Professor in Power Systems Engineering

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Salary: $222,734 plus 17% superannuation plus annual leave loading Position: Full-time, Continuing: Location: Callaghan Campus: About the Role: The Professor specialising in Power Systems Engineering will provide vision and leadership in advanced energy integration and foster excellence in research, teaching and industry collaboration. The successful applicant will also, as part of the Newcastle Institute for Energy and Resources (NIER), define, develop and drive a world leading research program bringing the University of Newcastle to the forefront of emerging energy integration technologies. Energy integration is one of several global social and engineering trends that will shape the solutions to the key challenges of the next decades: resource stress, climate change, megacities, urbanisation, cybersecurity, and infrastructure resilience are major factors driving complexity. Advanced energy integration is an umbrella concept that encompasses activities tackled in the context of renewable energy systems and our shift to a distributed energy grid. About you: You are dedicated and forward-thinking with expertise in Electrical Engineering ready to contribute to a thriving academic env...