Postdoc in Transport Electrification and Automation Impact Analysis - Hiring in process/Finished, not possible to apply

Job description

Integrated Transport Research Lab (ITRL) is a research center aimed at researching and demonstrating transport concepts that can significantly reduce CO2-emissions while being economically and socially sustainable. ITRL develops and heads research projects involving researchers from all schools of KTH, as well as contributes to research within the system perspective in the research projects. At present, ITRL has two projects focusing on the impact of technology on efficient transport and mobility services, i.e., MMiB (Modern Mobility in the Bark City) and SustEV (Sustainable Electric Vehicle). The selected postdoc will participate in these two projects with the purpose to explore the impact of recent transport technology to the spatial movements, both at individual and system level impact analyses.

The project MMiB (Moden Mobilitet i Barkarbystaden) aims at evaluating the long term impacts of autonomous bus operation as a feeder service to more establish public transport network in Barkabystaden, Stockholm. The project is funded by the Drive Sweden-Vinnova. The postdoc’s role is to analyze the short term and long term impacts of the deployment of the bus and explore the resident’s learning process in adopting the new technology.

The second project “Toward Sustainable Electric Vehicle Use”, is funded by Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (Naturvårdsverket). This project’s goal is to create conditions facilitating the adoption of electric vehicles without stimulating increased car use. In this project, the risk for increased car use with electric cars is investigated: the conditions under which increased car use is likely to occur and the influence of policy measures and the provision of charging infrastructure are explored using an interdisciplinary approach. Specifically, the postdoc will design, carry out and analyze stated adaptation experiments that will be used to investigate the behavioral alterations of car users when changing to an electric vehicle.

In both projects the postdoc will independently lead a large part of the project’s activities and communicate the results in both written form in reports and scientific articles, and orally at such venues as public meetings and international conferences.

The postdoc may also contribute in minor ways to other Integrated Transport Research Lab’s activities, up to a maximum of 20% of total time depending on what needs arise.

Qualifications

The applicant should have a PhD (or is expected to have a PhD degree by March 2019) in transport science, travel behavior, system analysis, urban planning, geoinformatics or other field related to the two research projects described above. The doctoral degree must have been obtained within the last three years from the application deadline.

To qualify for the position, you have the ability to understand and analyze system-level challenges. Your communicative ability in English is fluent in both oral and writing communication, and you have a proven ability to publish high quality scientific articles. As a person, you have good teamwork ability, where you can interact with both internal and external players. You are independent in your work, and have a good analytical ability in your research. It is positive if you have a good structure and organization in your work.

It is meritorious if you, in addition to the above, meet one or more of the following statements:

• you are communicative in spoken and written in Swedish
• you are independent in running project work in collaborative projects
• you have knowledge of behavioral impacts of automation and digitization in urban and transport planning
• you have experience with analysis and method development to understand system effects
• you have knowledge of electric vehicle acceptance and usage, as well as experience conducting research in this area
• You have knowledge in working with geospatial data and / or applying geospatial analysis in a range of mobility related applications like in the context of the projects
• you have experiences from mobility/transport industry.
• you have experience in creating applications for research projects
• you have a broad network in the transport industry in Sweden or internationally

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Application

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Your complete application must be received at KTH no later than the last day of application, midnight CET/CEST (Central European Time/Central European Summer Time).

The application must include:

• CV including your relevant professional experience and knowledge.
• Copy of the degree certificate(s) and transcripts of records from your previously attended university-level institutions. Translations into English or Swedish if the original documents are not issued in one of these languages.
• Statement of purpose: Why do you want to pursue this position, what are your academic interests, how they relate to your previous studies and future goals; maximum 2 pages long.
• List of peer-reviewed publications.
• Contact information for two reference persons. We reserve the right to contact references only for shortlisted candidates.
  

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The employment is time limited to 2 year position.

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