Project Researcher (PhD. Student) or Postdoctoral Researcher, Electricity Markets and Flexibility (

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The University of Vaasa is seeking two motivated and talented Project Researchers or Postdoctoral Researcher to join the Research Council of Finland-funded Electricity Markets and Flexibility project.

The positions are full-time and fixed-term for three (3) years. The preferred starting date is flexible but agreed together as soon as possible. The positions are located in the School of Technology and Innovations and under electrical engineering discipline. The positions are located in Vaasa.

Background

The Electricity Markets and Flexibility project investigates how electricity markets must be designed, and how demand-side flexibility must be mobilised, for a power system dominated by variable renewable generation to remain reliable and affordable.

The project combines quantitative modelling of markets and the wider energy system with empirical analysis of how flexibility is created, priced, and traded by market participants. A central objective is to understand the interaction between market design choices and the total cost of the energy system, and to quantify the value of flexible demand, including the rapidly growing load from data centres, to system operation, investment, and consumers.

The project will produce new knowledge on electricity market design, system-level cost assessment, and demand-side flexibility, as well as new datasets, modelling methods, and blueprints. The results can be directly utilised in the scientific community, but also to improve decision-making in the public and private