Research Associate (f/m/d) in the Field of Energy Economics and Production Management, Karlsruhe

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) – The Research University in the Helmholtz Association creates and imparts knowledge for the society and the environment. It is our goal to make significant contributions to mastering the global challenges of mankind in the fields of energy, mobility, and information. For this, more than 9.000 employees of KIT cooperate in a broad range of disciplines in research, academic education, and innovation.

The Institute for Industrial Production (IIP) is looking as soon as possible and limited to 2 years for a

Research Associate (f/m/d)

in the Field of Energy Economics and Production Management

Job description

The French-German Institute for Environmental Research (DFIU) is a researchinstitution with the mandate to sustain the widespread wish of France and Germany for strengthening cross-border scientific cooperation. Our ambition is tobe one of the central scientific players in the area of French-German and international environmental and energy research. It is associated with the Institutefor Industrial Production (IIP).

Your main task is working on interdisciplinary, practice-oriented research projects dealing with techno-economic and socio-technical analyses in the context of the sustainable energy transition. A particular focus of this research will be energy and environmental issues in the French-German context, such as:

• development of the European energy system and transmission grid as well asof selected distribution grids with the aim of maximizing the use of volatile renewables (PV, wind, ...)
• electric mobility (market penetration, smart charging…) including the modelingof user behavior in innovative mobility systems
• decentralized energy systems (up to the self-sufficiency of individual buildings). This includes aspects of user acceptance in the context of providing flexibility
• issues related to sector coupling for mobility and transport (e.g. charging profiles, flexibility of charging and recovery, regionally and temporally differentiated ramp-up curves of electric vehicles)
• public acceptance and individual adoption of sustainable energy systems andpolicies
• sustainable value chains, material flows, and sustainable urban development

The position offers the opportunity of pursuing a doctoral degree.

Personal qualification

Required:

• A master's degree in industrial engineering, business administration, process engineering, economics, mathematics, social sciences or a similar subject
• Interest in performing quantitative analyses on energy topics
• Knowledge/experience in the implementation of computer-aided models, such as operations research methods or statistical data analysis
• Professional aptitude, a high level of commitment, good self-organization andgood English language skills

Desirable, but not a prerequisite:

• Domain knowledge
• German language skills

We offer you an attractive and modern workplace with access to the excellent equipment of the KIT, a varied work, a wide range of training opportunities, flexible working time models, an allowance for the job ticket BW and a casino/cafeteria.

We prefer to balance the number of employees (f/m/d). Therefore we kindly ask female applicants to apply for this job.

Recognized severely disabled persons will be preferred if they are equally qualified.