Stellenticket Freie Universität Berlin

The announced pos­i­tion fol­lows the suc­ces­sion of the pro­fess­or­ship „Energy Dis­tri­bu­tion and High Voltage Engin­eer­ing“ and „Decent­ral­ized Energy Sys­tems“ of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Har­ald Schwarz. These chairs will be restruc­tured as „High Voltage Engin­eer­ing and Elec­trical Sys­tems“ and, in a second announce­ment, “Decent­ral­ized Energy Sys­tems and Elec­trical Net­works”.

This chair has an import­ant role in the realign­ment of the energy region Lusa­tia. In rela­tion with this realign­ment sev­eral major pro­jects are planned at the BTU within the frame of an “Energy Innov­a­tion Cen­ter”. The new pro­fess­or­ship is sup­posed to par­ti­cip­ate act­ively in these pro­jects and to cooper­ate with the new energy related insti­tutes of DLR and Fraunhofer Gesell­schaft in Cottbus. It is expec­ted that the research of the chair is dir­ec­ted towards the restruc­tur­ing of the pro­duc­tion of elec­trical energy from fossil to renew­able sources, and era­di­ate espe­cially into the area Lusa­tia.

We are look­ing for a per­son­al­ity who is able to com­pre­hens­ively rep­res­ent this field in research and teach­ing. In the con­text of the main research topic "energy trans­ition and decar­bon­isa­tion" at the BTU, the fol­low­ing main research top­ics are to be worked on:

• Mod­el­ling, cal­cu­la­tion and test­ing of com­plex mul­tilayer insu­la­tion sys­tems, also tak­ing into account future more envir­on­ment friendly insu­la­tion mater­i­als,
• Impact of har­mon­ics on the break­down beha­viour of insu­lat­ing mater­ial sys­tems due to the increase of inverter based gen­er­a­tion sys­tems in high-voltage net­works,
• Medium, high and ultra-high voltage elec­trical power equip­ment and sys­tems, both in HVAC and HVDC-sys­tems,
• Tech­no­logy and integ­ra­tion of sys­tems for energy stor­age or sec­tor coup­ling in high-voltage and ultra-high-voltage switchgears,
• Mod­el­ling and test­ing of high-voltage equip­ment under extreme cli­matic con­di­tions with high voltage or high cur­rent load­ing,
• Elec­tro­mag­netic com­pat­ib­il­ity in elec­trical power and drive sys­tems includ­ing light­ning pro­tec­tion and ground­ing as well as power qual­ity meas­ure­ment tech­no­logy,
• Fur­ther devel­op­ment of exist­ing and new meas­ure­ment and test meth­ods for high-voltage and ultra-high-voltage devices and sys­tems, if neces­sary using AI or algo-rithms of digital sig­nal pro­cessing.

The pro­fess­or­ship is respons­ible for the sci­entific and admin­is­trat­ive man­age­ment of sev­eral large labor­at­or­ies, such as the large and small high-voltage hall includ­ing the large cli­matic cham­ber and the EMC labor­at­or­ies includ­ing the anechoic cham­ber, the mode stir­ring cham­ber, the GTEM cell and the test sta­tion for con­duc­ted EMC.

Other duties res­ult from the require­ments set by § 42 Branden­bur­gisches Hoch­schul­ge­setz (Higher Edu­ca­tion Act of the State of Branden­burg - BbgHG) in con­junc­tion with § 3 BbgHG.

The can­did­ate is expec­ted to have rel­ev­ant exper­i­ence in research in sev­eral of the above­men­tioned areas and to be will­ing to par­ti­cip­ate in joint research pro­jects with other depart­ments of the fac­ulty and the uni­versity and to con­tinue ongo­ing research activ­it­ies of the chair.

In teach­ing, par­ti­cip­a­tion in Ger­man and Eng­lish is expec­ted in the courses of study in Energy Tech­no­logy and Energy Eco­nom­ics, Power Engin­eer­ing, Elec­trical Engin­eer­ing and Indus­trial Engin­eer­ing as well as other engin­eer­ing courses of study. Basics of elec­trical Energy, High Voltage Tech­no­logy and Elec­tro­mag­netic Com­pat­ib­il­ity are assigned to this chair. Fur­ther devel­op­ments of the teach­ing offers are expec­ted.

Please refer to §§ 41 para­graph 1 no. 1 - 4a and 43 BbgHG for Pre­requis­ites and con­di­tions of employ­ment.

BTU Cottbus-Sen­ften­berg is com­mit­ted to equal oppor­tun­it­ies and diversity and strives for a bal­anced gender ratio in all employee groups. Per­son with a severe dis­ab­il­ity and their equals are given pri­or­ity in the case of equal suit­ab­il­ity.
As a fam­ily-ori­ented Uni­versity, BTU offers a Dual-Career-Ser­vices.

The applic­a­tion, includ­ing aca­demic cer­ti­fic­ates, cur­riculum vitae, a list of pub­lic­a­tions, as well as proof of teach­ing exper­i­ence, should be sent by e-mail in a single pdf file with a max. 7 MB until 31.05.2022 to:

Dean of the Fac­ulty of Mech­an­ical Engin­eer­ing, Elec­trical and Energy Sys­tems
BTU Cottbus - Sen­ften­berg, Post­fach 101344, 03013 Cottbus

Email: fakultaet3+bewerbungen@b-tu.de

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