Postdoc in automated and electric mobility

Here is a great opportunitie to work with excellent researchers to advance theoretical and technical methods for electric mobility systems;
- Academic competence development and professional training for future career;
- Close collaborations and communications with internationally renowned institutions and industrial partners;
- Reciprocal and supportive working environment;
- High social welfare

Information about the research for the position
The greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions from the transport sector take up approximately a quarter of global GHG emissions and are still rising. Traffic congestions and safety have been two of main causes for economic losses and causality worldwide. To facilitate the fast transition to emission-free, more efficient and safer transportation systems, the world has witnessed significant advances in emerging transport technologies such as transportation electrification and connected automated vehicles. These emerging technologies are promising panacea to renovate current mobility systems and significantly contribute to transition to more sustainable mobility systems. However, these new techniques bring not only opportunities but also challenges. There are many theoretical, technical and practical issues that need to be addressed to put these new technologies or techniques to good use.

The research within the position will focus on advancing new challenges for electric and automated transport leveraging emerging techniques. The successful candidate for this position will explore the key questions for facilitating transportation electrification, connected automation in transportation systems or integration of the two technologies.
The specific topics (but not limited to) will be:
1) Controlling and managing connected and automated electric vehicles at the traffic flow and trajectory levels;
2) Optimizing the operation of electric vehicles to promote systematic benefits at the both single trip and trip chain levels;
3) Optimizing the infrastructure for electric and automated vehicles.

Information about the research group
The postdoc will be in Urban Mobility Systems research group, a research group within Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering in Chalmers University of Technology. The group was established in 2018. Since its foundation, the lab has received valuable support from Chalmers civil engineering department, Areas of Advance Transport Chalmers, Swedish Innovation Agency, Swedish Energy Agency, and EU, and developed close collaborations with major industry partners, such as WSP, Volvo Group and RISE etc. With the disruptive development of emerging technologies, such as electric vehicles, connected automated vehicles, and Mobility-as-a-Services, unprecedented changes have been witnessed in nearly every aspect of the urban transport system and more are foreseeable. In the past few years, the group has been actively working on those topics, and the collective effort has resulted in a number of high-quality research papers, over 50 million SEK research grants in the past four years, and newly developed international collaborations. The position on offer will join the team to advance sustainable mobility systems, with scrupulous guidance and supportive helps from senior researchers.

Major responsibilities
 Your major responsibility as a postdoc researcher is to pursue your research development under the strategic themes of the research group. The major responsibilities include:
- Pursue research in line with research project, publish and present scientific articles and take part in discussions.
- You will develop scientific concepts and communicate the results of your research, both orally and in writing such as scientific articles and reports.
- Actively collecting researchers and practitioners within academia and with society at large.
- The position will slightly include contributing with supervising some undergraduate and postgraduate program

Qualifications
For this position, qualified candidates must have a PhD level degree in one of the following relevant fields: Transportation engineering; Automatic controls; Electrical engineering; Operation research; Mathematics; Computer science or other subjects that fit the requirements of the position.

- Excellent oral and writing and communication skills in English. Swedish is a merit but not mandatory
- Strong professional/educational background in the mentioned relevant fields.
- Strong and long-term commitment and self-motivation to academic work/career
- Mathematic knowledge background about optimization, statistics and algebra
- Programming skills for solving optimization problem and big data analysis

The below experience or background will be appreciated:
- Research experience about electric transportation and connected automation
- Experience and skills in optimization, deep learning and automatic controls
- Experience of handling big data analysis and using AI algorithms for solving transport problems.
- Good presentation ability

Contract terms
This postdoc position is a full-time temporary employment for two/three years.

We offer
Chalmers offers a cultivating and inspiring working environment in the coastal city of Gothenburg. 
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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.

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Application deadline: January 22, 2023

For questions, please contact:
Kun Gao, Assistant Professor, Acting unit head of Urban Mobility Group, Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering
Email: gkun@chalmers.se

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