24 Postdoctoral Fellowship at Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark

Are you a talented, self-motivated, and team-oriented person, who thrives in a collaborative environment and enjoys working with complex topics? We are looking for a postdoc to join a world-leading research environment and contribute to the development of converter-rich power plants, which are expected to play a major role in tomorrow’s power systems. You will join an international team of PhD students and postdocs that, together with other academic staff and industrial partners, develop tools and models for simulating and assessing the dynamic performance and stability of such power plants.

If you are in the process of establishing your career as a scientist and are seeking the optimal foundation to realize your dreams and ambitions, your search ends here. 

At DTU Electro, you will pioneer advancements at the forefront of silicon carbide optoelectronics. We are actively seeking a highly self-motivated postdoc to make significant contributions to our ongoing research endeavors. This Postdoc position will be situated within the wide bandgap semiconductor photonics group, under the leadership of Associate Professor Haiyan Ou.

Silicon carbide (SiC) is swiftly emerging as a pivotal material platform for optoelectronics, owing to its exceptional optical and electrical properties—ranging from wide bandgap to coined high power density. As pioneers in this burgeoning field, we eagerly anticipate collaborating with you to further advance this captivating domain.

If you are ambitious and eager to establish your career as a scientist in the field of energy efficient built environment and you are looking for opportunities to fulfill your dreams and ambitions, it is right here in front of you. At DTU Construct, you will break new ground at the forefront of research and innovation, providing solutions to major societal challenges related to climate change, sustainability, and infrastructure. 

We offer a postdoc position for an ambitious candidate to join the Digital Building Technology section to conduct pioneering research on energy system modeling, design and management to improve energy efficiency, activate energy demand flexibility, and enhance energy resilience of buildings and communities. We have access to extensive energy data sets to develop digital twin models of districts based on historical data. You will optimize the design and operation of energy systems, considering the life cycle of buildings and energy systems to provide retrofitting solutions. You will be working in a vibrant research environment with the possibility to be involved in many research and innovation projects that can have a great societal impact. You will also be connected to many relevant research communities with experts worldwide.

Join us at DTU Space to contribute to research that could revolutionize our understanding of stellar structure and evolution. We are seeking an enthusiastic and skilled Postdoctoral Researcher to join the ERC-funded MAGNIFY project, led by Dr. Victoria Antoci. This project explores the effects of magnetic fields on stellar structure and mixing processes within stars. It focuses on magnetic field generation, the impact on pulsations, and broader implications for stellar evolution. MAGNIFY investigates the variability induced by stellar spots and examines the origin of magnetic fields causing these variations in A and F stars. Using asteroseismology, we aim to detect and analyze near-core and surface magnetic fields. This involves comparing theoretical models with photometric observations from the Kepler and TESS satellites, complemented by Gaia data and ground-based spectroscopic and spectropolarimetric observations.

In a research project that is focusing on the development of novel and additively manufactured electrodes for the improvement of plasma gasification technology for practical implementation, you can strengthen your competences and sharpen your personal profile. This project is incorporated in a network with universities and companies in three different European countries. Such kind of electrodes must be able to withstand the extreme conditions in plasma gasification reactors and, therefore, a novel electrode type with integrated cooling systems must be developed and tested in practical plasma gasification plants at the project partners. The overall project target comprises the development of novel electrodes with an enhanced lifetime compared to the conventionally manufactured ones.

We invite you to join our section Mechanical Technology, where you will have colleagues with a mix of research and industry experience. Our section consists of eight employees with a combined workload of teaching and research and with a plan to hire several new colleagues in the coming years. Currently, we are undergoing a transformation with increased focus on research, so with us you get the chance to join a young research group within mechanical engineering and support our activities within materials research. We work with a range of materials, but mainly polymers, in terms of characterization, recycling, virgin compositions, etc.

Our section is diverse in nationalities, personality types, and career paths. We enjoy collegial idea generation, feedback and cooperation in an informal and trustful working environment. The group actively promotes social activities to build a strong community network. Furthermore, we regularly enjoy social activities together, outside of working hours.

