All Things Urban

The internationally renowned Technische Universität Berlin is located in Germany’s capital city at the heart of Europe. Our academic activities are focused on achieving sharply-defined goals: building a distinctive profile for our university, ensuring exceptional performance in research and teaching, providing our graduates with excellent qualifications and a modern approach to university administration.

The research assist­ant will work within the inter­na­tional and inter­dis­cip­lin­ary pro­ject ide3a and in a team of 5 peer research assist­ants called “ide3a ambas­sad­ors” within the topic of “Crit­ical Infra­struc­ture & Digit­al­isa­tion”. ide3a aims to imple­ment the inter-dis­cip­lin­ary topic of “Crit­ical Infra­struc­ture & Digit­al­isa­tion” in tra­di­tional research-based study pro­grams, com­bined with gami­fic­a­tion mech­an­isms and short courses, access­ible inter­na­tion­ally by the ide3a part­ner uni­versit­ies and sup­por­ted by digital edu­ca­tion plat­forms and open know­ledge tools. The research assist­ant will be loc­ated with the URD research group (http://www.ecdf-urd.tu-berlin.de) at TU Ber­lin and, with other ide3a ambas­sad­ors, will have access to com­mon facil­it­ies in the inter­dis­cip­lin­ary work­ing envir­on­ment of the Ein­stein Cen­ter Digital Future. As Prof. Rabe also holds the CEO pos­i­tion at the Kom­pet­en­zzen­trum Wasser Ber­lin GmbH, a col­lab­or­a­tion with its mem­bers as asso­ci­ate part­ners is planned. Moreover, most of the research activ­it­ies will be developed as col­lab­or­at­ive efforts between research groups based at TU Ber­lin and research groups loc­ated at ide3a part­ner uni­versit­ies in Europe (Nor­we­gian Uni­versity of Sci­ence and Tech­no­logy, Dub­lin City Uni­versity, Cra­cow Uni­versity of Tech­no­logy, Politec­nico di Mil­ano). Short research stays in these uni­versit­ies are highly encour­aged and fin­an­cially sup­por­ted by ide3a. The can­did­ate will research on devel­op­ing mod­els and tools to sim­u­late urban water cycles as integ­rated com­pon­ents of multi-sec­toral sim­u­la­tion mod­els. As part of the urban envir­on­ment this includes inter­con­nec­tions with other crit­ical infra­struc­tures (e.g., elec­tric grid, tele­com­mu­nic­a­tion net­works, mobil­ity, eco­logy and other urban net­works). The core goal of the ide3a ambas­sador team and ide3a col­lab­or­at­ors will be the devel­op­ment of a multi-layered digital, open source, ser­i­ous game to enable scen­ario ana­lysis, sim­u­la­tion, and optim­iz­a­tion of urban crit­ical infra­struc­ture sys­tems under het­ero­gen­eous social, tech­nical, and cli­mate scen­arios. A pro­fes­sional game will sup­port these activ­it­ies. The tasks for this pos­i­tion include - the pub­lic­a­tion of the research out­comes in sci­entific papers and present­a­tion to national and inter­na­tional con­fer­ences, - con­tri­bu­tions to the e-learn­ing activ­it­ies and hack­a­thon organ­iz­a­tion within the activ­it­ies of the ide3a pro­ject, and - guid­ance to BSc/MSc stu­dents in their thesis pre­par­a­tion. Finally, the pos­i­tion also includes the option to pre-pare a PhD thesis within the scope of ide3a top­ics.

- Suc­cess­fully com­pleted uni­versity degree (Mas­ter, Dip­lom or equi­val­ent) in urban plan­ning or geoin­form­at­ics/geo­graphy or rel­ev­ant engin­eer­ing dis­cip­lines, includ­ing civil and envir­on­mental engin­eer­ing or a related field - Excel­lent com­mu­nic­a­tion skills, team­work skills, pro­act­ive beha­vior, and com­mit­ment - Envir­on­mental mod­el­ling skills / GIS (focus water cycles) - Very good writ­ten and oral lan­guage skills in Eng­lish - at least C1 Level and good writ­ten and oral lan­guage skills in Ger­man; or the will­ing­ness to learn either Eng­lish or Ger­man is expec­ted Prefer­able: - Know­ledge in cir­cu­lar eco­nomy con­cepts - Good pro­gram­ming skills in at least one pro­gram­ming lan­guage - Good know­ledge of stat­ist­ics and math­em­at­ical mod­el­ling - prior exper­i­ence in water related urban plan­ning (e.g Sponge City, Water Sens­it­ive Urban Plan­ning, cir­cu­lar eco­nomy con­cepts) includ­ing sys­tem mod­el­ling insight (e.g. water and spa­tial mod­el­ling) - prior exper­i­ence in game devel­op­ment and co-teach­ing activ­it­ies

This job is available for international candidates.