Technology Transfer Fellow

Salary: £30,497 to £34,304 per annum together with USS pension benefits

Location: This position will be based at the Bay Campus

We are looking to appoint a technology transfer fellow in the area of sustainable chemistry, time-resolved photoluminescence spectroscopy and materials photochemistry with the College of Engineering at Swansea University. You will work in the Applied Photochemistry group of Dr Matthew Davies part of the SPECIFIC IKC, Materials Research Centre, Swansea University.

The post will primarily involve improving the sustainability of printable PV materials (perovskite, organic and dye-sensitized solar cells) and characterizing interventions via steady state and time resolved photoluminescence techniques and the suite of complimentary equipment available within the SPECIFIC IKC. We are particularly interested in the studying materials with improved sustainability (greener solvents, precursors, additives etc) and studying the uniformity, morphology and photophysical behavior of printed PV to develop an understanding of device photophysics and photochemistry to inform development of remanufacturing and material substitution strategies for perovskite devices. The role will also involve linking research across the SPECIFIC IKC and our network of collaborators providing photochemical characterization for associated research projects.

The position will be based on the newly built Bay Campus in Swansea, a £450 million development project aimed at providing the best university facilities in the UK, in an outstanding location.

Applicants should hold a Ph.D. or equivalent in a relevant area of physical chemistry (e.g. photochemistry / photophysics) and have significant experience of time-resolved photoluminescence spectroscopy of perovskite and organic thin-films, charge carrier recombination models used to fit data and advanced ability to process these data sets. Experience of the manufacture and characterization of laboratory scale PV would be an advantage.