Financial Support Officer

Wordt jij onze nieuwe Financial Support Officer? Ben jij sterk in organiseren, houd je van afwisseling én heb je gevoel voor cijfers? Dan is de functie van Financial Support Officer (32–38 uur per week) misschien wel jouw ideale volgende stap.

Als Financial Support Officer ondersteun je de leerstoelhouder van een leerstoelgroep binnen Wageningen University & Research. Je bent de verbindende schakel binnen het team en de afdeling Finance & Control. Je zorgt daarbij dat administratieve processen en werkzaamheden soepel verlopen. Een leerstoelgroep bestaat uit ongeveer 30 tot 40 medewerkers. Zij werken aan fundamenteel onderzoek en academisch onderwijs op het gebied van gezonde voeding en leefomgeving.

Je werkt nauw samen met de leerstoelhouder en bent het eerste aanspreekpunt voor uiteenlopende administratieve vragen. Daarnaast speel je een belangrijke rol in het voorbereiden, bewaken en controleren van projectbegrotingen, jaarplannen en personeelsinformatie. Je signaleert ontwikkelingen, bewaakt overzicht en zorgt voor een correcte administratie.

Dit doe je samen met collega’s zoals projectcontrollers, projectleiders, secretaresses en andere Financial Support Officers binnen het Finance & Control-team.

Hier kom je te werken
Je komt te werken op de bruisende campus van Wageningen University & Research: een inspirerende en innovatieve werkomgeving waar onderwijs, onderzoek en ondernemerschap samenkomen. Van start-ups tot internationale organisaties zoals Unilever en FrieslandCampina — alles draait hier om innovatie en samenwerking.

Financial Support Officer

Are you our new Financial Support Officer?

Are you highly organised, do you enjoy working in a varied role, and do you have affinity with numbers? Then the position of Financial Support Officer (32–38 hours per week) might be your ideal next step.

As a Financial Support Officer, you support the chairholder of a chair group within Wageningen University & Research. You play a key role in ensuring that administrative processes and activities run smoothly.

You act as a central point of contact within the team and between the chair group and the Finance & Control department. In this role, you work closely with the chairholder and are the first point of contact for a wide range of administrative questions.

A chair group typically consists of 30 to 40 colleagues working on fundamental research and academic education in the field of healthy nutrition and living environments.

In addition, you play an important role in preparing, monitoring, and controlling project budgets, annual plans, and personnel information. You monitor developments, maintain oversight and ensure accurate records.

You do this in collaboration with colleagues such as project controllers, project leaders, secretaries and other Financial Support Officers.

Where you will work
You will work on the vibrant campus of Wageningen University & Research: an inspiring and innovative working environment where education, research, and entrepreneurship come together. From start-ups to international organizations such as Unilever and FrieslandCampina — everything here revolves around innovation and collaboration.

Teacher Education Specialist

About the TEACH team and job description
The TEACH team consists of seven teacher education specialists and facilitates the professional development of all teaching staff at the TU/e (from student tutors to professor). The TEACH team is part of HR Development and strives to strengthen the educational quality at the TU/e with their offer. We do this by designing, developing, and giving training or other professionalization activities, and advising on teacher professionalization. In doing so, we remain in close contact with the nine different departments at the TU/e and their learning needs. The implementation, the supervision during, and the further development of the University Teaching Qualification (UTQ, Basis Kwalificatie Onderwijs in Dutch) program is a substantial part of our work. Besides that, we provide workshops alongside the UTQ program and are developing a program that will further support teachers in their educational career path after the UTQ program (continuous professional development). In general, topics that we focus on are designing and implementing student-centered & active learning, assessment, diversity & inclusion, and Gen AI in education.

As a teacher education specialist, you have a great passion for learning and the development of our academic teaching staff. Your job consists of four components:

• You will (re)design training programs, and other professionalization activities and learning interventions (e.g., e-modules and knowledge clips), within the team or in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.
• You will implement and execute trainings and workshops on education-related topics (including UTQ).
• You will execute trainings for students who will become a tutor.
• You coordinate the organization of the education-related training (programs) and maintain contact with external stakeholders, in order to warrant the quality of these trainings.
• You will provide input for the elaboration of policy components in the field of teacher professionalization and establish and maintain contact with stakeholders within the departments and services (such as educational directors, Educational advisor-central and -departmental) with the aim to translate new professional development needs into learning interventions (e.g., courses, coaching, learning communities). You will also advise employees and supervisors about the development possibilities within the teacher professionalization offer.

Postdoctoral position in Innovative sustainable façade research

In this postdoctoral position, you will play a central role in the CoolSmart project: Passive cooling through the application of photochromic films in public housing. This project aims to reduce heat stress while maintaining sufficient natural light. The project objectives are aligned with the Multi-Year Mission-Driven Innovation Programs (MMIPs) of TKI Bouw en Techniek: Climate-resilient, nature-inclusive, and context-aware building, Renovation of built environment, and Circular construction and infrastructure.

