Research Associate: Next Generation Lithium-Ion Electrolytes

Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available until 31 March 2026 in the first instance.

Applicants are invited to apply for a post-doctoral position working on lithium-ion battery electrolytes as part of the Faraday Institution's Degradation programme, supervised jointly by Prof. Dame Clare Grey and Prof. Dominic Wright. The project will involve the synthesis of new battery salts and the investigation of their electrochemistry and battery performance, with particular aims of developing fluorine-free salts and salts for anode-free/anodeless batteries. The position is available until 31 March 2026 in the first instance, but this is part of a rolling programme with the potential for extension.

Applicants should have completed (or be about to complete) a Ph.D. in chemistry or chemical engineering with experience in inorganic synthesis, and associated characterisation methods such as NMR, mass spectrometry and X-ray diffraction. Additional experience in electrochemistry would be particularly useful.

Further information about research in the Grey and Wright groups is available at:

https://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/person/cpg27

https://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/person/dsw1000

Informal enquiries can be made to Professor Wright (dsw1000@cam.ac.uk).

To apply online for this vacancy and to view further information about the role, please click the 'Apply' button above. 

Please ensure that you upload your Curriculum Vitae (CV), a covering letter and publications list in the upload section of the online application. If you upload any additional documents that have not been requested, we will not be able to consider these as part of your application.

Please quote reference MA45887 on your application and in any correspondence about this vacancy.

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