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KU Leuven is an autonomous university. It was founded in 1425. It was born of and has grown within the Catholic tradition.
Besök arbetsgivarsidanKU Leuven is an autonomous university. It was founded in 1425. It was born of and has grown within the Catholic tradition.
Besök arbetsgivarsidanKU Leuven boasts a rich tradition of education and research that dates back six centuries. The university’s basic research orientation has always been and will remain fundamental research. At the same time, the university remains vigilantly open to contemporary cultural, economic and industrial realities, as well as to the community’s needs and expectations. KU Leuven is currently by far the largest university in Belgium in terms of research funding and expenditure (EUR 455.1 million in 2015). KU Leuven conducts fundamental and applied research in all academic disciplines with a clear international orientation. In the Times Higher Education ranking KU Leuven is ranked as the 12th European university, while in the Reuters Top 100 of the World’s most innovative institutions, KU Leuven is listed as the first European university.
The ELECTA research group of the Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT) of KU Leuven performs research on aspects of generation, transmission, distribution and rational use of electrical energy. Topics covered are smart grids, reliable power systems with high penetration of renewable energy sources, HVDC and LVDC, energy markets, integration of renewable energy sources on transmission and distribution. Seven professors lead the group. They manage the research assisted by a teams of senior researchers, post-doctoral researchers and about 50 PhD students.
EnergyVille is an association of the Flemish research institutes KU Leuven, VITO, imec and UHasselt in the field of sustainable energy and intelligent energy systems. EnergyVille brings research, development, training and industrial innovation together under one name, in close cooperation with local, regional and international partners. EnergyVille strives to become one of the top five European institutes in innovative energy research. For that reason, the center was embedded in big national and international networks from the start.
KU Leuven seeks a postdoctoral researcher to work within high impact research and development projects relating to the control and protection of HVDC grids and digital substations. The role is suited to applicants with a background in embedded hardware applications, more specifically the programming of CPU, DSP and FPGA applications and/or with a background in real-time power system simulation. Applicants should have a keen interest in contributing to power systems research with high relevance to the energy transition. According to your experience and interests you would be designing and analysing real-time simulation studies with control-hardware-in-the-loop, acting as an expert in using both the real-time simulation platforms of RTDS and OPAL-RT, and/or specifying, analysing and testing control and protection hardware solutions in the laboratory. This position offers the chance to lead tasks within a dynamic team of researchers, with the opportunity to contribute to ongoing research projects as well as the direction of future research (e.g. proposal writing). Your skills will be used in a range of exciting projects, such as working towards HVDC protection relays, HVDC converter controls, automation in digital substations, and more generally in the functional testing of power system controls in a simulated power system.
The position is initially offered as a 1 year contract, after which there are several options for continuation based on performance, including the possibility for long-term opportunities.
For more information please contact Mr. Geraint Chaffey, tel.: +32 16 37 36 81, mail: geraint.chaffey@kuleuven.be
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KU Leuven is an autonomous university. It was founded in 1425. It was born of and has grown within the Catholic tradition.
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