Student Research Assistant - Planning of Energy Supply Networks (Electricity, Gas, Heat, Hydrogen)
Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft · Kassel
What you'll do
Familiarization with the topics of planning electricity, natural gas, hydrogen and/or heat networks; sensitivity analysis of mathematical optimizations for energy supply networks; determination of network expansion and modeling of future scenarios; software development of the open source software tools pandapower and pandapipes.
What you need
Ongoing studies in mathematics, energy engineering, process engineering, industrial engineering, electrical engineering, computer science, physics or similar; experience with Python programming language; advantageous: further knowledge in software development (software versioning with Git, development of web interfaces, experience in open source software development, work with databases, especially NoSQL); also advantageous: knowledge of energy supply networks (knowledge of electrical engineering and calculation of electricity networks, knowledge of hydraulics and calculation of pipe networks, experience with commercial network calculation software e.g. PSS Sincal, DigSILENT PowerFactory, STANET, NEPLAN, TRNSYS, SIMONE etc.); good German and English skills written and spoken; interest in renewable energies and the success of the energy transition.
What you get
Close cooperation with our research colleagues; flexible and individual adjustment of working hours to lecture and exam times; possibility to work both at the modern IEE campus and remotely; open and helpful working atmosphere; exciting discussions on current research topics; openness to your ideas; possibility to write your thesis (Bachelor/Master) with various topics from computer science, electrical engineering, energy engineering or mechanical engineering depending on qualifications.