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address at the end of this notice and not to me.
Colin Aitken.
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Research Fellow
Electronic and Electrical Engineering
(FIXED TERM UNTIL 31 JULY 2009)
SALARY £27,466 - £30,913
UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE
Closing date: Monday 21 July 2008
Applications are invited for the fixed-term post of Research Fellow,
based in the Institute for Energy and Environment at the University of
Strathclyde, for Modelling of the Wind Resource for Generation of
Electricity in Britain.
The successful candidate will join a significant collaboration between
the University of Strathclyde, the University of Manchester and Imperial
College known as the Centre for Sustainable Electricity and Distributed
Generation (SEDG) and supported by the UK government department for
Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) and a Steering Group
comprising representatives of the UK electricity supply industry and
government.
Access to real, accurate and representative wind power data sets of
appropriate resolution and extent (geographical and historical duration)
is a critical enabler for development of large penetrations of wind
generation in the GB electricity system. The Research Fellow on this
project will work with colleagues at Strathclyde, the other institutions
involved in the SEDG Centre and key power sector actors to collate the
required raw data sets and develop appropriate statistical
representations of wind speeds and models of the wind to electric power
conversion that can enable the assessment of generation resources and
the investigation of issues around the development of the electricity
network infrastructure, security of supply and operation of the power
system.
The successful candidate will have:
• expertise in use of computing facilities for analysis and management
of large sets of data;
• good general knowledge of and experience in application of statistics.
They should have, or expect to have gained by the time of the
appointment, a PhD in a numerical subject and have been successful in
publishing research in a peer-reviewed English language international
journal. They should also have the ability to communicate effectively in
English both verbally and in writing.
Ideally, the candidate would also have experience in one or more of the
following:
• use of auto-regression models and/or artificial neural networks;
• wind, climate or other atmospheric modelling;
• wind farm energy conversion characteristics;
• current issues in the electricity supply industry in the UK or Europe;
• computer programming – Java, C/C++ or Fortran;
• development of browser-accessed databases;
• leadership of research and liaison with external clients.
The candidate should also welcome the opportunity to contribute to the
wider activities of the research group.
The duration of the appointment is 1 year and the starting salary will
be dependent on the skills and experience of the successful candidate.
The starting date should ideally be no later than August 2008.
Subsequent opportunities are also expected to arise.
For more information about the Centre for Sustainable Electricity and
Distributed Generation, see http://www.sedg.ac.uk/ and for the Institute
for Energy and Environment at Strathclyde, see
http://www.instee.strath.ac.uk/content/
For an application pack visit http://vacancies.strath.ac.uk or contact
Human Resources, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G1 1XQ. Tel. 0141
553 4133, quoting ref: JA/R39/2008.
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