University Professor Specialist field of Power Electronics

TU Wien is Austria's largest institution of research and higher education in the fields of technology and natural sciences. With over 26,000 students and more than 4000 scientists, research, teaching and learning dedicated to the advancement of science and technology have been conducted here for more than 200 years, guided by the motto "Technology for People". As a driver of innovation, TU Wien fosters close collaboration with business and industry and contributes to the prosperity of society.

At the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at TU Wien, the position of a University Professor (m_f) for the specialist field of Power Electronics with permanent (full-time) contractual employment is to be filled as of 1 September 2023.

This is a professorship regulated by § 98 of the 2002 Universities Act (UG).

The position as a professor for Power Electronics has been allocated in TU Wien’s development plan to the research areas “Energy and Environment“ as well as “Information and Communication Technology”. The affiliation to a research institute at the faculty will depend on the research profile of the successful applicant.

The Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology is one of eight faculties of TU Wien. It is active in five research areas: Photonics, Micro- and Nanoelectronics, Telecommunications, Systems and Control Engineering and Energy Technology and Energy Systems.

The mission of the advertised professorship will be to broadly cover the field of power electronics at the faculty. The professorship is intended to collaborate with the areas of “Biomedical Electronics”, “Microelectronics”, “System and Automation Engineering” and “Microsystems Technology” at the faculty as well as interdisciplinary with other faculties.

The research area of the new professorship shall have a focus in more than one of the following fields:

• Devices based on wide band-gap materials and/or advanced dielectrics for power circuits
• Multi-functional passives for power circuits: material characterization, electromagnetic and thermal modelling, design for HF / EMC
• 3D magnetic structures, integrated EMI filters, integrated cooling
• DC-converters, circuits for discrete power semiconductors and smart power ICs
• Embedded converters: multi-cell/multi-level structures
• Electronics for energy harvesting and wireless power transfer
• Multi-domain modelling and multi-objective optimization/design, measurement and monitoring
• Automated design of power electronics systems and virtual prototyping
• High power-density and high-efficiency power electronics
• High-frequency medium-voltage power electronics including active protection & insulation

In addition to research, a University Professor at TU Wien will have obligations to teach (in German and English) in the bachelor, master and PhD programmes; participation in the management of the institute and the faculty is also required.

The teaching duties include basic undergraduate courses in Electrical Engineering (circuit design in particular) as well as research-based lectures on Master-level.