You will be part of the section’s vision of striving to be a recognized player within the fields of mechanical and materials engineering to provide solutions, and work at implementations, for the industry and society in the transition towards increased sustainability. Currently, our team have competences ranging from a wide range of fields including materials, applied polymer science, materials recycling, drones, and automation as wells as energy and thermodynamics

We offer you a unique opportunity to join the “Pioneer Center for Accelerating P2X Materials Discovery” (CAPeX) and the Department of Chemical Engineering in the development of a modelling and simulation tool of devices for electrochemical reduction of CO2 and H2O. These processes are expected to become an instrumental part of a sustainable society. Electrolyzers will need to interact with the overall energy system, including the fluctuating supply of electricity from wind turbines and solar cells and so dynamic operation is required. The focus will be on processes operating at low temperature where water is liquid while the pressure may be elevated. The candidate will interact with researchers in CAPeX performing experimental studies of the reactions and supply data for model validation. You will be based both at the CAPeX center building at DTU, and at DTU Chemical Engineering, at the CHEC research group in a dynamic international research environment.

Do you hold a PhD in macro-energy system modelling or climate modelling? Do you want to investigate the impacts of extreme weather events on highly renewable energy systems?

Then the best opportunity is in front of you. Apply and join our EXTREMES project at DTU Wind and Energy Systems!

In the EXTREMES project, we will investigate how frequent, severe, prolonged in time, and extended in space the extreme episodes challenging our energy system can be. Gaining a deep understanding of these extreme phenomena is crucial to avoiding blackouts and designing strategies to minimize their impact. We will use the PyPSA-Eur, an open high-resolution network model of the sector-coupled European energy system. We will use the model to derive robust configurations of net-zero emissions energy systems. Then, we will use different techniques such as extreme statistics, principal component analysis, and machine learning techniques to unveil the key spatial and temporal characteristics of such extreme events. We will also investigate the impacts of climate change-induced events on energy systems.

The removal of fossil fuels in the energy and transport sector is an important ambition, seconded by specific targets in several parts of the world. In this context, shares of electricity production from wind and solar are increasing. The fluctuating and interruptive nature of these sources requires means of storage and “difficult-to-electrify” sectors like shipping and aviation need green fuels. Solid oxide electrolysis (SOE) technologies owing to their high efficiencies can solve this challenge by converting excess electricity into storable compounds such as hydrogen and high energy density transportation fuels. Conventional SOE has reached a matureness allowing for demonstration and field-testing, based on electrolyte- or fuel-electrode-supported configurations. 

To enhance the efficiency of this technology even further, DTU is spearheading the development of the next generation of Solid Oxide Electrolysers capable of operating at lower temperatures while maintaining higher efficiency. Moreover, to guarantee widespread industrial adoption of these developed cells, the fabrication processes used in manufacturing must be both scalable and robust. 

The Department of Engineering Technology at DTU invites applications for a 1-year full-time Post Doc within the research area Sustainable and/or Digital Business Development. We seek a new colleague passionate about digitalization and sustainable business development. If you are enthusiastic about advancing research and education at the intersection of new technologies and sustainable business, you will thrive in our Business Development Section.

Research within the Section for Business Development is focused on business development, finance, innovation strategy, business model innovation, managerial economics, and managerial accounting. The section is currently building up research capacity with the ambition to host an international environment for research and teaching within the broad area of business development. Research in the section is generally cross-disciplinary bridging various aspects of management and engineering to provide new insights into economic aspects of technology implementation. 

Faculty members have backgrounds in management, economics, sociology, political science, and engineering. The section emphasizes a solid though pluralistic approach to research methodology including both quantitative and quantitative empirical methods. Core research areas of the Section include topics such as economic aspects of implementing new green technologies, green finance, new market creation, green business model innovation, social and environmental sustainability, how to embed management perspectives into engineering educational programs, etc.

We are seeking a candidate to join the project ‘MENSA: The effect of MENtal StAte fluctuations on engaged listening’, which aims to develop methods to assess and predict task-induced mental load and fatigue from eye tracking and facial features. This project will employ an experimental approach in the laboratory. The candidate’s main working place will be at DTU Hearing Systems (Lyngby, Denmark) and Oticon Eriksholm Research Centre (Snekkersten, Denmark). 

The Hearing Systems Section at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) is part of the department of Health Technology. Our research is concerned with auditory signal processing and perception, speech communication, audiology, behavioural and objective measures of auditory function, computational auditory neuroscience, environmental acoustics, and hearing-instrument signal processing. The goal of this research is to understand the functioning of the human auditory system and to provide insights that are useful for technical applications, such as speech recognition systems, hearing aids, cochlear implants, and hearing diagnostics. The project will be carried out in collaboration with Oticon Eriksholm Research Centre and is supported by the William Demant Foundation. 

