SpACE Lab at ISU – Institute for Sustainable Urbanism offers two PhD positions (100 %) at the Collaborative Research Center (CRC, SFB/TRR 408) „AgiMo – Data-driven agile planning for responsible mobility“, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The interdisciplinary CRC AgiMo involves the four universities TU Dresden (speaker), TU Munich, TU Braunschweig, TU Berlin and the German Aerospace Centre (DLR). Together, they will conduct research on 20 transport-research related topics with altogether 25 PhD candidates within the next years. The following main research goals are pursued by this CRC: (1) develop a new set of consistent scientific methods for mobility planning and management, (2) integrate a new set of modular metrics for responsible mobility, (3) embed the planning methods into the open data AgiMo Digital Twin, (4) develop participatory planning methods based on the technical outcomes from the digital twin to create future scenarios for responsible mobility that are technically well-grounded and at the same time represent stakeholder preferences.
SpACE Lab at ISU – Institute for Sustainable Urbanism headed by Professor Vanessa Miriam Carlow is leading the two projects „Human-centered adaptive street design for liveable cities“ and „Scenarios for responsible mobility and liveable cities“ contributing the perspectives of urban design and participatory planning to the AgiMo CRC.
The doctoral candidates within „Human-centered adaptive street design for future mobility“ (Job ID AgiMo B1) will investigate how street designs will change in response to newly evolving technologies, mobility needs, and societal demands, for example adapting to climate change. She/he will help to co-design new spatial prototypes for streets and investigate how people navigate and interact in those new functional and spatial configurations. Goal of the research is to inform responsive, future-proof and inclusive street design.
The doctoral candidate within „Scenarios for responsible mobility and liveable cities“ (Job ID AgiMo-C2) will advance exploratory scenario planning (XSP) and related digital tools for improved participation to support adaptive and inclusive urban and transport planning in the highly interdisciplinary setting of AgiMo. At the intersection of transportation planning, urban design, and urban planning, she/he will explore how scenario approaches, models, and representation techniques can effectively integrate quantitative and qualitative data to improve planning processes, stakeholder participation, and agile scenario processes.
About ISU
ISU offers a motivating setting for intellectual and professional development at one of Germany's leading Institutes of Technology. ISU with its research unit SpACE Lab at ISU is a research-based think tank, design and planning lab headed by Prof. Dr. Vanessa Miriam Carlow. It's a team of around 30 researchers, lecturers and student assistants from different backgrounds, disciplines and career stages. The diversity of the ISU-team enables them to take multi-perspective, unconventional approaches to research questions, teaching and knowledge transfer. They are intensively involved in the international discourse on sustainable urbanism. As part of the TU Braunschweig's core research area FUTURE CITY, they work with scientists from a wide range of disciplines and cooperate with more than fifty cities and NGOs worldwide. As part of our international network, they are also involved in running the research presence of TU Braunschweig in Singapore: TU BS Singapore.
Applicants of all nationalities are welcome. At the same time, people with severe disabilities are encouraged to apply. Applications from severely disabled persons will be given preference if they are equally qualified. Please attach a proof of disability to your application. ISU isalso working on the fulfilment of the Central Equality Plan based on the Lower Saxony Equal Rights Act (Niedersächsisches Gleichberechtigungsgesetz – NGG) and strive to reduce under-representation in all areas and positions as defined by the NGG. Therefore, applications from women are particularly welcome in this case.
The full job postings can be found at https://lnk.tu-bs.de/1cdJ6h
Further information on the Collaborative Research Center (CRC, SFB/TRR 408) “AgiMo – Data-driven agile planning for responsible mobility” at: https://magazin.tu-braunschweig.de/en/pi-post/mobility-planning-of-the-future/