SD-25185 RESEARCHER IN SUSTAINABLE AND DIGITALIZED BUILT ENVIRONMENT

The Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) is a Research and Technology Organization (RTO) active in the fields of materials, environment and IT. By transforming scientific knowledge into technologies, smart data and tools, LIST empowers citizens in their choices, public authorities in their decisions and businesses in their strategies.

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Your LIST benefits

• An organization with a passion for impact and strong RDI partnerships in Luxembourg and Europe that works on responsible and independent research projects
• Sustainable by design, empowering our belief that we play an essential role in paving the way to a green society
• Innovative infrastructures and exceptional labs occupying more than 5,000 square metres, including innovations in all that we do
• An environment encouraging curiosity, innovation and entrepreneurship in all areas
• Personalized learning programme to foster our staff’s soft and technical skills
• Multicultural and international work environment with more than 50 nationalities represented in our workforce
• Diverse and inclusive work environment empowering our people to fulfil their personal and professional ambitions
• Gender-friendly environment with multiple actions to attract, develop and retain women in science
• 32 days’ paid annual leave, 11 public holidays, 13-month salary, statutory health insurance
• Flexible working hours, home working policy and access to lunch vouchers

Permanent contract | Belval Are you passionate about research? So are we! Come and join us

You will join the Environmental Sustainability Assessment and Circularity (SUSTAIN) Unit, developing knowledge, methods, transferable software, for the simulation and comprehensive sustainability assessment of socio-economic systems. The unit’s purpose is to foster sustainable eco-innovation, through products and technologies, support sustainability-oriented policy implementation and encourage behavioural changes to promote decarbonisation transitions.

Within the SUSTAIN Unit, a Senior Research and Technology Scientist position is available in the Sustainable Urban and Built Environment (SUBE) research group. The SUBE group addresses the entire life cycle of built assets, including architecture, engineering, construction, and operations, as well as urban environments through urban planning and management. Our activities focus on formulating, developing, and deploying data-driven methods and tools to support the construction sector's transition towards low-carbon and sustainable built environments, encompassing districts and cities. We place a strong emphasis on the digitalization of processes and information flows, including the use of Building Information Modeling (BIM), Geospatial systems and Digital Twins, to advance technological implementations, contribute to upskilling the workforce and support market growth.

How will you contribute?

You will work closely with our multidisciplinary research teams, including experts in architecture, engineering and construction, environmental scientists, computer scientists and geospatial experts. You will be involved in several Horizon Europe funded research and innovation projects, carried out by LIST and its European partners.

In particular, You will contribute at the definition and implementation of methodologies and decision-support tools for the assessment of energy performance of built assets (building or neighbourhood level), smart building technical systems and circularity of resources over the life cycle of built assets, based on BIM, digital twins and other static or dynamic datasets.

You will also contribute to the development of the unit’s technological assets, which are mainly information systems and involve the handling and use of Building Information Models and City Models in Geographical Information Systems.

As a researcher in the team, You will be mainly involved in tasks associated with the formulation of requirements, the development of the methodologies as well as the design and prototyping of the subsequent digital systems. Moreover, she/he will actively contribute to deploy the systems in real or simulated environments, monitoring the experiments and validating the approach.

You will also actively contribute to the scientific dissemination of the projects results as well as the outreach activities to be organised in Luxembourg and abroad.

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Education

• PhD in Engineering, Architecture, Computer Science or any other similar or relevant domain.

Experience and skills

• Proven track record and research skills (papers, patents, conference proceedings).
• Ability to supervise doctoral researchers.
• Previous experience in international/European research and innovation projects.
• 5 years experience in RDI project proposal writing, including collaborative research (Public-private).
• Internal and/or external reporting according to the project contribution
• Responsibility for the realisation of deliverables in the expected time frame
• Ability to collaborate with other researchers in order to promote interdisciplinary activities internally and externally

Competencies:

• Knowledge in Building Energy Modeling (BEM)(incl. energy models and simulation software) and/or Building Information Modeling (BIM) and/or Digital Twins is expected.
• Knowledge and experience in use, deployment and development of computer-based systems applied to the built environment, especially in relation with Digital Twins, is an asset.
• Good communication and Writing skills, including scientific publications and project reports.

Language skills

• Flawless knowledge of English (both spoken and written) is required.
• Knowledge of German and/or French and/or Luxembourgish is considered as an asset.