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As Austria's largest research and technology organisation for applied research, we are dedicated to make substantial contributions to solving the major challenges of our time, climate change and digitisation. To achieve our goals, we rely on our specific research, development and technology competencies, which are the basis of our commitment to excellence in all areas. With our open culture of innovation and our motivated, international teams, we are working to position AIT as Austria's leading research institution at the highest international level and to make a positive contribution to the economy and society.
Our Competence Unit “Digital Resilient Cities”, part of our Center for Energy located in Vienna invites applications for a PhD Thesis position. The Competence Unit "Digital Resilient Cities" supports cities and their stakeholders in the cross-sectoral transformation process, combining expertise in climate, energy, mobility, and urban planning. With the aim of creating climate-neutral, competitive, and sustainable living spaces, we develop and integrate state-of-the-art evidence-based analysis and simulation tools for sustainable transportation, systemic urban transformation, as well as for the concrete planning and management of neighborhood and building solutions.
As part of our mission to develop smart solutions to tackle the climate change, we have launched a PhD programme with TU Munich – Hereby we offer a PhD Thesis focusing on the topic of Digital Twins for Transportation. Our main goal is to advance transportation planning by merging it with perspectives from urban planning. Future challenges of both fields should be considered together thus enhancing quality of the planning results and enabling a higher quality of urban transformation processes.
The PhD candidate may work on one of the followings specific PhD topics:
The PhD position will employ various methods to achieve its objectives, including:
Your qualifications as an Ingenious Partner:
Details:
What to expect:
EUR 2.684,10 gross per month (14 times / year), for 30 h / week. In addition to numerous events, seminars, networking opportunities and additional company benefits, you will be part of our AIT PhD community with around 150 international students. As a research institution, we are familiar with the supervision and execution of PhD theses, and we are looking forward to supporting you accordingly!
At AIT diversity and inclusion are of great importance. This is why we strive to inspire women to join our teams in the field of technology. We welcome applications from women, who will be given preference in case of equal qualifications after taking into account all relevant facts and circumstances of all applications.
Please submit your documents including your CV, cover letter and your certificates (Transcript of records) online.
For further information please contact:
Dr. Stefan Seer, stefan.seer(at)ait.ac.at
AIT in this context enables the realization of innovative solutions by providing today those technologies, methods and tools for the infrastructure...
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