Are you eager to contribute to shaping the future of user-centric smart buildings? Do you want to help with the challenges of climate change and the energy transition in the built environment? Are you interested in AI and smart technologies? Do you want to do applied research that really impacts building industry?
Then join us at Eindhoven University of Technology!
InformationThe building industry is facing different challenges in current years. On the one hand, the consequences of climate change for cities are already visible in unexpected yearly temperature variations. On the other hand, the energy transition has taken great importance in the last years. In a less predictable world, while transitioning to a gas-free built environment, the role of the occupants in buildings might take an important role. Buildings users will have to take more responsibility not only on reducing their energy consumption, but also on employing energy when cleaner sources are available or when is beneficial for the electricity networks, especially considering extra challenges brought by climate change. In this scenario, occupants will have to adapt their behaviour for unexpected weather conditions, and to support more flexible energy systems in buildings.
In this position you will research, from a multi-disciplinary perspective, the effect of diverse data-driven/AI-based solutions (serious games, gamification, nudging, feedback interfaces) to support behaviour adaptations of building occupants in residential and non-residential buildings.
Within living-labs and together with diverse stakeholders and final users, you co-create and protype solutions to later test and evaluate them in relevant real-life settings.
You will be working in the group of Smart Architectural Technologies at the Department of the Built Environment at TU/e. Through different projects, you will collaborate with other organisations and industry partners, as well as with fellow doctoral and postdoctoral researchers working in making smarter, healthier and more inclusive building environments.