What is it about ?
The MOBI Research Center (MOBI) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), and specifically its team EVERGi, is leading state-of-art research in the areas of Sustainable Energy Communities and Electric Mobility. As such it aims to contribute to the development of a new sustainable energy and mobility system. The EVERGi team is involved in several projects which create seamless collaboration between energy stakeholders and solutions developers. These projects use a marketplace that ensures secure data flows between data providers and solution providers, resulting in new data-driven business models, enhanced energy asset management and consumer participation in energy balancing.
What will you do ?
EVERGi wants to strengthen its team by hiring a post-doc with strong expertise in control, big data, and optimization techniques and strong affinity with autonomous vehicles and energy. With a senior profile, you will work as project manager of a National and European research project dealing with the optimization of energy and autonomousvehicles-centered mobility systems/. You will also supervise multiple PhD students. As such, you combine management (people and project) with research tasks. You closely work together with an interdisciplinary team of Engineers and interdisciplinary scientists in a co-design process for energy and mobility systems.
What do we expect?
You are a motivated expert in control, big data, and optimization techniques who can work independently and manage projects and people in an international environment and with the industry. You hold a doctoral degree in Engineering/Mathematics. In addition you are a good communicator that can write fluently in English. Fluency in Dutch is optional. You are a team player and willing to attend project meetings as well as conferences abroad.
What do we offer?
You start as an expert in a dynamic and stimulating working environment, in an extremely exciting and innovative technology domain. You work in a young, international team, in very close collaboration with industrial partners. We offer an attractive salary as well as extra-legal benefits such as employer paid public transport and hospitalization insurance, and low cost sports facilities just to name a few!
Interested?
Send your CV by 1st of September 2022 to: Ashleigh.Hruz@vub.be
More info
https://mobi.research.vub.be/en/sustainable-energy-communities