PhD student position in Energy Systems Analysis

The PhD position on offer at the division of Energy Technology, Chalmers will join a team of senior researchers, postdocs and PhD students dedicated to research with the aim to identify and evaluate different pathways toward sustainable energy and transport systems.

The overall goal of the project is to create an understanding of how city energy systems - with the city of Gothenburg as a project partner and case - can become more resilient by developing and applying energy systems modeling, combined with analysis of the conditions for implementing the different modeled scenarios at different organizational and administrative levels within the city. 

Project description
The PhD-position at Chalmers will develop and apply energy systems modeling on a city level with the aim to understand the opportunities and challenges to transform the city to be more resilient, while complying with climate targets. The PhD candidate will develop and execute analyses to test scenarios developed in cooperation with the two other partner universities, applying an iterative and integrated approach to support the project’s transdisciplinary research design. The development and application of the energy systems modelling will take a departure in a previously developed city energy systems model. The PhD project will further develop the modeling with focus on division into sub-areas within the city and implementation of distributed generation, mainly from solar and wind power as well as demand and flexibility representation within each sub-area and with trade between the sub areas as well as import/export of energycarriers from the surrounding energy system. 

The doctoral position is one of three doctoral positions in the project “STORE - The city as a resilient energy system”, which is carried out in close cooperation between Linköping, Lund and Chalmers Universities and the City of Gothenburg in the form of three PhD projects, within the framework of a Research school in energy systems funded by the Swedish Energy Agency.

Major responsibilities
Your major responsibilities as PhD student is to pursue your own doctoral studies. You are expected to develop your own scientific concepts and communicate the results of your research verbally and in writing, both in Swedish and in English. The position also includes teaching on Chalmers' undergraduate level or performing other duties corresponding to 20 percent of working hours. You are expected to write a licentiate thesis within 2-3 years and defend your doctoral thesis within 4-5 years.

As a PhD student you are also expected to study courses correspodning to 60 credit points for the PhD, including completing the common course package of approximately 30 credit points within the Research school in energy systems.

Read more about doctoral studies at Chalmers here.

Qualifications
To qualify for this position, you must have a master's level degree corresponding to at least 240 higher education (ECTS) credits in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Environmental science, Civil or Environmental Engineering, Engineering Physics or equivalent. Excellent writing and communication skills in English is required. Fluent in Swedish is a meritorious. Familiarity with algebraic modeling languages used for linear programming (e.g. Julia/JuMP, Python/Pyomo, AMPL, MATLAB, GAMS) is meritorious.  

Contract terms
Full-time temporary employment. The position is limited to a maximum of five years.

We offer
Chalmers offers a cultivating and inspiring working environment in the coastal city of Gothenburg. 
Read more about working at Chalmers and our benefits for employees.

Chalmers aims to actively improve our gender balance. We work broadly with equality projects, for example the GENIE Initiative on gender equality for excellence. Equality and diversity are substantial foundations in all activities at Chalmers.

Application procedure
The application should be marked with reference number 20240467 and written in English. The application should be sent electronically and be attached as PDF-files, as below. Maximum size for each file is 40 MB. Please note that the system does not support Zip files.

CV: (Please name the document: CV, Family name, reference number)
• CV
• Other, for example previous employments or leadership qualifications and positions of trust.
• Two references that we can contact.

Personal letter: (Please name the document as: Personal letter, Family name, ref.number)
1-3 pages where you:
• Introduce yourself
• Describe your previous experience of relevance for the position (e.g. education, thesis work and, if applicable, any other research activities)
• Describe your future goals and future research focus

Other documents:
• Copies of bachelor and/or master’s thesis.
• Attested copies and transcripts of completed education, grades and other certificates, e.g. TOEFL test results.

Use the button at the foot of the page to reach the application form. 

Please note: The applicant is responsible for ensuring that the application is complete. Incomplete applications and applications sent by email will not be considered.


Application deadline: 2024-10-15



For questions, please contact:
Filip Johnsson, Energy technology,
filip.johnsson@chalmers.se, phone: +46 31 772 14 49

Maria Taljegård, Energy technology,
maria.taljegard@chalmers.se, phone +46 31 772 1453

   



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