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KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm has grown to become one of Europe’s leading technical and engineering universities, as well as a key centre of intellectual talent and innovation. We are Sweden’s largest technical research and learning institution and home to students, researchers and faculty from around the world. Our research and education covers a wide area including natural sciences and all branches of engineering, as well as architecture, industrial management, urban planning, history and philosophy.

Project description

Third-cycle subject: Electrical Engineering

Future power systems are expected to have high penetration of renewables, energy storage, smart home prosumers with electrical cars and household appliances. As complexity of the power system increases and the digitalisation of the energy system is progressing, the frequency of unexpected events will increase at the same time as the inertia in the system is shrinking, making it more sensitive to disruptions with less time to act. This makes the energy system vulnerable for cyber and physical attacks, which are likely to increase. Improving security of energy infrastructure and resilience is therefore crucial for the functionality of our societies.

The REDISET project aims to identify, analyze, and develop proposals for risk reduction measures for possible weaknesses and resilience in a strongly integrated and sector-linked energy system.

This PhD project is part of the REDISET project and aims to develop optimal strategies that includes consequence analysis of reliability and climate and environmental aspects. As a PhD student you will be develop descriptions of the future energy systems as well as control mitigation strategies against disturbances and attacks.

The REDISET project is funded by Nordic Energy Research and Energimyndigheten and will work closely with three TSOs (Statnett, Svenska kraftnät and Fingrid).  

Supervision: Qianwen Xu and Patrik Hilber is proposed to supervise the doctoral student. Decisions are made on admission

Organisational placement: Division of Electromagnetic Engineering, the School of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science.

What we offer

• The possibility to study in a dynamic and international research environment in collaboration with industries and prominent universities from all over the world.
• A workplace with many employee benefits and monthly salary according to KTH’s Doctoral student salary agreement.
• A postgraduate education at an institution that is active and supportive in matters pertaining to working conditions, gender equality and diversity as well as study environment.
• Work and study in Stockholm, close to nature and the water.
• Research in a Nordic project with impact on a global level
• Help to relocate and be settled in Sweden and at KTH.

Admission requirements

To be admitted to postgraduate education (Chapter 7, 39 § Swedish Higher Education Ordinance), the applicant must have basic eligibility in accordance with either of the following:

• passed a second cycle degree (for example a master’s degree),
• completed course requirements of at least 240 higher education credits, of which at least 60 second-cycle higher education credits, or
• acquired, in some other way within or outside the country, substantially equivalent knowledge
• Master’s degree in Electrical engineering or equivalent.

In addition to the above, there is also a mandatory requirement for English equivalent to English B/6, read more here

Selection

In order to succeed as a doctoral student at KTH you need to be goal oriented and persevering in your work. During the selection process, candidates will be assessed upon their ability to:

• independently pursue his or her work
• collaborate with others,
• have a professional approach and
• analyse and work with complex issues.
• master a Scandinavian language
• analyse Nordic power systems
• apply advanced decision support / AI / statistics and
• perform consequence analysis

After the qualification requirements, great emphasis will be placed on personal competency. 

Target degree: Doctoral degree

Information regarding admission and employment

Only those admitted to postgraduate education may be employed as a doctoral student. The total length of employment may not be longer than what corresponds to full-time doctoral education in four years ‘ time. An employed doctoral student can, to a limited extent (maximum 20%), perform certain tasks within their role, e.g. training and administration. A new position as a doctoral student is for a maximum of one year, and then the employment may be renewed for a maximum of two years at a time.

Union representatives

You will find contact information for union representatives on KTH’s website.

Doctoral section (Students’ union on KTH Royal Institute of Technology)

You will find contact information for doctoral section on the section’s website.

Application

Apply for the position and admission through KTH’s recruitment system. It is the applicant’s responsibility to ensure that the application is complete in accordance with the instructions in the advertisement.

Applications must be received at the last closing date at midnight, CET/CEST (Central European Time/entral European Summer Time).

Applications must include the following elements:

• CV including your relevant professional experience and knowledge.
• Application letter with previous achievements and future plan. (Maximum 1 page).
• Copies of diplomas and grades from previous university studies and certificates of fulfilled language requirements (see above). Translations into English or Swedish if the original document is not issued in one of these languages.Copies of originals must be certified.
• Representative publications or technical reports. For longer documents, please provide a summary (abstract) and a web link to the full text.

Other information

Striving towards gender equality, diversity and equal conditions is both a question of quality for KTH and a given part of our values.

For information about processing of personal data in the recruitment process please read here.

We firmly decline all contact with staffing and recruitment agencies and job ad salespersons.

Disclaimer: In case of discrepancy between the Swedish original and the English translation of the job announcement, the Swedish version takes precedence.

 

 

Type of employment: Temporary position longer than 6 months
Contract type: Full time
First day of employment: According to agreement
Salary: Monthly salary according to KTH’s doctoral student salary agreement
Number of positions: 1
Working hours: 100%
City: Stockholm
County: Stockholms län
Country: Sweden
Reference number: J-2022-0661
Contact:

1. Eleni Nylén, HR administrator, rekrytering@eecs.kth.se
2. Qianwen Xu, Assistant Professor, qianwenx@kth.se
3. Patrik Hilber, Associate Professor, hilber@kth.se

Published: 2022-03-15
Last application date: 2022-04-01

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