Opportunities for students
Find out about the postgraduate research opportunities offered by the EPECentre.
You can apply by sending your CV, transcript(s) and motivation letter to info@epecentre.ac.nz. Specify the name of the project(s) you are interested in.
For funding options: Check our scholarships page or the UC webpage on how to become a research student.
For open vacancies: For research engineers or postdoctoral fellow positions, see Work at UC.
- Control of converter interfaced resources to improve dynamic stability of low-inertia systems
- Protection of networks with high level of penetration of converter interfaced technologies
- Network stability and reserves considerations for additional power transfer between the NZ North and South Island
- Are there sufficient planetary resources to support global power demand sourced from renewable energy?
- Digital twin of the network and distributed resource enabling operational decisions
- Thermal modelling for efficient battery design
- Interaction between control of converter interfaced energy sources and loads
- Energy modelling and state estimation of low-inertia systems
- Electromagnetic imaging of conductive and partially conductive media
- Product design for Smart Electrode System commercial offering
- Tree-stem imaging by enhanced electrical conductance and admittance tomography
- Novel techniques for sap-flow measurement in tree-stems
- Identification of cancer tissue using electrical impedance spectrometry
- Condition monitoring transmission line
- Condition monitoring insulated cables
- Sub-soil electromagnetic field modelling and implementation, for plant root mimicry
- High Power fast operating switches for AC and DC applications
- Development of in-window LED-lighting system for new builds
- UV LED-based sterilization system for surfaces and packages
- Perovskite solar cell process
- Industrial implementation of Smart Electrode-based heat-treatment plant
- Thermodynamic and economic comparison of log-conditioning methods
- Diffusion of ions through porous anisotropic/heterogeneous materials
- Maintenance, upgrade and transition to 100% renewable generation - economic feasibility for NZ
- Characterisation of energy storage for balancing load in a microgrid whilst maximising renewable generation
- Study of the impact of research programme outcomes
- Evaluation of pathways to commercialise research in NZ