Postdoc position in Sustainable Battery Production

Are you ready to create the next generation, sustainable battery production systems? This is a great opportunity for a highly motivated postdoc candidate with a recently completed PhD degree to engage in state-of-the-art research. Join our diverse, professional, and friendly team of excellent researchers working on national and international top level research together with industry and international experts.

Your new team
Chalmers is a leading university in industrial digitalization for sustainable and competitive manufacturing. The Division of Production Systems is a young and growing team of 30 cross-disciplinary researchers, teachers, postdocs, PhD candidates, and support staff. The Division has a good gender balance and high diversity.

We are engaged in research, education, and innovation; nationally and internationally. We collaborate closely with industry in design, deployment, operation, and maintenance of future industrial battery production systems. Examples of our research are the development of digital twins and exploration of digital product passports applications, to assist battery life-cycle management. Our advanced research facilities and labs for industrial digitalization, e.g. Stena Industry Innovation Lab, enable deep involvement in national and European projects.

Production Systems is one of six divisions within the Department of Industrial and Materials Science (IMS). Other divisions of IMS are: Design & Human Factors; Product Development; Material & Computational Mechanics; Engineering Materials; Materials and Manufacture. Chalmers is a private university with strong entrepreneurial innovation and startup support.

Your responsibilities
As a Postdoc in our team, your focus will be on sustainable battery manufacturing operations and management, in close collaboration with companies across battery value chains. Your starting point is to study battery production in the context of sustainability and circularity. As a Chalmers Postdoc you are expected to continuously expand your field of expertise, in close collaboration with the three research groups within the division. Our experienced research leaders and mentors will train you for a future research leadership position in academia or industry, in Sweden and internationally.

Qualifications
You should be able to speak and write English fluently. Swedish proficiency is meritorious. If you do not yet have it you should be willing to learn Swedish, to facilitate teaching and research collaboration. Chalmers offers Swedish courses.

Mandatory 


• A PhD degree in a relevant field of research.
• Your thesis should be related to advanced, industrial sustainability development and assessment methods, preferably involving manufacturing industries.
• Experience from international research collaboration as well as excellent, documented publication and communication skills are mandatory for this position.
• Have documented experience from research projects performed in collaborative, multi-disciplinary teams.

Meritorious



• Training and experience within the battery value chain is highly relevant.
• Experience from battery manufacturing related industry.
• Background and research experience within industrial, mechanical, energy, digital/electrical, or similar engineering fields are prioritized.


We offer
Chalmers offers a cultivating and inspiring working environment in the coastal city of Gothenburg. 
Read more about working at Chalmers and our benefits for employees.

Chalmers aims to actively improve our gender balance. We work broadly with equality projects, for example the GENIE Initiative on gender equality for excellence. Equality and diversity are substantial foundations in all activities at Chalmers.

Application procedure
The application should be marked with 20240320 and written in English. The application should be sent electronically and be attached as PDF-files, as below. Maximum size for each file is 40 MB. Please note that the system does not support Zip files.

CV: (Please name the document as: CV, Surname, Ref. number) including:
• CV, include complete list of publications
• Previous teaching and pedagogical experiences
• Two references that we can contact.

Personal letter: (Please name the document as: Personal letter, Family name, Ref. number)
1-3 pages where you:
• Introduce yourself
• Describe your previous research fields and main research results
• Describe your future goals and future research focus

Other documents:
• Attested copies of completed education, grades and other certificates.



Please note: The applicant is responsible for ensuring that the application is complete. Incomplete applications and applications sent by email will not be considered.

Application deadline: 2024-06-15

 
For questions, please contact:

Professor Johan Stahre, johan.stahre@chalmers.se

Professor Björn Johansson, bjorn.johansson@chalmers.se

Assoc. Professor Mélanie Despeisse, melanie.despeisse@chalmers.se