The successful candidates will take exciting and leading technical roles in one of the following ARPA E EVS4ALL projects The project titles are Fast Charging Wide Temperature Low Cost Durable Batteries Enabled by Cobalt and Nickel Free Cathodes and Cell Engineering Fast Charge High Energy Density Solid State Battery ARPA Es announcement of these new awards are listed herehttpsarpa eenergygovsitesdefaultfilesdocumentsfilesEVs4ALLProject20DescriptionsFinalpdf The focus of these positions will be electrochemical modeling of high energy cells A particular emphasis will be on high rate charging of this cell at several temperatures The successful applicant will develop detailed physics and chemistry based transient mathematical models for cell charge and discharge based on the coupled thermodynamic kinetic and transport processes taking place in the cell In addition the successful applicant may contribute to the design of experiments for parameterization of material level eg electrolyte transport properties and cell level eg separating electrode and particle scale processes Methods such as EIS GITT pulsing and others may be used The position will be in the Albertus research group in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Maryland Professor Albertus has extensive experience developing electrochemical models and simulating battery performance Relevant publications are available at his Google Scholar page Applicants do not need to be US citizens The start date is flexible with a goal of early to mid 2024