Energy Security Researcher - Threats and Vulnerabilities

Group Research and Development (GRD) performs strategic and applied research to develop the knowledge, methods and technologies required for DNV’s future assurance services. The Energy Security and Resilience research programme focuses on assurance of critical energy infrastructure by developing practical and transparent methods for assessing security risk, vulnerabilities, system dependencies and resilience. The programme combines energy-system knowledge with security research, risk analysis, data science and societal perspectives, and validates new approaches through case studies, prototypes and collaboration with industry, authorities and academia.

Are you interested in how geopolitical developments, threat actors and vulnerabilities may affect critical energy infrastructure, and in developing practical methods and tools for threat-informed risk assessment?

As a Researcher in energy security, you will develop methods and tools for establishing a relevant and traceable threat picture for critical energy infrastructure. A central part of the role is to use AI-supported methods to collect, evaluate and synthesise open-source information from multiple sources into descriptions of threat actors, capabilities, intent, possible targets and attack vectors . The resulting threat picture shall provide a documented basis for assessing risk and for identifying proportionate protective security and resilience measures. The research will contribute to future DNV assurance services for energy security and resilience.

Your main responsibilities include:

• Develop repeatable and traceable methods supported by AI to collect, classify, evaluate and consolidate open-source threat information relevant to critical energy infrastructure
• Establish threat pictures that describe relevant threat actors, capabilities, intent, possible targets, attack vectors and plausible scenarios
• Translate the threat picture into input for security risk assessments, vulnerability assessments and decisions on protective security and resilience measures
• Develop methods for identifying physical, digital, operational and organisational vulnerabilities in the energy systems. This can be power production, oil&gas production or energy transportation
• Develop and test AI-supported prototypes for continuous monitoring, source evaluation, information extraction, traceability and updating of the threat picture
• Validate methods and tools through case studies with energy companies, authorities and other relevant stakeholders
• Translate research results into concepts and requirements for future DNV assurance services
• Document and communicate methods, assumptions, uncertainty and results through reports, publications and presentations

• The opportunity to shape methods and technologies for future DNV assurance services in energy security and resilience
• Applied research in close collaboration with energy companies, authorities and academic partners
• The opportunity to develop methods and tools with direct relevance to critical infrastructure security
• An interdisciplinary and international research environment
• Flexible working arrangements and opportunities for professional development