Research Assistant (m/f/x) Professorship of Electrochemical Sensors and Energy Storage / Wissen[...]

Chemnitz University of Technology is an innovative scientific and educational institution that consciously faces the challenges of competition between universities. It offers attractive jobs to personalities with proven professional competence who would like to contribute constructively to innovative development.

Job Description

The Faculty of Natural Sciences, Professorship of Electrochemical Sensors and Energy Storage, has a vacancy for a Research Assistant (m/f/x) (100%, Salary group 13 TV-L) limited for 24 months, with the option of continued employment for another 12 months, for working on a third-party funded project (ERC consolidator project).

The candidate will join the team of the ERC project ACTIONS, which conducts interdisciplinary fundamental research in electrochemistry and magnetism to engineer magneto-ionic materials for energy-efficient actuation and sensing.

Responsibilities

• Independent research work on the synthesis and electrochemical switching of magnetic nanostructures.
• Scientific supervision and further development of magnetic in situ analysis methods.
• Preparation of high-quality scientific publications and presentation of research results at national and international specialist conferences.
• Scientific collaboration with external cooperation partners.
• Participation in outreach activities for the communication of scientific results.

Requirements

• Completed scientific university degree in the field of chemistry, physics, materials science or comparable disciplines.
• Fundamental and practical knowledge and experience in at least four of the fields of (in situ) magnetic methodology, magnetic nanomaterials, magnetic anisotropy, electrochemical mechanisms, magneto-ionics, electrochemically switchable materials, hydrogen electrochemistry, ferromagnetic transition metals, properties of transition metal oxides.
• Publications in renowned scientific journals, presentation activities.
• Experience in interdisciplinary scientific work.
• Very good written and spoken English, knowledge of German is an advantage.
• Ability to work in a team, reliability and sense of responsibility.

Applications with usual documents (motivation letter, CV, certificates, list of publications and presentations, contact references) should be sent electronically as one pdf file (preferred) or by post with the keyword “Postdoc_2_ACTIONS” to the address below by October 31st, 2025.

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