Energy Futures DTC

我们建议成立一个能源期货博士培训中心，在能源及其在缓解气候变化中的作用方面提供深度和广度的博士培训。这将与EPSRC最近授予的其他能源DTC整合，但不会提供与其他全额资助的DDC相关的完整12个月培训课程。我们的DTC将专注于未来的能源生产和分配，特别是能源部门在实现英国应对气候变化挑战所需的雄心勃勃的缓解目标方面的作用。它将每年招收10名最优秀的理工科毕业生，资金来自帝国理工学院的战略投资，并得到行业的支持。我们现有的理科水平的能源领域培训经验，以及能源期货实验室和帝国理工学院格兰瑟姆气候变化研究所之间建立的联系，以及通过现有和未来跨学科研究项目建立的院系和教职员工之间的研究联系，将提供广度。深度由我们的能源研究网络及其背后的研究团队提供，我们通过共同解决关键和跨领域的研究问题将这些网络联系在一起，例如我们如何提高未来城市的能源效率，以及我们如何实现能源生产的脱碳。我们将在我们的能源期货DTC中进一步发展这一整合方法，将学生与我们的能源主题联系起来，并确保学生接触到广泛的能源、气候变化和可持续发展背景。

We propose an Energy Futures Doctoral Training Centre that provides depth and breadth in PhD training in energy and its role in climate change mitigation. This will integrate with other energy DTCs recently awarded by EPSRC, but will not offer the full 12 month training programme associated with other fully funded DTCs. Our DTC will focus on future energy generation and distribution, aimed in particular on the role of the energy sector in achieving the UK's ambitious mitigation goals required to meet the challenge of climate change. It will accept 10 of the very best science and engineering graduates annually, funded by a strategic investment from Imperial College, and supported by industry. Breadth will be provided by our existing energy-wide training experience at MSc level, and established links between the Energy Futures Lab and the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial College, and by the inter-department and inter-faculty research linkages forged through existing and future interdisciplinary research projects. Depth is provided by our energy research networks and the research teams behind them, which we link by collectively addressing critical and cross-cutting research questions, such as how can we improve the energy efficiency of cities of the future , and how can we decarbonise energy generation . We will further develop this integrating approach within our Energy Futures DTC to link students across our energy themes, and ensure that students are given exposure to the broad energy, climate change and sustainability context.