promovendi adviseur

Als Graduate School of Humanities (GSH) vinden we goede begeleiding van al onze promovendi belangrijk, met oog op het welslagen van hun onderzoeksproject. Uitval willen we zo veel mogelijk voorkomen en daarvoor is vroege signalering van eventuele problemen cruciaal. Als promovendi-adviseur treed je op als laagdrempelig aanspreekpunt voor promovendi en promotoren. Je bent beschikbaar voor alle promovendi van de School of Humanities (SH). Ze kunnen bij jou terecht met vragen over het traject en dagelijkse problematiek en je fungeert als sparringpartner. Daarnaast heb je aandacht voor het mentale welzijn van promovendi en houd je de voortgang van het promotietraject in de gaten.

Als promovendi-adviseur ben je goed bereikbaar, als vraagbaak voor promovendi en promotoren. Je bent bovenal gesprekspartner en luisterend oor voor de promovendi: je voert voortgangsgesprekken en je denkt mee over het Opleidings- en begeleidingsplan. Daar hoort uiteraard ook bij dat je in staat bent om in vertrouwelijkheid gesprekken te voeren met promovendi over het verloop van het promotietraject. Via het eigen registratiesysteem van de Graduate School houd je een vinger aan de pols. Je signaleert problemen op tijd en onderneemt zo nodig actie, in overleg met de promovendus.

Je bent daarnaast verantwoordelijk voor de organisatie van activiteiten die door de Graduate School of Humanities aan promovendi aanbiedt. Hierbij denken we aan introductiebijeenkomsten, informele lunchbijeenkomsten en aan cursussen en workshops. Die kunnen gaan over het ontwikkelen van onderzoeksvaardigheden en thema’s als wetenschappelijke integriteit, verwachtingen ten aanzien van begeleiding en werkplanning.

Jouw taken

• begeleiden van promovendi door het zichtbaar aanwezig zijn en het voeren van vertrouwelijke (voortgangs)gesprekken in verschillende stadia van het promotietraject
• snel en adequaat beantwoorden van vragen van promovendi en promotoren rond het promotieproces. Je signaleert knelpunten, je adviseert over de kwaliteit van de begeleiding en denkt mee over het verbeteren ervan
• adviseren over wetenschappelijke integriteit en andere problematiek gerelateerd aan het promoveren, zoals de omgang met culturele verschillen
• adviseren over de samenstelling van het Opleidings- en begeleidingsplan, als onderdeel van het onboardingsproces van startende promovendi
• coördineren van het verplichte opleidingsprogramma van promovendi en portfolio beoordeling
• organiseren van activiteiten voor promovendi
• registratie en het bijhouden van de promovendi dossiers in Hora Finita, ook Key User Hora Finita
• bijhouden van de betaling van hun financiële bijdrage door externe promovendi
• Check van de (preventieve) controle van proefschriften op plagiaat met gebruik van de plagiaatscanner Itenticate, als key user
• deelnemen aan centrale overleggen en bijdragen leveren aan de formulering van het beleid voor promovendi van de GSH.

PhD Cross-sector collaboration for older people care

Population ageing is rapidly increasing the demand for long-term care (LTC) while labor supply is shrinking, and public expenditure is under growing pressure from pay-as-you-go pension payments. This applies across most high- and middle-income countries over the next two decades, and possibly beyond, given declining birth rates and societal reluctance to increase immigration from low-income countries.

In response, OECD countries have introduced a range of governance and financing arrangements to address barriers such as the wrong-pocket problem. These arrangements rely on horizontal coordination, meaning collaboration across sectors and stakeholders, and vertical coordination, meaning alignment across levels of government and financing arrangements. Together, these policy options aim to reduce barriers to collaboration across organizational and financial boundaries.

In the Netherlands, cross-domain collaboration in LTC was structurally embedded in legislation in 2026, opening up new opportunities to refine existing approaches and address long-standing barriers around governance complexity and cost-shifting. Building on this, more than 50 neighborhood initiatives have been launched, in which municipalities, health insurers, and care providers jointly organize and finance support for frail older adults.

The DOS PROJECT examines these initiatives along two lines. First, it develops a set of time-series models that provide timely insight into neighborhood-level future trends in care use and costs, enabling earlier responses to emerging developments. Second, it evaluates the impact of the DOS initiatives at both the neighborhood and aggregate level. The PhD candidate will dive into rich, nationwide administrative data and run advanced level causal analyses to find out how DOS initiatives actually shape people's care behavior and health outcomes. To identify broader trends and patterns at higher levels of aggregation, the project will apply hierarchical regression models with shrinkage.

Your duties
The DOS research project is conducted by the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) and is funded by Zorgverzekeraars Nederland. The PhD candidate will be employed at the department of Ethics, Governance & Society of the School of Business and Economics and supervised by prof. dr. X. Koolman in collaboration with dr. F. R. Portrait, dr. N. Stadhouders and dr. Y. Krabbe, the project leader.