Over the course of 2 years (24 months), your work will include:

1. Developing a practical tool for social housing corporations to identify risks related to heat stress and/or lack of daylight availability
2. Conducting a baseline study to assess current heat stress problems and thermal and visual comfort issues.
3. Designing and executing a large data collection campaign (pre-experience and experience study) to investigate the impact of photochromic films in senior living apartments, in close collaboration with social housing corporation Trudo
4. Performing computer simulations (e.g., using EnergyPlus and Radiance) to evaluate the potential impact of the photochromic films across various contexts and seasons.

Project partner ClimAd Technology will further develop and test the innovative photochromic film applied in this project.

The position is embedded in the Building Lighting research group of the Department of the Built Environment, with close collaboration with the Building Performance research group. This provides access to excellent facilities (such as the Building Physics and Services lab), other researchers ((PhD)students) as well as to housing corporations in Eindhoven region. The position bridges qualitative research (users’ experiences and perception) with quantitative research (large-scale data collection, computer simulations, and numerical analyses). Through your work, you will be contributing to the consortium’s ambition to develop effective solutions to mitigate heat stress in buildings.

In addition to research (approximately 80% of the position), you will contribute to the (innovation of the) educational program at TU/e (about 20% of the time). Educational tasks include supervising (master graduation) students and possibly contributing to courses and lectures related to your expertise. This role offers an opportunity to integrate research and education in this field.

PhD Position CFD-FEM Modelling of Electrically Heated Reactor Concepts With and Without Reactions

Job description
CO2 conversion reactors depend on adequate heating and heat management. Several thermochemical pathways involve high-temperature (> 300 °C) endothermic reactions, that depend on technically feasible, efficient and economically attractive heating by green electricity. A typical example is the dry reforming of biomethane, which is taken in this project as a model reaction to develop and further mature electric heating technologies. The developed technologies can be readily transferred to other relevant reactions for carbon-based chemistry, including reverse water-gas shift (CO2 + H2 <-> CO + H2O), leading to technology transition moving away from conventional fossil-fuel heated refining processes to the refinery of the future.

In this challenging PhD project we ask you to combine knowledge and models from three different domains: electromagnetism, thermo-hydraulics and reaction kinetics.

In particular, we aim to develop both surface heating solutions (through resistive and impedance heating) and volume heating solutions (through impedance and induction heating) for catalytic flow reactors. The work will be performed in the Process and Energy Department of the Mechanical Engineering Faculty (Johan Padding), in close collaboration with the Electrical Engineering Faculty of TU Delft (Mohamad Niasar) and the Chemical Engineering and Chemistry Department at TU Eindhoven (Martin van Sint Annaland).

Your work will start with the design, modelling and evaluation of resistive heating concepts in collaboration between T.EN, NEM, TU/e, and TNO. A theory review will be performed jointly, resulting in guidelines for reactor design, taking into account the electrical breakdown strength of the reaction environment. Based on advanced technology for internal resistive heating of chemical reactors, several different configurations will be evaluated with your CFD-FEM models and tested at TRL4 (10 kWe) at TU/e to identify the most promising configurations and operation modes, first only for heating purposes, followed by an experimental demonstration for dry methane reforming. For volume heating, T.EN with TUD and TU/e will design integrated 3D-printed structures that combine heating functionality with active materials (catalysts).

Next to the resistive heating solutions, you will design, model and evaluate impedance and inductive heating concepts in collaboration with T.EN, NEM, TU/e, and TNO. Several different configurations, which include direct inductive heating (using a dedicated coil) and impedance heating using auto-inductive effects in different reactor geometries, will be evaluated by your CFD-FEM models and tested at TRL4 (10 kWe) at TU/e to identify the most promising configurations and operation modes, first only for heating purposes, followed by an experimental demonstration for DRM.

Job requirements
You are a recent graduate looking to use your modelling skills and curiosity to create a greener process industry. With your pioneering mindset and communicative nature, you thrive in a complex multi-disciplinary team consisting of universities, knowledge institutes and companies and you are not overwhelmed by the ambitious nature of the project. You also have:

• An MSc in Electrical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Applied Physics or related field
• Proven experience with finite element and/or finite volume modelling of continuous fields in a multi-physics context
• Affinity with chemical reactor engineering
• Sound knowledge of Maxwell's equations for electromagnetic fields

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 Mechanical Engineering
From chip to ship. From machine to human being. From idea to solution. Driven by a deep-rooted desire to understand our environment and discover its underlying mechanisms, research and education at the ME faculty focusses on fundamental understanding, design, production including application and product improvement, materials, processes and (mechanical) systems.

ME is a dynamic and innovative faculty with high-tech lab facilities and international reach. It’s a large faculty but also versatile, so we can often make unique connections by combining different disciplines. This is reflected in ME’s outstanding, state-of-the-art education, which trains students to become responsible and socially engaged engineers and scientists. We translate our knowledge and insights into solutions to societal issues, contributing to a sustainable society and to the development of prosperity and well-being. That is what unites us in pioneering research, inspiring education and (inter)national cooperation.

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