Call for postdoc candidates interested in applying for an MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship in Electrical Engineering and Power Electronics

UiT The Arctic University of Norway has established «The Arctic MSCA-PF program» (uit.no/project/arcticmsca) to recruit excellent young researchers planning to apply for a Marie Skƚodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (MSCA-PF) to pursue a career in research. We invite applications from promising young researchers within the field of Electrical Engineering and Power Electronics. The selected candidate will write a proposal for a 24-month MSCA-PF at UiT together with Associate Professor Bjarte Hoff. This is an opportunity to accelerate your research career while living in the city of Narvik , uniquely located at the top of the world surrounded by some of Europe’s last pristine wild nature.

This call is one of 70 from pre-selected supervisors at UiT The Arctic University of Norway through the “Arctic MSCA-PF program”. Successful postdoc candidates will be invited for a three-day MSCA-PF symposium June 4-6, 2024 (hybrid physical/digital event, see details at uit.no/project/arcticmsca/program-structure). At this event, the candidates will present their past research achievements, discuss future plans with their potential supervisor and learn how to write a successful MSCA-PF application. The selected candidates will, jointly with the supervisor, write the MSCA-PF application by the deadline of September 11, 2024.

In this call we search for talented, young researchers within the field of Electrical Engineering and Power Electronics  as presented by Associate Professor Hoff:

The research field of this position is within power electronics with applications to energy systems in electric transport. Electric transport is one of the solutions to reduce the use of fossil fuel, where energy can be stored in batteries and/or fuel cells. Electric transport depends on power electronic converters to utilize the stored energy. High switching frequency will also result in common mode leakage currents through parasitic capacitances, causing numerous challenges depending on the type of transport. For maritime vessels, there might be batteries and fuel cells located in multiple locations for system redundancy. This adds to the common mode challenges, giving multiple paths for leakage currents and grounding issues. For onshore vehicles, the challenges are more towards compact efficient solutions with an optimal combination of energy storage elements. This position will go further into analysing energy systems in electric transport with focus on optimal design, common mode, and grounding challenges, with mitigation of leakage currents through novel use of power converters, galvanic isolation, and other suitable methods. The postdoctoral candidate will join a team of professors, associate professors, PhD students, master students and two research groups (“Electromechanical Systems” and “Hydrogen, fuel cells and clean energy storage technologies”). The work is supported by participation in the Norwegian research centre HYDROGENi, and the European projects HyEkoTank and SAMHand. 

Please send your CV (max 3 pages) and describe a research project that will strengthen and complement the presented research (max 2 pages) to bjarte.hoff@uit.no by Feb 16th 2024. Mark your application "Arctic MSCA". Successful candidates will be contacted in late March 2024.