An electrical or energy engineering background is favourable for approaching the complexity of an energy/environmental study but also environmental engineering with a focus on renewable energy can be a suitable origin field.Basic knowledge of Python or knowledge on ML/AI techniques is a very welcome addition

The candidate will be part of a wide-interest small research group, mainly made up of electrical and electronic engineers, all devoted to research dealing with energy management and power electronics, nonetheless the candidate will be able to benefit by the wide international contacts the group has been building over the years and also from the presence of AI/ML teams working at UNIPV. The group (affiliated to the energy lab -LABEN- and power electronics Lab PEDEN1) is made up of one full, one associate professor, one assistant professor (from 2022) and several PhD candidates. Exchanges and stages abroad are encouraged to foster an open minded and fruitful personal growth. The candidate will have to be keen to group work.Besides, the partnership with the consulting company will provide several assets such as: i) the PhD candidate will split her/his time between the university lab (first period) and the company (last period), so to test the new skills on AI/ML and LCA on international case studies, ii) the research activities will be carried out along with a placement activity. This is also in favor of an action of empowerment of PhD holders in the energy consulting companiesPI CV: Prof Norma Anglani received her MEng degree in Electric Engineering and her Ph.D. In Electrical Engineering from the University of Pavia (Italy) in 1993 and 1999 respectively. Since 1999 through 2001 she has been post-doctoral fellow at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory both in the Energy Analysis Group and in the Energy Efficiency Standards group. In 2002 she became Assistant Professor of Electrical Energetics at the same University. She is now Associate professor at the University of Pavia, Italy and her research field is energy efficiency and energy modelling. She was visiting scholar at Nottingham University, NTNU, Trondheim (Norway) and Northeastern University, Boston USA). She has published over 70 peer reviewed scientific papers. Professor Anglani is currently IEEE Senior member, IEEE WiE member, IEEE-IAS and IEEE-PELS member. She served as IEEE-IAS WiE Liaison for the term (2019/2020). She is associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, Guest Associate Editor for the Special Section on Emerging topics of power electronics interfaced battery energy storage system. She was in the Organizing Committees of ECCE since 2017 – through 2023 as WiE Chair, as well as Publication Chair, Vice Chair, Topic Chair, Session Chair and Reviewer and Speaker. Norma Anglani has been PI and Co-I in industrial, EU and government funding bodies’ grants and she holds collaborations with foreign institutions around the world.Dr. Anglani research interests are in the area of energy and optimization of the energy resources both for industrial processes (e.G. Compressed air systems and use of efficient technologies) and for the civil sector. Currently, she is responsible for research activities in the field of energy management and have been supervised the works of several PhD students and junior researchers working on hybrid micro-grid and energy systems planning and optimization. Main scientific publications deal with (i) the role of renewables and the feasibility of hybrid micro- grids also in developing countries, remote settings and portable renewable generators with storage; (ii) compressed air systems and their optimization; (iii) a new energy system model for the sustainability of the Lombardy Region. Recently she was the PI for the elaboration of the next Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plan (SECAP2019) with respect to the energy-related issues.Https://scholar.Google.It/citations?user=kadlE0EAAAAJ&hl=it