The Faculty of EEMCS and the Power Electronics group at the University of Twente are hiring a postdoctoral researcher to join a multidisciplinary research team working on long-duration energy storage (LDES) for grid support, flexibility & electrification of Dutch industry.
The position is embedded in the context of the RVO project “SLDbatt”, in collaboration with Dutch research organisations and ESS industry partners.
The SLDbatt project aims to develop and deploy battery technologies towards TRL 6-7 enabling LDES for 8+ hours to address energy transition goals and challenges in net congestion. Six pilots will be deployed and validated to demonstrate LDES market potential.
The goal of these two postdoc positions is to contribute to the modelling, simulation, and optimization across different LDES technologies, from device (ESS+inverter) to system level (grid integration) under different scenarios, providing techno-economic insights to accelerate their deployment in real-life applications. They will join the Center of Expertise (CoE), in charge of providing techno-economic assessments & manufacturability, scalability, & sustainability evaluations, recommendations for future LDES market frameworks, policies, & regulatory needs, and knowledge of best practices for grid- & industrial integration.
Your key responsibilities as Postdoc (include but are not limited to):
- Design, simulate, and experimentally validate converter topologies for hydrogen–iron flow-battery systems.
- Develop control and energy-management algorithms for efficient and reliable long-duration operation.
- Implement hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) and real-time co-simulation for validation under realistic grid scenarios.
- Integrate battery–converter interfaces with supervisory controllers and evaluate system efficiency and reliability.
- Collaborate with Elestor and consortium partners to translate lab designs into pilot-scale demonstrators.
- Contribute to scientific publications, project reporting, and dissemination through the UT CoE for LDES.
This position offers a unique opportunity to conduct high-impact applied research at the interface of power electronics, energy systems, and battery management. You will work closely with a second postdoctoral researcher focused on energy-system modelling, ensuring strong collaboration between hardware development and system-level optimization.