12 Postdoctoral Fellowship at Aalborg University, Denmark

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. 

The two-year postdoc position is part of the research project“Edge AI for High Stability-Robustness of Power Electronics in Modern Power Systems” funded by the Villum Foundation. The project aims at solving current instability problems with power converters in, e.g., wind turbines, by changing and modernising the control architecture. This will be achieved using AI at the edge(deep learning applied in microcontrollers), and is expected to push the boundaries and capabilities of state of the art through advances in signal processing and system identification theories.

The Department of Materials and Production(MP) is a wide-ranging research and educational environment at Aalborg University. The Department’s mission is to meet the future’s demands for new materials and production systems by directing the whole value chain from basic material understanding, materials’ applications in mechanical constructions, industrial production, and management. The department has several strong, international, and innovative research groups which comprise everything from basic science to strategic and applied research. The activities encompass research as well as education within materials, mechanics, physics, production technique, and industrial management and innovation.

Projektet er en etnografisk undersøgelse af relationer mellem nærpolitibetjente og beboere i udvalgte udsatte boligområder. Projektlederen(lektor Anja Kublitz) studerer relationer til politiet set fra beboerne i Mjølnerparken’s perspektiv, mens post.doc’en er placeret hos Vestegnens politi og skal studere deres relationer til beboere i udsatte boligområder fra politibetjentenes perspektiv. Der er etableret samarbejde med og adgang til Vestegnens politi. Post.doc’en bliver ansvarlig for det delprojekt der vedrører Vestegnens politi. Metodisk tager projektet afsæt i deltager-observation og kvalitative interviews. Teoretisk trækker projektet som udgangspunkt på litteratur om intimitet og på antropologiske begreber om mennesket som et socialt og relationelt væsen. Målet er at udvikle en ny teoretisk tilgang, der anskuer politiarbejde som en særlig form for intime sociale relationer.

Enzymatic bioelectrosynthesis is an emerging field of using relatively-cheap electricity to drive biocatalysis reactions for the synthesis of high value-added molecules. Reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide, i.e., NADH, is a very common electron donor used in many biological processes. NADH dependent enzymes are versatile to catalyze many useful reduction reactions. In this context, electrochemical NADH regeneration holds the key for enzymatic bioelectrosynthesis. This postdoctoral position is announced as part of the project called“Enzymatic Bioelectrosynthesis for Developing Novel Pharmaceuticals” funded by a Novo Nordisk Foundation Start Package grant with the aim of establishing a compact system for electrochemical NADH regeneration and enabled chiral molecule synthesis.

The position requires that the candidate has a solid background in HF-AC-link power converters, multilevel topologies, medium voltage(MV) converters, battery storage systems and electric vehicle charging stations for MV and microgrids applications. Therefore, it is required that the candidate has both practical and industrial experience within power converters design, magnetic design for high-frequency transformers-inductors, thermal design, and power loss calculations. 

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”Intelligent Energy Systems and Flexible Markets” and the Postdoc will be positioned to the section for Applied Power Electronic Systems.

Research areas will be related to developing models and tools for cognitive sector coupling as well as planning, operation, and business cases of integrated energy communities with appropriate market structures.

The position involves teaching and research within the field of Indoor Environment and Energy Engineering. Research will mainly be concentrated around the building’s smartness through minimization of energy utilization(cost saving solutions), maximization of self-consumption and Renewable Energy Sources investment and personalization, reduction of CO2 footprint and improvement of comfortable and healthy indoor conditions. Moreover, research is strongly focused on field experiments and real building case application.

This postdoc project focuses mainly on the experimental characterization of the mechanisms responsible for initiation and propagation of damage in SC-FRP adhesive joints during fatigue loading. This involves characterisation of damage events on scales from µm to cm. Models of the mechanism and parameters of the events should be proposed based on this characterisation. Another researcher in the project will handle the following computational modelling aspects. Collaboration between this experimentally focused postdoc and the researcher focused on modelling is planned. The primary topic in the postdoc project is experimental mechanics, which in this project involves the themes: damage and fracture mechanics, fibre-reinforced polymers, test under cyclic loading, development of test methods and fixtures, specification and preparation of fibre-reinforced polymer test specimens, simulation of progressive damage events using FEA, image-based tracking of multiple damage events, digital image correlation, and data analysis of large data sets. The ideal candidate has documented skills within these domain-specific areas. In addition, knowledge of the current state-of-the-art developments by the CraCS research group at Aalborg University and familiarization with the project in progress will give a clear advantage. At the time of starting in the postdoc position, the candidate must have obtained a PhD degree.