**Job Description**
This fixed-term Research Fellow position, funded by the Faraday Institution’s ReLiB grant, aims to develop sustainable management strategies for lithium-ion batteries at the end of their useful life in electric vehicles. The successful candidate will work within the Metallurgy and Materials department at the University of Birmingham, focusing on black mass valorisation, re-manufacturing recycled Li-ion battery streams on a reel-to-reel scale, remanufacturing cells in pouch format on a pilot plant scale, and benchmarking the performance of these recycling routes to evaluate processing characteristics of material streams.
**Skills & Abilities**
• Prior knowledge, experience and achievements in physical processing of wastes, electrode manufacture and electrochemical testing protocols for batteries is highly desirable.
**Qualifications**
Required Degree(s) in:
• Chemistry
• Physics
• Chemical Engineering
• Materials Science
• Mineral engineering (relevant to materials recycling or battery manufacture)
• Chemical engineering (relevant to materials recycling or battery manufacture)
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