<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The Assistant Professorship of Architecture & Sustainable Building Technologies (SuAT) at ETH Zurich, Switzerland has three immediate openings </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">for:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Research Assistant / PhD Candidate</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">in the areas of:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">1. Design, Modeling and Integration of Advanced Building Systems</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Your task will consist in the design, modelling, simulation and performance assessment of advanced thermal and mechanical building systems. This includes component sizing, supervision of the installation, and the post-installation performance evaluation. Also part of your work will be the project management related to design integration into the actual building project.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">2. Mechanical/Electrical System Design of Dynamic Façades</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Your task will consist in researching, designing and prototyping of an innovative façade system that successfully integrates individual shading modules into the architecture of the buildings. This will consists of a lightweight mechanical structure including routing for the electrical cables and pneumatic components.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">3. Modeling and Control of Soft Robotic Actuators for Architectural Applications</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Your tasks will consist in the development and successful implementation of pneumatic actuator control. This include hardware and software for both low-level motor control for the individual module, as well as high-level task control for the entire array comprised multiple modules. You will compare open vs. closed-loop control strategies and develop classic, model predictive and advanced controllers. The control strategies will be evaluated in a long-term real-world scenario including user interaction.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The research of SuAT focuses on new approaches for the design, planning and operation of buildings as integrated, dynamic systems. The motivation and aim of our research is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in buildings and increase the efficiency of energy and resource use of the built environment. The research is based on the identification and integration of advanced technologies, methods and processes from the fields of building systems, information and communication technologies.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The proposed positions are part of an international flagship project to showcase advances in sustainable building technologies. Please visit our website (</span><a href="http://suat.arch.ethz.ch/en/open-positions" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">http://suat.arch.ethz.ch/en/open-positions</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">) for more details on the job descriptions, or apply online at </span><a href="http://www.jobs.ethz.ch/" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">www.jobs.ethz.ch</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">.<</span><a href="http://www.jobs.ethz.ch/" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">http://www.jobs.ethz.ch</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">.> Please indicate your potential starting date.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Please contact Dr. Zoltan Nagy (</span><a href="mailto:nagyz@ethz.ch" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">nagyz@ethz.ch</a><font face="arial, sans-serif">) with any questions!</font><div>
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