Assistant Professor in Modelling Resilience at U Delft

https://www.academictransfer.com/en/50207/tenure-track-assistant-professor-modelling-resilience-4tu-desire/ --- At the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management (TPM), we develop robust models and designs to tackle the complex challenges of today’s networked society. We combine insights from engineering with those from the humanities and social sciences to the Comprehensive Engineering paradigm. Research at the Multi-Actor Systems Department deals with the governance of Comprehensive Engineering. By governance we mean the use of instruments, strategies and structures aimed at designing or changing socio-technical systems, or parts thereof. Our central premise is that there is a tension between the urgency of system change and the options to effect that change. Our domains range from water and energy to transport and humanitarian response. Interested in conducting excellent research of societal value and contributing to inspiring educational programmes on Resilience Engineering? The new Assistant Professor will be part of an extensive capacity building programme set-up by the 4TU Centre Resilience Engineering [www.4tu.nl/resilience] Within this programme of the 4 technical universities of the Netherlands, 16 new tenure track positions are opened at 13 faculties across the 4TU. In a team of top scientist, we will work on concrete resilience challenges for our broad network of partners in policy and practice. We stimulate interdisciplinary collaboration between the 16 tenure trackers, associated scientific staff and public. Ready for the resilience shift? Our societies are confronted with a growing number of large-scale disruptions, ranging from extreme weather events to societal inequality. New resilience approaches particularly require empower (new) actors to self-organize and engage, taking on new roles and responsibilities. You will contribute to building the resilient knowledge society by designing critical infrastructures to facilitate resilience in case of large-scale disruptions, including challenges of coordination, time pressure and limited information. This requires a strong background and track-record in modelling and simulation of critical infrastructures or complex systems. These approaches will be applied to program case studies, including Rotterdam, The Hague and Amsterdam in the Netherlands as well as studies from humanitarian disasters. To this end, you will combine modelling and simulation with empirical and research by design approaches. REQUIREMENTS Your responsibilities: You perform and initiate top-quality research in fields such as resilience engineering, simulation of critical infrastructure disruptions and complex systems. Your research covers both theoretical depths and applications. You establish and execute an externally-funded research, You teach at undergraduate and post-graduate levels You make a contribution to the success of the DeSIRE program by actively collaborating with other researchers. About yourself: You are an internationally acknowledged scientific researcher, evidenced by publications in academic journals You have experience in the acquisition of external funding and have an entrepreneurial mindset You like coaching and supervising MSc and PhD students, and you have the ability to provide inspiring education You thrive in a collaborative and inter-disciplinary environment You bring experience in modeling of infrastructures, resilience, or humanitarian disasters. Experience in empirical research in multi-actor settings is advantag