Postdoctoral Fellowin risk-based approaches for sustainability development and cost reduction of hydrogen fuelling stations

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The postdoctoral fellowship position is a temporary position where the main goal is to qualify for work in senior academic positions.  

Hydrogen can be fully clean when it is produced by other green energies. It is used to store energy from these renewables, like solar photovoltaics (PV) and wind, whose availability is not always well matched with demand. To be sustainable, hydrogen must be safe and stably accessible, both technologically and financially. Public awareness and cost are other critical issues affected by uncertainties.

This Postdoctoral Fellowship is part of the SUSHy project on “sustainability development and cost-reduction of hybrid renewable energies powered hydrogen stations by risk-based multidisciplinary approaches”, involving internationally renowned institutions across Europe and Japan. The project is expected to develop risk-based approaches to reduce overconservative expensive design, while ensuring safety, sustainability, and efficiency of hydrogen fuelling stations.

You will focus your research on:

• main recommendations and lessons learnt from previous operational experience,
• monitoring of safety performance,
• protection and emergency response systems, and
• risk perception and acceptance

You will also be required to guide other students on this research and collaborate with the administration of the project.

We search for candidates interested in these interdisciplinary tasks, and those with the best qualifications will be invited for an interview.

Your immediate leader is Head of Department.