PhD-Position - Design and Operation of Local Energy Communities

You would like to use your engineering skills to make an effective contribution to solving the major challenges facing society? You would like to be involved in design, development and manufacturing scientific and technical devices, systems and processes for which no technical or commercial solution yet exist? Then join us at the Institute of Technology and...

Your Job:This PhD project focuses on modelling and simulating future gas grids, exploring transformation pathways, and developing cross-sectoral simulation frameworks to support informed decision-making. Your tasks in detail: Investigate the impacts of future transformation pathways on the operational security and resilience of gas and hydrogen...

Your Job:In this PhD project, you will explore the stability and dynamic behaviour of inverter-based power systems, using state-of-the-art supercomputing infrastructure. You’ll work at the cutting edge of energy systems and computational engineering, developing scalable methods to simulate and secure IBR-dominated grids. Your key responsibilities include:...

**Your Job**: - develop numerical and analytical techniques to simulate and control the time dynamics of quantum technology devices - implement and optimize gate operations and artificial Hamiltonians on solid state devices - cooperate and actively work as a theorist with experimental partners improving quantum hardware - design and implement optimization...

Your Job:The PhD position is offered within the Cluster of Excellence PhenoRob – Robotics and Phenotyping for Sustainable Crop Production. We are looking for a highly motivated PhD candidate to join our world-leading research program in robotics, remote sensing, and data-driven approaches for sustainable agriculture. PhenoRob’s mission is to transform...

**Your Job**: The accelerated development of advanced materials is essential for addressing major challenges in energy, mobility, and sustainability. Traditional trial-and-error methods in materials design are often too slow, costly, and inefficient to cope with the increasing complexity of performance and resource-efficiency requirements. This collaborative...

Shaping change: This is what drives us at Forschungszentrum Jülich. As a member of the Helmholtz Association with almost 7,600 employees, we conduct research into options for a digitalized society, a climate-friendly energy system, and a resource-efficient economy. We combine natural, life, and engineering sciences in the fields of information, energy, and...

Your Job: Design and development of an in-house X-ray beamline for long term operando investigation of chemical hydrogen storage reactors Unravelling of relationships between catalyst structure and morphology with its performance (reactivity, selectivity, efficiency) and degradation under realistic long term deployment conditions Coordination and execution...

**Your Job**: - Fabricate and test area-dependent memristive devices with electron transparent top electrodes (e.g. graphene) for operando spectroscopy - Develop device geometries suitable for operando spectroscopy for selected other device types in close collaboration with other TRR members in Aachen, Jülich or Dresden. - Investigate devices by PEEM...

Your Job: Design and development of a modular high throughput sample environment for chemical hydrogen storage investigations under realistic conditions Design, optimization, and testing of sample environment for reactors in serial production for operando studies Operando investigation of catalyst structures using high energy X-ray methods (scattering,...