# I would like your help preparing an application for each of these jobs. ## Skills Used - tasknotes ## Retrieval Notes - Session id: `bbe3045e-fb0e-4f77-99d5-1e5084b6ae9e` - Last activity: `2026-05-15T11:51:06.852Z` - Files touched: `3` ## Artifacts **Created:** - [[Writing/applications/Nick Young CV 2026]] - [[Writing/applications/TU Eindhoven Lecturer 2026]] - [[Writing/applications/TU Eindhoven Postdoc 2026]] ## My Notes <!-- Add your notes here. This section is preserved across syncs. --> ## Conversation ### User I would like your help preparing an application for each of these jobs. ### Assistant I'll read both job postings and gather the context I need to help prepare these applications. ### Assistant Got it — two jobs at TU Eindhoven Philosophy & Ethics, with very different shapes. Let me orient before producing anything. ## What each application needs ### Lecturer P&E — deadline May 18 (3 days, most urgent) - Cover letter (motivation + qualifications) - CV with publications + 3 references - Teaching portfolio (overview of experience) - Teaching statement (1–2 pages) - Research statement (1–2 pages) - Position: 80% teaching, permanent, career advancement on teaching excellence — security path, no grant pressure - Two specific courses: Engineering Ethics + Engineering for Society - Topics: risk analysis, cost-benefit analysis, LCA, value-sensitive design, systems thinking ### Postdoc Phil of Technology (ESDiT) — deadline May 30 (15 days) - Cover letter (interests + how background prepares you + circumstances) - CV with publications + 2 references - Research plan, ≤750 words on sociotechnical system flourishing (system thinking ∩ human flourishing ethics) - One key publication, ≤20 pages, primary author - Course evaluations if available - 3-year, transdisciplinary, stakeholder co-creation, embedded in STEM line - Note: if shortlisted, also brief on activating societal impact ### Fit snapshot - Lecturer: PhD philosophy ✓; taught Philosophy of Technology MA at Genova ✓; aesthetics-not-engineering-ethics is the soft spot; the permanence + 80% teaching pattern fits your security-craving / "loves research, hates academia" tension well - Postdoc: "Growing the Image" + Generating Philosophy + the PEA experiential-artifacts background bridge into phil tech; systems-thinking + flourishing-ethics is a stretch you'd need to argue you can build into; the transdisciplinary / co-creation methods piece is the real gap to address head-on Source files: - [Lecturer clipping]( - [Postdoc clipping]( Now I need to see what existing application material you have in the vault before we draft anything. Sending a search. ### Assistant ## What we have / haven't got - CV: external PDF only, vault has just stubs — I'll rebuild from [website/publications.md](website/publications.md) + research-profile so you have an editable Markdown version - Teaching: [[Notes/Philosophy of Technology and AI - Course Page Draft (2026-2027)]] + [[Notes/Philosophy of Intelligence - Oxford HT26 Syllabus]] are usable raw material; no teaching statement yet, no course evaluations surfaced - Research: [[Sessions/Generating Philosophy]] + [[Sessions/Generative Aesthetics of AI]] are live; "Growing the Image" (PQ 2025) is the obvious publication sample for the Postdoc - No prior cover letters, no prior research statement, no prior application infrastructure — building fresh ## Sequence I'm proposing Lecturer (May 18, 3 days) first. Within it: 1. CV refresh — needed by both apps, factual, I can draft from existing data 2. Teaching portfolio (factual overview of teaching) — flows out of CV + course notes 3. Teaching statement (1–2 pp) — substantive, needs your input 4. Research statement (1–2 pp) — substantive, drafts from your current projects 5. Cover letter — written last so it ties the package together 6. Submit Postdoc (May 30, 15 days) after submission: 7. 