Delft University of Technology (TU Delft)

Develop and implement a Digital Twin that strengthens our ability to protect critical infrastructure against flooding. Job description  Current and future impact of flooding to critical infrastructure (e.g. dikes, bridges) is a major concern worldwide. Unfortunately, the management of flood-prone structures is extremely challenging because underlying processes are complex and uncertain. If our capacity to....

Join us to advance DC microgrid protection, control, and stability for safe and reliable future sustaibale aviation! Job description DC microgrids with integrated energy storage are a key enabler of the electrification of transportation, industry, data centers, and renewable energy systems. However, the high-power, low-impedance, and dynamically varying DC microgrids introduces significant challenges in system....

Are you passionate about shaping the future of healthcare? Do you want to develop technology that truly matters in people’s lives? Join us in creating radical innovations that support patients at home Job description The department of Biomechanical Engineering TU Delft seeks a motivated postdoctoral researcher with a background in biomechanical engineering for a full-time,....

Join TU Delft and the EU-funded OPERA consortium. Push the frontier of general-purpose AI for robotics and tackle the fundamental tension between long-horizon reasoning and real-time safety guarantees. Job description Robots that operate for long periods among people must plan beyond the next few seconds while staying safe. They need to predict how their surroundings....

Join the TU Delft Structural Mechanics group to design a first-of-its-kind large-scale experimental campaign on historic masonry quay walls and help safeguard the future of Dutch canal cities. Job description  Typical Dutch canal cities are currently facing challenges related to the maintenance and safety risk of historical inner city infrastructure. Among others, masonry quay walls....

New aircraft concepts and propulsion technologies are being developed to reduce aviation emissions. But how do these new aircraft change the world of air traffic management? Job description  Research and industry are increasingly investing in new aircraft concepts (e.g., powered by batteries, hydrogen, and other alternative energy sources) that promise to significantly reduce aviation’s climate....

Job description  Technologies increasingly shape the moral landscape of our societies. In response, approaches such as Design for Values (DfV) and Value Sensitive Design seek to embed moral values like privacy, justice, and sustainability directly into the design process. But while DfV has many methods for eliciting what people currently value, it offers virtually no....

Help pave the future for living sensing systems by decoding microorganisms’ encoding of environmental history. Job description Background: Living microorganisms could transform how we sense and store information, replacing single-use electronics with inherently biodegradable systems that track environmental conditions over time. Even basic electronic sensing systems today require sensors, microcontrollers, memory, and batteries, and are....

Join TU Delft as a postodoc to develop AI-enable robotic systems for responsible human-robot collaboration. Job description Autonomous robots working in human-centered environments must do more than react to immediate sensor input. They need to be able to estimate uncertainty, explain their decisions, adapt to human preferences and values, and act safely and reliably in....

Join us in developing the next generation of climate-resilient building envelopes. Job description As a PhD candidate at TU Delft, you will explore how nature-based building skins can transform existing homes into healthier, cooler and more sustainable living environments. Working at the intersection of building physics, architecture, ecology and user-centered design, you will develop innovative....

How do residents experience changing indoor temperatures? As a PhD candidate at TU Delft, you will combine citizen science, field data and modelling to help develop healthier and more energy-efficien. Job description Hot weather events are increasing, making adaptation of existing dwellings increasingly important to protect residents from unhealthy indoor conditions and limit future energy....

Come and innovate TU Delft education with your postdoctoral research. Job description TU Delft engineers are expected to contribute to complex practical challenges by designing and investigating cutting-edge solutions to real-life problems. Educating this next generation of engineers requires not only teaching specific knowledge and skills from individual courses but also integrating these contents into....

Would you like to develop new theory and algorithms for problems with multiple interacting actors? Are you interested in working at the intersection of game theory and mixed-integer optimisation?  Job description  Transport and logistics systems consist of many players with potentially conflicting objectives that continuously strive to maximize their performance. The competition and collaboration between....

Creating quantum networks with rare-earth ions Job description  Silicon-based microchips are the essential building block of modern electronic hardware, such as computers and cell phones. Can silicon also play a critical role in building the next generation of the internet – the quantum internet? In order to realize a fully functional and scalable quantum network,....

