24 PhD positions in battery research & energy storage – DESTINY Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions COFUND Project (M/F)

DEADLINE TO APPLY: 17/01/22

The Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme of European Union has launched a huge MSCA COFUND project entitled Doctorate programme on Emerging battery Storage Technologies INspiring Young scientists, DESTINY https://www.destiny-phd.eu/. CNRS, acting as the coordinator, with 43 European partner institutions working on future batteries and related issues on energy storage, committed to ambitiously participate in the long-term research initiative Battery 2030+. A new paradigm change in battery research is foreseen. The project consists in delivering a competitive edge to European industry and academy within the rapidly emerging green technology areas of Electro-mobility and Large-scale energy storage.

In this context, DESTINY, a highly advanced PhD training programme opens a second application call enrolling 24 doctoral positions, located in several European countries, and that will start on 1st October 2022. The large consortium is composed of Universities, Research centers, Large Scale Facilities and Industry companies located in 11 European countries.

You will be trained at the highest level to become future leaders in battery technologies. You will study and work with Interdisciplinary competences and skills such as modelling and artificial intelligence, advanced electrochemical analysis techniques, characterization, synthesis of materials, etc. You will be part of a very strong community gathering a long-existing european academic-industry network and you will join the cutting-edge teams working on battery research & energy storage.

A very large panel of topics covers the programme.  All these positions require mobility. You will find the description of the 24 research topics and their specificities on https://www.destiny-phd.eu/cohort-2

  • Topic 1: New inorganic-polymer composite materials for the positive electrode of asymmetric supercapacitors
  • Topic 2: Operando Raman microscopy studies on next generation positive electrode and electrolyte materials
  • Topic 3: Multiscale characterization approach to correlation of electrochemical properties of layered oxides to their structure and chemistry
  • Topic 4: Beyond iron and manganese: toward 4 V Prussian Blue Analogue cathode materials for Sodium-ion batteries
  • Topic 5: Inorganic-polymer composite materials at the positive electrode of Li all solid state batteries
  • Topic 6: 3D-resolved computational modeling of mechano-electrochemistry in solid state batteries
  • Topic 7: Soft solid state Li-organic battery: eco-design, performance, and recycling
  • Topic 8: Understanding interfaces in novel hybrid electrolyte systems
  • Topic 9: From Nanoscale Operando Interface Characterizations To Sustainable And Industry Relevant All-Solid-State Batteries Using Composite Ceramic Li+ And Na+ Superconductor Electrolytes
  • Topic 10: 3D lithium compositional spatio-dynamics within battery electrodes and secondary particles based on XCT investigation with XANES and XRD contrasts
  • Topic 11: Battery End-of-life Access Through Liquid Electrolyte Spectroscopy (BEATLES)
  • Topic 12: Nb-containing Phosphates as High Power Negative Electrodes for Batteries
  • Topic 13: Paving the way towards autonomous battery manufacturing optimization: a surrogate multiscale modeling approach
  • Topic 14: Positive Electrode Materials for Sodium-Ion Batteries: Ion Transport and Redox Properties
  • Topic 15: Operando investigation of battery materials, electrodes and solid electrolytes, using Neutron Diffraction
  • Topic 16: Recycling wastewater absorbents as energy storage electrodes
  • Topic 17: Design and development of interfaces for anode-less solid state batteries
  • Topic 18: DFT- assisted investigation of ion transport in Na-based ceramic solid electrolytes
  • Topic 19: Perovskites as artificial SEI layers
  • Topic 20: Innovative coatings for magnesium and calcium negative electrodes
  • Topic 21: New cobalt-free lithium-rich layered oxides as positive electrode materials for lithium-ion batteries
  • Topic 22: Towards a safe Na-ion battery technology: Understanding the role of advanced components
  • Topic 23: Novel binders enabling carbon-free Si anodes for the next generation of Li-ion batteries
  • Topic 24: Layered alkali transition metal compounds: Electrochemistry, Cationic Ordering and Magnetism

WARNING: PLEASE, DO NOT APPLY HERE

  1. Please read carefully the Guide for Applicants on the DESTINY website which explains the eligibility requirements and the Application Forms N°1 and N°2 with the supporting documents to be provided: https://www.destiny-phd.eu/cohort-2
  2. Please upload your Application Form N°1 in PDF in the CV box and your Application Form N°2 in PDF in the cover letter box on the DESTINY job offer on the CNRS job portal https://emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Doctorant/FR3104-CHRMAS0-004/Default.aspx 
  3. Please disregard the “Application Deadline” next to the “apply” button at the top of the advert, the real date is the one indicated on the DESTINY website: https://www.destiny-phd.eu/cohort-2

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