RA in Battery Materials Modelling

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The Role
We are looking to appoint a Research Associate in the modelling of battery materials in the Ion Transport and Interfaces Group of Dr. James A. Dawson at Newcastle University. The position is initially for 2 years with the possibility of extension subject to future funding.

Depending on the successful candidate's interests and expertise, this position will be focused on either (or a combination of) the atomistic modelling of liquid and solid electrolytes, cathode materials or electrolyte-electrode interfaces. The candidate will be expected to use a combination of density functional theory, ab initio and classical molecular dynamics, machine learning approaches, including machine learning forcefields, and other complementary methods.

The project is part of a UKRI Frontier Research Grant ("AMPed") and will be carried out in collaboration with world-leading experimental partners in the UK, including the Faraday Institution, Europe and North America. Our ambition is to develop and apply state-of-the-art computational techniques to provide a fundamental understanding of structure, dynamics and interfaces in battery materials for next-generation energy storage devices.

For informal enquiries please contact Dr. James A. Dawson james.dawson@ncl.ac.uk.

For further information about our research please see the Dawson Group website.

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