Challenge: How do we watch material surfaces evolve?Change: Building a surface-sensitive diffractive microscope.Impact: Enabling high-resolution imaging of surfaces during operation. Job description  We are looking for two PhD candidates to join the Curious Beams Lab at Delft University of Technology and develop a new approach to imaging materials surfaces with electrons. The positions are part....

Curious how we can turn a scanning electron microscope into a surface-sensitive diffractive microscope? Excited about building novel electron-optical systems? We’re looking for you! Job description  We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join the Curious Beams Lab at Delft University of Technology and lead the instrumentation development for BEAMSurf: Diffractive Atomic-Scale Surface Imaging....

Help determine operational limits of next-gen nuclear steam generators! Job description Advanced nuclear reactor designs like the high temperature gas cooled reactor or molten salt reactor offer certain advantages compared to traditional light water reactors. One such advantage is their potential to operate with a high thermal efficiency. This advantage stems from the fact that....

Can nuclear- and renewable energy play nice? Job description Both Europe and the Netherlands are committed to transitioning to a CO2-neutral economy by 2050. As part of this commitment, the Netherlands has built large-scale wind park, and a significant amount of energy comes from solar power as well. While wind and solar energy help to....

Sensing enabled by optomechanical systems  Job description  We are seeking a highly motivated postdoctoral researcher to join a collaborative project between TU Delft (Simon Gröblacher’s group) and AMOLF (Ewold Verhagen’s group), centered around the development of cutting-edge optomechanical sensors. The position is embedded within QSTeM, a recently established Testbed for mechanical sensing led by Letizia....

Join the Veldhorst Group, pioneers in germanium-based quantum computing and simulation. Job description After a successful first hire for this research topic, we are looking for a second Postdoctoral Researcher to join the Veldhorst Group, who are pioneers in quantum computing and simulation in germanium. The Veldhorst group demonstrated the first single-hole qubit, enabled two-qubit....

Job description We are recruiting several PhD candidates to join the Taminiau lab in research on quantum networks based on spin defects in silicon carbide (SiC). As a part of the team, you will work alongside scientists to investigate and develop SiC devices that enable fast optical entanglement links and high-fidelity spin-qubit control. The research....

Are you passionate about offshore wind energy? Apply for a Post-doctoral research position in Floating Offshore Wind Energy and help accelerate the supply chain readiness in this area.   Job description Floating offshore wind turbines are widely regarded as a key technology to accelerate renewable power generation and reach climate targets. Installing a wind turbine on....

From Semantics to Syntax — Systematic Derivation of Formal Languages and Their Correctness    Job description Formal languages, such as type theories and program logics, let us state and prove precisely what software should do. Today, each new language is designed by hand: experts invent the syntax, then check that it really means what it should.....

Work at the intersection of hydrogen, ammonia, and sustainability. Join the MetNH3Energy project and help identify low-carbon solutions that can power Europe’s energy trans Job description  The European Union (EU), through initiatives such as REPowerEU, REFuelEU, and FuelEU Maritime, is driving the transition toward lower greenhouse gas emissions. Green hydrogen is expected to play a....

Job description  The main goal of the research is to quantify the impact of hydrate formation on injectivity of CO2 injection well and to develop chemical-based solutions to either inhibit the formation of hydrates (preventive methods) or to remediate the injectivity once formation of the hydrate led to injectivity decline (mitigation methods). The focus is....

Develop and test new methods for deep exploration of sediment-hosted copper systems by integrating legacy seismic and well-log data with basin modelling, geochemistry and machine learning. Job description  We are looking for a PhD candidate who is keen to explore how legacy seismic and well-log data acquired for petroleum exploration can be transformed into a....

Deploy detailed models of coupled ocean / sea ice processes, probe their turbulent interactions, compare with observations, and design parameterizations for global climate models. Job description  The past decades have been associated with substantial losses of sea ice over both hemispheres. Existing climate models are currently unable to accurately forecast these changes, in part due....