Assistant/Associate Professor in Smart Urban Mobility
Would you like to accelerate smart urban mobility in a multidisciplinary team? Do you like to teach and want to shape the next generation transportation engineers? We are looking for an excellent enthusiastic scholar to join our Transport Studies group. This group belongs to the Civil Engineering and Management (CEM) department at the Faculty of Engineering Technology.
Research in the Transport Studies group focuses on interactions between smart mobility and digitalisation, transport infrastructure, land-use and behaviour, and its societal impacts (including equity, safety, climate). We take an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary perspective on transport, and collaborate with researchers in the Netherlands and abroad from various disciplines (including industrial engineering, human factors, computer science, geography, urban planning, healthcare technology and operations). We conduct ground-breaking research on these issues in different national and international projects. Join our team and strive to broaden our research portfolio!
The challenge
Digitalisation is a main driving force of transport innovation. The design, operation and maintenance of transport systems are now undergoing a digital transformation as a result of huge amounts of information provided by emerging experimentation, testing and monitoring systems. The increased availability of mobility data, real-time traffic data and adoption of digital mobility tools, creates opportunities for improving the modelling, planning and operation of urban mobility, including private transport, public transport, shared mobility services and integrated door-to-door transport systems. For example, shared mobility services offer possibilities to expand and complement existing public transport systems in mobility hubs. Data science technologies, spatial data and geo-visualization techniques open unprecedented opportunities to significantly improve the understanding of travel patterns and management of transport systems. At the same time, there are many research challenges that need to be addressed. How does digitalization relate to sustainable and inclusive transport? How can private, shared and public transport be integrated in mobility hubs? How to combine data and share data across multiple partners involved in developing smart transport systems?
As an Assistant/Associate Professor you will:
- carry out innovative research and high-impact education.
- develop ground-breaking research projects in close collaboration with colleagues and the industry.
- improve your home-based specific expertise and develop an interdisciplinary research line.
- acquiring external research funding and build our research and teaching ecosystem
- teach and coordinate courses in our Bachelor programme Civil Engineering and Master track Transport Engineering and Management which is part of the Master programme Civil Engineering and Management
- supervise students in their graduation assignment
- contribute towards the supervision of PhD candidate(s).
Information and application
Please submit your application before July 10, 2025 using the ‘’Apply now’’ button and include a motivation letter and cv. Online interviews will be organised in the week of 14-18 July, 2025. Follow-up (in-person) interviews will be organised in the weeks of August 25-29, 2025, and September 1-5, 2025.
Make sure you upload the following additional documents in PDF format, stating the vacancy number:
Motivation letter describing your research interests, personal qualifications, and motivation (max. 3 pages);
- Curriculum vitae with a list of publications;
- A sample publication;
- The names and addresses of three possible referees
Additional information about this position can be acquired from Prof. dr. Karst Geurs, chair the application committee and head of the Transport Studies Group, (email k.t.geurs@utwente.nl or phone +31 53 489 1056).
Screening is part of the selection procedure
About the organisation
The Faculty of Engineering Technology (ET) engages in education and research of Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering and Industrial Design Engineering. We enable society and industry to innovate and create value using efficient, solid and sustainable technology. We are part of a ‘people-first' university of technology, taking our place as an internationally leading center for smart production, processes and devices in five domains: Health Technology, Maintenance, Smart Regions, Smart Industry and Sustainable Resources. Our faculty is home to about 2,900 Bachelor's and Master's students, 550 employees and 150 PhD candidates. Our educational and research programmes are closely connected with UT research institutes Mesa+ Institute, TechMed Center and Digital Society Institute.
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