Electronics Wiring Technician (M/F)

Job Duties

Do you want to build a physics-based model and a digital twin of how bio-based materials are pressed and dried? We are looking for a postdoc for the Department of Fiber and Polymer Technology at KTH.

In a Formas-funded project together with Hitachi Energy and Nordic Seafarm, we are developing knowledge and tools to reduce energy consumption during dewatering and drying of bio-based materials. Your role is to develop a robust numerical model of mechanical dewatering and subsequent thermal drying and further develop it into a validated digital twin of the process.

You will work in a continuum framework for porous media coupled with heat transfer with phase change – and implement the model in existing codes and/or COMSOL with AI support. You will calibrate and validate the model against experimental data, demonstrate a digital twin on industrial or lab data, and collaborate closely with an experimental postdoc and with the industrial partners.

Qualifications

Requirements

• Completed doctoral degree or a foreign degree assessed to correspond to a doctoral degree. This eligibility requirement must be met no later than when the employment decision is made.
• Documented scientific skill in numerical modeling and simulation of coupled physical phenomena, evidenced through publications.
• Experience of finite element or finite volume methods as well as scientific programming, e.g., Python, MATLAB, C++ or Fortran.
• Very good knowledge of English in speech and writing, as it is required in daily work.
• As a person, you are independent, proactive, and have good collaborative skills in a multidisciplinary environment.

Merit

• At the application deadline, at most three years since the doctoral degree or a foreign degree assessed to correspond to a doctoral degree was obtained.
• Experience of COMSOL Multiphysics or equivalent software for multiphysics simulation.
• Experience of modeling dewatering, drying, or wet pressing of pulp, paper, or fiber networks.
• Experience of calibrating and validating models against experimental data, or of digital twins and reduced models.
• Pedagogical ability.
• Awareness of diversity and equal treatment issues with a particular focus on gender equality.

We will place great emphasis on personal qualities.

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Application

You apply via KTH's recruitment system. As an applicant, you are primarily responsible for ensuring that your application is complete when submitted.

The application should contain:

• CV including relevant professional experience and knowledge.
• Copy of degree certificates and transcripts from your previous university studies. Translations to English or Swedish if the original documents are not issued in either of these languages.
• A brief account of why you want to conduct research, your academic interests, and how they relate to your previous studies and future goals. max 2 pages long.

The application must reach KTH no later than the last application date at midnight, CET/CEST (Central European Time/Central European Summer Time).

About the employment

The employment is permanent, but for a maximum of two years.

An employment as a postdoc is a fixed-term merit-building employment primarily focused on research, intended as a first career step after graduation.

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