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strategic power system operation and planning to secure energy sustainability

The HDR (higher degree research) student applicants should have background in one of the following areas: 1) power system optimisation and control; 2) electricity market modelling a more...

Supervisor(s): Qiu, Jeremy (Dr)

Future Generation and Grid Planning

In the past, planners placed generation according to fuel and water availability, proximity to urban populations and then expanded the grid to allow efficient power delivery and lat more...

Supervisor(s): Hill, David John (Professor), Verbic, Gregor (Dr)

Novel biophotonic devices

The project will explore novel biomedical applications of a new type of fibre, taking advantage of our recent breakthrough in fabrication of fibres in low Young's modulus materials more...

Supervisor(s): Fleming, Simon (Professor)

Graph-based Methods in Power Networks Analysis, Optimisation and Control

The analysis tools for power networks assume that the network is either a transmission or a distribution network. These days with distributed generation, demand-side control, storag more...

Supervisor(s): Hill, David John (Professor)

Demand-side Power Network Control

Modern power systems much achieve efficiencies in capital expenses for networks by smoothing out peak power demands at the same time as more renewable generation is being used. This more...

Supervisor(s): Hill, David John (Professor), Verbic, Gregor (Dr)

Modelling and Stability of Power Networks with Renewable Generation

Most investigations on the impact of renewables on grid stability consider one stability type and one basic network.  Our aim is to develop principles that can be used to help more...

Supervisor(s): Hill, David John (Professor), Verbic, Gregor (Dr)

Advanced organic electronics

This project aims to identify design rules for next-generation organic electronics, especially organic solar cells. It will use both computational simulations and experimental work more...

Supervisor(s): Kassal, Ivan (Dr)

Leveraging persistent memory in the Linux kernel

The Linux kernel has been designed with the idea that persistent storage is slow, has high latency, and can only be accessed asynchronously (i.e., by sending a request to a disk tha more...

Supervisor(s): Lepers, Baptiste (Dr)

Efficient Key-Value store for future hardware

The systems lab is looking for 3 PhD students to work on operating systems and databases. The objective will be to maximizing performance, minimizing energy usage and improving the more...

Supervisor(s): Lepers, Baptiste (Dr)

Sustainability Assessment of Cities

The topic of the research is to create a quantitative modelling framework for assessing the absolute sustainability of cities by combining global multi-region input-output (MRIO) an more...

Supervisor(s): Lenzen, Manfred (Professor)