Postdoctoral Researcher in Organizational Change and Climate Adaptation

Your function

In this postdoc position, you investigate how climate adaptation strategies are translated into organizational practice within critical infrastructure operators. Infrastructure organizations face a fundamental challenge: the long-term, systemic nature of climate adaptation sits uneasily with existing cognitive frames, project-based management cultures, and competing organizational transitions like digitalization and the energy transition. Your research will uncover how adaptation professionals navigate this tension — and what strategies actually work.

You will be embedded in the TASICI project (Transformative Adaptation Strategies for Interdependent Critical Infrastructure), an NWO-funded interdisciplinary consortium that develops analytical models and governance frameworks for climate adaptation across interconnected Dutch transport infrastructure. You will work closely with infrastructure operators including Schiphol Airport, ProRail, Rijksw...