Submitted by A.J. Wilby on Tue, 26/11/2024 - 09:57
Applications are open for the Sustainable Energy Materials Innovations (SEM) PhD Programme for October 2025 start: https://www.phy.cam.ac.uk/students/prospective-postgraduate/phd-sustainable-energy-materials-innovations
The SEM PhD is a 3.5 year interdisciplinary PhD programme across Physical Science and Engineering at the University of Cambridge offering PhD training in energy materials required to deliver net zero by 2050. The course will provide diverse training in the design and discovery, development, scale-up, life-cycle analysis, and systems integration of advanced energy materials and devices in areas strongly guided by the needs of the ‘net-zero’ industry. It will train the future leaders needed for a rapid transition to a zero-carbon society and make transformational, incremental, and disruptive materials discoveries facilitating the energy transition.
Students work on interdisciplinary projects related to the materials needed to deliver net zero by 2050. PhD projects are co-supervised by at least two supervisors from different disciplines, and most will include collaboration with an industry partner. Training is interspersed throughout programme.
Research topics include: Batteries and supercapacitors, Carbon capture and storage, Enabling methodologies, Low-power information processing, Manufacturing and sustainability, Nuclear and Fusion, Photovoltaics, Power electronics, Sustainable green fuels/chemicals, Solid state heating and cooling, Supply chains/markets, Policy, Waste heat harvesting/thermoelectrics, Wind power