Climate resilience is quickly becoming one of the most prominent challenges for decision-makers worldwide. Because of the many path-dependencies in complex socio-technical systems, resilience decisions today will have far reaching consequences. At the same time, decisions and plans aimed at improving resilience have winners and losers. Thereby, they prompt questions about distributive justice. While such questions about distributive justice typically consider different communities or sectors at a single point in time, they neglect the long-term implications and questions of inter-temporal distribution. Here the questions arise how these uncertain potential future benefits (or losses) should be taken into account (discount rates; concepts of social welfare). In addition, as resilience is a dynamic concept, which depends on societal values, priorities may change over time.
The aim of this position is to first identify and compare normative concepts underlying the inter-temporal trade-offs pivotal to resilience. Second, the impact of different strategies will be formalized, and then tested in planning models that are currently developed in the faculty (e.g., logistics, water).
The position is embedded in the newly founded TPM Resilience Lab that will provide you with the opportunity to collaborate in an interdisciplinary team of top scientists in resilience, ethics, and simulation modeling and ensure access to a broad network of partners in policy and practice.

• You are a highly motivated and enthusiastic researcher (F/M).
• You have a PhD Degree in Decision Analysis, Systems Engineering, Econometrics or another related discipline with a keen interest in resilience planning and ethics.
• You are an independent and original thinker with a creative mindset and excellent analytical skills.
• You thrive in a collaborative and multi-disciplinary environment and look forward to interacting with researchers and experts on different domains such as transportation, water, or energy.
• You have an affinity for networking, and an entrepreneurial mindset to ensure the impact and sustainability of your work.
• You are fluent in English.

Fixed-term contract: 2 years.

TU Delft offers a customisable compensation package, a discount for health insurance and sport memberships, and a monthly work costs contribution. Flexible work schedules can be arranged. An International Children’s Centre offers childcare and an international primary school. Dual Career Services offers support to accompanying partners. Salary and benefits are in accordance with the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities.

Technische Universiteit Delft

Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) is a multifaceted institution offering education and carrying out research in the technical sciences at an internationally recognised level. Education, research and design are strongly oriented towards applicability. TU Delft develops technologies for future generations, focusing on sustainability, safety and economic vitality. At TU Delft you will work in an environment where technical sciences and society converge. TU Delft comprises eight faculties, unique laboratories, research institutes and schools.

Faculty Technology, Policy and Management

The Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management (TPM) develops robust models and designs, to tackle the complex challenges of today’s networked society by combining engineering with insights from social sciences.
The position is embedded in the newly founded TPM Resilience Lab, which connects the research on resilience across the three departments. The TPM Resilience Lab aims to improve today's understanding of resilience in complex socio-technical systems by connecting the perspectives values, governance and systems. We do this by developing, testing and applying theories, methods and tools that are rooted in (system) engineering and modeling disciplines, ethics and the social and behavioural sciences.