PhD Candidate in Utilization of Flexible Hydropower in 100% Renewable Power Systems

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The Department of Electric Power Engineering has a vacancy (100% position) as PhD candidate within the area of: Utilization of flexible hydropower in 100 % renewable power systems.

For a position as a PhD Candidate, the goal is a completed doctoral education up to an obtained doctoral degree.  

The appointment is financed by NTNU through its call for interdisciplinary research collaboration in sustainability. The position is part of the SusHydro project that seeks to find innovative and cross-sectoral solutions that shed light on a wider range of services that hydropower and water reservoirs can contribute and shed light on how synergies and conflicts between different sustainability goals can be identified and balanced. SusHydro will do this by putting together a team of experienced professionals and talented young researchers with a background in hydrology and water resource analysis, life cycle assessment, modeling of the energy system, economics, biology and social sciences. Solutions will be developed through case studies in Norway and areas of Africa with rich hydropower resources. 

The main supervisor of the PhD candidate will be Professor Magnus Korpås, Department of Electric Power Engineering. Co-supervisors will be Professor Francesca Verones of the Industrial Ecology Programme at Department of Energy and Process Engineering and Professor Stein-Erik Fleten at Department of Industrial Economics and Technology Management.

The prospective candidate will be part of the Electricity Markets and Energy System Planning (EMESP) research group .

The position reports to the Head of Department.