KEY REQUIREMENTS:

The candidate needs to have extensive experience working in:

• Vibration energy harvesting modelling, design, and testing.
• Dynamics experimental measurements and rig setup.
• Publications record on vibration energy harvesting.

Informal enquiries should be directed to Prof Stephanos Theodossiades, Co-Investigator, by email at s.theodossiades@lboro.ac.uk or by telephone on +44 (0) 1509 227 664
For more information refer to the Job Description and Person Specification.

A part-time Research Associate is required to undertake research on designing vibration energy harvester for aircrafts. The project is funded by the EU (project title AVATAR, https://www.avatar-project.eu/).
An important requirement in aircrafts is the collection of data from various locations of the structure using a variety of sensors. The necessity to power these sensors without using batteries or extensive harnessing through the aircraft structure (to avoid replacing batteries and to reduce weight) leads to the development of solutions that harvest energy from the motion and oscillations present at the aircraft components in order to power the sensors, the data postprocessing and their transfer.
The above landscape requires various interrelated disciplines to be considered under the same framework (electromagnetics and/or piezoelectric energy harvesting transduction mechanisms, component flexibility, transient dynamics, mechanical vibrations, and electronics).