WAGENINGEN, Netherlands, NLfull timePosted July 21, 2026via europa.eu
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- Study at WUR Bachelor's Master's - Collaborate with WUR - Themes - Study at WUR - Collaborate with WUR - About WUR - PhD position: Decision-Making for Heat Transition Planning Career at WUR About us - Plenty of variety and challenges - Pleasant working atmosphere - Time for personal development - Proper work-life balance - Internationally leading Your job PhD Position:Decision-Making for Heat Transition Planning under Data Sharing Constraints Can grid operators and other stakeholders make robust decisions when the data they need cannot always be shared? The transition to sustainable heating is one of the biggest challenges of the energy transition. Increasing electrification through technologies such as heat pumps creates new planning and congestion challenges for electricity distribution grids. At the same time, effective planning depends on access to data from multiple stakeholders - including municipalities, distribution system operators (DSOs), and households. However, such data are often fragmented, privacy-sensitive, or unavailable due to technical, legal and organizational constraints. As a PhD candidate, you will develop novel decision-making methods that enable robust decisions for heat transition planning despite these data-sharing constraints. Rather than assuming full access to data, your research will investigate how planning and operational decisions can be improved when information is incomplete, uncertain, decentralized or privacy-preserved. The project You will join the newly funded NWO (Dutch Research Council) KIC project Sharing the Warmth , an interdisciplinary collaboration between Wageningen University, TU Delft, Hogeschool Utrecht, CWI, Dutch municipalities, DSOs, and other societal/industry partners. The project brings together expertise in energy informatics, optimization, data science, social sciences, and governance to develop trusted data-sharing solutions for the heat transition. Wi...
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