PhD Researcher

**Job Description**
We are seeking a motivated PhD researcher to drive the heat transition as an essential part of the energy transition, collaborating with leading researchers and industry partners. This project is part of the EmPowerED initiative, which aims to accelerate and scale up Positive Energy Districts (PEDs) – urban areas generating more energy than they consume, with carbon-neutral heating and cooling as a core element. This specific PhD project contributes to the EmPowerED toolbox by developing simulation models for individual physical components of a PED, focusing on residential heating systems. This includes thermal components like heat exchangers, heat-pumps, various heat-storage systems, aqua-thermal and geothermal heat sources, and waste heat recovery for 5th generation district heating networks. The principal goal is to develop component models with greater physical accuracy and predictive capability by employing state-of-the-art reduced-order models (ROMs), input-output models derived from high-fidelity Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), and data-based models using system/parameter identification and machine learning. The key challenge involves balancing physical accuracy with computational efficiency for integration into larger PED models.

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