The Division for Power and Energy Systems of DTU Wind and Energy Systems provides cutting edge research in sustainable, reliable and cost-efficient energy systems to the benefit of society. At DTU Wind and Energy Systems you will enjoy the advantages of a creative and inspiring work environment shared with about 400 highly skilled and motivated colleagues.

The two postdocs are part of the ERC Starting Grant project “VeriPhIED”, and the Horizon Europe research projects “SYNERIGES” and “ODEON”. “VeriPhIED” is a prestigious grant by the European Research Council, which aims to develop the next generation scientific machine learning tools based on Trustworthy AI and Physics-Informed Machine Learning for power systems. SYNERGIES and ODEON are both an international research project, with up to 34 industrial and academic partners from over 13 European countries. Both projects aim to introduce Energy Data Spaces to unleash the data-driven innovation and sharing potential across diverse energy actors (e.g. consumers, prosumers, utilities, and others). SYNERGIES objective is to introduce a Reference Energy Data Space Implementation while ODEON’s objective is to introduce an open-source platform for federated Energy Data Spaces with the goal to interconnect Energy Data Spaces across Europe. SYNERGIES will be extensively validated in 3 demo sites, in Spain, Greece, and Denmark. More information about the project can be found here: https://synergies-project.eu/  ODEON will be extensively validated in 5 demo sites, in Spain, Greece, France, Ireland, and Denmark. ODEON started in January 2024 and will build upon the SYNERGIES project. 

If you want to push the much-needed advancement of our wireless society and support the development of your scientific career within the promising research field of metamaterials and metasurfaces, the present project is the right one for you. 

At DTU Space you will have the opportunity to theoretically, numerically and experimentally investigate microwave- and mm-wave reconfigurable metasurfaces embedded with phase-changing materials. Particular emphasis will be placed on their experimental characterization in our world-class DTU Electromagnetic Test Centre for high-accuracy testing of antenna- and microwave technology.

We invite you to apply for a position targeting research and innovation in the field of habitat modelling.  As a postdoctoral researcher, you will play a crucial role in developing modelling tools for habitat restoration, with a specific emphasis on biogenic reefs, seagrass meadows, biodiversity, and invasive species in a dynamically changing ecosystem under Climate Change pressure.

We are seeking a skilled postdoc with passion for carbohydrate analytics to take our plant cell wall analyses to the next level. The position offers a great possibility to develop and implement high-throughput innovative analytical methods to facilitate structural understanding of complex carbohydrates. In addition, the project will involve targeted enzymatic degradation using CAZymes, for further structural insight. The overall goal is to establish procedures for investigation of structural components in faba beans and correlate results with plant genetics and protein digestibility data. The project is a part of “N2CROP – Legume innovation for future agri-food systems”.

N2CROP is a centre for legume innovation funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation. We focus on legume research and innovation in genetics, agronomics, crop modelling, and molecular nutrition. Our vision is to facilitate development of sustainable agri-food systems powered by biologically fixed nitrogen to deliver high quality plant food protein. The centre is a partnership between Aarhus University, the Technical University of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, and La Trobe University.

Do you want to build a career in developing science-based solutions for addressing society’s grand environmental sustainability challenges? Do you want to work with international front-runners in sustainability assessment, LCA method development, chemical alternatives assessment and absolute sustainability assessment? Do you want to innovate in the field of assessing chemicals and nanomaterials impacts on environment and human health in an inspiring environment and a strong research team? Then, this postdoctoral position might be the right fit for you!

You will contribute to the development of methods for life cycle impact assessment of chemicals and nanomaterials and the complementary use of risk assessment in a Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD) framework. Additionally, you will contribute to methods development for Absolute environmental sustainability assessment (AESA) of novel entities.

In DTU Sustain’s section for Quantitative Sustainability Assessment (QSA), you will become part of an energetic and team-based research environment with around 40 international staff, postdocs, and PhD students.

Are you looking for a 2-year postdoc position developing new methodologies for predicting optical properties of solids by combining electronic structure theory and applied machine learning to point defects (dopants) in wide bandgap systems?

The outcome of this project has an additionally far-reaching impact on the understanding and prediction of optical properties in doped insulators with applications in health technologies, quantum sensing, and clean energy technologies. 

The research position is part of the ERC advanced grant project “ LUMIN: Illuminating Charge Transport in Feldspar to Measure Rates of Earth Surface Processes” at DTU Physics, where the new simulation methodologies developed during the postdoctoral project, in conjunction with novel experimental data, will enable us to determine how the Earth’s surface has evolved in the recent past.

