Research Fellow in Fuel Cells (109609-0824)

For informal enquiries, please contact Shanwen Tao (Professor) at s.tao.1@warwick.ac.uk.

A generous donation of £1.5 million was provided to Professor Shanwen Tao’s research group to develop direct ammonia fuel cells and ammonia related research, as such the School of Engineering is seeking to appoint a Research Fellow in ammonia fuel cells and related technologies.

We will consider applications for employment on a part-time or other flexible working basis, even where a position is advertised as full-time, unless there are operational or other objective reasons why it is not possible to do so.  

You will focus on making large area fuel cells and building a small fuel cell stack. Hand-on experience in membrane electrode assembly (MEA) for fuel cells and building small fuel cell stack is required.

You will undertake research on direct ammonia fuel cells, pushing the technology towards commercialisation. You will undertake independent and collaborative research and will be expected to write up your research for publication. You will be expected to deal with any management/administration problems that may arise from the project and produce and present regular project reports ensuring that the project objectives and deadlines are met. 

You will have a PhD (or near completion) in a relevant discipline (Materials Science & Engineering, Chemistry, Solid State Chemistry, Electrochemistry, Chemical Engineering).

You will have excellent verbal and written communication skills, time management and IT skills. You will possess quantitative and qualitative research skills in experimental work.

For further information regarding the skills required for this role please see the personal specification section of the attached job description.

If you are near submission or have recently submitted your PhD but have not yet had it conferred, any offers of employment will be made as Research Assistant at the top of level 5 of the University grade structure. Upon receipt of evidence of the successful award of your PhD, you will be promoted to Research Fellow on the first point of level 6 of the University grade structure.