Areas of research

The main scientific areas of interest for the ESE-PhD program are listed below, and represent the multidisciplinarity of the program, that is needed in today’s energy research and development, and are related to the main objectives of the program:

A. Thermo- fluid Dynamics and Thermal Science
B. Energy Systems
C. Chemistry and Material Science
D. Electrical, Automation, and Management Engineering

Within this scientific framework, the ESE Ph.D. course focuses on the following specific research topics:

Energy sources and energy conversion systems
Fuel cells
Heating and air conditioning systems
Energy consumption and planning
Energy management, simulation and modelling
Transition to Sustainable Energy Systems
Solar thermal and photovoltaic
Geothermal Engineering
Renewable Energy Sources
Energy Efficient Buildings and Industry
Distributed Generation and Grid Integration of Renewables
Materials for sustainable energy production, storage and conversion
Fluid mechanics
Heat and mass transport
Multiphase flows
Turbulence physics
Computer methods for energy flow simulations
Thermo-fluid-dynamic in bio-engineering
Fundamentals of chemical processes for energy