Postdoc in Microstructural Engineering of Additive Manufactured Metals

DTU, Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, the section for Manufacturing Engineering has a vacant postdoc position within the Villum Investigator project “Microstructural Engineering of Additive Manufactured Metals – MicroAM”. 

The period of employment is 2 years, starting from September 2025 or according to mutual agreement. 

An aim of the project, central to this position, is to develop a state-of-the-art laboratory 3D X-ray micro-beam diffraction (Lab-3DµXRD) technique and to employ this technique to quantify the local microstructural evolution during exposure to mechanical, thermal and corrosive stimuli/loads thus laying a knowledge-based foundation for design of AM-defect tolerant microstructures. The work will be based on experimental characterization guided by advanced AM simulations. The latter being the responsibility of other participants of the MicroAM project. 

Responsibilities and qualifications

As our new Postdoc, your responsibilities will be: 

• to develop both hardware and software for Lab-3DµXRD, together with the MicroAM team and a Danish company Xnovo Tech. A/S
• to perform Lab-3DµXRD experiments to follow microstructure evolution during annealing and stress-corrosion tests on aluminum samples processed using different laser powder bed fusion parameters
• to perform synchrotron experiment to validate the Lab-3DµXRD results
• to link the printing parameters, the microstructural characteristics and the resulting corrosion properties, providing guidelines for designing defect tolerant microstructures that can cope well during subsequent in-service use 

You will work in close collaboration with a group of senior scientists and technicians as well as Post Docs and PhDs. Also, the work will involve collaboration with selected external partners. 

We are looking for a candidate with a strong background in the following areas: 

• X-ray physics
• Microstructural characterization
• Corrosion
• Crystallography
• Physical Metallurgy 

Experience with synchrotrons or laboratory 3D diffraction imaging is considered as a significant advantage.  

Excellent English communication skills are also essential. 

As a formal qualification, you must hold a PhD degree (or equivalent).   

Further information 

Further information may be obtained from Professor Dorte Juul Jensen tel. +45 4525 4777, or Senior Scientist Yubin Zhang, tel. +45 9351 1819. 

Application procedure 

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