Research Fellow - Impact Accelerator

Research Fellow - Impact Accelerator
Research Centre for Computational Science and Mathematical Modelling
£35,333 - £44,737 per annum, pro rata
As one of Coventry's biggest employers, we offer some pretty impressive benefits including an excellent pension scheme and generous holiday allowances.

Coventry University is looking for two talented Research Fellows to join us and deliver, publish and communicate high-impact research work within an UKRI-funded Energy Revolution Research Consortium (EnergyRev).

EnergyRev aims to coordinate and integrate existing UK world-class knowledge, research teams and facilities to provide advice, research and innovation support to help ensure the success of the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF) Prospering from the Energy Revolution (PFER) programme. It is an interdisciplinary consortium comprising >20 universities, led by Professor Stephen McArthur at the University of Strathclyde. Given the high momentum, creative capacity and high-profile of this research consortium, this is an exciting opportunity to work with world-class researchers and deliver important, meaningful and impactful research.

This role sits within the EnergyRev work package on Cyber-Physical Infrastructure, led by Prof. Elena Gaura (https://pureportal.coventry.ac.uk/en/persons/elena-gaura ) and Prof. James Brusey (https://pureportal.coventry.ac.uk/en/persons/james-brusey ) ,at Coventry University, in collaboration with the universities of Strathclyde, Keele, Sheffield and Cardiff.

The post holder will:

(1) further the work of the Catalogue of Projects on Energy Data by Improving functions and features to meet stakeholders' requests, which will ensure platform is and remains relevant and timely

(2) Build networks between researchers, industrial and policymakers through a variety of events, activities, and social media campaigns, and

(3) Work on EnergyREV Deliverable 3 Virtual Power Planet to make it an open access data source.

This role is interdisciplinary, entailing collaborative working with other researchers in the EnergyRev consortium, including data scientists, and computer science researchers.

You will be working towards a PhD and have an interest in supporting the development of the UK energy landscape.

For informal enquiries about this post please contact Professor James Brusey [email protected] or Dr Alison Halford [email protected] .

The position is available for a fixed term period, starting as soon as possible post interview and ending 31st March 2023.

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