Are you passionate about leveraging AI and digital tools for sustainability transitions and developing decision support systems to accelerate collective energy transition? Join our team to drive innovations that support urban resilience. This is your chance to make a real impact!
InformationThe energy and the climate crisis reinforced the urgency of energy efficiency in residential buildings in Europe. To meet its climate targets, the Netherlands needs to decarbonize the residential sector. This requires that many distributed actors (households, owners associations, social housing associations, and citizen collectives) invest in energy transition rapidly and at scale. Yet citizens’ collective (housing associations, homeowners' associations, etc.) investments in energy-related home renovation will impact integrated energy systems, including correlations between energy grids, uncertainties and simultaneous peak loads. In this project, Digital pathways for accelerating collective decision making of energy renovation in the built environment (DPARt): Through data-driven and user-centric design approach for VvEs, we explore a promising solution.
Sustainability, in its broadest definition, is the cornerstone of research and education in the Department of Built Environment. We take the lead in (re)shaping the built environment to be future-proof, safe, healthy, inclusive and respectful of planetary boundaries. We house the entire spectrum of technology, engineering, design, and human behavior disciplines in the built environment, with world-class experimental facilities at all scales. This allows us to address societal challenges from a uniquely integrated perspective.
Job responsibilities - Transforms floorplans and construction drawings of buildings into geo-data, and generate potential energy efficiency improvement options, and visualize for end users.
- Develop an agent-based digital twin platform of VvEs to support the energy transition decision making.
- Further develop agent-based model for collective decision-making process addressing uncertainties and validating in living labs.
- Design narrative dynamics for serious games incorporating AI agents for effective interactive communication.
- Publishing articles in high-quality scientific journals.
- Coordination of research activities.
- You will be contributing to the Urban Informatics research theme at the chair of Information Systems in the Built Environment (ISBE).