What is needed from you? The postdoctoral candidate will develop blockchain cyber security technology to help secure distributed energy resources at the grid’s edge with the overall aim to improve cyber security and grid resilience to cyber attacks. More specifically, you will develop advanced monitoring, control, and communication frameworks for embedded DERs enabled through blockchain to further build the foundation for a decarbonised, digitalised, and decentralised grid, while making it more resilient from a cyber security perspective. Blockchain provides a highly structured and immutable audit trail, complete with the identity of every actor in the cyber-physical system. It offers enhanced capabilities to verify the integrity of measurements and control setpoints for DERs and detect any data alteration by attackers. This makes the grid edge cyber resilient. The expected outcome is a distributed, scalable, and cyber secure architecture using blockchain technology that enables visibility, control, and security of grid edge DERs with the required speed and scale. The outcome of this research directly contributes to the cyber resilience of future power systems with high shares of OT / IoT-enabled DERs.
The candidate has a PhD in computer science, mathematics, electrical engineering or a similar discipline and experience in blockchain technology (e.g., hyperledger) and cyber-physical security.
Fixed-term contract: 2 years.
Salary and benefits are in accordance with the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities. The TU Delft offers a customisable compensation package, a discount on health insurance and sport memberships, and a monthly work costs contribution. Flexible work schedules can be arranged.
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