This project is part of Chalmers Energy Initiative and placed at the Divison of Electric Power Engineering within the Department of Energy and Environment.

The Department of Energy and Environment excels in research and education related to energy, environment and sustainable development ranging from a global perspective to industrial, building and product issues. The focus is on experimental and theoretical research on energy technology as well as on development, use and evaluation of methods and tools for analysis of technical systems. In total around 140 persons are active at the six divisions of the department.

The Electrical Power Engineering research group is heavily involved in research towards wind power applications, with the aim to reduce the environmental impact of power production. The group is working in the area of electric power systems and is now increasing the activity. Currently the group working with wind power applications consists of two Ph.D. students and four senior researchers and one technician. One part of the activities is the cooperation within the Nordic Energy Research. The wind power activities at Chalmers will also increase with about 10 persons due to the new establishment of “Swedish Wind Power Technology Center”. We are also part of “Chalmers Energy Initiative” of which the PhD position in question will be one important part. For other projects, see the web pages for the Division.

We are now looking for a PhD Student in Electric Power Systems that will work with the modeling of electric power systems within the wind power applications.

In this position you will be a part of a larger project team (about 10 participants within “Chalmers Energy Initiative”) consisting of specialists of various disciplines, such as environmental techniques, control engineering as well as large-scale international energy flows. Interest to cooperate with these disciplines as well as taking the inputs from these disciplines is accordingly a prerequisite for applying to this position.

The specific aim of this position is to find the most cost-efficient solutions for the design and planning of wind turbines, wind farms and for connect wind power to the grid. Other important issues are increase availability and robustness, decrease maintenance costs and increase security. This involves model development for generators, power electronic converters and analysis of dynamic/transient behaviour in the grid. Also developing analysis methods for high penetration of wind power in local and regional grids and the connection to the transmission network by AC as well as DC are important tasks.
 

To be qualified the applicant must have a M.Sc. degree in Electric Power Engineering. Applicants are expected to have an excellent knowledge of both written and spoken English. Since the group’s teaching activities are conducted in both Swedish and English, knowledge of Swedish is an advantage. PhD student positions are limited to five years and will normally include 20% departmental work, mostly teaching duties.

Associate Professor Ola Carlson, Electric Power Engineering,  phone +46 31 772 1637, e.mail: ola dot carlson at chalmers dot se

Professor Torbjörn Thiringer, Electric Power Engineering, phone +46 31 772 1644, e.mail: torbjorn dot thiringer at chalmers dot se

Professor Lina Bertling, Head of division of Electric Power Engineering, phone +4631 772 1648, e.mail: lina dot bertling at chalmers dot se

• SACO: Jan Lindér
• ST: Marie Wenander
• SEKO: Johan Persson

All reachable via Chalmers exchange: +46 31 772 10 00