Doctoral Thesis: Electric-vehicle fast charging station with grid-support functionalities (E2GO DC8) (f/m/div)*

We are looking for a candidate who meets the following requirements:

• Creative and ambitious, hard-working and persistent
• MSc degree in electrical engineering or any other relevant program
• Experience in small-signal modeling and controller design of DC/DC and AC/DC converters
• Hands on experience on the implementation of digital control of power converters using DSP, FPGA and ARM, etc.
• Good communication skills and the attitude to participate successfully in the work of a research team
• Fluent English language skills (both spoken and written)

Conditions of employment

• The successful candidates will receive from the respective employer an attractive salary in accordance with the MSCA regulations for Doctoral Candidate researchers and will include a mobility allowance.
• The guaranteed PhD funding is for 36 months. In addition to their individual scientific projects, all fellows will benefit from further continuing education, which includes internships and secondments, a variety of training modules as well as transferable skills courses and attractive participation in conferences.

For your application please consider the following:

Eligibility and mobility criteria (mandatory requirements EU rules)

• Supported researchers must be doctoral candidates, i.e. not already in possession of a doctoral degree at the date of the recruitment.
• Recruited researchers can be of any nationality and must comply with the following mobility rule: they must not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in the country of the recruiting beneficiary for more than 12 months in the 36 months immediately before their recruitment date. For 'International European Research Organisations' (IERO), 'international organisations', or entities created under Union law, the researchers must not have spent more than 12 months in the 36 months immediately before their recruitment in the same appointing organisation. Compulsory national service, short stays such as holidays and time spent by the researcher as part of a procedure for obtaining refugee status under the Geneva Convention (1) are not considered. (1) 1951 Refugee Convention and the 1967 Protocol.

Selection Process

The selection process contains two phases:

• In the first phase, a pre-selection of possible candidates will be performed by Recruitment Committee. Based on CV, experience, skills, and motivation letter and a few round interviews, the Recruitment Committee will reduce the candidate list to a max of three candidates for each position.
• In the second phase, the selected candidates will be invited to an official recruitment event in TU/e campus (NL) for the final interview. In the recruitment event all the selected candidates for the 9 positions will meet each other with the supervisors.

E2GO deals with a recruitment process based on the European principles of openness, fairness and transparency that guarantee a selection of candidates in respect of merit and gender balance.

Please, note that applications that do not follow the announcement’s guidelines will not be considered.

Application Procedure:

• Applications must be submitted to both Infineon Technologies (AT) and Aalborg University (DK). The application for Aalborg University (DK) can be submitted at their website.

Documents requested:

• Eligibility Statement: for verifying MSCA requirements, the candidates clearly indicate exact dates of (1) degree entitling to pursue a PhD (typically a Master of Science degree or Engineering degree), (2) positions and country of residence in the last 5 years.
• Complete CV (Europass format obligatory): The candidates are allowed to pursue a maximum of three positions in the E2GO programme. If more than one position is pursued, please clearly indicate all the positions that applied with priorities on the first page of the CV.
• Motivation letter (maximum 1 page per position applied) should state why the applicant wishes to pursue the specific research and why she thinks s/he is an ideal candidate for the position.
• Scan of certificates showing BSc, MSc and other courses followed, with grades and if it is possible a ranking.
• Up to 3 recommendation letters and/or contact e-mail addresses with a brief professional description (title, position, relationship with applicant) of the referring person.
• If possible, up to two selected publications (e.g. MSc thesis, conference paper) in English.
• The applicant must provide and upload a proper project description, which describes the applicant’s initial thoughts and ideas related to the specific project applied for. This includes a brief state-of-the-art (including short list of references), a time schedule and how the applicant intends to shed light on the project objectives. The project description should have a length of 4-5 pages.