Postdoc in Open-source model development for Advanced Digital Twins

If you are establishing your career as a scientist within advanced digitalized manufacturing and you are looking for a multi-partner consortium driven project for further developing and applying your advanced skills, it is right here in front of you. 

At DTU Construct, Section of Manufacturing Engineering, you will be at the forefront of developments in open-source tools for digitalization of manufacturing processes and products.   

Applications are now invited for a three-year Postdoc position, within the field of advanced digital twins, spanning competences in advanced multiphysics modelling (preferably, but not necessarily limited to, laser-based materials processing) and/or advanced data-driven reduced-order modelling and optimization. The postdoc position will involve digital twin development within two projects. The first is a Horizon Europe “DILAPRO” project.  The second project is related to the Center for Robust Electronics Design “CRED”. Both projects are anchored at the Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at the Technical University of Denmark.

The overall DILAPRO project aims to contribute towards the twin Green and Digital Transitions within European manufacturing via the development of two ground-breaking software tools for laser-based production of complex products. The present postdoc position will directly contribute towards the establishment of one of these tools, namely DILAFACT (Digital LaserFactory) - which will be a sustainable and scalable platform for laser process planning via Digital Twins of laser-material interactions, including additive, subtractive, and thermal processes. 

The overall CRED project is dedicated to addressing the corrosion reliability and robustness requirements of high voltage electronics today. The present postdoc position will directly contribute towards this through open-source multiphysics software development for diffusion and convection problems, while collaborating with the various associated experiments focused PhD and postdoc projects within CRED.

More specifically, the positions will overall look towards connecting different advanced software tools (of multi-physics and data-based models) within a modular framework that allows digital twin driven optimization. The positions will consequently also focus on extraction of reduced order models using Gaussian Process modelling and/or Polynomial Chaos Expansion methods and deploying them in within the digital twins of the two projects.

Responsibilities and qualifications

You will be responsible for the development of workflow tools supporting the digital twin development toolbox. The focus of the positions will be to validate advanced, calibrated multi-physics computational models already available at DTU, migrating them into open-source formats, and subsequently extracting robust, fast reduced order models implementable on digital infrastructure (e.g. cloud computing). 

The work will involve active engagement with various consortium partners in a fast-paced R&D process, as well as encompass extensive dissemination activities (at conferences and seminars). You will work on digital twin development of three production lines spread over Europe as well as a research AM production line in Denmark. You will further work with the pioneering group on electronics corrosion reliability within Europe, establishing the core modelling and digital twin capabilities. Further, you are expected to collaborate extensively with the current teams working on DILAPRO & CRED at DTU as well as other colleagues within the Section. 

Application procedure 

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