Part-time Post Doc job opportunity in a multidisciplinary research project at the Department of Architecture, Aalto ARTS
About this role
Aalto University is where science and art meet technology and business. We shape a sustainable future by making research breakthroughs in and across our disciplines, sparking the game changers of tomorrow and creating novel solutions to major global challenges. Our community is made up of 16 000 students and 5 200 employees, including 446 professors. Our campus is in Espoo, Greater Helsinki, Finland. Diversity is part of who we are, and we actively work to ensure our community's diversity and inclusiveness. This is why we warmly encourage qualified candidates from all backgrounds to join our community.
The Department of Architecture at Aalto University is an internationally renowned education and research unit (within app. top 2% in the world of architecture). With Finland's esteemed architectural heritage, we search for new solutions to the challenges of sustainable development. To us, architecture is an art form that requires practical skills and individual artistic development, as well as knowledge on sustainability relevant to design and planning. We educate critical thinkers who accept their responsibility to research and design a socially, culturally, and ecologically sustainable built environment. The Department of Architecture offers degree programs in architecture, landscape architecture, and interior architecture. For more information, please see http://architecture.aalto.fi/en/ .
We are now looking for a postdoctoral researcher.
We are seeking a researcher with a doctoral degree interior design, or a related field, with a professional background in interior design/interior textiles and/or colour design, to join an EU-funded research project on interior design and textiles at Aalto University's Department of Architecture. In this position, you will have the opportunity to contribute to transforming the interior textile industry by leveraging design to drive sustainable competitiveness.
This practice-led material innovation project addresses interi