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PhD Position - High-Performance Data Analytics Framework For Power Market Simulations in the Advanced Computing Laboratory of Prof. Schenk (position closed, August 2020)

Applications are invited for a PhD position at the Institute of Computational Science, USI, Lugano in the Advanced Computing Laboratory Group of Prof. Olaf Schenk. The topic of the PhD project is on high-performance data analytics for power market simulations. The industrial partner of this project is DXT Commodities, which is an international wholesale energy trading house based in Lugano, developing an innovative trading software, including technology based on multi-commodities algotrading, innovative AI and machine-learning techniques.

Project background:
The goal of this project is to develop computational tools for simulating the market pricing mechanism that meets real-time responses required by modern trading environments, applicable also in the wider context of power grid applications. The project is conducted together with DXT Commodities. State-of-the-art modelling paradigms of the power grid components will be adapted, taking into account real-life aspects of the problem. The performance aimed at by the new analytics tools lies in the combination of research advancements in terms of numerical methods, mathematical software tools, and in the efficient exploitation of modern computational infrastructures. This PhD position is concerned with developing computational methods with features ranging from advanced power grid models to state-of-the-art numerical algorithms.

Job description:
You will be working on a cutting edge optimization problem solver used to produce the most reliable power market simulations to date in collaboration with the industrial partner DXT. Your main responsibility will be to improve the numerics and algorithms in the current energy price prediction framework and further drive the parallelization efforts on parallel architectures. Work is done in a modern working environment within a small but highly motivated team. The PhD position is full time with 100% employment with a salary according to the Swiss National Foundation (SNF). Besides programming duties, the position also includes preparing publications for high-quality international journals, outreach at conferences, as well as teaching contributions.

Your Profile:
You have a Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computational Science, Engineering, or a comparable field, and you have proficient and relevant programming experience, especially in C++. Furthermore, you are fluent in English (both written & spoken) and have a solid mathematical foundation. It would be beneficial if you could also demonstrate knowledge in high-performance, parallel and distributed computing. Knowledge in nonlinear optimization, especially interior point methods or in other numerical methods to solve nonlinear optimization problems would be highly appreciated. Finally, it would also be advantageous if you could show a background in power grid applications.

Interested? We look forward to receiving your application by email to including:
• Curriculum Vitae
• Motivational Letter
• Transcript of records
• Reference letters or contact details of two referees


Postdoctoral position in Computational Pharmacology

The research will focus on development and application of computational methods for biosimulations. Topic is GPCR receptors, from ligand binding to receptor activation and oligomerization. Our group is mostly involved in the development and application of the ligand binding free energy method called Funnel-Metadynamics (FM) (Limongelli et al. PNAS 2013, 110:6358-6363) and Coarse-Grained Metadynamics (CG-MetaD) simulations to investigate membrane proteins binding interaction (Lelimousin, Limongelli, Sansom JACS 2016, 138:10611-10622).

Applicants are expected to have expertise in both atomistic and coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations.

Further information on our research activities and publication list can be found at the following links:

https://www.ics.usi.ch/index.php/group-limongelli

www.facebook.com/LimResGrp/

https://scholar.google.ch/citations?user=Kn4NCY4AAAAJ&hl=en 

Applicants are expected to have a solid base in physics and chemistry. The position is multi-year and salary above the European standard. People interested should send an email to including the following documents:

  • CV
  • List of publications
  • A brief statement of interest in our research 

 

 

 
PhD student position, cancer cell modeling, posted July 2020, starting September 2020 or later

PhD student position is available in the Institute of Computational Science, Faculty of Informatics at the University of Lugano (Switzerland). Ideal candidates should have background in numerical methods, high performance computing (HPC) and have general interest in biology of cancer. The project will require an efficient use of high performance computing resources including Europe's largest supercomputers. The positions are fully funded. Inquiries should be directed to Prof. Pivkin (). Please email a cover letter and curriculum vitae including a list of publications and contact information of three references to igor.pivkin@usi.ch

More information can be found here


 

A post-doctoral position is available at the Limongelli Research Group (LRG) at University of Lugano USI (Switzerland)

The research will focus on development and application of computational methods for biosimulations. Topic is GPCR receptors, from ligand binding to receptor activation and oligomerization. Our group is mostly involved in the development and application of the ligand binding free energy method called Funnel-Metadynamics (FM) (key paper Limongelli et al. PNAS 2013, 110:6358-6363) and Coarse-Grained Metadynamics (CG-MetaD) simulations to investigate membrane proteins binding interaction (key paper Lelimousin, Limongelli, Sansom JACS 2016, 138:10611-10622). Applicants are expected to have expertise in both atomistic and coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations. Further information on our research activities and publication list can be found at the following links:

Applicants are expected to have a solid base in physics and chemistry. The position is multi-year and salary above the European standard. People interested should send an email to including the following documents:

  • CV
  • List of publications
  • A brief statement of interest in our research

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