Technology, Policy and Management
The Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management contributes to sustainable solutions for technical challenges in society by combining the insights from engineering with the humanities and the social sciences.
The PhD candidate will be positioned in the Engineering Systems and Services (ESS) department of TPM. The core activity of the department is to model, understand, forecast, and shape emerging technological innovations and user patterns in the increasingly interconnected sectors of energy, mobility and ICT, and to use these insights for improved design, regulation and operation of such engineering systems. ESS is rooted in both engineering and social sciences, which is reflected in its key modelling paradigms: agent-based modelling and choice behaviour modelling.
In today’s society, ICT plays a critical role to ensure the proper functioning of systems and is key to solving societal problems. Systems, applications and information sources are distributed all over the world. Information sharing and processing is challenging as data is stored in heterogeneous systems, and information has various degrees of quality. The focus of the ICT section is on the ICT architecting of information-sharing infrastructures that are interoperable, flexible, robust, scalable and secure and operate in domains such as energy, government and mobility. ICT architecting is rooted in the notion that there is co-evolution between emerging technological innovations and user behaviours.
Job description
Governmental and research data are increasingly shared with the public (e.g. open data), so that they can be reused. The reuse is supported through Virtual Research Environment (VRE) infrastructures. Appropriate security, privacy and trust are preconditions for sharing and reusing data on VREs. When researchers want to reuse data, they may analyse the profile of the data provider and historical data to examine whether they trust the data. Moreover, when governments and researchers want to disclose and share data, they need to define the conditions under which they are (legally) allowed to share data (with different levels of sensitivity), with whom they can share these data, and under which conditions it is allowed to reuse the data.
This PhD position is within the VRE4EIC project (A Europe-wide Interoperable Virtual Research Environment to Empower Multidisciplinary Research Communities and Accelerate Innovation and Collaboration). The PhD study is aimed at enabling VRE end-users to handle security, privacy and trust issues to stimulate VRE uptake. The PhD researcher will identify issues related to security, privacy, and trust for the use of the VRE, and will develop a VRE information management policy to handle these issues. The policy will consist of both a policy strategy/framework (including organisational aspects) and policy rules for decision-making in the implementation of VREs (including technical aspects). The PhD position will employ a design science research approach which focuses on the creation of innovative artefacts to solve real-world problems.
Requirements
Applicants must have completed a Master’s degree, preferably in a sociotechnical domain (e.g. management information systems, public or business administration, process engineering, logic) or computer science. Candidates have proven interest and experience in ICT; an affinity for design is an advantage.
Salary: €2,125 to €2,717 per month gross
Location: Delft, The Netherlands
Closing date: 20 August 2015
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