Centre for Transport Studies
Imperial College London

Six postdoctoral Research Associates required to work on a BP-
sponsored project on Urban Energy Systems

Salary in the range £22,870 to £26,120 per annum
Fixed Term appointments for up to 3 years

Positions are available within a multidisciplinary group researching urban 
energy systems. The BP Urban Energy Systems project at Imperial will 
explore how costs, energy and environmental impacts could be reduced in 
the future if cities integrated the systems that supply them with 
resources.

The Urban Energy Systems project is the first to try to document and 
understand in detail how energy, people and materials flow through a 
city. The researchers aim to use this information to improve the 
efficiency of both existing and new-built cities. 

The project will analyse how much benefit would result if a whole city 
optimised its use of resources such as power, heating, transport and 
water, for example by heating homes with the heat from waste water or 
by arranging residential and business areas to reduce traffic. The 
project involves a unique collaboration between a number of leading 
research groups at Imperial College working in the area of urban 
systems analysis, including:

     Centre for Process Systems Engineering 
     (www.cpse.imperial.ac.uk) 

     Centre for Transport Studies 
     (www.imperial.ac.uk/cts) 

     The Innovation Studies Centre 
     (www.imperial.ac.uk/innovationstudies) 

     Centre for Environmental Policy 
     (www.imperial.ac.uk/environmentalpolicy) 

     Control and Power 
     (www.imperial.ac.uk/controlandpower)

Team members include Prof. David Fisk, Prof. Nilay Shah, Prof. David 
Gann, Prof. Tim Green, Dr Matthew Leach and Prof. John Polak.

Based in a newly inaugurated Energy Futures Lab 
(www.imperial.ac.uk/energyfutureslab), the Urban Energy Systems 
Project will employ a team leader and up to five postdoctoral 
researchers as well as several PhD students. We are looking for 
candidates with experience in one or more of the following areas:

     Process systems engineering, especially data collection and 
     analysis and modelling and optimisation of complex energy-related 
     systems 

     Civil engineering, especially energy use in buildings and transport 
     demand modelling, economics and network analysis 

     Environmental policy, economics and modelling, especially resource 
     flow analysis 

     Electrical systems modelling and control, especially distributed 
     generation, transmission and distribution 

     Business and innovation.

The appointees should hold a PhD degree (or equivalent) in a relevant 
discipline, with particular emphasis on modelling and systems analysis in 
one or more of the areas above.

Application forms, job description and person specifications for the 
Team leader and Research Associate positions are available from the 
following website: www.imperial.ac.uk/employment/research/index.htm. 
Alternatively, those documents, together with further particulars, may 
be obtained by contacting: Mrs June Talbot, Department of Chemical 
Engineering, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London 
SW7 2AZ. Tel: +44 (0)20 7594 5557 or email: [log in to unmask] 
Completed application forms should be sent, or emailed, to Mrs Talbot, 
together with a CV and list of publications by the closing date.

Potential candidates wishing to discuss the research opportunities in the 
field of transport should contact Prof. John Polak email: 
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Closing date : 11th January 2006

Valuing diversity and committed to equality of opportunity

--
Prof. John Polak
Centre for Transport Studies
Imperial College London
http://www.imperial.ac.uk/transport-studies