PhD & Postdoctoral Positions, University of Geneva, Switzerland (2017)

At the Institute for Environmental Sciences there are the following vacancies in the energy domain:

Post-doc researcher or Ph.D. student on energy storage

and
Post-doc researcher on scenario modelling related to buildings and energy storage

and
Ph.D. student on energy efficiency in industrial processes.

The successful applicants will become members of the Chair for Energy Efficiency within the Department F.-A. Forel, Faculty of Sciences and they will be housed by the inter-faculty Institute for Environmental Sciences (ISE, http://www.unige.ch/environnement) that is active in cross-disciplinary research in the domains of energy, climate change, surface waters, urban ecology other sustainability domains. The institute represents an enthusiastic, dynamic and international working environment. It offers an interdisciplinary Master programme in Environmental Sciences (MUSE) with a track on Energy to which the successful candidates will contribute.
Project and job description:

Energy efficiency plays an important role in the European Union’s Energy Efficiency Directive, in Switzerland’s Energy Strategy 2050 and in the energy plans prepared by Swiss cantons. According to the Energy Strategy 2050, final energy use in Switzerland shall be reduced by 35% until 2035 and by 46% until 2050 (New Energy Policy scenario) which are very challenging objectives in view of rising population and economic growth. Against this background we are studying both the current level of energy efficiency and the potentials for energy savings in Switzerland and in the canton of Geneva. The new positions, which will be funded by the second phase of the Swiss Competence Centers for Energy Research (SCCERs, 2017-2020) will allow to substantially reinforce and expand the group’s research activities. All research projects are purely desktop-based. They partly involve collaboration with industry and/or utilities and they are linked to ongoing activities in other groups belonging to the SCCERs.

Further details:
http://academicpositions.eu