The Department of Materials Science and Engineering has a vacancy for a

PhD Candidate in Development of Batteries for Stationary Energy Storage

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About the position

The Department of Materials Science and Engineering (IMA) at the Natural Science Faculty, has a vacancy for a position as PhD candidate related to development of an emerging battery technology based on aluminium anodes and carbon cathodes. The PhD project is affiliated to the strategic research area TSO Energy at NTNU. The candidate will be part of a PhD pool devoted to various aspects of renewable energy technology. The overall aim of the PhD project is to evaluate selected material qualities (aluminium alloys, carbons, solvents and current collectors) with respect to applicability in aluminium carbon batteries, including perspectives of sustainability, scaleability, and stationary storage profiles.

The main supervisor of the candidate will be Prof. Ann Mari Svensson (IMA), NTNU. In addition, co-supervisors will be appointed, from the Industrial Ecology Group, Faculty of Engineering (Prof. Anders Strømman), Sustainable Electrical Energy Group, Information Technology and Electrical Engineering Faculty (Steve Völler), Department of Architecture and Technology (Prof. Arild Gustavsen)

This position is funded by NTNU’s strategic research area on Energy. Additional opportunities linked to this initiative can be found at https://www.ntnu.edu/energy/announcements.