Research Fellow (Circular Economy in Advanced Batteries)

Contract type: Fixed Term contract up to March 2029

Background

The School of Chemistry at the University of Birmingham is a vibrant and thriving academic community, with over 100 academic and research staff, 20 professional services staff and over 600 students. We provide an inclusive and supportive environment where we strive to support every member of staff in realising their career potential. With a strong focus on our four Research Themes of Energy, Sustainability, Environment and Health, and a number of interdisciplinary Interest Groups serving as testbeds to explore new and emerging areas of interest, we are a dynamic place to work. We have ambitious plans to expand our research activity and are in an exciting period of growth: major investment from the University will deliver a state-of-the-art research building (opening in 2023/24), and new multi-million pound high-performance computing facilities, which will ensure UK-leading compute capability. These investments build on a major recent expansion of our academic staff and investment in our teaching and learning provision, with our Collaborative Teaching Laboratory, which opened September 2018, already revolutionising how we teach undergraduate practical chemistry.

Role Summary

The post holder will join the Chemistry groups led by Professors Paul Anderson and Peter Slater,  and will work on the development of recycling strategies to enable a circular economy in advanced battery materials. This work will include detailed characterisation of materials at end of life to understand degradation characteristics, as well as methods to regenerate them or upcycle to next generation battery materials, with a strong focus on maintaining (or enhancing) material value and minimizing environmental impact. The postholder will take a leading role in helping to direct other researchers on the ReLiB and RECREATE projects, contribute to writing central facilities access bids, operate within areas of specialism including characterization and recycling of battery materials, analyse and interpret research findings and results. They will also contribute to licensing or spin out deals with demonstrated commercial success (such as revenues, asset or company sales, IP generated) and public understanding of the discipline.

Person Specification

• Hold a first degree and PhD in Chemistry or Materials
• Extensive research experience and scholarship within the area of lithium ion battery recycling
• Experience and achievement reflected in a growing reputation 
• Extensive experience and demonstrated success in planning, undertaking and project managing research to deliver high quality results
• Extensive experience of applying and/or developing and devising successful models, techniques and methods
• Experience and achievement in knowledge transfer, enterprise and similar activity
• Experience of championing Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in own work area
• Ability to monitor and evaluate the extent to which equality and diversity legislation, policies, procedures are applied
• Ability to identify issues with the potential to impact on protected groups and take appropriate action

Informal enquires can be made to Prof Paul Anderson, p.a.anderson@bham.ac.uk and Prof Peter Slater, p.r.slater@bham.ac.uk 

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