PhD Studentship in Multi-Length-Scale Characterisation of Critical Materials for Optimised Extraction and Recycling University College London in United Kingdom

Fully funded PhD studentship at University College London (UCL), Chemical Engineering. This project is titled Multi-length scale characterisation of critical materials for optimised extraction and recycling and focuses on the structure and behaviour of critical materials used in wind turbines, electric vehicles, smartphones, and other technologies that depend on lithium, cobalt, nickel, copper, rare earth elements, and platinum group metals. The research sits at the intersection of Chemical Engi...

Postdoctoral Research Associate opportunity at the University of Oxford , UK, in the group of Prof. Emilio Martinez-Pañeda . The project is ResistHfracture , supported by an ERC Starting Grant under the UK Horizon Europe Guarantee , and it focuses on developing the first generation of hydrogen-resistant alloys . This opening is especially relevant for candidates with training in Materials Science , Physics , Chemistry , or a closely related engineering discipline. The research themes include mec...

University of Oxford is recruiting a Postdoctoral Research Associate for the ResistHFracture project in the Mechanics of Materials Laboratory . This is an experimental research role focused on developing the first generation of hydrogen-resistant alloys for future green hydrogen infrastructure. The project combines materials science , mechanical engineering , and related physical sciences. Research activities include fracture and fatigue testing , advanced materials characterization , hydrogen–m...

ETH Zürich is advertising a PhD position in predicting Thermodynamics and Processes for Circular Carbon Plastics within the Energy and Process Systems Engineering (EPSE) Group , led by Prof. Dr. André Bardow . The project sits at the intersection of chemical engineering , thermodynamics , machine learning , process design , and circular plastics recycling . The research aims to develop new hybrid predictive models that combine physics-based thermodynamics with data-driven AI methods. The focus i...

University of Oxford is advertising a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Experimental Materials Engineering within Prof. Emilio Martinez-Paneda’s Mechanics of Materials Lab in the Department of Engineering Science (central Oxford). The project focuses on mechanical testing of metals and hydrogen embrittlement , with experimental work spanning fracture and fatigue testing, advanced materials characterisation (including SEM and EBSD), hydrogen charging, permeation, and desorption experiments. Ther...