Professors Mechanics and Materials

Job Summary

The Department of Mechanical Engineering seeks to hire four faculty members at all levels within Mechanics and Materials. This vacancy is part of the Irène Curie Fellowship, and is targeting female candidates during the first six months of recruitment, and all other candidates thereafter.

The Department of Mechanical Engineering of the TU/e seeks to hire outstanding faculty members at all levels within the field of Mechanics and Materials and in particular the fields of Function integration in material systems and Development, optimization and behavior of new advanced materials, which should play a leading role in addressing challenges and trends in the above-mentioned areas. The department has a particular interest in candidates with a basis in one of the following subjects:

• Design, processing and testing of multi-functional 4D materials
• Multi-materials Additive Manufacturing

Candidates with an experimental profile are strongly encouraged to apply.  Candidates can apply to (tenure-track) assistant, associate and full professor positions and are expected to have knowledge on relevant application domains of mechanics and processing of materials. She/he should have the aspiration to contribute to the creation of a strong, internationally renowned research group, while fostering a collaborative network with other academics working on the topic within the department, the university and industry. The candidate should contribute to the progress in the field of mechanics and processing of materials, and to make major contributions to the fundamentals of new materials and manufacturing techniques.

Education

The candidates will contribute to the existing BSc program Mechanical Engineering and the MSc program Mechanical Engineering within the department. The candidates will be supported in obtaining the University Teaching Qualification (‘BKO’). Next to teaching, the candidates will guide and supervise BSc and MSc students with their graduation projects and PhD students under the projects in the sections Mechanics of Materials, Polymer Technology, or Micro systems. 

Financing

Four (4) positions of 1.0 fte are financed by the Mechanical Engineering Department. The candidates will vigorously work on pursuing research grants from different sources, both national funds from the science foundation (TTW, NWO), but also European grants, including ERC grants. Experienced section members will guide younger candidates in writing proposals.

Embedding

The candidate’s group will strongly co-operate with existing groups in the Department, in particular the groups within the sections of Materials and Mechanics. Depending on the function level to which the candidate applies, the candidate’s group can be embedded in one of the sections Mechanics and Materials, Polymer Technology, or Micro systems. The department fosters a personnel strategy stimulating personal growth towards faculty forming individual groups within larger coherent sections.

The candidate’s group will be embedded in the Materials Technology institute (MaTe) within the University. The groups will also be embedded in one or more of the national research schools Engineering Mechanics (EM), Eindhoven Polymer Laboratories (EPL) and J.M. Burgerscentrum (JMBC).

Job requirements

• Teach the education components of the education program;
• Periodic maintenance of the assigned education components;
• Indicate improvement possibilities for the assigned education components;
• Carry out independent research for the purpose of science, government and the industrial sector;
• Contribute to the recruitment of second and third flow of funds (i.e. public and private funding);
• Provide specific guidance to the academic personnel in carrying out research;
• Provide leadership to work groups, committees or project teams in the sections.

These function elements hold for researchers at an assistant professor level. For candidates at Associate Professor level or Full Professor level, additional elements and elements at a higher level are expected.

Conditions of employment

• A challenging job in a dynamic and ambitious university with the autonomy to develop your own research line and participate in the curriculum of the department;
• As an Irène Curie Fellow, you are entitled to a substantial benefit package.
• In order to empower you, we provide support such as training programs for academic leadership and the university teaching qualification and a dedicated mentoring program to help you get to know the university and the Dutch (research) environment
• Salary and benefits are in accordance with the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities.
• Additionally, an annual holiday allowance of 8% of the yearly salary, plus a year-end allowance of 8.3% of the annual salary;
• A broad package of fringe benefits (including an excellent technical infrastructure, moving expenses, savings schemes).
• Family friendly initiatives are in place, such as the Dual Career Opportunity program to support accompanying partners, an international spouse program, and excellent on-campus children day care and sports facilities.

Application:

If you are interested in this position, you can only use the ‘apply now’-button on this page.Your application must contain the following documents:

• A motivation letter
• A detailed CV
• A detailed list of publications and achievements
• A research statement
• A teaching statement
• The contact information of two referees

Only complete applications will be considered. Screening of applicants will start as soon as applications are received and will continue until the position has been filled. We do not respond to applications that are sent to us in a different way. Please keep in mind you can upload only 5 documents up to 2 MB each. If necessary please combine files. Under European jurisdiction it is lawful to specifically recruit underrepresented groups.