工业高温热泵技术-可持续性分析方向博士职位

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** Background – City St George’s, University of London is recruiting a Doctoral Candidate to join the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Industrial Doctoral Network HeatMinds, a Horizon Europe-funded project focused on industrial heat decarbonisation through innovative high-temperature heat pump technologies. The successful candidate will undertake a PhD project entitled “Development of a Comprehensive Techno-Sustainability Framework for Industrial High Temperature Heat Pumps”, contributing to the assessment and deployment of sustainable, economically viable, and socially acceptable heat pump solutions for industrial applications.

** Responsibilities – The successful candidate will conduct high-quality doctoral research on the techno-economic, environmental, and social sustainability of industrial high-temperature heat pumps. Responsibilities include developing integrated assessment methodologies and sustainability indicators, analysing technology adoption and stakeholder perspectives, contributing to project deliverables and publications, presenting research at conferences, engaging in dissemination and outreach activities, collaborating with academic and industrial partners across Europe, participating in network-wide training events, and supporting the achievement of project milestones and objectives.

Requirements / required education level / degree: Master Degree or equivalent

Requirements / required education level / discipline: Engineering

Requirements / skills: The applicant should hold a Masters (or equivalent) degree in Mechanical/ Energy Engineering, Physics, Environmental Science, or a related discipline. Candidates should demonstrate knowledge of energy systems, sustainability assessment, techno-economic analysis, or policy evaluation. Strong analytical, communication, and research skills are essential, together with the ability to work independently, engage with interdisciplinary and international collaborators, and contribute positively to a multidisciplinary research environment. Experience in any of the following is a plus: programming, optimisation, life cycle assessment.

Requirements / specific requirements: The applicant should be an ‘early-stage researcher’, meaning that the candidate is in the first four years of their research career (calculated in the full-time equivalent) and does not have a doctoral degree.

The applicant must not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in the United Kingdom for more than 12 months in the 36 months immediately before their date of recruitment

Requirements / required languages / language: ENGLISH

Requirements / required languages / language level: Good

Work location / nr job positions: 1

Work location / job organisation institute: City St George's, University of London

Work location / job country: United Kingdom

Hiring contact / organisation institute: City University

Hiring contact / organisation institute type: Higher Education Institute

Hiring contact / division faculty: School of Mathematics, Computer Science and Engineering

Hiring contact / country: United Kingdom

Hiring contact / city: London

Hiring contact / postal code: EC1V 0HB

Hiring contact / street: Northampton Square

Hiring contact / e mail: T.ElSamad@city.ac.uk

Hiring contact / website: http://www.city.ac.uk/

Application / how to apply: website

Application / application website: https://jobs.citystgeorges.ac.uk/en/sites/CX_1001/job/100447

EU funding / framework programme: Horizon Europe - MSCA

EU funding / cofund nr job position: 1

EU funding / sesam agreement number: 101312140

Research field / main research field: Engineering

Researcher profile: First Stage Researcher (R1)

Positions: PhD Positions

Contract: Temporary

Job status: Full-time

Application deadline (as exported; timezone unverified): 2026-10-25T23:59:00