Your duties include:

• Conduct high-quality doctoral research leading to scientific journal articles and a PhD dissertation.
• Develop nowcasting models, matching models, hierarchical regression models to evaluate the DOS initiatives.
• Present your work at scientific conferences and workshops with academic partners and stakeholders such as Zorgverzekeraars Nederland, the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport, care offices, municipalities and care providers.
• Contribute to the teaching activities of the department, including lectures, tutorials, exams and grading.

Researcher in Ontology-Driven Software Engineering for Architectural Ontology Reuse Recommendation System Development

Onto4Reuse is a service-oriented framework that supports the systematic reuse of standardised ontologies, bridging enterprise architecture and ontology-based software engineering. Rather than relying on individual expertise, the framework operationalises ontology reuse as an explicit architectural activity by guiding architects through the identification, selection, alignment, and modularization of (standardised) ontologies.

Central to the framework is the Architectural Ontology Recommendation Service, which leverages Enterprise Architecture models (e.g., ArchiMate and EIRA) to derive semantic requirements from stakeholders’ goals, requirements, business objects, and integration patterns. By orchestrating a set of interconnected services the framework provides traceable recommendations for reusable ontologies that are aligned with architectural decisions and enterprise objectives, ultimately promoting semantic interoperability in distributed systems.

The project “Onto4Reuse: Empowering IT Architects for interoperability challenges of distributed systems via reuse of standardised ontologies” aims to develop and integrate Onto4Reuse framework to support master students in addressing real-world challenges related to distributed systems, standards, and semantic interoperability.

Postdoc New Luminescent Materials for Sustainable Energy Technology: Towards a Photovoltaic Window

Job description

In this postdoc research project you will develop luminescent materials for building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) technology. You will make and study new types of strongly absorbing sulphide luminescent solar absorber materials, just a few hundred nm thick, that can convert the UV and visible part of the solar spectrum into infra-red luminescence. When applied as a coating to windows, these materials can enable a cost-effective electricity-generating PV-window following the principle of a Luminescent Solar Concentrator (LSC). An LSC harvests sunlight by absorbing, re-emitting, and subsequently guiding light, like in an optical fibre, to solar cells integrated in the window pane that convert the light into electrical power.

In this project you use reactive DC, RF or pulsed magnetron sputtering, the workhorse technology of the glass coating industry, to make the luminescent materials. Targeted materials are Yb³⁺-doped inorganic semiconducting sulphide materials, emitting in the infra-red spectral range, where silicon solar cells have high conversion efficiency.

To successfully develop new luminescent absorber materials, it is crucial that you gain a fundamental understanding of the physical processes underlying their luminescence mechanism. To give you an idea, one of the scientific challenges is to understand how generated electron-hole pairs can transfer their energy to the luminescence centres. The strongest possible absorptions in an inorganic material are so-called bandgap absorptions, in which an electron is excited from the valence band (VB) to the conduction band (CB), leaving behind a hole in the VB. Although there are many materials (hosts) with a small bandgap that absorb the entire visible part of the solar spectrum (black materials), very few show efficient luminescence of doping ions. Such host-to-doping-ion transfer is often described as a resonant process between (self-trapped) exciton emission and doping-ion absorption. The materials in this project are selected to have a small exciton binding energy, making exciton-mediated transfer inefficient. Instead, sequential transfer of first the electron and then the hole is the anticipated transfer process to the Yb³⁺ luminescence centres.

The fundamental insights are obtained first by time- and temperature-resolved optical and luminescence spectroscopy, combined with a variety of techniques to analyse the structure, (defect) composition and morphology of the films. Secondly, fundamental understanding involves data interpretation and model development using knowledge of solid-state physics, optics and quantum mechanics. Ideally, the obtained insights will be used to select other materials with improved properties during your project.

The Energy Materials group at Delft University of Technology has more than 30 years of experience in luminescent materials research and collaborates with a start-up company and the glass coating industry to facilitate a route to large-scale application of the coatings as windows. You will work in a team, led by your supervisor, alongside Phd’s, technicians, a start-up company and the glass coating industry.

Job requirements
You are a skilful experimentalist with perseverance and patience, motivated to make new materials. Please show in your application that you have:

• a PhD in physics, inorganic (physical) chemistry or a similar field

• experience with magnetron sputtering

• a proven interest in, and experience with, experimental (materials) research

Experience with any of the topics mentioned in the job description is beneficial but not mandatory.

TU Delft (Delft University of Technology)
Working at TU Delft means contributing to solutions that really make a difference.

For over 180 years, we have been training engineers who make an impact worldwide in companies, government bodies, or as entrepreneurs. Our alumni turn knowledge into concrete solutions for the challenges of today and tomorrow.

