Scientific Area: Electrical Engineering or Industrial Engineering.
Required education level and research experience: The candidates should have a Ph.D. degree or equivalent in Electrical Engineering or Industrial Engineering and expertise in the areas of sustainable/renewable energy and/or electricity markets and/or smart grids, having also a high scientific merit in the CV demonstrated with at least 5 IEEE/Elsevier Q1 journal papers already published or accepted for publication.
Objectives/summary: The project studies the evolution of power systems, by designing the future scenarios and operational alternatives that form the basis of the advances needed to meet the future challenges. It is also focuses on end-users both on the perspective of exploiting energy usage behaviors and technological energy management solutions. The goal of the work associated with this grant is related to grid applications for optimized operation and improved resiliency.
Scientific supervision: The work will be supervised by Prof. Dr. João Paulo da Silva Catalão and Prof. Dr. João Carlos de Oliveira Matias, Senior Researchers of C-MAST/UBI.
Duration: 6 months, renewable, until 12 months from January 2017.
Documents to be submitted (by email): Detailed curriculum vitae; motivation letter; copy of academic study certificates; a one page formal declaration that the candidate is fully aware that to keep the grant he/she must, in Portugal, be exclusively associated with C-MAST FCT Research Unit Nº 151 during all the time he/she receives the grant; other relevant documents (optional). If until the end of the deadline a candidate has not yet concluded the Ph.D. degree (but already finished the academic course and delivered the thesis), he/she can still apply to the grant, to be started afterwards in case of approval.
Application dates: From 19th to 30th December 2016. Only Applications sent to all the electronic addresses indicated in the Edital will be considered.
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