PhD position in HybridLabs

3 weken geleden


Wageningen, Nederland Wageningen University & Research Voltijd

Your job

Are you passionate about leveraging digital technologies to address pressing environmental challenges? If so, we have an exciting PhD opportunity for you

Scientific context
Digital technologies such as virtual and mixed realities (XR) have the potential to change the way we communicate, make decisions, and engage stakeholders about our future. As part of a large consortium called HybridLabs, we are advancing the use of XR for making environmentally sensed data, models, and simulations more accessible. HybridLabs aims to facilitate the energy transition and understand ecological consequences and opportunities of this transition. We will be building digital twins of the North Sea and combine them with XR to advance the understanding and use of immersive digital twins for stakeholder and citizen engagement.

Challenges
Current trends in digital twinning focus largely on the advanced simulation of current and future states of the North Sea and the impact of the energy transition on ecological and economic aspects. Achieving this transition requires an aligned effort amongst various stakeholders. To use Digital Twins more effectively and efficiently, we will advance the use of immersive digital twins that allow for accessing simulations and sensed data more naturally and effectively from the perspective of human communication, collaboration, and stakeholder and citizen engagement. We need to build the technical and scientific foundation for the design and evaluation of immersive digital twins for the North Sea.

Method
This PhD project will investigate how to create immersive digital twins efficiently for the North Sea integrating both sensed data such as 360° videography and results from simulations. The PhD candidate will be involved in the design of immersive experiences for the North Sea and will also conduct empirical studies to identify the challenges and opportunities of using immersive digital twins for science communication as well as stakeholder and citizen engagement.

HybridLabs
The current PhD project is part of a large NWA-ORC project HybridLabs, a consortium of 20 partners, which aims at facilitating a faster development and deployment of technologies supporting energy, food, and ecological transitions by innovation in the design, control, monitoring, and logistics of offshore renewables while exploring nature enhancement and opportunities for novel sustainable food production.

Interdisciplinarity, partners, tools, soft- and hardware
The PhD candidate will be part of the Cultural Geography Research Group and jointly advised by the Marine Animal Ecology Group at the WUR. Within the HybridLabs project, the candidate will work together with a PostDoc and PhD candidate from the Marine Animal Ecology Group at the WUR, a scientist from Tritonoes with expertise in producing underwater 360° video footage, as well as scientists from Breda University of applied sciences with expertise on serious gaming for marine spatial planning. Additionally, the candidate will have access to WURs new WANDER facilities which offer a plethora of XR technologies, including VR and MR headsets, and an excellent creative team. The main platform for XR development will be Unity 3D, but we are open to exploring other opportunities. The programming languages used will be C# (if in Unity), Python or R (for statistical analysis of empirical data).

Your qualities

You are/have:

strong interest in science; interest in the ecology of the North Sea; background in human-computer interaction, communication, cognitive psychology, data science, visualization; strong interest in performing empirical studies to evaluate new technologies and immersive designs; experience with state-of-the art technologies for visualization and simulations; experience in interacting with stakeholders and end-users; background in the design of immersive experience.
Your command of the English language is expected to be at C1 . More information can be found

We offer you

Wageningen University & Research offers excellent . A few highlights from our Collective Labour Agreement include:

partially paid parental leave; working hours that can be discussed and arranged so that they allow for the best possible work-life balance; the option to accrue additional compensation / holiday hours by working more, up to 40 hours per week; there is a strong focus on vitality and you can make use of the sports facilities available on campus for a small fee; a fixed December bonus of 8.3%; excellent pension scheme. In addition to these first-rate employee benefits, you will receive a fully funded PhD position and you will be offered a course program tailored to your needs and the research team.

The gross salary for the first year is 2.770 - per month rising to 3.539,- in the fourth year in according to the (scale P). This is based on a full-time working week of 38 hours. We offer a temporary contract for 18 months which will be extended for the duration of the project if you perform well.

There are plenty of options for personal initiative in a learning environment, and we provide excellent training opportunities. We are offering a unique position in an international environment with a pleasant and open working atmosphere.

You are going to work at the greenest and most innovative campus in Holland, and at a university that has been chosen as the in the Netherlands for the 19th consecutive time.

Coming from abroad
Wageningen University & Research is the university and research centre for life sciences. The themes we deal with are relevant to everyone around the world and Wageningen, therefore, has a large international community and a lot to offer to international employees.

Our team of advisors on Dutch immigration procedures will help you with the visa application procedures for yourself and, if applicable, for your family. Therefore, we expect that when you join WUR from abroad, you will actually live in the Netherlands.

Feeling welcome also has everything to do with being well informed. Wageningen University & Research's page contains practical information about what we can do to support international employees and students coming to Wageningen. Furthermore, we can assist you with any additional advice and about for example helping your partner to find a job, housing, or schooling.



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