WE ARE RECRUITING 3 PhD students to start in October 2025. Each 4-year studentship is generously funded with an enhanced stipend, all tuition fees covered, and research support funding, including for participation in conferences.
There are 3 PhD student vacancies in total, with 2 Home fee status and 1 Overseas fee status available.
Successful students will join our new Centre for Experimental Fuel Technologies(CEFT), which aims to develop innovative fuel cell and battery technologies, underpinned by fundamental understanding. The Centre is an exciting venture bringing together leading research groups in the Department of Chemistry, Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG) and the School of Engineering at the University of Warwick. With world-leading expertise and facilities in electrochemistry, materials chemistry, spectroscopy, microscopy, modelling and battery and fuel cell construction and testing, we aim to develop next generation electrochemical energy technologies through holistic views of ammonia/methanol fuel cells and metal and metal ion (Li, Na, Ca etc.) batteries, from the nanoscale to device level.
In addition to the range of exciting projects offered, the cohort of CEFT PhD student will benefit from bespoke training courses and opportunities for collaboration across the departments, with CEFT academics and their collaborators (within Warwick, nationally and internationally).
Candidates with first degrees (Bachelor’s and/or Master’s) in all branches of Chemistry, Physics, Mathematical Sciences, Materials Science and Engineering, and Chemical engineering are welcome to apply.
If you are seeking an exciting opportunity to become part of a multidisciplinary team of esteemed researchers converging around the shared technologies and innovative research methods essential for battery and fuel cell development, please read through the opportunities below and click here to apply to the Centre.
Warwick Manufacturing Group
These 3 successful offer holders will be under the supervision of Prof. Louis Piper and Dr. Mel Loveridge in the Warwick Manufacturing Group.
Prof Piper and Dr Loveridge have vast experience in functional materials for energy storage/harvesting applications (e.g. Li-ion batteries), along with the development of various advanced characterization methods. WMG has a suite of laboratories for synthesis, electrochemistry and battery scale-up, which boast cutting-edge facilities for accelerating material developments at laboratory scale into pilot line validation.
Application deadline 31 August 2025
For more information and to apply visit https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/phd-studentships-in-electrochemistry-materials-chemistry-electrocatalysis-and-batteries/?p184822
