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Marie Skłodowska - Curie - Postdoctoral Fellowship at IMDEA Energy Institute (Spain),R&D unit of High Temperature Processes

Fundacion IMDEA Energia The Human Resources Strategy for Researchers
20 Jul 2021

Hosting Information

Offer Deadline
EU Research Framework Programme
HE / MSCA
Country
Spain
City
Mostoles, Madrid

Organisation/Institute

Organisation / Company
Fundacion IMDEA Energia
Department
R&D unit of High Temperature Processes
Is the Hosting related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?
No

Contact Information

Organisation / Company Type
Public Research Institution
Website
Email
jose.gonzalez@imdea.org
Postal Code
28935
Street
Av. Ramón de la Sagra 3, Parque Tecnológico de Móstoles, 28935, Móstoles, Madrid
Phone

Description

The R&D unit of High Temperature Processes at the IMDEA Energy Institute in Spain, welcomes postdoctoral candidates interested in applying for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01) in 2021.

Before sending your application, please check the full description of the eligibility criteria that can be found in the webpage call.

Brief description of the institution:

The IMDEA Energy Institute is a Research Centre located in the town of Mostoles, in the region of Madrid (Spain), aimed at contributing to the establishment of an efficient and sustainable energy system with a high degree of decarbonisation, economically competitive and securing energy supply. Accordingly, research activities are oriented to fostering the development of renewable energies and clean energy technologies.

Being created in 2007, IMDEA Energy has experienced a fast growth reaching in a few years a relevant international position in R&D activities on energy topics. An essential factor for explaining this successful development has been the ability for attracting top level researchers, as well as the availability of new and excellent scientific infrastructures, favoring the achievement of outstanding scientific results.

The IMDEA Energy Institute has obtained the accreditation as ‘María de Maeztu’ Unit of Excellence, granted by the Spanish State Research Agency, which aim to identify and promote excellence in scientific research with high-impact carried out in cutting-edge R&D centers. The accredited centers stand out for the international notoriety of their scientific contributions, for their innovative capacity and for their intense relationship with the business sector. They are also world-class reference centers capable of attracting international talent.

http://www.energy.imdea.org/

  1. Brief description of the Centre/Research Group

The R&D unit of High Temperature Processes (HTPU) of IMDEA Energy focuses its activities aims at development of modular, efficient and cost effective high temperature technologies based on concentrating solar energy for synthesis of solar fuels and chemicals, heat and electricity generation.

Activities on concentrated solar energy target significant improvement of global profitability of solar thermal technologies and increase its contribution in the primary energy consumption and comprise the development of innovative and high-efficient components (solar concentrators, receivers, reactors, and thermal storage modules), the elaboration of testing procedures and measurement techniques under high solar radiation fluxes and/or high temperature, and the design of advanced solar power plants able to create more efficient and modular schemes of hybridization or solar stand‐alone systems with heat storage. Besides emerging concepts based on direct solar energy conversion systems replacing current use of thermodynamic cycles are also explored.

The HTPU R&D is supported by singular technical and scientific infrastructure like 4kWe and 42kWe-high-flux solar simulators and a 250kW high-concentration solar tower, a laboratory equipped with instruments for materials synthesis and characterization under high-flux and high-temperature and software and hardware for numerical modelling and simulation.

  1. Project description

The fellow will be mainly involved in the development of direct solar energy conversion technologies applied to solar thermal power plants using Central Receiver Systems, with operation temperatures in the range of 600 to 1,500 ºC. The project may address technologies for electricity and/or chemicals synthesis. Thermoelectric converters, TPV (thermal photovoltaics), thermionic energy conversion, solar thermo-electrochemical and thermo-catalytic reactors, high-temperature electrolyzers and fuel cells and other. Systems may use solarized modules directly irradiated or indirectly heated through heat exchangers. The project may involve materials synthesis and characterization, experimental research at lab‐scale by developing small modules from 0.1 up to 10 kW to be tested with solar simulators, numerical analysis using Computational Fluid Dynamics tools and flowsheeting and system analysis with suitable software to analyze integration and performance in commercial plants.

  1. Research Area
  • Chemistry (CHE)
  • Information Science and Engineering (ENG)
  • Mathematics (MAT)
  • Physics (PHY)
  1. Applications: Deadline for submission of documents 31st August 2021. Documents to be submitted:
  • Complete curriculum vitae stating background and skills
  • Letter of motivation including research interests
  • Two reference letters