The research section Magnetic Materials and Neutron Scattering (MAGNET) at the Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark (DTU Physics) is seeking a highly motivated candidate for a postdoc position within experimental condensed matter physics, working on characterization and understanding of novel magnetic materials using neutron and x-ray scattering in combination with laboratory-based techniques. 

The experimental demonstration of ferromagnetic order in a 2D sheet of CrI3 and Fe3GeTe2 has spurred enormous interest in 2D magnetism. There are now large and growing materials databases containing 2D magnetic materials including topological magnetic materials, some of which have not yet been synthesized. This postdoc project aims to identify and characterize materials from these categories that can be synthesized using CVT and CVD methods at the Technical University of Denmark or by collaborators. Specific compounds to be targeted include magnetically frustrated materials, and materials displaying magnetoelectricity.

You will work with Senior Scientists N. B. Christensen and R. Toft-Petersen in the MAGNET section of DTU Physics. You will collaborate closely with the group of Assoc. Prof. T. Olsen from the research section CAMD specializing in density functional theory and prediction of novel low-dimensional materials, and with the group of Assoc. Prof. T. Booth from the research section 2DPHYS focusing on the synthesis of nanoscale materials and device fabrication. The position is funded through the Q-MAT European Spallation Source Lighthouse initiative.

Would you like to challenge the limits of organic coatings technologies for heavy-duty purposes towards a higher sustainability profile? – Then this might be a job for you. At CoaST Research Centre at DTU’s Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, you will break new ground at the absolute forefront of what is possible within the aim of improving the sustainability profile of organic heavy-duty coatings. 

CoaST supports development, production and use of high-performance organic coatings. Working along the whole value chain, our research activities cover organic, polymer-based coating technologies from raw materials over formulation, test and characterization to production and application. You will contribute to the development of our expertise, and you will have the opportunity to make a personal impact on solving some of the most critical challenges organic coatings are facing. 

It is in fact a unique possibility we have a CoaST as postdoc, since we are open for you to provide your expertise and contribution to one of the areas listed below. We also invite you to propose your own research idea within the value chain of functional coatings from raw materials to end-product. Which gives you the opportunity to set your mark on the research at the CoaST research centre.

If you are establishing your career as a scientist in the field of experimental electrocatalysis and you are looking for opportunities to fulfill your dreams and ambitions, it is right here in front of you. 

Electrocatalysts are essential materials for producing fuels and chemicals through electrified chemical processes, known as Power-to-X. Conventional electrocatalysts with two-dimensional (2D) active sites have a fundamentally limited efficiency for facilitating reactions involving three or more reaction intermediates due to the so-called “scaling relationship”. In CAT3D, the five-year Villum Young Investigator project that fully covers this postdoc position, we aim to overcome this fundamental limitation by studying electrocatalysts with three-dimensional (3D) active site structures. This study could open the door for obtaining radically better electrocatalysts in terms of activity, selectivity, and stability.   

At DTU Energy, we have been carrying out R&D in sustainable energy conversion technologies for decades. We are among the world’s leaders in research and development in this area. We have excellent facilities and competencies to carry out research from fundamental studies of electrochemical materials to the fabrication of lab-scale components and devices.

If you are establishing your career as a scientist and you are looking for the best possible foundation for fulfilling your dreams and ambitions, it is right here in front of you. At DTU Sustain you will break new ground at the absolute forefront of science providing solutions to major societal challenges related to climate change, sustainability, and infrastructure. 

We offer a postdoc position for a motivated candidate to join the Energy Foundations project and conduct pioneering research on testing and modelling of coupled thermal-hydro-mechanical performance of energy foundations. You will work with enthusiastic academia and students in the Section of Geotechnics and Geology. 

This energy foundation project will develop a Solar-Geothermal Energy Pile (SGPile) system, to address the current limitations of the current ground source heat pumps (GSHP) in building heating/cooling systems. Detailed experiments and numerical analyses will be conducted to investigate the thermal and structural performance of energy foundations, and to provide guidance on the new design method. Digital twins will be developed to integrate the test data with the simulation, and to optimize the thermal performance of the system without compromising the structural safety. 

If you are looking for a challenging task related to the green transition of the energy sector here is a great opportunity. We are seeking a Postdoc to strengthen our research on new electrochemical routes to green ammonia. You will assist in establishing advanced experimental setups and use these to explore what limits achievable synthesis rates and how to improve these.

