Are you an excellent, open-minded and team-spirited researcher that aspires a PhD? Do you want to get a unique international, interdisciplinary and inter-sectoral training in scientific and transferable skills, by distinguished leaders from academia and industry? Then this may be the ideal position for you!
The Landscape Architecture and Spatial Planning Group at Wageningen University in the Netherlands and Foster + Partners in United Kingdom is seeking an outstanding young researcher for the Solutions for Outdoor Climate Adaptation (SOLOCLIM) project. This is a European Industrial Doctorate (EID) project in the Innovative Training Networks (ITN) programme and part of Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions funded by the European Commission within the Horizon 2020 program.
The aim of SOLOCLIM is to enable young researchers to generate solutions for urban outdoor environments and qualify them for a career in academia or industry. SOLOCLIM brings together three international academic institutions and four industry partners, aiming to investigate the three separate clusters of microclimatic interventions in the urban environment: vegetation-based interventions, solutions using water, and climate-responsive flexible systems. Alongside you, four other young researchers will work in this project and you will convene regularly. Read more about the SOLOCLIM project
here.
Each young researcher will be trained both in the context of a company and a university. In the first six months of the project you will be introduced to scientific methods and write your research proposal at Wageningen University. Then you will move to the company Foster + Partners in London to conduct the research project in an industrial context. You will then move back to Wageningen University and finalize your PhD research for another eighteen months. You will be co-supervised by both partners, signing separate employment contracts with the university and the company.