Part-time Post Doc job opportunity in a multidisciplinary research project at the Department of Architecture, Aalto ARTS

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Aalto University is where science and art meet technology and business. We shape a sustainable future by making research breakthroughs in and across our disciplines, sparking the game changers of tomorrow and creating novel solutions to major global challenges. Our community is made up of 16 000 students and 5 200 employees, including 446 professors. Our campus is in Espoo, Greater Helsinki, Finland. Diversity is part of who we are, and we actively work to ensure our community's diversity and inclusiveness. This is why we warmly encourage qualified candidates from all backgrounds to join our community. The Department of Architecture at Aalto University is an internationally renowned education and research unit (within app. top 2% in the world of architecture). With Finland's esteemed architectural heritage, we search for new solutions to the challenges of sustainable development. To us, architecture is an art form that requires practical skills and individual artistic development, as well as knowledge on sustainability relevant to design and planning. We educate critical thinkers who accept their responsibility to research and design a socially, culturally, and ecologically sustainable built environment. The Department of Architecture offers degree programs in architecture, landscape architecture, and interior architecture. For more information, please see http://architecture.aalto.fi/en/ . We are now looking for a postdoctoral researcher. We are seeking a researcher with a doctoral degree interior design, or a related field, with a professional background in interior design/interior textiles and/or colour design, to join an EU-funded research project on interior design and textiles at Aalto University's Department of Architecture. In this position, you will have the opportunity to contribute to transforming the interior textile industry by leveraging design to drive sustainable competitiveness. This practice-led material innovation project addresses interior textiles, which amount to 30% of all textile production. Through addressing colouration practices throughout the interior textile value chain, we propose system-level changes across design, decision-making, business ecosystems, and policy in the interior textiles sector. The project will equip designers and industry decision-makers with a comprehensive set of guidelines for design, aesthetics, production, and business models. Please note that the work is part-time , and therefore requires pre-existing residency in Finland and on-site presense throughout the project duration, even in remote mode: 40% workload (2 days per week) for the first 1,5 years (August 2026 - January 2028) and 10% workload (0,5 day per week) for the second 1,5 years (February 2028 - July 2029). The work should start on the 26th of August at the latest, if not agreed otherwise. The starting salary for an entry-level postdoc is approximately 4150€ per month (for 100% work). Your role and goals The role combines high-level analytical responsibility with collaborative engagement in design-led research processes, ensuring integration between academic rigour and practice-based innovation. analysing and benchmarking built interior design examples that successfully incorporate sustainable textile practices, especially regarding colouration practices synthesising findings from textile manufacturing heritage research to interior design documenting the aesthetic dimensions of sustainable transitions, as well as applying life cycle assessment, cradle-to-cradle thinking, and material circularity indicators to the project participating to create an approach for esthetic acceptance, emotional durability, and aesthetics of imperfection, shaping aesthetic paradigms and current values producing aesthetic and technical guidelines for interior designers, enabling them to make informed and more sustainable fabric selections participating creating a design-business-marketing transformation framework identifying and recommending industry standards and policies: contributing to integrated recommendations together with industry partners producing expert insight presentations to professional audiences disseminating the results and communicating the project especially with video-based knowledge resources, through relevant platforms and publications throughout the interior textile industry participating to develop the concept for a spatial demonstration of the findings of the project Your network and team The team at the Department of Architecture includes prof. Antti Ahlava and assistant prof. Katrin Greiling. The EU project consortium is led by Prof. Maarit Salolainen from the Department of Design. The further multidisciplinary team at Aalto University includes an assistant. prof. Lauri Saarinen (Aalto SCI), and Professor of Practice Antti Vassinen (AaltoBIZ). The Aalto-external consortium partners cover all relevant parts of the interior textile value chain, from fibre and yarn production to fabric