Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Postdoctoral Fellow / Research Associate / Research Assistant (Full-time/Part-time)
(Ref. 260225003)
(1) Postdoctoral Fellow (Full-time/Part-time) (several posts)
(2) Research Associate (Full-time/Part-time) (several posts)
(3) Research Assistant (Full-time/Part-time) (several posts)
[Appointment period: each for twelve months]
Duties
The appointees will assist the project leader in the research project - “Development of fault self-recovery axial direct-drive hub motor for AGV”.
Qualifications
For the post of Postdoctoral Fellow, applicants should have a doctoral degree or an equivalent qualification and must have no more than five years of post-qualification experience at the time of application.
For the post of Research Associate, applicants should have a master’s degree or a good honours degree with three or more years of research/relevant work experience.
For the post of Research Assistant, applicants should have an honours degree or an equivalent qualification.
For all posts, applicants should also:
(a) have solid experience in electric machines, finite element methods and theory of electromagnetic files; and
(b) be able to complete projects on-time with minimum supervision.
Preference will be given to those with research experience in machines design and development of computer programmes for numerical computation of electromagnetic field and software architecture.
Applicants are invited to contact Prof. Shuangxia Niu at telephone number 2766 6183 or via email at eesxniu@polyu.edu.hk for further information.
Conditions of Service
For full-time appointment, a highly competitive remuneration package will be offered.
For part-time appointment, the remuneration rates are HK$385 per hour for the post of Postdoctoral Fellow, HK$181 per hour for the post of Research Associate and HK$125 per hour for the post of Research Assistant.
The closing date for application is 11 August 2026.
Posting date: 25 February 2026