Research Fellow in Control Systems

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Post reference: ENG5039

The School of Engineering is seeking to appoint a new Research Fellow to join the recently established the Power and Energy Systems Research Institute (PESRI), which is already exhibiting significant income growth and partnerships with industrial partners from SMEs to Multinationals. The sucessful candidate will work on the EU FP7 funded project ‘Multibody Advanced Airship for Transportation (MAAT)’. The MAAT Project aims to analyze the feasibility of an air transport system through a newly designed airship based on a cruiser/feeder concept. The MAAT project consortium is global in scale, with partners in Europe, Russia and South America.

The MAAT Project aims to analyze the feasibility of an air transport system through a newly designed airship based on a cruiser/feeder concept. It is the union of an airship system which remains at high altitude for a long time (cruiser) and several feeder craft which connect it to the ground. The sucessful candidate will possess core skills in real-time control systems design, preferably with some knowledge of the application of distributed control architectures, optimization and communication. Hands-on practical experience, particularly in the area of electrical machines and drives, energy conversion and renewable energy would be an advantage. Ideally candidates should possess a PhD or equivalent experience, and applications are particularly welcome from candidates with aerospace backgrounds.

You will contribute to the University’s ambition to achieve international recognition as a research intensive institution and will be expected to design, conduct and project manage original research in the subject areas as well contribute to wider activities of the PESRI. Evidence of authorship of research outputs of national/international standing is essential as is the ability to work collaboratively as part of a team.

The University of Lincoln was awarded HEFCE Strategic Development Funding to establish a new School of Engineering at its Brayford Campus in the centre of Lincoln in 2009. This is a groundbreaking initiative, in collaboration with Siemens and other companies in the engineering sector that seeks to develop engineering education for the 21st century. With a specialism in power and energy, and the scope to develop related areas, the school offers undergraduate, postgraduate and research degrees as well as engaging in research, knowledge transfer and employer engagement. Engineering at Lincoln is research led and informed, and we are currently carrying out funded research programmes with a diverse portfolio of UK and International companies and funding bodies in application areas ranging from gas turbine remote monitoring and diagnostics, to low carbon airport operations, to bio engineering and cell modelling.

For further information see http://www.lincoln.ac.uk/home/engineering/

Informal enquiries about the post can be made to Professor Paul Stewart (PVC Research and Director of the PESRI via email: pstewart@lincoln.ac.uk).

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If you have any queries please email jobs@lincoln.ac.uk or telephone 01522 886 775. Please quote the job reference number and title in all correspondence.

Closing date: 8^th May 2013

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