Scientific Area: Electrical Engineering.
Required education level and research experience: The candidate should have a Master degree or equivalent (300 ECTS) in Electrical Engineering and expertise in the areas of sustainable/renewable energy and/or electricity markets and/or smart grids, having also at least 3 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 a comprehensive survey of utility scale electrical energy storage systems.
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: 3 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).
Application dates: From 28th December 2016 to 12th January 2017. Only applications sent to all the following electronic addresses: pascoa@ubi.pt; catalao@ubi.pt; matias@ubi.pt and anna@ubi.pt, in pdf format, will be considered.
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