The PhD students will be working in the research Center of Reliable Power Electronic (CORPE) sponsored by The Danish Council for Strategic Research and hosted by Aalborg University. The center involves Aarhus University, Aachen University, City University of Hong Kong and ETH in Zürich and the following industrial partners: Vestas Wind Systems A/S, Grundfos A/S, DanfossA/S and KK-Electronics A/S. The Center will create a cooperative environment with a large number of Professors, post-doc´s and PhD students and it will have world-class laboratory-facilities in the field of reliability. The PhD student will have the unique possibility to develop a curriculum in an area where academia and companies will focus their interest in the next decade (pdf file)