Postdoc Position

**Key takeaways**:
- Hours
- 38 - 40 hr.- Salary indication- Salary gross/monthly
based on full-time- € 3,378 - € 6,209- Deadline
- 15 Jun 2025

We are seeking an impact-driven postdoctoral researcher to strengthen interdisciplinary collaboration in human-centric decision-making (HCDM) in transportation, logistics, manufacturing, and healthcare logistics. The position is hosted by the Industrial Engineering & Business Information Systems (IEBIS) section at the Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences (BMS) at the University of Twente (UT).
- and health professional-centric decision-making), and (3) TSLOTS, which specialises in logistics research and, with further development, more broadly to smart manufacturing and production systems.

Key responsibilities include:

- Developing and integrating a shared software/hardware infrastructure and supporting its use in research, education, and communities.
- Driving cross-lab collaboration on HCDM themes with researchers and industry partners by promoting the lab and organizing events/meet-ups.
- Supporting new and ongoing pilot projects in transportation, logistics, and healthcare logistics settings, and contributing to grant proposals.
- Expanding TSLOTS into a hub for smart manufacturing and logistics innovation through partnerships and a defined research agenda,.
- Integrating smart manufacturing demonstrators and digital twins into the Industrial Engineering and Management (IEM) educational programs.

You will work closely with faculty, PhD/EngD students, and companies, with a focus on hands-on impact, applied research, and knowledge transfer to industry and education. Projects include topics like AI-enhanced engineering teams and human-centric logistics aligned with Industry 5.0.

**Your profile**:
Educational background:

- PhD degree in Industrial Engineering, Operations research, Computer Science, Econometrics, Transport Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Supply Chain Management, or related discipline;
Core skills:

- Solid project management and organizational skills; experience in community building and stakeholder engagement is highly valued;
- Team player who can work independently and take ownership of the development and implementation of the lab initiative;
- Strong communication skills and an excellent command of English; the ability to engage and inspire a range of audiences, from students to senior industry partners.

**Experience**:

- Experience or strong interest in developing lab infrastructure (software/hardware platforms, demonstrators, living labs);
- Proven ability to work across disciplines and connect diverse research domains (e.g., behavioral sciences, logistics, healthcare, smart manufacturing);
- Demonstrated experience in initiating and managing research projects with academic and industry partners;
- Experience in grant writing, acquisition of external funding, or consortium building;
- Affinity and/or experience with open science practices, including the creation of open-source repositories and dissemination of research outputs;
- Affinity and/or experience with machine learning and optimisation techniques;
- Affinity and/or experience with human-centric decision-making, human-machine collaboration, and/or autonomous systems;
- Affinity with educational innovation and experience in integrating research into teaching (e.g., lab-based teaching tools, digital twins);
- Knowledge of Industry 5.0 concepts and human-centric AI is an advantage.

Personality:

- Impact-driven, proactive and entrepreneurial mindset;
- Good team spirit and feel at home in an interdisciplinary environment;
- Practical mindset with the ability to translate academic insights into pilot projects, demonstrators, and industry collaborations.

**Our offer**:
We encourage high responsibility and independence while collaborating with colleagues, researchers, other university staff and partners. We follow the terms of employment by the Dutch Collective Labour Agreement for Universities (CAO).
- Our offer contains 1-year researcher position, with the prospect of an extension with 2 additional years.
- The starting salary, depending on your experience, ranges between € 3.378 to € 6.209 gross per month (in accordance with the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities), based on the job profile of a researcher.
- In addition, the University of Twente offers additional attractive employment conditions (8% holiday allowance, 8.3% end-of-year bonus, solid pension scheme, sabbatical leave, professional and personal development programs, etc.).
- A Curriculum Vitae, including a list of all courses attended and grades obtained, and, if applicable, a list of publications and references;
- An IELTS-test, Internet TOEFL test (TOEFL-iBT), or a Cambridge CAE-C (CPE). Applicants with a non-Dutch qualification and who have not had secondary and tertiary education in English can only be admitted with an IELTS test showing a total band score of at least 6.5, inter