Research Fellow/Senior Research Fellow (Chemical Engineering/Materials Science/Mechanical Engineering)

Lead the research and development of next-generation VRFB stack components, including bipolar plate material selection, flow field design, drawing on fuel cell stack design principles.

Conduct comprehensive material screening and characterisation for bipolar plates, evaluating graphite-based composites and coated metallic substrates (titanium alloys, stainless steel, nickel-based alloys) for corrosion resistance, electrical conductivity, and mechanical strength in vanadium-containing electrolytes.

Design and optimise novel flow field architectures using bio-inspired and hybrid design approaches, and perform computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations using tools such as COMSOL Multiphysics and/or ANSYS Fluent to evaluate velocity distribution, pressure drop, mass transfer efficiency, and thermal dissipation.

Develop and validate integrated multi-physics models for VRFB cells and stacks, simultaneo...