Transforming our society to rely only on sustainable energy sources is a massive challenge. Key to success will be development of cost competitive routes to produce hydrogen via electrolysis of water/steam driven by green electricity. The hydrogen has value in itself but  may, importantly, also serve as a reactant for production of ammonia. Ammonia has great importance as a fertilizer but can also be an “energy vector” enabling emission reduction from “hard to electrify” sectors like global shipping. Hence, cost competitive routes to “green hydrogen” and “green ammonia”, not relying on use of natural gas, is in high demand.

The research is a part of the project “Progress”, where the ambition is to facilitate integration of the hydrogen production step and the ammonia synthesis step to enable an efficient route to ammonia driven only by electrical energy. If the solid oxide cell applied is a proton conducting ceramic, controlling the potential and current allows control of the hydrogen activity at the electrode surface. It is the hypothesis behind the project that careful control of this and possibly cycling it may enable an overall more efficient process.

If you are looking for a challenging task related to the green transition of the energy sector, here is a great opportunity. We are seeking a Postdoc to strengthen our research and development activities on improving solid oxide electrolysis cells. In focus will be the oxygen electrode of the cell and the interconnect plates, which are used as auxiliary components when stacking individual cells. The overall aim is to improve durability of both components and in addition to develop improved methodologies to describe their performance.

Transforming our society to rely only on sustainable energy sources is a massive challenge. Key to success will be development of cost competitive routes to produce hydrogen via electrolysis of water/steam driven by green electricity. The hydrogen has value in itself, but may, importantly, also serve as a reactant for production of ammonia, methanol or other valuable chemicals, that can serve as “energy vectors” enabling emission reduction from “hard to electrify” sectors like global shipping. Hence, cost competitive routes to “green hydrogen” and “green fuels”, not relying on use of natural gas, is in high demand.

It is highly desirable to lower the operation temperature of the technology to allow longer operational life. To realize such a temperature reduction, one needs improved electrodes for the oxygen evolution reaction occurring at the cell anode. In defining the optimal temperature of operation, it is further important to consider the interconnect-plates applied when stacking multiple cells to build electrolysis modules. The corrosion rate, that dictates the life-time of the interconnect, decreases with decreasing temperature. However, at a certain temperature, the diffusion of Cr in the alloy may become too slow to re-form a protective scale at the surface and hence the interconnect becomes prone to so-called break-away corrosion which will lead to overall failure of the stack.

The section for Computational Atomic-scale Materials Design (CAMD) at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), is seeking an outstanding and highly motivated post doc within the broad area of electronic structure calculations and development of many-body methods to describe the ground- and excited states of solids. The project is supervised by Prof. Kristian Thygesen and is part of the VILLUM Investigator project “Data-driven design of functionalised 2D materials”.

As a postdoc at CAMD within the VILLUM Investigator project, you will develop new methods to describe the electronic structure of bulk and low-dimensional materials and integrate them in automated workflows to enable their application in high-throughput screening projects. Depending on your background and interests the project could focus on (i) generative models and machine learning of structure-property relations (ii) crystal point defects for quantum technology applications (iii) excitons and nonlinear optics. You will work in an international and stimulating environment of other PhD students and postdocs, employing state of the art computational methods and codes developed within the group. The developed methods will be implemented in the GPAW electronic structure code.

DTU Sustains section Climate and Monitoring offers a 2½-year position as a post-doctoral fellow in detection and quantification of fugitive greenhouse gas emissions.

You will be a part of a larger project focusing on innovations in remote sensing for better measurement of greenhouse gas emissions, which is a collaboration with DTU Electro, manufacturers of laser products, leading providers of gas measurement services and consultants with a global outreach. 

The problem addressed is direct emissions of greenhouse gases from industries, utilities, agriculture etc. Minimizing those emissions is of great importance in the effort to mitigate climate change. To minimize direct emissions, accurate and cost-effective measurement methods and instruments are needed to evaluate emissions from various processes, components etc. and to inform facilities in case of defects, which cause increased emissions. We will develop and test both vehicle-based, drone-based and fence-line monitoring applications of laser detection of gaseous emissions from various sources. 

KhaosGuard is a 4-year project supported by Innovation Fund Denmark’s Grand Solutions program. The project so far has been in a development phase. You will enter the project in the beginning of the testing phase, where we will conduct the first tests at different facilities such as wastewater treatment plants.