Job Description

Assistant or Associate Professor (Power Electronics) (31084-0725)

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Location
University of Warwick Campus, Coventry
Department
School of Engineering
Position Type
Permanent
Salary
57,422 - 66,537 per annum
About the Role

For informal enquiries, please contact Prof. Peter Gammon (Professor and Research Cluster Leader for Power Electronics & Control)

p.m.gammon@warwick.ac.uk

We will consider applications for employment on a part-time or other flexible working basis, even where a position is advertised as full-time, unless there are operational or other objective reasons why it is not possible to do so.


We invite applications for an Assistant or Associate Professor position in the field of Power Electronics. The post is on the Research and Teaching Pathway.


The successful candidate will demonstrate a strong research portfolio in power converter design, modelling, hardware realisation, and control, with relevance to electrification challenges such as renewable energy systems, electric vehicles, and/or sustainable transport. Experience with wide bandgap semiconductors and their deployment in advanced converter architectures is particularly desirable.


The successful applicant is expected to pursue research that makes fundamental contributions to their field, while also addressing real-world, industrial challenges with practical relevance - potentially working across disciplines. Applicants should demonstrate how their work complements existing power electronics activities within the School, or brings new and strategically aligned research directions.


Consideration will also be given to alignment with the University's Research Technology Platforms and established research infrastructure. We are especially interested in candidates whose work can leverage or contribute to the School's collaborative, translational, and industrially engaged research environment.


Candidates will be expected to teach to the highest quality on undergraduate and postgraduate programmes offered by the School of Engineering.



About You
You will have a PhD in a relevant discipline. For an Assistant Professor appointment, you must be able to demonstrate the capability to establish an independent research activity, which has the ambition and potential to become internationally leading.


If appointed as an Assistant Professor, you will be appointed for a probationary period (usually five years) during which you will be given a reduced teaching and administration load to enable you to establish your research group. Successful completion of probation will coincide with promotion to a permanent Associate Professor position. For an Associate Professor appointment, you will have already established a high-quality independent research activity and have been awarded substantial research funding from external sources, while having experience in successful delivery of teaching activities.


At either level, you will initiate, develop and deliver high quality research, publish top-tier journal papers and demonstrate the potential for impact from your research. You will also engage with higher education pedagogy and be willing to develop novel teaching methods, embracing changes in teaching technology and expectations.


For further information regarding the skills required for this role please see the personal specification section of the attached job description.



About the Department
The School of Engineering is a multidisciplinary department that aspires to conduct research to internationally leading standards. The School is in the process of forming Research Clusters, which will be launched in Summer 2025. This post aligns to the Power Electronics & Control Cluster which will include the Power Electronics Applications and Technology in Energy Research (PEATER) and the Intelligent Control & Smart Energy (ICSE) groups. The new Cluster will comprise approximately 12 academic staff. Existing staff pursue research related to power electronics device design, fabrication, reliability and testing and packaging, with the group specialising in silicon carbide device development. Alongside these activities is research into smart grids, drives and electrical machine control. We are open to broadening the activities of the Research Cluster and are open to making appointments that are cross traditional discipline boundaries.


Warwick operates Research Technology Platforms (RTPs) which enable access to high-end facilities at cross-department level (https://warwick.ac.uk/research/rtp/). Academics in Engineering use these on a regular basis with the Nano Fabrication, Scientific Computing and various characterisation-related RTPs (Electron Microscopy, Spectroscopy, X-Ray Computed Tomography, X-Ray Diffraction, X-Ray Photoemission Spectroscopy, Warwick Centre for Ultrafast Spectroscopy) frequently used. Applicants may wish to give consideration as to how their research links to such facilities.


The School of Engineering leads various undergraduate and taught Masters courses and has > 1,500 students on taught courses with an annual Year 1 undergraduate intake of c. 350 students. Students on our undergraduate programmes follow a common programme of study in Year 1. After this, most students choose to join specialised courses. Applicants should specify how they can contribute to teaching in their application, giving consideration to both our undergraduate and taught postgraduate programmes.



About the University
Born in the 60s with a mindset of boldness, imagination and collaboration, the University of Warwick is a world-leading research-intensive university with the highest academic and research standards. We're one of the world's top universities, ranked 67th in the world and 10th in the UK, with 92% of our research assessed to be 'world leading or internationally excellent'*.


You'll be joining a diverse, innovative and globally connected community committed to igniting real world progress. Here at Warwick, we offer you opportunities to follow your ambitions as long as you bring the energy and determination to succeed.

QS World University Rankings 2024

Research Excellence Framework 2021


To find out more about us visit our website.



How to Apply

CLOSING DATE: Sunday 14th September 2025 at 23:55 (BST)

To apply, submit an application form by the closing date.


Please plan for any potential delays as you will not be able to submit an application form past this deadline (even if you opened the form at, say, 23:30).


You will have to attach a CV and a cover letter.

Your

CV

should include your employment history (including your most recent employment), your education history, and any other relevant experience. Your

cover letter

should explain your

motivations for applying

to the role. It should also explain, using examples, how you meet each of the

essential and desirable criteria

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