These challenges are changing rapidly. That is why we focus on themes such as energy, climate, digitalisation, artificial intelligence (AI), and smart mobility every day. Our education and research are directly aligned with what society needs now and in the future.

At TU Delft, our people make the difference. With their knowledge and curiosity, our staff provide a high-quality education and conduct pioneering research that extends beyond the campus. You will have the opportunity to take the initiative, work with others, and grow as a professional.

Working at TU Delft means join an international community of professionals and students. Together, we create knowledge, innovations, and solutions that help move the world forward.

Faculty Applied Sciences
With more than 1,100 employees, including 150 pioneering principal investigators, as well as a population of about 3,600 passionate students, the Faculty of Applied Sciences is an inspiring scientific ecosystem. Focusing on key enabling technologies, such as quantum- and nanotechnology, photonics, biotechnology, synthetic biology and materials for energy storage and conversion, our faculty aims to provide solutions to important problems of the 21st century. To that end, we educate innovative students in broad Bachelor's and specialist Master's programmes with a strong research component. Our scientists conduct ground-breaking fundamental and applied research in the fields of Life and Health Science & Technology, Nanoscience, Chemical Engineering, Radiation Science & Technology, and Engineering Physics. We are also training the next generation of high school teachers.

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PhD Position Two-Phase Flow of Cryogenic Hydrogen

Job description

Hydrogen is one of the most promising energy carriers and fuels for future sustainable aviation. As it flows from storage to the engine, the cryogenic liquid evaporates, creating a two-phase mixture that affects hydrogen distribution, as well as active components along the line, such as heat exchangers and valves.

Understanding and predicting the hydrogen flow and thermal behaviour is essential before such systems can be deployed.

As a PhD candidate in the Propulsion & Power group at TU Delft, you will tackle this challenge through advanced experimental and analytical investigations, focusing on how two-phase flow develops along cryogenics distribution lines.

The project is primarily experimental. You will help commission a new cryogenic test facility that is currently being developed in collaboration with the team, and run advanced experiments for investigating cryogenics two-phase flow. A second objective is to build cryogenic sensors for heat and flow measurements, in collaboration with the Von Karman Institute (VKI, Belgium).

You will join the Propulsion & Power group, that combines expertise in thermodynamics, heat transfer and turbomachinery. Your supervisors will guide you while giving you the room to shape your own research, and you will get the support and training you need to grow as an independent researcher.

Job requirements
You are driven by the wish to understand physical phenomena, reasoning from first principles, and connecting your measurements back to the underlying mechanisms. You are happy to share knowledge and collaborate within an international team and visiting external partners for extended periods (up to few months).

To be considered, you will have:

• An MSc in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering or a closely related field.
• Strong foundations in thermodynamics , fluid mechanics and heat transfer.
• An aptitude for experimental work, shown by hands-on involvement in building or running test setups.
• A very good spoken and written English.
• Experience in two-phase flow and heat transfer experiments and/or modelling is highly valued.

TU Delft (Delft University of Technology)
Working at TU Delft means contributing to solutions that really make a difference.

For over 180 years, we have been training engineers who make an impact worldwide in companies, government bodies, or as entrepreneurs. Our alumni turn knowledge into concrete solutions for the challenges of today and tomorrow.

These challenges are changing rapidly. That is why we focus on themes such as energy, climate, digitalisation, artificial intelligence (AI), and smart mobility every day. Our education and research are directly aligned with what society needs now and in the future.

At TU Delft, our people make the difference. With their knowledge and curiosity, our staff provide a high-quality education and conduct pioneering research that extends beyond the campus. You will have the opportunity to take the initiative, work with others, and grow as a professional.

Working at TU Delft means join an international community of professionals and students. Together, we create knowledge, innovations, and solutions that help move the world forward.

Faculty Aerospace Engineering
The Faculty of Aerospace Engineering at Delft University of Technology is a leading international community where innovation in aerospace meets global challenges. Our support and scientific staff, including PhD candidates, postdocs, and students, largely work together on three main themes: the energy transition, sustainable aerospace, and safety and security, with the aim of tackling climate change and contributing to the independence and security of Europe.

When you join us, you become part of a diverse, collaborative, and forward-thinking environment where your ideas and perspectives are valued. Our work extends beyond the lab—into field labs, innovation hubs, and partnerships with other faculties, research institutes, governments, and industry, both locally and globally.

We are committed to fostering an inclusive and welcoming workplace, assisted by an active Diversity & Inclusion team. This includes tangible support such as funding for extra personnel for family and caregiving responsibilities, mentoring programmes, and initiatives that promote cultural exchange and integration.

You don’t just join our faculty — you join a community where you can thrive, grow, and help shape the future of aerospace.

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