Unique Fellowship for Top Female Academic Scientists - Architecture and the Built Environment
Delft University of Technology (TU Delft)
Challenge: Work on societal challenges with science, technology, or design in a responsible manner.
Change: Generous start-up funding can give your research a healthy boost.
Impact: Contribute to education, research and valorisation while inspiring and leading.
Job description
The Delft Technology Fellowship offers high-profile positions to outstanding female academic researchers in research themes in which the faculties of Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) want to be strengthened.
As a fellow, you will be offered the unique chance to establish your own research programme of international repute, including a generous start-up grant. The fellowships are awarded at Full, Associate or Assistant professor level.
More information about the research themes can be found here.
Requirements
You are a highly talented and motivated female academic scientist, holding a PhD in a relevant discipline, with the necessary experience to contribute and excel at being a full professor, or the ambition to grow into the role. You have a proven drive for scientific excellence demonstrated by, for example, publications in first-rate, international scientific journals, the ability to compete for external research funding and an extensive international network. You have post-doctoral working experience in industry or academia.
Depending on your level of experience you are an academic leader who guides and motivates her group, or have the clear potential to develop into one. You have high level communication and social skills, a coaching leadership style and experience in supervising research projects. You are self-critical and able to align your personal ambition with being a member of a team of first-rate colleagues. You are a compelling teacher, and you will be expected to participate in, and contribute to, the development of the department’s teaching programme. The fellowship programme is open to academic scientists currently not employed by TU Delft.
Inspiring, excellent education is our central aim. Should you have less than 5 years of teaching experience, we expect you to obtain a University Teaching Qualification (UTQ) within three years. This is provided by the TU Delft UTQ programme.
TU Delft sets high standards for the English competency of the teaching staff. The TU Delft offers training to improve English competency. If you do not speak Dutch, we offer courses to learn the Dutch language within three years.
Conditions of employment
Fixed-term contract: A temporary employment contract for 18 months, where a permanent employment contract will be offered after a positive evaluation.
Conditions of employment
The Fellowship starts with a temporary employment contract for 18 months, where a permanent employment contract will be offered after a positive evaluation based on confidence in results and development.
Complimentary to the Fellowship, Assistant Professors are offered an Academic Career Track, which takes a maximum of 8 years. At TU Delft we believe it is important to train you as an all-rounder and to really invest in you. Throughout the Academic Career Track, TU Delft offers an extensive ACT Development Program, consisting of a wide range of training courses and instruments in all areas of the academic career. You can find more about the Academic Career Track here.
The TU Delft offers a customisable compensation package, a discount for health insurance, and a monthly work costs contribution. Flexible work schedules can be arranged. Coming to Delft Service and Partner Career Advice can support with advice for you and your accompanying partner about your individual settling needs in the Netherlands. Once arrived you can be supported with individual consults and diverse workshops. Located on campus are the International Children’s Centre and an international primary school which are subject to availability as well as several bilingual schools in the nearby surrounding. Salary and benefits are in accordance with the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities.
Inspiring, excellent education is our central aim. Should you have less than 5 years of teaching experience, we expect you to obtain a University Teaching Qualification (UTQ) within three years. This is provided by the TU Delft UTQ programme.
TU Delft sets high standards for the English competency of the teaching staff. The TU Delft offers training to improve English competency. If you do not speak Dutch, we offer courses to learn the Dutch language within three years.
General information about working at TU Delft can be found here.
For international applicants we offer the Coming to Delft Service and the Dual career programme to assist you with your relocation.
TU Delft
Delft University of Technology is built on strong foundations. As creators of the world-famous Dutch waterworks and pioneers in biotech, TU Delft is a top international university combining science, engineering and design. It delivers world class results in education, research and innovation to address challenges in the areas of energy, climate, mobility, health and digital society. For generations, our engineers have proven to be entrepreneurial problem-solvers, both in business and in a social context.
At TU Delft we embrace diversity as one of our core values and we actively engage to be a university where you feel at home and can flourish. We value different perspectives and qualities. We believe this makes our work more innovative, the TU Delft community more vibrant and the world more just. Together, we imagine, invent and create solutions using technology to have a positive impact on a global scale. That is why we invite you to apply. Your application will receive fair consideration.
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Department
The Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment has a leading role in education and research worldwide. The driving force behind the faculty’s success is its robust research profile combined with the energy and creativity of its student body and academic community. It is buzzing with energy from early in the morning until late at night, with four thousand people studying, working, designing, conducting research and acquiring and disseminating knowledge. Our faculty has a strong focus on 'design-oriented research’, which has given it a top position in world rankings.
Staff and students are working to improve the built environment with the help of a broad set of disciplines, including architectural design, urban planning, building technology, social sciences, process management, and geo-information science. The faculty works closely with other faculties, universities, private parties, and the public sector, and has an extensive network in the Netherlands as well as internationally.
Click here to go to the website of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment.
Department of Urbanism
Sustainable urbanisation, climate adaptation, circularity and digitisation are among the core themes the faculty embraced as relevant societal themes for research and education. The Department of Urbanism adopts them as the foundation for developing excellent scholarship and research. We see Urbanism as an interdisciplinary planning and design activity that focuses on the (re)creation of sustainable urban landscapes aimed toward climate adaptability, circularity, social equity, and ecologically inclusive urbanisation at all scales. This is reflected by our mission: to advance, share and apply knowledge on how to adapt the built environment to societal and environmental changes; and to apply contextual design, planning and engineering strategies and interventions with impact for a better society. The Urbanism research programme is shaped by our understanding that the quality of the urban environment is crucial for societies’ social, economic and environmental performance and for a more sustainable and fairer urban environment.
The Department of Urbanism received the highest score for excellence in the 2022 research assessment. Urbanism has an international reputation for academic research, scholarship and education built on the Delft Approach to Urbanism. This approach is knowledge-based, design-oriented, and multiscale, in which landscape architecture, urban design and planning closely collaborate with engineers, data scientists, sociologists, geographers, and ecologists. Urbanism is committed to socially relevant research, exemplified by our involvement in design projects and policy development, the development and implementation of practical tools and methods and our leadership and participation in (inter)national networks. A high level of scientific output in the form of journal articles, books and datasets and their use, but also the high number of prestigious ERC grants and awarded NWO and Horizon2020 funding testify to our premium research.
Additional information
For more information about the Delft Technology Fellowship, please visit the website.
Application procedure
Your application should include the following:
- Cover letter including:
- your motivation
- the faculty and research theme of your interest*
- the position desired (Full, Associate or Assistant Professor level)
- how many years of post-doctoral working experience in industry or academia you have.
- Resume including a detailed list of your publications and achievements.
- Contact information of 4 references (6 in case of a Full Professor): their names, e-mail addresses, telephone numbers and relationships.
- Vision document (maximum 2000 words) containing your research proposal and your vision on 1) education, 2) leadership and 3) the embedding of your research into the Delft University of Technology organisation.
A pre-employment screening can be part of the application procedure.
*In case of multiple themes
