Post-Doc Scientist - High Performance Batteries

Post-Doc Scientist - High Performance Batteries

Newton Colmore is working with a battery and energy storage technology company in Cambridge and we are assisting them with their search for a post-doc scientist.

As a Post-doc Scientist, you will be charged with developing the company's next generation energy storage materials and high-performance battery systems.

This will include working within a multidisciplinary team of scientists and engineers to maximise the performance of battery materials and contribute to developing a deep understanding of the key structure - property relationships in functional battery materials and materials formulations.

Some other key parts to the role will include;

• Designing, synthesising, and evaluating novel functional battery materials.


• Establishing structure-property correlations and to characterise their impact on battery performance


• Creative contributions to brainstorms, studies, and project meeting discussions.


• Proposal and design of novel materials and recommendations to solve chemical synthetic issues.

To be considered for this role we are looking for people with strong knowledge of synthetic organic chemistry and polymers that complements a PhD in Chemistry.

Any experience with battery technologies or electrochemical techniques would be a significant advantage.

In return for your hard work the company offer a highly competitive salary, a 10% signing bonus, and benefits package as well providing excellent career progression opportunities and the chance to work on leading edge technologies.

This is a 2-year fixed term contract with possibilities for future roles in within the organisation.

We are ideally looking for a candidate who has recently or will soon be finishing a PhD, but we are open to candidates who have 1-to-2 years of experience in industry or as a post-doc.

For more information make an application now and a member of our team will be in touch with more details, confidentially.

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Keywords: Senior Chemist, Energy Storage Systems, Synthetic Chemistry, OLED, Materials Engineering, organometallic.