Switzerland : Four open PhD Positions at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

Four open PhD Positions at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology,ETHZ, Chair for CAAD.

Subject : Mapping Associative Urban Processes to a suitable Software Methodology

This offering relates to the field of urbanism. The character of the positions is shaped by research in the intersection of urbanism, architecture, programming and machine learning.
This project forms a sub-theme under the Simulation Platform Stream of the Future Cities Project, a joint venture of the Department of Architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETHZ, and the National University Singapore.

The Chair for CAAD within the Institute for Technology in Architecture ITA at the Faculty of Architecture, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETHZ (http://www.caad.arch.ethz.ch ) has an opening for four PhD candidates interested in transdisciplinary research in the field of urbanism, comprising primarily technical research work in the form of programming, though possibly including theoretical and/or empirical work based on the principles known from humanities as well.
The research will take place in the context of the Future Cities Laboratory Simulation Platform (SP), which the ETHZ and the National University of Singapore NUS are running for the next 5 years.

Area of Research
The research area assigned to the Institute for Technology in Architecture is “Service and Research for Future Planning Environments.” Within this work package the chair for CAAD is conducting research on operationa¬lizing concepts of associativity in the context of urbanism and city-design. Highly-developed derivatives of the Self-Organizing Map, as introduced by Kohonen and others, and evolutionary computational procedures serve as the main operational conceptual foundation.

With respect to the context of urbanism we are interested in the operationalization of various concepts by means of the creation of domain-specific data adapters, in particular for textual and project data (ref-nr. SP07), images (ref-nr. SP08), topological data about urban flows (ref-nr. SP09) or various data formats collected by crowd-sourcing or in „Web of Things“ approaches (ref-nr. SP10), and concerning scales from buildings to urban landscapes. The work on these objectives will be embedded into an already existing software architecture.

Candidates should hold a degree in architecture, mathematics, or computer science, possibly with a reference to social sciences or urbanism, or a related field. Some experience in programming (Java, C++, or Pascal) is required as well as sufficient skills in English language, both spoken and written.

As a PhD student you will join a vibrant research community in Singapore, working in one of the best equipped laboratories for research in urbanism, while you also will join the Zurich-based group for several months. You will get a temporary, full-time position of three years, with a gross annual salary ranging from 50’000  to 60’000 US $, depending on qualifications and performance. The position will start on 1.4.2011 or flexibly thereafter. The language of instruction is English.

To apply, please email a CV, including a copy of study records, a list of publications as well as email addresses of at least three references, and a brief description of research interests and motivation to:

Klaus Wassermann, Senior Research Assistant
ETH Zurich, Faculty of Architecture
Chair for CAAD - Institute for Technology in Architecture ITA,
Schafmattstr. 32, HPZ Floor F
CH-8093 Zurich
wassermann (at) arch.ethz.ch
http://www.caad.arch.ethz.ch
phone  +41 44 633 34 89
fax  +41 44 633 10 50

Further Information

Application Deadline : 31 March 2011

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