The Centre on Sustainable Energy (SE) is looking for a young student interested in carrying out an internship/master thesis experience in the field of batteries. The ideal candidate is a proactive and dynamic person with good organizational skills, a strong interest in physics, modeling and computer science and, of course, motivated to have research experience in an international context.

The internship/master thesis will focus on multiphysics modeling of redox flow batteries. Redox flow batteries (RFBs) are a promising technology for large scale energy storage. In RFBs power and energy are decoupled: the former depends mainly on the size of the stack while the latter on the size tanks containing the redox active species. This feature makes RFBs ideal for economical, large-scale energy storage. However, cost reduction is in order for allowing a widespread diffusion of this technology. Cell and stack design is a core task required for the development and upscaling of flow bat...