EngD in Digital Textile Manufacturing and Systems

Textile machines are often digital, but they are rarely connected or ready for data-driven work with machine learning and AI. Much of the production knowledge still lives in the heads and hands of operators. As a result, designers, producers, repairers and recyclers work in isolated steps, and valuable know-how and material are lost along the way. As an EngD trainee, you will help prepare textile production for the AI and ML age, and you will show how production and prototyping data can inform and redesign the complete value chain.

What you will do
You will design, build and adapt experimental machine setups with textile producers and machine builders, for example by adding sensors and controls or by linking machine settings to design files. You will use data science, machine learning and AI to turn machine, production and ecosystem data into insights that operators, designers and partners can use. Beyond machines, you will analyze how data-enabled production affects the wider ecosystem, from design and material choices to small-batch production, repair, reuse and recycling.

Working with people
This is a collaborative role. You will learn from operators and technicians, co-design with small companies, and turn fieldlab learning into workflows, demonstrators and open knowledge that others can build on. You will work in a public-private fieldlab with TU/e, industry, design researchers and the Dutch Textile Campus, with close supervision and room to grow as an engineer.

Why it matters
Your work helps Dutch textile SMEs meet new European circularity rules without losing their own craft, and keeps textiles and materials in use for longer. Moreover, the semiconductor industry in Eindhoven was built with engineering companies who made machinery for Textile companies. In this project we look to see how the knowledge generated informs all industries in the region.

PhD on natural visual patterns, mental wellbeing, and overheating resilience

Can we reduce stress, thermal discomfort and energy consumption for cooling in homes by harnessing visual exposure to nature-inspired facade designs? Can we disentangle the beneficial effects of daylight and nature exposure through windows? How can we best navigate the trade-off between access to view and the amount and quality of daylight and nature content provided by a nature-inspired façade? These are some of the scientific challenges you will work on in this PhD project.

This PhD position is part of the wider ΝWO KIC project “Nature4Homes: Nature-driven building skin interventions for energy efficiency, occupant comfort, health, and biodiversity in dwellings”, which brings together the domains of building engineering, building physics, environmental psychology, meteorology, and thermophysiology to develop nature-driven building skin solutions that enhance occupant health and comfort while reducing cooling demand. This PhD project focuses specifically on the domains of environmental psychology, lighting research, and building physics.

You will conduct your research within the Human-Technology Interaction group (HTI) at TU/e, which has a long history in lighting research and environmental psychology, with a secondment at the Environmental & Climate Design section at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), which has extensive expertise in building physics and indoor environmental quality.

In this PhD, you will investigate whether visual patterns from nature across different layers of the building skin (e.g., the façade itself, the view to the outside) within an occupant’s field of view can support mental wellbeing, increase acceptance, and enhance tolerance to visual and thermal discomfort indoors, particularly during periods of summer overheating. To address these questions, you will review the literature, perform experiments in virtual reality and real conditions, co-create nature-inspired façade elements, and test them in field studies. Your work would include collecting self-reported, physiological, and environmental data, and apply building simulation, computer vision, and advanced statistical methods for their analysis. The project also involves close collaboration with industry partners such as shading system manufacturers to develop nature-inspired façade interventions. These will be tested at the “Green Village” living lab housing of TU Delft. Throughout your PhD, you will be supervised by Dr. Kynthia Chamilothori (main supervisor) and Prof. Yvonne de Kort (promotor) at the Human-Technology Interaction group of the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), as well as Dr. Eleonora Brembilla (co-promotor) at the Environmental & Climate Design section at TU Delft. You will be based at TU/e with a secondment at TU Delft.

Administrateur op de afdeling Finance

Administrateur op de afdeling Finance bij de Universiteit Twente vervul je een essentiële rol in het borgen van de financiële hygiëne binnen de Faculteit ET.

De afdeling Finance heeft als doel betrouwbare managementinformatie te leveren, beleids- en bedrijfsprocessen te ondersteunen en bij te dragen aan strategie- en beleidsvorming. Tot de werkzaamheden van het team behoren het voeren van de financiële administratie, het opstellen van begrotingen en jaarrekeningen, het verzorgen van budgetrapportages en het administratief ondersteunen van 2e- en 3e-geldstroomprojecten.

In jouw rol ben je verantwoordelijk voor een zorgvuldige uitvoering van de processen rondom (interne en externe) declaraties, bestellingen en facturen. Je zorgt ervoor dat financiële gegevens juist, volledig en tijdig worden verwerkt en dat correcte boekingsinformatie in de systemen wordt vastgelegd.

Daarnaast voer je diverse controles uit, zie je toe op de juiste toepassing van de werkkostenregeling, verzorg je handmatige en spoedbetalingen en ondersteun je het team Projectcontrol tijdens administratieve piekperiodes.

Je bent een belangrijk aanspreekpunt voor vakgroepen en collega's met vragen over financiële procedures, declaraties en factuurstromen. Met jouw kennis en communicatieve vaardigheden geef je heldere uitleg over processen en regelgeving en help je collega's bij het volgen van de juiste werkwijze. Je weet daarbij de juiste balans te vinden tussen servicegericht ondersteunen, collega's aanspreken op gemaakte afspraken en tijdig escaleren wanneer dat nodig is. Een gezonde dosis humor helpt je daarbij om ook lastige boodschappen op een prettige manier over te brengen.

