The position is limited to 3 - 6 months
What we offer
Discover a world full of possibilities with us. Look ahead with us and help shape innovative solutions to make our world more sustainable and life healthier, more vibrant and more comfortable. At Evonik, you have the chance to develop and grow together with more than 33,000 colleagues. In addition to attractive career paths and high-quality development programs, we offer performance-based compensation, health promotion measures and hybrid and flexible working models with #SmartWork. Get involved, develop your strengths, break new ground and find a job with us that suits you.
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Responsibilities
1. Collaboration in projects of the New Growth Area Hydrogen Economy of Creavis
2. Planning, setting up and conducting laboratory tests in the field of membrane technology & catalyst research
3. Production and characterization of membrane & catalyst materials for water electrolysis as well as novel membranes and catalysts
4. Development and application of new methods for the characterization of novel membranes & catalysts
5. Evaluation and documentation of results and, if necessary, modeling tasks (Excel, VBA, Matlab)
6. Research, analysis and preparation of scientific literature and/or market studies in the field of “membrane & catalyst technology”
7. Techno-economic modeling & analysis of hydrogen production technologies such as water electrolysis (AEL, PEMEL, AEMEL), methane reforming, coal gasification
Requirements
8. Completed basic studies in the fields of materials science, chemistry, physics, chemical engineering or process engineering
9. Initial experience in synthesis of polymers & production and characterization of polymer membranes
10. Initial experience in electrochemistry and characterization of electrocatalysts for (water) electrolysis or similar electrochemical processes (FC, VRFB, electrodialysis)
11. Good language skills in German and English
12. Independent, result-oriented and team-oriented way of working