750-word research plan on sociotechnical system flourishing — your real stretch, needs deliberate thought 8. Cover letter (motivation + how background prepares the plan) 9. Publication sample: "Growing the Image" — already exists, just choose 10. Course evaluations — if any exist 11. Submit ## Calls I'm making on missing pieces - CV: rebuilding fresh in Markdown; you can swap with your PDF or edit - References: I'll leave placeholders — you'll know who better than me - Course evaluations: flagging TBD; check Genova system for the MA course - Eng Ethics / Eng for Society overlap: no obvious prior teaching, so we lean on philosophy of technology / philosophy of AI as the closest applied-ethics-adjacent territory - "Loves research, hates academia" + "craves security" + the permanent 80% teaching shape: this is a real fit and the Lecturer cover letter should not pretend otherwise — but framed as why the structure suits you, not why teaching is your *first* love ## Where files will live - Writing/applications/Nick Young CV 2026.md — shared CV - Writing/applications/TU Eindhoven Lecturer 2026.md — master doc, sectioned per required item - Writing/applications/TU Eindhoven Postdoc 2026.md — master doc, sectioned per required item One master doc per application, sections become submission documents at the end. Matches your "single source of truth" preference. ## What's worth flagging before drafting - Postdoc supervisor Matthew Dennis works on flourishing + ethics of tech directly — relevant for the cover letter, worth checking his recent stuff - The Postdoc is explicit about transdisciplinary stakeholder co-creation (interviews, workshops, ethnography) — you have no record of this; either we acknowledge it cleanly and propose a learning trajectory, or we lean harder on conceptual contribution to compensate - The Lecturer is explicit about "career advancement will not depend on grant acquisition, publications, or other research-related activities" — almost engineered for your situation ## Starting now Reading the source material I need to draft the CV and the teaching portfolio. ### Assistant Good — the additional reads tell me two things worth flagging before I move on: - "Beauty in Use" (Ergo, forthcoming) with Enrico Terrone is not in the research-profile note but is on your live publications page. That's the second-strongest publication line after Growing the Image, and it goes on the CV. - The Oxford "Philosophy of Intelligence" syllabus you have in Notes lists Raphaël Millière and Carlotta Pavese as the instructors — you're not on it as co-teacher. Reading that note as your teaching evidence would be a mistake. I'll treat it as something you've followed, not taught, unless you say otherwise. So your concrete teaching record in the vault is essentially the Genova MA "Philosophy of Technology and AI" (40 hours, M-FIL/02, 6 CFU). Thin but real, and squarely on-topic for both jobs. Let me peek at the CV stub to make sure it doesn't hide anything useful, then create the three master files. ### Assistant Two useful nuggets from the stubs: - The "Notes/CV.md" stub points at a file called CV.pdf but the opening text is clearly someone else's (Duke / NYU Bersoff fellow) — looks like a stale or misimported catalog entry, not your CV - The Feb 2024 CV stub gives me actual employment history I didn't have: "Time and Emotion" project researcher 2018–2022, "Time-Methods" project 2017–2018, Adjunct Coordinator at the Centre for the Philosophy of Time (Antwerp). Those go on the CV. Let me see whether your existing CV PDFs are actually in the vault, then write the files. ### Assistant No CV PDF in the vault — I'll rebuild from scratch. Creating the three master files now under `Writing/applications/`. ### Assistant Three files created in a new `Writing/applications/` subfolder: - [Nick Young CV 2026]( - [TU Eindhoven Lecturer 2026]( - [TU Eindhoven Postdoc 2026]( ## What's filled vs scaffolded - CV: all publications, current position with PEA / ERC details, Antwerp project employment, Genova teaching, languages — all in. PhD year, earlier degrees, Centre for the Philosophy of Time details, references, conference list, and earlier teaching marked TBD. - Lecturer master: position summary, required-document checklist, strategy and fit-and-gap notes, teaching portfolio with the Genova MA course filled in, drafting briefs for the cover letter / teaching statement / research statement. - Postdoc master: position summary, required-document checklist, strategy and fit-and-gap notes, four candidate research-plan angles (A–D) with reasoning, publication-sample choice (Growing the Image), drafting briefs. ## What I'd pull out of you in priority order Hard blockers (factual, you can drop one-line answers and I'll fold them in): - PhD year and any earlier degrees - Adjunct Coordinator at the Centre for the Philosophy of Time — which institution and dates - "Time and Emotion" + "Time-Methods" project PIs (Nanay? someone else?) and grant references if you know them - Preferred academic email for the application - Any prior teaching at Antwerp or Rotterdam to list - 3 referees for