The publicly announced PhD position WP3.5 Formal Verification of Hybrid Systems has received 47 applicants. The selection committee has started it’s work and the goal is to start up the work with the selected candidate in Q3-2016.
Recruitment
Researcher WP5.1 Has Started
PhD candidate Martin Hemmer started working on SFI WP5.1 on April 4, 2016. The topic of his work-package is “Analysis of Tapered big bearings”. In the picture above Martin Hemmer (right) is shown together with KD-funded PhD candidate Andreas Klausen and his own developed test bench for bearing analysis for slow rotations.
Researcher WP1.2 Has Started
PhD candidate Sondre Nordås started working on WP1.2 on March 7, 2016. The title of WP1.2 is “Using Digital Hydraulic in Secondary Control of Motor Drive”.
He received his Master degree in Mechatronics from the University of Agder in 2015. During the 2nd half of 2015 he worked as an Engineer at Andøya Space Center.
Researcher WP6.2 has Started
PhD candidate Thilina Nuwan Weerasinghe started working on WP6.2 on January 29, 2016. The title of WP6.2 is “Design of architecture and self-organized cross-layer protocols for a heterogeneous wireless network platform”.
He received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical and Information Engineering from University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka, in 2009, and the M.Sc. degree in Information and Communication Technology from University of Agder, Norway, in 2015. He has worked as an Engineer in Radio Network Optimization in various telecommunication related projects in SriLanka and Maldives. He also worked as a lecturer in the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Ruhuna. Thilina joined the WISENET on February 2016 as a Ph.D. student and he is involved in the SFI project. His current research focuses on Theory and Design of self-organised application-driven cross-layer protocols for heterogeneous wireless networks in industrial environments, covering use cases related to both integrated operations and drilling.
First Researchers Started
The first researchers in the SFI Offshore Mechatronics have started. Torstein Myhre (Post.Doc,NTNU) and Geir Ole Tysse (PhD, NTNU) will work in WP2 (Motion Compensation) while Sondre Sanden Tørdal (PhD, UiA) will also work in WP2. The picture below was taken in the Motion Lab during the Drilling Seminar at UiA.
