Postdoctoral Scholar, Center for Microgrid Research
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, modeling and analysis, control architecture design and communication-based control and optimization, system integration and testing. 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. The St. Thomas Center for Microgrid Research (CMR) is seeking candidates for a postdoctoral scholar position in the area of microgrid control. The scholar will be part of a rapidly growing team of engineers and researchers and will have a unique opportunity to work simultaneously on a real-world industry-grade microgrid and state-of-the-art Hardware-in-the-loop HIL testbeds.
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
- This project is funded by the Department of Defense. Export control laws define US person as US citizen, permanent resident (green card), or refugee/asylee. DoD restrictions on project personnel exist for some, but not all, non-US persons such as citizens from China, Iran, and Russia
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 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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Education Level
Ph.D. or professional degree
Number of Employees
1,001-5,000 employees