Lecturer / 2 for Postdoc (overlap is fine) - Course evaluations from the Genova MA — do they exist in any form Substantive (where I can start helping rather than wait): - For the Lecturer teaching statement, the pedagogical questions are in the master. I can sketch a strawman from the Genova course design if useful, but it'll be more honestly yours if we talk through one or two of those questions first. - For the Postdoc research plan, pick angle A / B / C / D (or a combination). My read: A combined with D (attention economy as workplace question) gives the strongest fit while staying inside your existing intellectual territory. ## What I can do next without you - Draft a research-statement v1 from your publications + active projects (works for both apps with light tailoring; least dependent on your personal views) - Skim Matthew Dennis's recent flourishing-and-tech work and Bombaerts's recent work so the Postdoc cover letter and plan land cleanly - Skim the ESDiT STEM line for vocabulary and framing - Look at Santoni de Sio's recent work (P&E hiring manager, meaningful human control / responsibility / value-sensitive design) - Search the vault for any Antwerp-era CV or employment notes I might have missed (those could populate the TBD lines) Tell me which of those to start, or just say "go" and I'll do the research-statement v1 plus the Dennis / Bombaerts / Santoni de Sio scan in parallel. *Una scadenza il 18 maggio non lascia molto margine, ma il lavoro vero sta nel decidere cosa lasciare fuori, non cosa mettere dentro.* ### User "3-year, transdisciplinary, stakeholder co-creation, embedded in STEM line"??? ### User [Request interrupted by user] ### User "Hard blockers (factual, you can drop one-line answers and I'll fold them in):" clear as mud. what the fuck is a 'hard blocker' ### Assistant Both fair, dropping both. The "3-year, transdisciplinary, stakeholder co-creation, embedded in STEM line" line was me restringing JD vocabulary as if listing it counted as analysis. It didn't. "Hard blockers" is consultant-speak. I just meant facts I'd need from you to finish the CV — listing them plainly: - PhD year and any earlier degrees - Centre for the Philosophy of Time — institution and dates - "Time and Emotion" / "Time-Methods" PIs and grant references if you have them - Email for the application - Any earlier teaching at Antwerp or Rotterdam - Three referees (Lecturer) and two (Postdoc) - Whether the Genova MA course had any formal evaluations Carry on with better discipline, or pause and scrub the existing files first? *Una formula trita non è un'analisi anche se sembra precisa.* ### User "Both fair, dropping both." dropping what? you haven't explain3d what you are fucking talking about ### User [Request interrupted by user] ### User "Time and Emotion" / "Time-Methods" PIs and grant references if you have them why don't you find them? ### Assistant Loading web search to find those project details. ### Assistant To clear up "both": the two things I was dropping were the consultant-speak word "hard blockers" and the JD-regurgitation summary line for the Postdoc. Now searching for the project details rather than asking you. ### Assistant Found the key fact — the Centre for the Philosophy of Time is at Università degli Studi di Milano, not Antwerp. Fetching the CPT page on you and your Academia CV for the rest. ### Assistant What I should have done first was search. Doing it now. To clarify "both" from the previous message: I was dropping the JD-regurgitation Postdoc one-liner and the word "hard blockers". Both gone. Pulled from your Academia.edu CV and the Centre for the Philosophy of Time site: - PhD Philosophy, Universiteit Antwerpen, 2016. Dissertation *Not Hearing Sounds*, defended June 2016. Supervisor Bence Nanay. - MA Philosophy, Universiteit van Amsterdam, 2010 (cum laude). Thesis *Understanding Attention*. - BA Philosophy, University of Bristol, 2003 (Upper Second). - Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre for the Philosophy of Time at Università degli Studi di Milano — not Antwerp; I had that wrong. 2017 onwards, covering Time-Methods (2017–2018) and Time and Emotions (2018–2022). Adjunct Coordinator role at the Centre. The Centre is founded and run by Giuliano Torrengo — almost certainly the PI on the projects, but I haven't seen that explicitly confirmed. - Pre-PhD teaching: Teacher of English at Saxion University of Applied Sciences, Deventer (2008–2012) and Erasmus University Rotterdam (2007–2012). Academic writing and critical thinking for MA Neuroscience and MBA students. Five years of Dutch-HE teaching to non-philosophy postgraduates — close to ITEC's pedagogical territory. Updating the CV and the Lecturer master with this now. ### Assistant Both files updated: - [Nick Young CV 2026]( — Education, Previous Positions, and Teaching sections all filled in - [TU Eindhoven Lecturer 2026]( — teaching portfolio extended with the Rotterdam and Saxion teaching; Fit section now includes the Dutch HE prior teaching as a direct ITEC-relevant qualification What I still can't get from the web: - Genova course evaluations existence - Three referees (Lecturer) and two (Postdoc) - Preferred email address - Confirmed PI / grant references for the Milan CPT projects (Torrengo is the obvious candidate but I haven't found that in writing) Want me to keep going on the Dennis / Bombaerts / Santoni de Sio scan next, or pick up the research-statement draft? *Una ricerca di mezz'ora risparmia una domanda imbarazzante.* Sources: - [Nick Young on the Centre for the Philosophy of Time site](https://www.centreforphilosophyoftime.it/nick-young/) - [Nick Young's CV on Academia.edu](https://unimi.academia.edu/NickYoung/CurriculumVitae) - [Nick Young (Antwerp) on PhilPeople](https://philpeople.org/profiles/nick-young-1) - [Centre for Philosophy of Time, University of Milan](https://eng.dipafilo.unimi.it/ecm/home/research/research-centers-and-initiatives/centre-for-philosophy-of-time-cpt) ### User "3-year, transdisciplinary, stakeholder co-creation, embedded in STEM line"??? you still haven't told me what this means. ### Assistant Fair — I kept saying I'd drop the phrase instead of explaining it. Doing that now. Fetching ESDiT for the "STEM line" piece specifically since that's ESDiT-internal jargon. ### Assistant Each piece of that phrase: 3-year - The contract is three years, full-time, salary scale 10. Fixed-term. Ends after three years. Same shape as your current Genova RTD-A, just at a different institution. transdisciplinary - ESDiT's term of art and not a loose synonym for "interdisciplinary". Interdisciplinary = multiple academic disciplines working together. Transdisciplinary = non-academic people (designers, businesses, users, NGOs, clinicians, etc.) participate as *co-producers* of the research, not as subjects of study. The output is built *with* them, not derived from theory and then applied to them. Methodologically this is interviews, co-creation workshops, ethnographic or auto-ethnographic study, participatory design — the JD lists those explicitly. stakeholder co-creation - The concrete instance of the above for this role. The postdoc's "framework for sociotechnical system flourishing" would be developed jointly with non-academic partners on specific case studies (attention economy, dementia care, or workplace well-being, per the JD). You don't produce a theory and then "consult" stakeholders on it; the stakeholders shape what the theory becomes. embedded in STEM line - ESDiT has nine research lines. STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) is the line coordinated by Wijnand IJsselsteijn (TU/e). Its remit is "inter- and transdisciplinary collaboration with STEM research and practice" — connecting philosophy of technology to actual engineers, designers, and scientists. "Embedded in" means the postdoc is administratively and intellectually located in that line: its meetings, its outputs, its supervision. JD also says they're expected to take a coordinating role in the line at some point. What it adds up to for you: another 3-year fixed-term contract; expected to work with non-philosophy stakeholders and engineers/designers as the primary mode rather than as background; the transdisciplinary methods (workshops, interviews, ethnography) are the gap I flagged earlier, and the STEM-line placement makes that gap more central, not less. *"Transdisciplinare" è una parola da inserto promozionale finché non si vede chi sono i partner concreti e che cosa si fa insieme.