PhD Position Energy Data Sharing for City-Level Policy Making Using Digital Twins

Doctorat / PhD Type de contrat : TEMPORARY Date limite de candidature : 2026-11-20T23:59:59+01:00

Job description The Delft University of Technology is hiring a doctoral candidate on the subject of "Energy data sharing for city-level policy making using digital twins". The PhD position is a part of the FEDERATE NWO project. Municipal policy makers are making city decarbonization and sustainability policies using digital twins that rely on fragmented, partial and incomplete data. The data mostly comes from public sources, such as CBS (Central Bureau for Statistics) and through time consuming and costly data collection initiatives initiated by municipalities. However, this is insufficient to provide a high-resolution picture that the policy makers need. In 2026, a new Energy Law enacted in the Netherlands that provisions easier energy data sharing among different parties including municipalities and their citizens and local companies. Although it unlocks new possibilities of data sharing among these actors, this law is yet to become operationalized in the data sharing processes of municipalities. This PhD research project will investigate data sharing architectures for energy data sharing between citizens, local companies and municipalities, compatible with digital twins that municipalities use. The work involves designing of ontologies and knowledge graphs and their integration with digital twins of municipalities and other tools that could be used for data collection from citizens and companies. This is a four-year doctoral appointment. You will be supervised by Dr. Milos Cvetkovic. You will be a member of the section Intelligent Electrical Power Grids in the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, and Computer Science. The project will offer opportunities to collaborate with industrial partners but also with academics from other disciplines. Within the team, we strive to develop methods that are mathematically rigorous and have near-term application potential. We are strong supporters of open science (publishing, source code, data). You will also be expected to assist in teaching activities (student supervision, labs) related to your subject area. About the department The research in the Department of Electrical Sustainable Energy is inspired by the technical, scientific, and societal challenges originating from the transition toward a more sustainable society and focuses on three areas: DC Systems, Energy Conversion and Storage (DCE&S) Photovoltaic Materials and Devices (PVMD) Intelligent Electrical Power Grids (IEPG) High Voltage Technologies (HVT) The department provides expertise across the entire energy system chain and hosts extensive research facilities, including high-voltage testing laboratories, DC grids testing environments, and large-scale RTDS infrastructure for real-time simulation of future electrical power systems, AC/DC protection, and wide-area monitoring and protection. The Intelligent Electrical Power Grids (IEPG)…