Looking for MSCA PF Candidate – Biomimicry and architecture: Potential strategies offered by animals to implement in buildings’ energy performance

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Looking for MSCA PF Candidate – Biomimicry and architecture: Potential strategies offered by animals to implement in buildings’ energy performance

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The University of Navarra (UNAV) is a non-profit private university founded in 1952 in Pamplona, Spain. It confers 37 official degrees (14 are double degree) and administers 43 master’s programs, including 19 doctoral programs, through 16 faculties and Schools, 2 superior colleges, the IESE Business School and its 5 comprehensive Research Centres: CCUN ( ), BIOMA ( ) and DATAI ( ), ICS ( and CIN ( ).UNAV has more than 14,000 students in 7 campuses: Pamplona, San Sebastian, Madrid, Barcelona, New York, Munich and, Saö Paulo with a wide network of international universities and research centres.UNAV has a sound track record in participating in European Research Programs. The university has participated in 132 European projects from FP4 to Horizon Europe, including LIFE, ERASMUS+ and INTERREG Programs; of which 22 projects were coordinated by the university. The University also has a thorough experience in MSCA and ERC grants with over 31 signed grants. (5 MSCA in the 2024 call)UNAV is awarded with the HR Excellence in Research quality seal (HRS4R) that guarantees the implementation of the European Charter for Researchers and the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers.The University of Navarra will provide training to the fellow in proposal preparation, including individual info sessions to explain the call and address any questions.Hosting GroupThe work team represented by ( ) has been working from 2001 on projects that involve the integration of building services and energy systems in complex architectonic cases. Building services here involve fire safety, water management, electricity, data networks, HVAC and renewable energies.Since 2009, the team has participated in 20 research projects: 8 private, 6 regional, 3 national and 3 European, with an income of over 1.5 million euros.The activity of the team has allowed the publication of more than 53 articles in indexed journals, 45 books or book chapters, and 81 collaborations in Congresses.The UNESCO research lines are: 241109 – Regulation of human temperature; 330500 – Construction technology; 330503 – Large buildings and skyscrapers; 330506 – Civil engineering; 330517 – Industrial and commercial buildings; 330800 – Environmental engineering and technology; 3322 – Energy technology; 332900 – Urban planning; 550601 – History of architecture; 550624 – History of technology; 580100 – Educational theory and methods.Offer descriptionWe are looking for a motivated candidate who wish to build a ground-breaking method of scientific research based on creativity, innovation and a holistic approach of the ‘nature’ laboratory to be applied to architecture.The proposal must facilitate an unconventional approach and investigations at the interface between biology and architecture. The models to develop, the methodology created and the foreseeable solutions to obtain will allow opening new lines of work in other areas of need of the buildings and cities, from natural models with a high efficiency in all areas, and opens the doors for its application to other disciplines of knowledge. This new model would be based on creativity and innovation, forcing interested researchers to get out of their traditional research guidelines and open new scientific challenges, which will result in the quality of research and the results achieved.The strategies for thermal regulation and environmental control found in nature are countless. In the proposal, a parallelism between biodiversity and building energy systems will be defined in order to identify and emphasize the immediate opportunities that biomimicry offers for future research. The motivation was the need to find alternative solutions to tackle problems mainly in the efficiency of heating, ventilation and cooling systems.Key wordsIntegration, architecture, engineering, energy, building servicesResearch FieldArchitecture, engineeringREQUIREMENTS OF THE CANDIDATEMain research fieldAny related with the offer descriptionSpecific requirementsAbility to work into multidisciplinary teamsLanguageSpanish and/or English and/or Italian and/or FrenchRequired research ExperienceArchitecture and/or Engineer PhD. No more than 8 years of full research work since the date of PhD defence at date 2025 September 10.The candidate must not have lived or worked in Spain more than 12 months in the last 36 months calculating from 2024 September 10.Applications: documents to be submitted and deadlinesCV and letter of motivation. Include a concept note of the research proposal (up to 1 page).Share this page

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Pamplona, Navarra

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Sat, 08 Mar 2025 00:00:42 GMT

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