Postdoctoral Fellow in the area of sustainable carbon-based supercapacitors

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We have a vacancy for a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Energy and Process Engineering (EPT).

The successful candidate for this position must be able to conduct independent, yet highly collaborative research and development in the area of sustainable carbon-based supercapacitors. The candidate will be asked to optimize the synthesis and formation of activated carbon from biomass under industrial processing constraints. The carbon material will then be used to fabricate supercapacitor devices and measure a variety of electrochemical performance and reliability metrics. The candidate is expected to be capable of performing complementary material characterization (electron microscopy, x-ray analysis, etc.), to adequately evaluate the relationships between the carbon synthesis/processing conditions and device performance.

The project will require the Postdoctor to frequently visit an industrial collaborator in the Stavanger area and to spend approximately six months with a collaborator in Germany, to use special biomass processing equipment.

You will report to Steven Boles , Professor of Sustainable Energy Systems in EPT.