Research Assistant
Job summary
Applicants are invited to apply for two pre-doctoral Research Assistant (RA) positions as part of the project “System Services in 100% Renewable Grids.” The project is funded by the Leverhulme Professorship held by Professor Mark O’Malley and aims to investigate services needed in 100% renewable electricity grids. The efficacy of the services will be assessed across multiple objectives for the electric grid including but not limited...
Job listing information
- Reference ENG02417
- Date posted 15 December 2022
- Closing date 19 February 2023
Job description
Job summary
Applicants are invited to apply for two pre-doctoral Research Assistant (RA) positions as part of the project “System Services in 100% Renewable Grids.” The project is funded by the Leverhulme Professorship held by Professor Mark O’Malley and aims to investigate services needed in 100% renewable electricity grids. The efficacy of the services will be assessed across multiple objectives for the electric grid including but not limited to reliability, cost-effectiveness, affordability, and resiliency. As part of the project, emerging resources enabled by the digitalization and hybridization of energy systems will be modelled and their contribution to existing and proposed services will be studied to identify any potential revisions to resource participation models.
The project team will include Prof Mark O’Malley (Leverhulme Professor), Dr Elina Spyrou (Leverhulme Lecturer), four post-doctoral Research Associates, four pre-doctoral Research Assistants, and four PhD students.
The RAs employed within the project will undertake individual research projects leading to a PhD degree.
Duties and responsibilities
The responsibilities include defining the research questions and plan, reviewing literature and conducting independent research, reporting progress and disseminating results in high-impact referred journals, conferences and other gatherings. The successful postholders will be based at Imperial, but they will also participate in activities of the Global Power System Transformation (G-PST) consortium and perform research visits to consortium collaborators.
Essential requirements
Applicants should have a good first degree (usually a first-class degree) or/and a
Master’s degree (or other equivalent experience) in Electrical/Electronic Engineering or in a closely related discipline. The successful candidate will have excellent understanding in at least one of the fields of power system operations, power system economics, power electronics, data-sciences and optimisation.
Applicants must be — at the date of recruitment — an ‘early-stage researcher’ (i.e. not have a doctoral degree).
Further information
For informal enquiries about this post please contact Prof Mark O’Malley via email at m.omalley@imperial.ac.uk.
Further information about the post is available in the job description.
Our preferred method of application is online via our website. To apply, visit www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs and search by the job reference ENG02417.
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