Vacancy No. 1144/2025

PhD Student (f/m/d), Postdoc (f/m/d) for the “Electrolysis for CO2-Reduction to Fuels and Chemicals”

full time

Job description

Contribute to the energy transition of our society via enabling new power-to-chemicals/fuels processes. You will join a team that investigates new electrolysis processes for synthesizing valuable fuels and chemicals from the waste product CO₂ and renewable energy. Your research will focus on enabling an efficient electrolysis process including cell design and optimization. You work will be interdisciplinary, with experimental analysis and modeling on cell (component) level and product analysis. Based on your research findings, you will derive essential and technically relevant insights into the processes and limitations and evaluate pathways to improve performance.

Personal qualification

You have an excellent M.Sc. or Ph.D. degree in the field of engineering, chemistry or physics with knowledge on reaction or surface processes, transport processes and continuum modelling. Prior knowledge in electrochemical (engineering) or analytical methods is appreciated. Furthermore, you show enthusiasm for scientific and interdisciplinary problem analysis and identifying feasible solutions and are interested in interdisciplinary work including modelling and lab work. We expect initiative, independent work, creativity, ability to work in a team and good communication skills in English.

Organizational unit

Institute for Applied Materials - Electrochemical Technologies (IAM-ET)

Starting date

September 1, 2025

Salary

Salary category 13 TV-L, depending on the fulfillment of professional and personal requirements.

Contract duration

limited to 2,5 years

Application up to

May 15, 2025

Contact person in line-management

For further information, please contact Dr. Philipp Röse, phone: +49 721 608 47569.

Application

Please apply online using the button below for this vacancy number 1144/2025 .
Personnel Support is provided by 

Ms Carrasco Sanchez
phone: +49 721 608-42016,

Kaiserstr. 12, 76131 Karlsruhe

We prefer to balance the number of employees (f/m/d). Therefore we kindly ask female applicants to apply for this job.
Recognized severely disabled persons will be preferred if they are equally qualified.