Als bewaker van de financiële hygiëne zie je toe op de correcte toepassing van regels, richtlijnen en procedures. Tegelijkertijd draag je actief bij aan de verdere ontwikkeling van de financiële functie door deel te nemen aan faculteitsoverstijgende werkgroepen en verbeterinitiatieven.

Postdoctoral researcher in the anthropology of marine conservation in Indonesia

Your workplace

The postdoc will apply ethnographic methods to study the governance of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in Eastern Indonesia, with a specific focus on the impact of tourism.

This project approaches MPAs as complex social-ecological institutions, in which ecological health, local livelihoods, governance, economic activities, and place-specific contestations of power, authority, and world views intersect. MPA governance involves a multitude of local, national and international actors and stakeholders, who have different views about the relationship between people and their marine environments. Tourism, in this context, is a double-edged sword. It may bring local groups in, allowing for alternative sources of MPA funding and livelihood strategies within a broader paradigm of sustainability and local agency, or it may drive stakeholders apart when the development of MPAs leads to exclusion of certain groups when economic opportunities are monopolized or appropriated, or fail to materialize.

The aim is to develop distinct local cases to analyse various understandings of the role of MPAs and the ways in which different forms of environmental knowledge clash or synergize in the context of marine conservation. Actively involving local academic and non-academic partners, the postdoc will study the nature of these tensions and interactions and how they might be overcome to produce more effective, just, and inclusive forms of MPA governance.

This position is part of a research project titled “TIDE-MPAs: Tourism Impact Dashboard for Social-Ecological-System Resilience in Marine Protected Areas.” This project is funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) and the Indonesian Ministry of Higher Education, Science, and Technology and led by Dr. Lisa Becking (Naturalis Biodiversity Center) and Beginer Subhan (IPB University). As a transdisciplinary and co-creative project, TIDE-MPAs seeks to synergize between marine science, social science, and practical work in marine conservation in Indonesia and the Caribbean. The postdoc will be the main researcher in a Work Package on local knowledge and authority in MPAs coordinated by Dr. David Kloos and Dr. Sikko Visscher (KITLV). They are also expected to work closely with the postdoc researcher/project coordinator at Naturalis Biodiversity Center, and to synergize with project staff in Indonesia and collaborating NGOs.

What you will be doing
Your key responsibilities will include:

• Carrying out autonomous ethnographic field research in one or more locations in Eastern Indonesia (specifically Maluku and/or West Papua).
• Leading at least two publications on the subject of local knowledge and governance in Marine Protected Areas.
• Supporting collaboration with key stakeholders in the broader project, including academic stakeholders, NGOs, and local partners.
• Contribute to an MPA tourism impact dashboard and tailored policy guidelines together with MPA managers, conservation professionals, and community leaders.
• Helping to organize and support joint fieldwork, workshops, consortium meetings and project events, together with the PIs and the coordinating Postdoc at Naturalis.

PhD position in Communication Science: Explaining Susceptibility to Health Hacks

Social media are full of "health hacks": short, practical tips promising quick improvements in health, wellbeing, or appearance. While many are harmless, others are misleading or even hazardous, ranging from extreme detox regimens and homemade sunscreen recipes to unproven remedies promoted as alternatives to medical treatment.

This PhD position is part of Hooked by the Health Hack, a four-year research project funded by NWO (Open Competition SSH) and carried out by Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Erasmus University Rotterdam. The project examines how young adults encounter and evaluate health hacks, and why some hacks are so persuasive, focusing on the interplay between individual characteristics, features of the online context, and cognitive processing during exposure.

The project focuses on young adults aged 18–25. In this life stage of growing independence and identity exploration, health beliefs, routines, and self-perceptions are actively taking shape. This makes young adults a particularly relevant group for understanding both the appeal and the consequences of online health hacks.

The project will generate knowledge to inform user-centred strategies that strengthen resilience to misleading and harmful health advice online. These strategies aim to support critical evaluation while respecting people's autonomy in making their own health decisions.

The project brings together communication science, health psychology, and behavioural and cognitive science in an integrated mixed-methods design. Two closely aligned PhD tracks follow a shared three-stage research route: (1) identifying key individual and contextual factors, (2) examining the cognitive processes through which these factors shape evaluations during exposure, and (3) translating these insights into intervention strategies.

Track A uses participatory research methods; Track B uses survey and experimental research. The two PhD candidates work closely together to develop a shared conceptual model and co-create interventions. This vacancy concerns Track B, based at the Communication Science department of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Your duties

Your project: Track B — Survey and experimental research
Track B provides the explanatory, mechanism-testing perspective within the project: it examines how and why individual and contextual factors make people susceptible to hazardous health hacks, by testing the cognitive processes at work during actual exposure to these hacks. Your work draws on dual-process theories of reasoning, distinguishing fast, intuitive processing from slower, reflective evaluation.

Your work will include:

• Conducting a multimodal content analysis of hazardous online health hacks.
• Designing and fielding a large-scale panel survey on individual and contextual susceptibility factors.
• Conducting controlled online and/or laboratory experiments on intuitive and reflective processing during exposure to health hacks.
• Experimentally evaluating intervention strategies co-developed with Track A.
• Integrating quantitative findings with Track A’s participatory research in a joint mixed-methods synthesis.
• Publishing research, presenting at conferences, and contributing to knowledge exchange with practice partners.