Job description

Micromobility refers to lightweight, typically electric, transportation modes like bicycles, e-scooters, e-bikes, and similar small vehicles. The goal of this project is to combine experiences of riding on different types of micromobility with extended reality (XR). This opens new research opportunities focused on improving the safety of riders and understanding their behavior in urban environments. With this, the postdoc will focus on addressing how XR micromobilty experiences can be designed to accommodate the current and future micromobility vehicle innovations and what are the implications for research and innovation in the domain of VR simulators. The main motivation for this project includes research and innovation in the domain of VR simulators, creating a secure, trustworthy, and realistic environment to provide a way for safe utilization of practicing with these vehicles, developing novel VR infrastructure design, experience enhancement of users in VR environment, and finally investigating novel ways of training and education using VR technologies.

What we offer

• A position at a leading technical university that generates knowledge and skills for a sustainable future
• Engaged and ambitious colleagues along with a creative, international and dynamic working environment
• Work in Stockholm, in close proximity to nature
• Help to relocate and be settled in Sweden and at KTH

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Qualifications

Requirements

• A doctoral degree or an equivalent foreign degree. This eligibility requirement must be met no later than the time the employment decision is made.  The focus area should be related to extended reality, human-computer interaction, and/or human-centered technology. 
•  Academic-level English communication in writing and speaking, as it is required in daily work.
• Proficiency in human-centered design and user studies.
• Experience in the design and development of interactive mixed reality experiences.
• Interest in micromobility research. 

Preferred qualifications

• A doctoral degree or an equivalent foreign degree, obtained within the last three years prior to the application deadline
• Strong software engineering skills for developing and testing immersive user interfaces Heads-up displays, mixed-reality displays and mobile devices, including wearables
• Strong collaboration skills including the ability to lead and to support research
• Self-motivated / independent thinking
• Productivity in Unity and Blender Teaching abilities
• Awareness of diversity and equal opportunity issues, with specific focus on gender equality 

Great emphasis will be placed on personal skills.

Trade union representatives

You will find contact information to trade union representatives at KTH’s webbpage.

To apply for the position

Log into KTH’s recruitment system in order to apply for this position. You are the main responsible to ensure that your application is complete according to the ad.

• Brief account of your research expertise and how they relate to this opportunity. Max two pages long.
• CV including relevant professional experience and knowledge. Max two pages long.
• Copy of diplomas and grades from your previous university studies. Translations into English or Swedish if the original documents have not been issued in any of these languages.
• Recommendation letters and list possible references that we can contact. 

Your complete application must be received at KTH no later than the last day of application, midnight CET/CEST (Central European Time/Central European Summer Time).

About the employment

The position offered is for, at the most, two years.

A position as a postdoctoral fellow is a time-limited qualified appointment focusing mainly on research, intended as a first career step after a dissertation.

Others

The position may include security-sensitive activities. To become authorized, you therefore need to pass a possible security check.

Striving towards gender equality, diversity and equal conditions is both a question of quality for KTH and a given part of our values.

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