PhD Research Fellow in Hydrogen storage for a stationary hub (ref 229294)

The available PhD Research fellow position is part of the newly established Centre for Environment-friendly Energy Research (FME) HYDROGENi, which is a collabora-tive effort from over 50 Norwegian and European partners focusing on research and innovations within hydrogen and ammonia.

The PhD candidate will work closely with our partner company Siemens, and other international academic collaborators with the goal of enabling hydrogen storage for emerging large-scale applications.

Efficient hydrogen storage is key for the deployment of hydrogen as an energy car-rier. For safe and effective storage in metal hydrides, the alloy composition needs to be optimized to improve the performances, the cost and environmental sustain-ability of the medium. The candidate will focus on the synthesis and characteriza-tion of low-temperature and low-pressure TiFe-based metal hydrides, and the ef-fect of partial element substitution on the structural and hydrogenation properties, on cycle life and resistance to contamination.

Solid-state synthesis, structural and hydrogenation characterization will be per-formed at laboratories at UiO, at Synchrotron and Neutron powder diffraction beamlines, and at facilities of our partners. A pilot storage system containing the new metal hydrides will be tested and optimized under realistic conditions of the designed stationary hub envisioned by Siemens.

The candidate will be part of a vibrant research group at the Energy Systems section of the Department of Technology Systems, UiO, at Kjeller, interacting with a team of researchers, PhD and master students, and a network of international colleagues (for instance prof. Jacques Huot, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, among others). Furthermore, the PhD candidate will be part of a national network of PhD candidates through a parallel project HySchool (Norwegian research school on hydrogen and hydrogen-based fuels) where ITS is leading the activities on hydrogen storage and distribution.

For more information and how to apply: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/229294/phd-research-fellow-in-hydrogen-storage-for-a-stationary-hub