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Department of Chemistry
Echion Technologies Limited
Battery Materials Modelling Research Scientist (KTP Associate)
Salary will be between £30,000 to £40,000 per annum at a starting salary to be confirmed on offer of appointment. The successful applicant will also receive a £2,000 per annum training budget.
Project Description:
Applying materials modelling approaches to improve the performance of existing active anode material products for next generation Lithium-ion batteries, particularly focusing on improvements to energy density.
A KTP (Knowledge Transfer Partnership) is a collaboration between a university and a company, jointly funded by the Company and Innovate UK. KTPs aim to help businesses improve their competitiveness and productivity through the better use of knowledge, technology and skills that reside within the UK Knowledge Base. This KTP is a 24-month project between Loughborough University and Echion Technologies Limited.
The technical goal of the KTP is to improve understanding of active anode materials stability in response to various modifications in order to improve energy density, ultimately providing in silico modelling to support R&D. The materials of focus will be proprietary Mixed Niobium Oxide structures that provide the ability to reversibly fast-charge/discharge a lithium-ion cell with significant advantages over current in market solutions. This will be delivered initially through enhanced understanding of crystal-level modifications, introduction of defects, potentially expanding the scope to grain boundary considerations.
KTPs aim to help businesses improve their competitiveness and productivity through the better use of knowledge, technology and skills that reside within the UK Knowledge Base.
The successful Associate will be based within Echion Technologies Ltd. team in Cambridge, but will work closely with academics at Loughborough University, Loughborough campus. The project will involve travel between Cambridge and Loughborough, as well as travel to other sites/clients as appropriate.
This is a re-advertisement and previous applicants need not apply.
Informal enquiries should be made to either:
Informal enquiries should be made to the Academic Supervisor Dr Pooja Goddard, Senior Lecturer in Chemistry; email: P.Goddard@lboro.ac.uk /Tel: +44 (0) 1509 222 548 or the Lead Academic, Professor Roger Smith, Professor of Mathematical Engineering; email: R.Smith@lboro.ac.uk
The closing date for receipt of applications is Wednesday 1 December 2021
Interviews will be held on Thursday 9th & Friday 10th December 2021. Please note candidates may be invited for interview on any of these days.
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