Postdoctoral Fellow

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 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.

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

• 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

The University of South Carolina (USC), through the State of SC and Public Employee Benefit Authority (PEBA), offers temporary employees expected to work at least 30 hours per week health and life insurance, flexible spending accounts and retirement programs.

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