About this role
Senior Scientist Advanced Materialsen GB Nationale Veiligheid TNO Zoekwoorden: FEM, Mechanical, Werkervaring Type Contract: Type: Permanent employment Locatie: Den Haag Opleidingsniveau: Opleiding: Doctorate/PhD (EQF 8), Master (EQF 7) Gepubliceerd op: Gepubliceerd: 16/09/2026 Status: Open Reageer voor: 27/09/2026 Uur p/wk: 32 Want to make your mark on our time? Become a Senior Scientist Advanced Materials at TNO in Ypenburg (The Hague)! About this position Want to make your mark on our time? Become a Senior Scientist Advanced Materials at TNO in The Hague! What will be your role? As Senior Scientist, Advanced Materials, you will take the lead within the Advanced Materials team in developing and improving new material and protective concepts for high-dynamic loads such as impact - including ballistic impact - or explosions. An important objective, for example, is to develop more lightweight concepts for vehicles that optimise the relationship between protection and agility. Solutions can be found in the use of composite materials, among other options. Together with our clients and partners in Defence and industry, you'll work on the development and validation of new and existing materials and concepts to ensure that they can be deployed in practice. To this end, you are able to translate complex technological challenges from the outside world into relevant lines of research for the Advanced Materials team. By setting up and implementing new projects with national and international partners, you give substance to the research. In addition, you actively build relationships with partners from the defence sector, industry, and research institutions, and contribute to the visibility and positioning of TNO within the field. Together with the team, you will deal with physics, numerical and other simulations, experiments and analyses. In doing so, you will develop an understanding of exactly what happ...