05 Postdoctoral Fellowship at Aalborg University, Denmark

The postdoc positions are part of the EU Horizon Europe projects“CIRCWIND- Development of CIRCular optimised material solutions for WIND turbine blades and support structures”and“MADE4WIND– Innovative circular materials and design methods for the development of Floating Wind Turbine components for offshore Wind Farms of the future”.Both projects aim to develop and validate innovative technologies for current and future wind turbines(WT), to enhance reliability and lifetime, performance, recyclability, operability and maintainability, as well as to find cost-efficient pathways towards complete circularity in a context where a growing number of WT are reaching their end-of-life.

Partners behind the EU projects consist of international and world-leading experts gathered from research institutions, material suppliers, and wind turbine manufacturers.

The topic for the MADE4WIND project is related to composite blade recycling technologies by exploiting a new generation of thermoset resins for the manufacture and recycling of composites. This new resin may be dissolved using a mild solvolysis process enabling to extract the fibre reinforcement materials. In this project, the postdoc will focus on improving the recyclability and circularity of the extracted fibre reinforcement materials with the aim to re-use the recycled fibre materials in the manufacture of new composites. The ideal candidate for this position has documented skills within the following domain-specific areas: composite material science, experimental characterization of fibrous materials, polymer and composite recycling processes, fibre fabric handling and processing, and development of new experiments and associated data reduction schemes. We do expect that some of these skills will have to be learned during the project and thus it is not required to have all the skills listed. At the time of starting in the postdoc position, the candidate must have obtained a PhD degree.

The Postdoc position is part of the project”Association Participation among Immigrant Children: A Vehicle for Integration?” funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark. The project investigates how participation in associations such as football clubs, scout troops, role-playing groups, and choirs varies among children of immigrants from different social and ethnic backgrounds in Sweden, the Netherlands, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Denmark. Additionally, it examines how their participation affects their educational performance, social networks, and values.

The Postdoc will be responsible for conducting Work Package 2. This work package examines how participation in associations affects various aspects of immigrant children’s integration in Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, England, and Denmark. Key indicators of integration to be studied include educational performance, social networks, and values. The work package will employ advanced quantitative methods, such as panel data and instrumental variable estimators, to analyze data from the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study in Four European Countries(CILS-EU) and the Danish Citizenship Survey, combined with administrative register data.

Associate Professor Hans-Peter Y. Qvist, the project’s principal investigator, will provide scientific guidance to the Postdoc.

We are excited to announce a postdoc within a new research project that examines how weight-related understandings and practices shape body images and well-being of school children. The main responsibilities of the successful candidate are initiating and conducting ethnographic fieldwork within peer-groups of school children. Furthermore, the candidate is responsible for organizing member reflection workshops with the children involved and communicating findings to scientific and public audiences. As part of the broader research project, the postdoc will also collaborate with a PhD scholar, whose go-along studies with children will span school, home and leisure settings.

Aalborg University contributes to the knowledge building of the global society as well as the development of prosperity, welfare and culture of Danish society. This is accomplished through research, research-based education, public sector services and knowledge collaboration. Aalborg University educates students for the future and activities are based on a dynamic and transformative collaboration with the surrounding
community.

AAU Energy is a dynamic engineering research department in continuous growth and inspiring surroundings.
AAU Energy has a very international environment and covers all areas of clean and sustainable energy systems of the future within electrical, thermal and mechatronic energy technology. AAU Energy has campuses in both Aalborg and Esbjerg, this position is located in Aalborg.

The mission is to be world leading in both research and research-based education of the energy engineers of the future. AAU Energy has approx. 300 employees of many nationalities, of which 25 are administrative staff. In addition, AAU Energy constantly has approx. 50-70 guest researchers from around the world.

Research and teaching are in the absolute world elite in the field of energy, and we have extensive and leading workshop and laboratory facilities, where research and innovation are carried out in direct collaboration with industry to a great extent. The position is offered in relation to the research program”Bioenergy and Bioproducts” and the Postdoc will be positioned in the Thermal Engineering section.

Research areas will be within comprehensive CFD modelling of oxy-fuel combustion of biomass(or biomass/ coal co-firing) in a 30MW circulating fluidized bed(CFB) boiler, CFD validation with existing experimental data in the boiler, and then CFD-based virtual testing of this boiler for advancing oxy-fuel CFB technology(e.g., new gas-staging, oxygen-staging, oxy-steam combustion). It will be exciting to closely collaborate with highly competent partners across the EU on different oxy-combustion CCS technologies such as oxy-CFB, CLC, and oxy-MILD.

In electronic engineering, Aalborg University is known worldwide for its high academic quality and societal impact. The Department of Electronic Systems employs more than 200 people, of which about 90 are PhD students, and about 40% of all employees are internationals. In total, it has more than 600 students in its BSc and MSc programs, which are based on AAU’s problem-based learning model. The department leverages its unique research infrastructure and lab facilities to conduct world-leading fundamental and applied research within communication, networks, control systems, AI, sound, cyber security, and robotics. The department plays an active role in transferring inventions and results into applications in close collaboration with industrial partners worldwide. You can read more about the department atwww.es.aau.dk. 

The Connectivity Section is seeking a highly motivated and talented postdoctoral researcher to join our team to contribute to its significant research output, reputation, and visibility outside. The successful candidate will contribute to the design and development of cross-layers protocols and control strategies for future generation of wireless networks with a goal-oriented perspective. The research will be carried out contributing to an EU project related to semantic and goal-orient communications. This part-time position offers an excellent opportunity to contribute to innovative research in the intersection of sensing, communication, and intelligent network systems.