systems that support urban renaturing to foster urban resilience? Are you captivated by the potential of digital technologies to transform the people-nature relationship within our cities? Then this could be the opportunity you've been waiting for!

Job Description

Successful uptake and implementation of Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) in cities require multidisciplinary stakeholder participation. This involves integrating expert knowledge from various domains with local knowledge (citizen science) to foster collaboration among urban stakeholders and adopt a holistic perspective in urban NBS planning. This project aims to explore how information systems can support the NBS collaborative planning and enable cities to incorporate the more-than-human perspective in the planning process.

Job responsibilities

• Investigate how information systems can support the NBS collaborative planning, and identify the barriers, enablers, and conditions for the successful adoption of information systems in NBS planning.
• Design and develop an integrative (spatial) planning support system that combines various knowledge sources, enabling stakeholders to analyze problem areas, co-create scenarios, and evaluate the socio-ecological impacts of the scenarios.
• Design and develop a gamified platform that facilitates the adoption of the decision support system in the NBS collaborative planning process.
• Publishing articles in high-quality scientific journals.            
• Coordination of research activities.
• You will be contributing to the City Information Modelling research theme at the chair of Information Systems in the Built Environment (ISBE).

A meaningful job in a dynamic and ambitious university, in an interdisciplinary setting and within an international network. You will work on a beautiful, green campus within walking distance of the central train station. In addition, we offer you:

• Full-time employment for four years, with an intermediate evaluation (go/no-go) after nine months. You will spend 10% of your employment on teaching tasks.
• Salary and benefits (such as a pension scheme, paid pregnancy and maternity leave, partially paid parental leave) in accordance with the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities, scale P (min. €2,901 max. € 3,707).
• A year-end bonus of 8.3% and annual vacation pay of 8%.
• High-quality training programs and other support to grow into a self-aware, autonomous scientific researcher. At TU/e we challenge you to take charge of your own learning process.
• An excellent technical infrastructure, on-campus children's day care and sports facilities.
• An allowance for commuting, working from home and internet costs.
• A Staff Immigration Team and a tax compensation scheme (the 30% facility) for international candidates.