Assistant Professor Real Estate Stakeholder Modelling, Analytics and Decision Support

Are you eager to advance research on stakeholder behavior and decision-support systems in real estate management and development? Do you want to play a key role in integrating sustainability, health, and resilience into real estate investment and planning? Join us in shaping the future of built environments by bridging behavioural models, data-driven tools, and real estate strategy to drive sustainable development and smart innovations of the built environment.

Cities face enormous societal, economic, and environmental challenges in transitioning to a fossil-energy-free, circular built environment while ensuring a healthy environment for people to live and work in. Real estate investors and developers play a key role in advancing sustainability, health, and resilience within the built environment. Achieving these goals requires a holistic approach that integrates environmental and health objectives, smart building technologies, and financial performance metrics into investment and development decisions. By embedding these considerations into property valuation, investment risk assessment, and portfolio optimization, stakeholders can drive more sustainable, resilient, and financially sound real estate strategies.

The Assistant Professor will combine data- and model-driven behavioural analysis of real estate stakeholders with the development of advanced decision-support tools. The role focuses on understanding how developers, investors, managers, and other key players evaluate and incorporate sustainability, health, smart technologies, and resilience into their decision-making processes. This will be done by developing and empirically validating models of human decision-making. Using insights from stakeholder behaviour analyses, the Assistant Professor will then develop innovative decision-support tools using data analytics, artificial intelligence, and scenario modelling. These tools will enhance real estate planning and development, and investment strategies and portfolio management by integrating financial, environmental, and social sustainability criteria—empowering real estate stakeholders to make more informed, future-proof decisions.

As an Assistant Professor, you will contribute to research and education within the Real Estate Management and Development (REMD) chair, part of the Urban Systems and Real Estate (USRE) unit. The REMD group and the broader USRE unit have a strong tradition in behavioural data- and model driven research using advanced quantitative and qualitative techniques focusing on users of the built environment, as well as the development of advanced decision-support systems.

This position aims to strengthen the connection between urban planning and real estate strategies and user research by emphasizing the role of real estate actors in driving urban development and innovation. Research and education will take place in multidisciplinary teams, collaborating within the unit—across real estate, information systems, transportation, and urban planning—and beyond, with colleagues in civil engineering and architecture within the Department of the Built Environment.

Work Environment

Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) is a leading research university specializing in engineering science and technology with strong bonds to industry practice. Following the strategic goals, the Department of the Built Environment (BE) aims to educate future generations of students and meet today’s and tomorrow’s societal challenges. The REMD chair is one out of the three chairs that cooperate under the research program Design and Decision Support Systems of the unit Urban Systems and Real Estate (USRE). As an assistant professor, you will contribute to achieving the educational and research objectives of the REMD chair, within the USRE unit. You will participate in the teaching of courses and the supervision of MSc and PhD students. Embedded in the REMD group you will closely collaborate with colleagues working on housing, urban economics, strategic workplace management, and (AI-based) decision support systems. Also beyond the REMD group, you will collaborate with colleagues from other chairs in the department who work on innovative urban design, smart buildings and digital cities. You will be involved in writing of research proposals and the acquisition of external funds to strengthen current and new research initiatives in the chair. You will pursue strategic internal and external collaborations and publish your research results in high-quality scientific journals.

We offer a stimulating and ambitious educational and research environment and are looking for candidates with the following qualifications:

• You hold an MSc Degree in (civil) engineering, beta or data sciences, (real estate) economics, real estate management, or related fields, and a PhD Degree in a related field with a strong affinity for behaviour research and quantitative data-driven modelling.
• You have some years of experience as a postdoc researcher.
• You have demonstrated your research skills through publications in reputed journals and conference proceedings.
• You have gained international experience and collaborated with international thought leaders in academia on the vacancy topic.
• You can create a vibrant and effective learning environment and can motivate students both in research-based and challenge-based types of education (academic proficiency and design and engineering attitude).
• You have an excellent and broad international network in academia and industry to acquire research grants.
• You have an affinity with engineering and planning applications in the built environment and a creative mind in finding new solutions.
• Effective communication and leadership skills, including coaching and mentoring of students and staff.
• You have a good command of English, both orally and in writing.
• You are a team player by nature, but able to work collaboratively as well as independently.

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:

• A full-time position in a dynamic and ambitious university with a broad (inter) national network.
• The opportunity to focus your career on education, research or impact. You can develop your personal ambitions and objections within the strategic objectives of the university.
• Salary in accordance with the Collective Labour Agreementfor Dutch Universities, scale 11 (min. €4537, max. €6209 gross per month).
• A year-end bonus of 8.3% and annual vacation pay of 8%.
• A dedicated mentoring program to help you get to know the university and the Dutch (research) environment.
• High-quality training programs for academic leadership and teaching.
• An excellent technical infrastructure, on-campus children's day care and sports facilities.
• Partially paid parental leave and an allowance for commuting, working from home and internet costs.
• A Staff Immigration Team is available for international candidates, as are a tax compensation scheme (the 30% facility) and partner career support.

About us

Eindhoven University of Technology is an internationally top-ranking university in the Netherlands that combines scientific curiosity with a hands-on attitude. Our spirit of collaboration translates into an open culture and a top-five position in collaborating with advanced industries. Fundamental knowledge enables us to design solutions for the highly complex problems of today and tomorrow.

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Information

Do you recognize yourself in this profile and would you like to know more? Please contact the hiring manager Astrid Kemperman, a.d.a.m.kemperman@tue.nl.

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