Postdoc at the TU Delft

Spring board to a scientific career

As a Postdoc it’s important to gain experience in various places around the world to have an international and versatile career in science. Preferably at different universities in different countries. Or, you first gain experience in industry or a research institute.

Freedom to conduct research

You focus on a specific research theme within your field at a high-quality university where many specialties are connected. You get a lot of freedom in an environment with excellent facilities where you act proactively. You expand your network and, depending on your research, you work with an interdisciplinary team, industrial partners or public research institutes.

Room to develop yourself

But there is more to life than scientific research. Would you find it interesting to supervise graduates and doctoral students? That’s possible. And do you want to develop in the field of academic publications, qualify as a teacher or delve into fundraising, where a team of advisors (Research Funding team of the TU Delft Innovation & Impact Centre) supports with the submission of proposals? That’s also possible. You regularly discuss your next steps with your supervisor, or you discuss your ambitions and wishes during an annual Results- and Development conversation. Or drop by the TU Delft Career Centre, where specialised career coaches will help you prepare for your next step.
 

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Coming to Delft

Coming from abroad? The Coming to Delft Service helps you (and your family) with a smooth transition to the Netherlands.

See what your future colleagues are working on. Read TU Delft Stories

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The coming age of ‘solar everywhere’

From image recognition to medical diagnostics, Machine Learning has a huge impact. Yet Elvin Isufi adds an extra dimension, enabling its analyzing power to complex networks such as recommender systems, and more down-to-earth: water management.

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Ir. Koo Siu Ling, the first female Aerospace Engineer in the Netherlands

The first woman to graduate from our faculty, then known as ‘Vliegtuigbouwkunde’ (Aeronautical engineering) was Koo Siu Ling. She was an international student from Indonesia of Chinese descent. When she registered to study ‘Vliegtuigbouwkunde’, it made the newspapers, both in the Netherlands and in Indonesia. She would start her studies in 1956 at the age of 16.

Reading time: 8 min

How not to waste energy on 5G

From an energy point of view, humanity’s insatiable hunger for mobile data is unsustainable, unless you’re willing to break a few long-held believes in the field of wireless communication. Professor Earl McCune is geared up to do just that.

reading time: 4 min

A safe and just algorithm? Start with a systems perspective

Whereas algorithms are good at keeping planes airborne and forthcoming self-driving cars on the road, algorithmic decision-making by the government puts civilians at ever-increasing risk. Unless we apply lessons from systems and control engineering to the design processes and governance of public algorithmic systems, like Roel Dobbe does.

Reading time: 3 min

Summoning heat from below

Coming to Delft

Coming from abroad? The Coming to Delft Service helps you (and your family) with a smooth transition to the Netherlands.

See what your future colleagues are working on. Read TU Delft Stories

reading time: min

The coming age of ‘solar everywhere’

From image recognition to medical diagnostics, Machine Learning has a huge impact. Yet Elvin Isufi adds an extra dimension, enabling its analyzing power to complex networks such as recommender systems, and more down-to-earth: water management.

reading time: min

Ir. Koo Siu Ling, the first female Aerospace Engineer in the Netherlands

The first woman to graduate from our faculty, then known as ‘Vliegtuigbouwkunde’ (Aeronautical engineering) was Koo Siu Ling. She was an international student from Indonesia of Chinese descent. When she registered to study ‘Vliegtuigbouwkunde’, it made the newspapers, both in the Netherlands and in Indonesia. She would start her studies in 1956 at the age of 16.

Reading time: 8 min

How not to waste energy on 5G

From an energy point of view, humanity’s insatiable hunger for mobile data is unsustainable, unless you’re willing to break a few long-held believes in the field of wireless communication. Professor Earl McCune is geared up to do just that.

reading time: 4 min

A safe and just algorithm? Start with a systems perspective

Whereas algorithms are good at keeping planes airborne and forthcoming self-driving cars on the road, algorithmic decision-making by the government puts civilians at ever-increasing risk. Unless we apply lessons from systems and control engineering to the design processes and governance of public algorithmic systems, like Roel Dobbe does.

Reading time: 3 min

Summoning heat from below
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