Postdoctoral Fellow

Overview

Advertised Job Summary: The Department of Mechanical Engineering within the College of Engineering and Computing seeks to hire a Postdoctoral Fellow to provide grant-based research for a project funded by DOE to develop solid oxide electrolysis cells for hydrogen. This position will perform experiments, supervise graduate and undergraduate students, write scientific papers and quarterly reports.

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• Synthesizes and characterizes materials for solid oxide electrolysis cell components development
• Evaluates cell performance using electrochemical methods
• Performs computational modeling of the electrochemical performance obtained from experiments
• Supervises graduate and undergraduate students for their thesis and university funded projects
• Writes quarterly progress reports for DOE
• Writes scientific papers for publications in peer reviewed scientific journals

PhD in materials science and related disciplines with solid oxide fuel cell knowledge.

• Job Duty:
  Essential Function – Yes
• Percentage Of Time – 30
• Job Duty:
  Evaluates cell performance using electrochemical methods
• Job Duty:
  Performs computational modeling of the electrochemical performance obtained from experiments
• Percentage Of Time – 10
• Job Duty:
  Supervises graduate and undergraduate students for their thesis and university funded projects
• Job Duty:
  Writes quarterly progress reports for DOE
• Job Duty:
  Writes scientific papers for publications in peer reviewed scientific journals

• Number Of Vacancies: 1
• Proposed End Date: 09/30/2021
• Job Open Date: 01/28/2021
• Open Until Filled:
  Yes

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• Safety/Security Sensitive Or Requires a CDL:
  No
• Hazardous Weather Category:
  Non-Essential