Fixed Term 3 years

Job summary

A Post-Doctoral Research Associate is sought for the Design for retrofit in the built environment project with the Alan Turing Institute/Imperial College London. This post funded as part of the Alan Turing Institute - Lloyd's Register Foundation programme on Data-Centric Engineering.

Retrofit interventions represent a significant opportunity in the built environment that negate the need for substantial disruption to a community arising from a building project, and enable extension of the offset period for the original embodied energy associated with the first-build.

Duties and responsibilities

• To establish protocols for retrofit with consideration being given to technical, economic, aesthetic, social, psychological and latent functions.
• To review the reasons for the under-realisation of retro-fit potential across a series of building archetypes.
• To investigate for a target set of retrofit interventions to illustrate retrofit opportunity and potential.

Essential requirements

• Hold a PhD (or equivalent) Engineering, Architecture or Design in or a closely related discipline, or equivalent research, industrial or commercial experience.
• Practical experience within a research environment and/or publication in relevant and refereed journals.

*Candidates who have not yet been officially awarded their PhD will be appointed as Research Assistant within the salary range £32,380 -£34,040 per annum.

Further information

For informal enquiries about the post please contact Prof Peter Childs at p.childs@imperial.ac.uk

Our preferred method of application is online via our website. Please click ‘apply’ below or go towww.imperial.ac.uk/job-applicants and search using reference number ENG00351 Please complete an application form as directed.

Further information about the post is available in the job description.

Any queries regarding the application process should be directed to Ms Sarah Wissing ats.wissing@imperial.ac.uk

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Additional information

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