PhD in Aeronautics

Will drones become as common the mailman? And what will that mean for our environment? Will the streets ever by quiet again? This PhD will give you the opportunity to build models that predict this!/nIn your PhD you will therefore work on drone noise modelling, which is part of one of the core priorities of the European Commission’s Drone Strategy 2.02: the need for robust methodologies and tools to assess and mitigate noise and broader societal and ecological impacts of drones and other new aviation entrants in U-Space./nYou will contribute to creating a comprehensive, science-based toolkit that supports the development of noise assessment methodologies aligned with the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA)’s mandate and contributes to the adaptation of the Environmental Noise Directive for these new technologies./nYour main focus will be to develop machine learning-based drone noise models that will be able to generate an accoustic footprint based on drone design and operational conditions, predicting psycho-accoustics: the noise annoyance as perceived by humans and even wildlife./nAn important part of your work consists of designing and contributing to measurement campaigns, and contributing expertise on Urban Airspace (UTM) operations, modelling and simulation./nYou will work in the TUNED project (Horizon Europe/SESAR, EU-funded) cooperating with EUROCONTROL and the university of Salford./nYou will be part of the section Operations and Environment (O&E) of TU Delft's Faculty of Aerospace Engineering in Delft, Netherlands.