I don’t nor­mally post job ads except when they are within my own research group. But this one is close to my research inter­ests, and I’d like to help the insti­tu­tion find some­one good for the role, so I’m mak­ing an exception.

It is a posi­tion for a post-​​doctoral researcher at the Cen­tre for Energy & Processes, MINES Paris Tech, France.

The can­di­date to be appointed will carry out research on the devel­op­ment of approaches for fore­cast­ing the power out­put of renew­able power sources (i.e. wind, pho­to­voltaic). Empha­sis will be given among oth­ers on meth­ods for esti­mat­ing the uncer­tainty of such fore­casts and also on extreme events.

Back­ground in at least one of the fol­low­ing fields is requested:

• applied math­e­mat­ics
• time series analysis
• mete­o­rol­ogy
• sound knowl­edge in elec­tri­cal engineering
• sto­chas­tic processes
• deci­sion mak­ing under uncertainty
• opti­mi­sa­tion methods

Expected also:

• expe­ri­ence in pro­gram­ming lan­guages like R, Matlab
• good com­mu­ni­ca­tion skills both orally and in writ­ten English

Down­load the job descrip­tion for fur­ther details.

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