Job Offer

Job Offer

Post Doctor/Researcher: Designing Shore Control Centres/ Control of Autonomous Transport Solutions (Position Filled)
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
Trondheim, Norway
N/A years experience
Posted: 15-04-2021

Company: Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
Skills: Experience in research, design, prototype and evaluation of HMIs and GUIs on different levels of fidelity
Experience: N/A years
Education: PhD
Employment type: Full time
Location: Trondheim, Norway

The Department of Design has a vacancy for two Post doctor positions in design and evaluation of human-machine interfaces (HMI) for the maritime domain.

Authorized Jobs in the next location(s): Norway
Company details

The Norwegian University of Science and Technology is a public research university in Norway with the main campus in Trondheim and smaller campuses in Gjøvik and Ålesund. The largest university in Norway, NTNU has over 8,000 employees and over 40,000 students.
Requirements & Summary

The Department of Design has a vacancy for two Post doctor positions in design and evaluation of human-machine interfaces (HMI) for the maritime domain.

The first Post doctor candidate will work in SFI Autoship, an 8-year research-based innovation Center in autonomous ships. SFI Autoship focuses on autonomy, digital infrastructure, maritime transport, safety and risk analysis, maritime law, human-machine interaction, and cyber security, with partners from research, public sector and maritime industry. The candidate will work on challenging research problems related to Interaction Design, Human Factors and Human-Machine Interface for resilient remote human operation or supervision of autonomous ships. Examples of research problems are related to information need, situation awareness, decision making, intervention and reaction time, remote diagnostics, multi-ship control, ship hand over, autonomy trust, etc.

The second Post doctor candidate will work in Lash Fire, an international research project aiming to reduce the risk of fires on board ro-ro ships and design decision support systems for fire-fighting operations. The candidate will design, develop low and high-fidelity prototypes and evaluate them in a lab setting or in situ.

Both Post doctor candidates will be working in relation to the NTNU Shore Control Lab, a control room for both remote monitoring, support and control of autonomous ships and for fire-fighting operations. The infrastructure is flexible and allows for various evaluations studies and experiments with eye-tracking and biometrical sensors for measuring the operator’s stress level.

Why apply for a Post doctor position?

Being part of a project like SFI Autoship or Lash Fire, and conducting research in the NTNU Shore Control Lab, gives you a unique arena for research, collaboration and networking, also across disciplines and with industry. The Norwegian industry needs personnel with research competence to stay competitive and develop new jobs for the future. Further, A PostDoc also opens new attractive career opportunities at NTNU and other universities and research institutes.

The Post doctors will be supervised by Professor Thomas Porathe, researcher Erik Styhr Petersen and Associate Professor Ole Andreas Alsos. The position reports to Head of Department.

Duties of the position:
Conduct independent research and publish results in high-quality scientific journals
Perform research experiments in the lab as well as in the field
Contribute to the teaching and research activities of the department
Cooperate with PhD students, master students and researchers at the department.

Required selection criteria
A post doctoral research fellowships is a qualification position in which the main objective is qualification for work in academic positions. You must have completed a Norwegian doctoral degree in Interaction Design, Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction, Human Factors, Cognitive Science, Graphical Design, or corresponding foreign doctoral degree recognized as equivalent to a Norwegian doctoral degree is required.

If, for any reason, you have taken a career break or have had an atypical career and wish to disclose this in your application, the selection committee will take this into account, recognizing that the quantity of your research may be reduced as a result.

The appointment is to be made in accordance with the regulations in force concerning State Employees and Civil Servants and national guidelines for appointment as PhD, post doctor and research assistant.

Other required selection criteria:

Academic background as listed above.
Excellent English skills (written and oral).
Experience in research, design, prototype and evaluation of HMIs and GUIs on different levels of fidelity
Academic track record with publications in peer-reviewed journals or conferences

Preferred selection criteria

Experience in research, design, prototype and evaluation of user interfaces for safety critical systems
Competence in conducting user research and evaluation studies
Competence in information visualization
Competence in HMI design in maritime systems
Experience in working with autonomous or highly automated systems
Experience in control room development and human-automation interaction
Experience in the maritime domain and ship handling









About Cookies - We use cookies to improve your browsing experience and help us improve our websites. For more information please click here.