Ph D position on integrated energy system and climate scenarios for offshore wind

(ref. BAP-2024-654)
Laatst aangepast: 11/10/24

A KU Leuven consortium consisting of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and the Department of Electrical Engineering is seeking a Ph D student to work in the framework of the project "Wind-farm co-design in the North-Sea basin given climate and market uncertainty". You will work with two other Ph D students on this project, and your focus will be on integrating scenarios of the future development of the energy system and the climate over the North Sea.

You will be supervised by Prof. Erik Delarue and Prof. Nicole van Lipzig and will spend an equal amount of time in both groups. Prof. Erik Delarue is member of the division of Applied Mechanics and Energy Conversion (TME) of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and active in Energy Ville. He is leading the Energy Systems Integration and Modeling (ESIM) research group, working on advanced modeling of energy systems. The research spans different type of model development (unit commitment, system planning, equilibrium modeling, agent-based modeling) with applications regarding energy policy, and energy market design. Prof. Nicole van Lipzig is leading the regional climate studies group of the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences. Their research group focuses on regional climate modelling for offshore wind energy, for developing climate scenarios including extreme weather events like heavy precipitation and heat stress. They have projects in Europe, East Africa and Antarctica. They are experts in atmospheric processes, land-sea-atmosphere interactions and climate change impacts.

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Interviews will take place on 8 November 2025 from 14:00-17:00.

You can apply for this job no later than October 30, 2024 via the online application tool

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