[agents] vacancy for PhD student on Agent Systems and Smart Energy Grids

[Han La Poutre]

Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam has a vacancy in the “Intelligent and Autonomous Systems” research group for a highly talented

           PhD student

on the subject of Agent Systems and Smart Energy Grids.


Job description
Our energy system is transforming into a sustainable system. Especially important for potential innovations are the use and the holistic use of energy types electricity and heat. This is amongst others due to the increasing role of electricity, and because heat often is a large side product (waste) as well as one of the important reasons for energy demand. 

Industrial sites (with multiple actors) and harbors are important locations for the consumption and production of energy. Also here, the different roles of electricity and heat can be distinguished, however with a higher intensity per actor than in domestic environments and thus with a higher impact on the intensity of dynamics in the energy demand, supply, and locational aspects at the site. Whereas in domestic areas, energy demand and supply can potentially be peak-shaved by e.g. using incentive mechanisms like dynamic pricing and by averaging over many actors, this only holds into a limited extent for industrial sites and harbors, with big actors and strict, large demand or supply of energy for various steps in industrial processes. Electricity and heat both play an important role in industrial sites and harbors, especially for future sustainability.

The project HaPSISH aims at developing solutions for automated power and heat management at industrial sites and harbors with a combination of multiple actors, industrial processes, and external factors. This is carried out by developing innovative models, simulation systems, agent-based market and coordination mechanisms, and optimization techniques.

The PhD student will especially focus on the development of the smart "multi-grid" with coordination mechanisms together with related planning and trading strategies. The coordination mechanisms are in the area of agent-based energy markets, where agents need to plan for the various types of energy consumption or production in industrial processes, and at the same time trade in the markets, with specific strategies.

The project is carried out in cooperation with TU Delft, the Port of Rotterdam and SmartPort. At TU Delft, a companion PhD student will work in this project at the Department of Electrical Sustainable Energy (ESE), on innovative models and simulation systems. The project consists of fundamental research with an eye on applications and is carried out together with the partners. The project HaPSISH is funded by NWO (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research).

Further information:
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https://www.cwi.nl/jobs/vacancies .