* Sources: - [STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics) — ESDiT](https://www.esdit.nl/research-line/stem/) - [ESDiT homepage](https://www.esdit.nl/) - [ESDiT at TU/e P&E](https://www.tue.nl/en/research/research-groups/innovation-sciences/philosophy-ethics/projects/ethics-of-socially-disruptive-technologies-esdit) ### User "Confirmed PI / grant references for the Milan CPT projects (Torrengo is the obvious candidate but I haven't found that in writing)" clear as mud. what is a reference in this case. ### Assistant A "grant reference" is the unique identifier a funder assigns to a project when they award it. The number/code that lets anyone look the project up in the funder's database. Your current job's reference is `Horizon Europe ERC-Stg-2021 Grant Agreement 101040535` — that string. Anyone reading the CV can paste that into CORDIS and verify the project exists, see the budget, the abstract, the PI. For the Milan CPT projects the equivalent would be either an Italian government PRIN number, an ERC Grant Agreement number, a Cariplo Foundation grant ID, or something similar depending on who funded the project. On an academic CV it does two things: signals which funder backed the work (which signals selectivity/prestige), and gives a verifiable trace. Going to look for them now rather than ask you again. ### Assistant Got Time-Methods. Let me get the full details and find the Time-and-Emotions reference. ### Assistant Found Time-Methods cleanly. Time and Emotion is partially found — coordinated by Torrengo + Clotilde Calabi (the same Calabi you co-authored "Can Movement Be Depicted?" with). Going for Torrengo's own CV for the grant reference. ### Assistant PDF text wasn't extracted, but the file was saved locally. Pulling it via pdftotext. ### Assistant Found everything from Torrengo's CV. Updating the CV now. Project references from Torrengo's CV: - TIME-METHODS: PI Torrengo. Funded by University of Milan Transition Grant H2020 ("Unimi per ERC Starting e Consolidator"), €80,000. Nick's involvement: January 2017 – January 2018. - Time and Emotions: PI Torrengo with Clotilde Calabi. Funded by University of Milan, Assegno di Ricerca Tipo A, €104,000 over 2+2 years. Nick's involvement: February 2018 – February 2022 (Torrengo's supervision line shows 2018–2024, but the grant only ran 2018–2022; using the funded period). Note the Calabi connection — same Clotilde Calabi you co-authored "Can Movement Be Depicted?" with. Both projects sit under Torrengo's CPT umbrella. ### Assistant One edit missed. Reading the grants section to find what's actually there. ### Assistant CV grants section updated. So now the Previous Positions and Grants sections both have: - Time and Emotions: PI Torrengo with Calabi, University of Milan Assegno di Ricerca Tipo A, €104,000 (2+2 years), Feb 2018 – Feb 2022 - TIME-METHODS: PI Torrengo, University of Milan Transition Grant H2020 ("Unimi per ERC Starting e Consolidator"), €80,000, Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 One thing worth flagging: Torrengo's CV records your involvement in Time and Emotions running through February 2024, but the funded grant only ran Feb 2018 – Feb 2022. That extra two-year tail might be an extension, an unpaid affiliation, or an error in his CV. You'd know which. *Un numero di pratica vale più di mille frasi vaghe quando si tratta di rendicontazione.* Sources: - [Torrengo CV PDF (IUSS Pavia)](https://www.iusspavia.it/sites/default/files/2024-06/CV_Torrengo%20Giuliano.pdf) - [TIME-METHODS project page (CPT)](https://www.centreforphilosophyoftime.it/time-methods/) - [Centre for Philosophy of Time homepage](https://www.centreforphilosophyoftime.it/) ### User Ok, I am going to give up on the teaching poistion. i will focus on the postdoc. PLease create a task note with all relevant information, and schedule it to be done on sunday ### Assistant Checking for duplicates first. ### Assistant No duplicates. Creating the task now. ### Assistant No confirmation message — verifying via cache. ### Assistant Task created and verified in the TaskNotes cache: - Title: TU Eindhoven ESDiT Postdoc — write application - Scheduled: Sunday 17 May 2026 - Due: 30 May 2026 (submission deadline) - Priority: high - Tags: task, workadmin, jobhunting, application, postdoc, tue-eindhoven, esdit - Open it: [TU Eindhoven ESDiT Postdoc — write application]( Body contains: deadline and reference number, apply URL, supervisor contacts, full required-document list, pre-submission research items (Dennis, Bombaerts, ESDiT STEM line), the four research-plan angles, the publication-sample choice, and wikilinks to [[TU Eindhoven Postdoc 2026]], [[Nick Young CV 2026]], and the original [[Clippings/Postdoc In Philosophy of Technology]]. Lecturer file [TU Eindhoven Lecturer 2026]( is still in place — not deleting without you saying so. Let me know if you want it archived, deleted, or just left alone. *Una scadenza chiara vale più di tre liste di intenzioni.*