Research Associate (f/m/d) in the science department of electron…

Area of research:

Scientific / postdoctoral posts

Starting date:

12.01.2023

Job description:

You work in the department ‘Advanced Electron Microscopy in Materials Research’ at the Institute of Nanotechnology of the KIT Karlsruhe in the field of high-end structural analysis. In close cooperation with various research groups in the field of chemistry, materials science and physics, you will sup-port battery related research using in-situ and ex-situ transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and scanning electron (SEM) / focused ion beam (FIB) microscopy.

As part of the Excellence Cluster POLiS ‘Energy Storage Beyond Lithium’ you will be focus on two main projects:

• correlative characterization of corrosion processes in Aluminum electrodes
• structure of hard carbons and their relation to sodium storage capabilities

Two state-of-the-art aber-ration corrected TEMs for atomic resolution imaging and spectroscopy, 4D-STEM, electron tomo-graphy and in-situ TEM studies as well as three FIB systems for SEM, EBSD and EDX analysis at RT and under cryo conditions are available as well as a NanoCT. In addition to your own research, you will supervise a doctoral student and work with other postdocs in the department to jointly implement and improve advanced microscopic methods.

This research center is part of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centers. With more than 42,000 employees and an annual budget of over € 5 billion, the Helmholtz Association is Germany’s largest scientific organisation.