Postdoctoral researcher in High-throughput battery cathodes

DESCRIPTION OF THE INSTITUTION:

, a member of the Basque Research and Technology Alliance- BRTA, and, a strategic initiative of the Basque Government. CIC energiGUNE was created in 2011 to generate excellent knowledge and at the same time useful for the Basque business network, being a reference in knowledge transfer.

CIC energiGUNE has a dynamic research team of more than 100 researchers and is extremely well equipped with a wide range of up-to-date facilities that are fully available for all its researchers. Also, the European Commission has recently awarded CIC energiGUNE with the ´HR Excellence in Research´ which reflects its commitment to achieving fair and transparent recruitment and appraisal procedures and certifies the existence of a stimulating and favorable work environment for researchers in the institution.

For more details on CIC energiGUNE's research activities please visit our website at http://www.cicenergigune.com

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:

CIC energiGUNE is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to work in the high throughput development of inorganic cathode materials for Li-ion batteries using automatized modules for their synthesis and characterisation with the final goal to accelerate the discovery of materials for the energy transition. This work will be performed in collaboration with Umicore.

Job functions:

• High throughput synthesis of inorganic cathode materials using our new automated laboratory platforms
• Physical-chemical and structural characterization of the prepared materials (X-ray diffraction, electron microscopy, chemical analyses, thermogravimetric analyses, etc.)
• Preliminary electrochemical characterization using galvanostatic cycling of half-cells.
• Collaboration in the development and optimization of automatized solutions for high throughput characterization modules
• Assessment of Supervised Learning (SL) algorithms in collaboration with the Atomistic Modelling and Computational research group
• Writing of technical reports and scientific publications and participation to national and international conferences.