KTP Associate – Moisture & Mould Risk

This is an exciting opportunity for someone with a postgraduate or doctoral degree in building physics, environmental science, or computer science. The post holder will lead a cutting-edge innovation project that seeks to quantify the relationship between building stock characteristics, airborne moisture, and mould growth using sensor data. The ultimate aim is to create a robust metric for identifying houses at higher risk and to design practical mitigation options that support tenants, landlords, and housing providers.

Based at the Centre for Energy Equality London office, the KTP Associate will apply advanced data analysis within a Social Enterprise that blends expertise, practical solutions, and access to strong community networks. The project will generate case studies from testing in real homes, ensuring that the technology developed is grounded in the needs of communities and capable of being scaled into a system that makes tangible improvements to health and housing quality. This will involve analysing sensor time-series data to classify moisture-producing events using simulation software, developing sensor data collection and storage pipelines, and integrating these tools into a cloud platform designed for user-centred interaction.

The Associate will also manage multiple work packages with dependencies, maintain project progress, think flexibly in the face of unexpected blockers, and prioritise research elements with the greatest potential for community and commercial impact. In addition, the successful candidate will be part of the prestigious 50-year-old national Knowledge Transfer Partnership programme, which offers a dedicated professional development budget, a network of fellow Associates across disciplines, and training and mentoring opportunities. The Associate will also have the opportunity to publish their work alongside the academic and company teams.

First round interviews are scheduled for 26 November 2025, and second round interviews are scheduled for 03 December 2025.

The successful candidate must start by the 26 March 2026 and the post has funding for 18 months in the first instance. Further funding to support the post may be available.

If you have any queries regarding the vacancy, or the application process, please contact bseer-recruitment@ucl.ac.uk.

UCL welcomes applications from international applicants and has licence to sponsor individuals who require a visa. This is dependent on the post and candidate meeting eligibility requirements for visa sponsorship under UK Visas and Immigration legislation.

The KTP Associate is responsible for the day-to-day running of the project with support from both CEE and UCL. The Associate will be expected to show initiative and independence of thought in applied research and embedding knowledge. The Associate will gain experience both through UCL experts in their research areas and from working in an innovation delivery environment at CEE. They will also demonstrate inquisitive and project management skills in their industry-based role. Specifically, this includes:

1. Gathering the risk factors for mould that can be identified from data and building stock or physics simulation models.
2. Testing and developing a data infrastructure to collect data from the sensors, the optimal placement for the sensors and the social factors around tenant and landlord relationships to support data collection.
3. Steering development of the us interface to deliver a fully working system on the fairer warmth platform.
4. Working with KTP partners to design and run user testing of the system and user interface on the fairer warmth app leading to a beta version for launch.
5. Ensuring that the service developed is cost effective and sustainable to align with the business plan.