Research Associate for the Research Training Group “Well-being of People in Indoor Spaces” (Heinz Trox Foundation): Focus on Daycare Centers & Schools (m/f/d)

The E.ON Energy Research Center at RWTH Aachen University deals with sustainable energy supply concepts that reflect both technical feasibility and social and economic aspects. The reduction of emissions resulting from the energy supply for buildings is one of the key research tasks of the Chair of Building and Air Conditioning Technology. The team's benefits and comfort focuses on the interaction between energy system, plant components, objective interior parameters and benefits as well as providing a healthy and comfortable interior environment. The central aim is to reduce energy demand while optimising the interior parameters that are relevant to comfort and health. Applications include both existing buildings and new buildings in the single and multi-family houses and non-residential buildings. In addition, we are dealing with different vehicle interiors, such as aircraft and passenger cars. Both methods from the field of sensor system development, physical-based and data-driven modeling and mathematical optimization are used. With the help of the human-hardware-in-the-loop concept in the laboratory as well as field tests, the team ensures transferability to practice. In addition to the technical aspects, we offer an open communicative and innovative working atmosphere in highly motivated teams with modernly equipped jobs. The exchange with over 65 academic staff from the other teams at the EBC offers an excellent starting point for excellent research. The team user behavior and comfort is also attached to the Aachen Center for Healthy Indoor Environments, ACHIE for short. ACHIE aims to bundle and strengthen research activities on the interaction between buildings and humans at RWTH Aachen University. ACHIE's research program focuses on the experience and interaction of the human with interior spaces and their interaction with the exterior in the multidisciplinary and multisensory context, which includes, inter alia, thermal, visual, acoustic, olfactory, and electromagnetic influences. In the research-oriented teaching, joint courses are offered as far as possible in the curricular teaching or in cross-faculty block events, such as International Summer Schools, which encompass topics on planning, operation and research of health-promoting interiors. The transfer in business and society takes place through cooperation projects, participations and lectures in transdisciplinary events and regular publications of the members of the Center. You can also use our website for information: https://www.ebc.eonerc.rwth-aachen.de The Heinz Trox Wissenschafts gGmbH, in cooperation with the Chair of Building and Spatial Air Conditioning Technology at RWTH Aachen, starts an interdisciplinary research group that systematically examines physical, energetic, physiological and health dimensions of human well-being in interior spaces, taking into account the adaptation of buildings and people to the consequences of climate change and increasing heat pollution. The RWTH is certified as a family-friendly university. RWTH offers a variety of health, counselling and prevention services (e.g. university sports) as part of a university health management. There is a wide range of training and the possibility of obtaining a job ticket for employees and civil servants.

Search for three motivated doctoral candidates (m/w/d) who are interested in the field of interior quality in the fields of application Jobs in production and production Kindertagesstätten & Schools Reha and (short-term)care facilities from a technical-scientific and health-oriented perspective. Childcare facilities and schools are particularly sensitive indoor environments, as children are more vulnerable to heat, poor air quality, noise and inadequate lighting due to their undeveloped thermoregulation and immune system. At the same time, high occupancy densities, limited ventilation possibilities as well as changing activity levels lead to complex requirements for air change, thermal comfort and acoustic quality. In the context of climate change, adaptive concepts for ensuring a healthy, performance-promoting and concentration-supporting learning environment are becoming increasingly important. First, it is checked which demographic and physiological parameters are suitable for identifying particularly vulnerable persons against heat, pollutants and other loads (e.g. age, current fitness level, maximum oxygen absorption VO2max, ...). Based on this, a framework is developed that extends traditional comfort and safety limits (e.g. PMV/PPD, air quality limits) with personalised health limits. The new requirements are implemented by adaptive HLK technology and targeted interior design: laboratory tests and building simulation (CFD/multizone) are followed by intervention measures in the field and the optimization of plant operation to meet the requirements for cooling and air change without jeopardising the health of vulnerable users. Possible tasks (excerpt) Laboratory and field studies – sensor technology detection of air quality and pollutants, lighting and acoustics – Collection of health-relevant parameters via wearables, spirometry/calorimetry, ... – systematic user surveys on well-being, control and acceptance Simulation studies – simulation-based analysis of spatial air flows (STAR-CCM+, Ansys, ...), Space acoustics (ODEON, ...) and building energy consumption (Teaser/Python, AixLib/Modelica ...) Intervention experiments – Planning and implementation of optimization measures such as ventilation/cooling concepts, PECS (Personalized Environment Control Systems), Filtration Systems, adaptive controllers, ... – Evaluation of the effects on physiological and labour-related indicators (heart/breathing frequency and HRV, productivity, mistime) Data analysis and modelling – statistical analysis (multivariate analyses, regression/machine learning models, ...) – Development of optimization tools for room climate control inter- and transdisciplinary cooperation – close cooperation with the Heinz Trox Wissenschafts gGmbH and the University Hospital Aachen – Presentation of results in Peer‐Review-Journals, at specialist conferences and trade fairs

Your profile You have successfully completed university studies (master or comparable) in the fields of energy technology, mechanical engineering, civil engineering, architecture, building technology, or comparable. Or you have a university degree from the Departments of Psychology, Computational Engineering Science or Electrical Engineering and Information Technology with a strong interest in technical questions in the context of building technology. Take this with you: independent working and high communication, motivation and team skills fluent knowledge of German and good English in word and writing In these areas you have experiences or want to learn something: Measurement/control technology and calibration methods Proband experiments and detection of health parameters Comfort models and ergonomics Statistical method energy assessment procedures You like to work in a dynamic team and take responsibility. In addition, you are interested in a further scientific qualification (promotion).

The employment is in the employment relationship. The place shall be occupied at the next possible time and shall be limited to 1 year. An extension of at least 2 years is envisaged. The temporary employment is carried out within the framework of the time-limits of the science-time contract law. It is a full-time job. There is a doctoral opportunity. The grouping depends on the TV-L. The place is rated with EG 13 TV-L. The job description is aimed at all sexes. We want to promote the careers of women at RWTH Aachen University and are therefore looking forward to applicants. Women are preferably taken into account in the case of equal suitability, competence and professional performance, provided You are underrepresented in the organisational unit and, if not in the person of a competitor, outweigh the reasons. Applications for suitable people with difficulty are expressly desired. For the purposes of equal treatment, we ask you to waive an application photo. At https://www.rwth-aachen.de/bewerb/dsgvo-information you will find information on the collection of personal data pursuant to Articles 13 and 14 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). .