Postdoctoral Scholar, Center for Microgrid Research

University of St Thomas • St. Paul, MN

12d • Onsite

About The Position

The University of St. Thomas invites qualified candidates to apply for a Postdoctoral Scholar position at the Center for Microgrid Research. The position will support the Center’s research on reliability, security, and resilience of microgrid systems. This includes advanced control system design, system optimization, modeling and analysis, control architecture design and communication-based control and optimization, system integration and testing. This position is grant-funded. We anticipate this to be a one year, benefits-eligible term appointment, dependent on the needs of the department. The position duration is renewable to up to 3 years depending on performance, department needs, and availability of funds. The successful candidate will be required to conduct independent research, develop new ideas and contribute to research proposals, engage with faculty, staff, and students, prepare manuscripts for publication, and present their work at conferences.

Requirements

• Completed a PhD degree (U.S. or foreign equivalent), in Electrical Engineering, Energy Engineering, or a closely related.
• Proven expertise in microgrid modeling and controls in Matlab/Simulink or similar
• Demonstrated publication record
• Proven communication, time management, and teamwork skills
• US person as US citizen, permanent resident (green card), or refugee/asylee.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with modeling high power systems such as advanced inverters (grid-forming techniques), generators, flywheels, motors, Electric vehicles chargers, or nonlinear loads
• Experience in hardware-in-the-loop testbeds and digital twin creation
• Experience with SEL RTAC 3555 or similar
• Experience in advanced microgrid controls such as nonlinear methods and data-driven techniques.

Responsibilities

• Develop innovative solutions and technical approaches to design, modeling, and implementation of advanced optimization and control systems in microgrid applications.
• Create a digital twin of the current and planned microgrid and test control systems on the digital twin and real-world microgrid
• Serve as lead author on project reports, journal articles, conference papers, and presentations.
• Develop experimental test plans to collect data to validate modeling and analysis work.
• Leads and supports technical proposals for developing new projects
• Meet grant goals and deliverables by completing assigned research tasks and reports.
• Supervise and lead student researchers (undergraduate and graduate).
• Work closely with the Center’s director and the CMR team.
• Contributes to the overall success of the Center by performing other essential duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Benefits

• Tuition Remission for employees, spouses, and dependents
• Generous Retirement Contributions to support your future
• Comprehensive Health Coverage including medical, dental, and vision
• Fully Paid Insurance : disability, life, and AD&D
• Paid Parental Leave to support growing families

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree