Post Doctoral Fellow; EPIC

The Postdoctoral appointee must have recently (within the last eight years) been awarded a Ph.D. or equivalent doctorate in Electrical Engineering or a closely related field, a strong background in power electronics, and experience with experimental research.

Preferred qualifications include experience with SiC/GaN devices, solid-state circuit breakers, arc-fault detection, solid-state transformers, wireless power transfer, and medium-voltage (MV) testing.

A Postdoctoral Fellow (""postdoc"") is a professional apprenticeship designed to provide recent Ph.D. recipients with an opportunity to develop further the research skills acquired in their doctoral programs or to learn new research techniques, in preparation for an academic or research career. In the process of further developing their own research skills, it is expected that Postdoctoral Fellows will also play a significant role in the performance of research at the University and augment the role of graduate faculty in providing research instruction to graduate students. A Postdoctoral Fellow works under the supervision of a regular faculty member, who serves as a mentor to the Fellow, and it is expected that the faculty mentor will impart the realities, and variety, of scientific careers, and will encourage experiences outside the laboratory to broaden postdocs' aspirations. Within the confines of the particular research focus assigned by that faculty member, the Postdoctoral Fellow functions with a considerable degree of independence and has the freedom (and is expected) to publish the results of his or her research or scholarship during the period of appointment. Thus, the role of Postdoctoral Fellows is clearly differentiated from full-time technical employees.

Postdoc appointments are characterized by all of the following conditions:

* the appointee was recently (within the last eight years) awarded a Ph.D. Electrical Engineering or a closely related field, a strong background in power electronics, and experience with experimental research.
* the appointment is temporary;
* the appointment involves substantially full-time research or scholarship;
* the appointment is viewed as preparatory for a full-time academic and/or research career;
* the appointee works under the supervision of a faculty member; and
* the appointee has the freedom and is expected to publish the results of his or her research or scholarship during the period of appointment.

The employee will report to Professor Tiefu Zhao and will be a senior member of Professor Zhao's research group, supporting projects through original research, collaboration with other team members, and mentoring of students.

The Postdoctoral Research Fellow position is in advanced power electronics, protection systems, and electrification technologies.

The successful candidate will support multiple externally funded research projects, including AI-enabled DC solid-state circuit breakers for next-generation data centers, solid-state and hybrid transformer technologies for grid modernization, and wireless power transfer systems for electric trolley and rail applications.

Research areas include:

Primary responsibilities include hardware prototyping, modeling and simulation, experimental validation, project coordination, student mentoring, technical reporting, publication preparation, and collaboration with industry and government partners.

Required qualifications include a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering or a closely related field, a strong background in power electronics, and experience with experimental research.

Preferred qualifications include experience with SiC/GaN devices, solid-state circuit breakers, arc-fault detection, solid-state transformers, wireless power transfer, and medium-voltage (MV) testing.

The employee will have already acquired a Ph.D. or equivalent degree and should be able to exercise scientific judgment on a day-to-day basis. He or she will evaluate incoming information in the form of experimental data and observations, written literature documentation, and oral communications, and will use this information to make judgments about what step(s) will next lead to progress in the project(s).

The candidate chosen for this position will be required to provide an official transcript of their highest earned degree.

The candidate chosen for this position will be subject to a criminal background check.

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