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Subject: Ab-initio research staff positions at BOSCH Research - Energy Storage and Conversion - Cambridge, MA

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From: Boris Kozinsky

Date: 18-Oct-2011 03:39

Message:

Ab-initio research staff positions at Bosch Research

Energy Storage and Conversion

Bosch Research North America is hiring computational physicists and chemists in the field of ab-initio modeling of materials for energy applications to join our Cambridge, MA office located adjacent to the MIT campus. The candidate will become a member of the global team that works to develop new first-principles atomistic simulation techniques, and to apply and automate them to enable rational discovery and design of next-generation materials. Our growing team consists of recent graduates from the top research groups in US and was recently awarded several US DOE and NSF grants, to support experimental efforts on energy applications, with strong focus on high technological impact. We are proud sponsors of the MIT Energy Initiative and work closely with the leading and experimental and theoretical groups at MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, LBNL, EPFL, ICAMS and leading industrial partners. We strongly encourage high-impact publications and patent applications. Research directions include:

· Fundamental investigations of thermal and electronic transport in thermoelectric materials for waste heat recovery (in collaboration with MIT and Stanford)

· Redox reaction and electron transfer mechanisms and catalyst design for electrochemical flow batteries to enable grid-scale energy storage to support intermittent renewable energy sources (in collaboration with LBNL)

· Reaction mechanisms, chemical design and ab-initio spectroscopy of components for reversible Li-air batteries to enable long-range electric vehicles

· Li-ion transport and stability optimization of electrodes and electrolytes, towards designing higher-energy intercalation batteries (in collaboration with MIT)

· Optical spectra and excited state energy transfer in photovoltaic materials and organo-metallic complexes for light upconversion (in collaboration with Stanford)

· Quantum-level electronic and optical effects in low-dimensional nanostructures for sensor and energy applications

To apply send a CV to 61999-CS-1346@boschresearch.hrmdirect.com

For a small sample of our recent modeling work see:

1. J. Garg et al, “Role of Disorder and Anharmonicity in the Thermal Conductivity of Silicon-Germanium Alloys: A First-Principles Study,” Phys. Rev. Lett, 106, 045901 (2011).

2. R. Armiento et al, “Screening for high-performance piezoelectrics using high-throughput density functional theory,” Phys. Rev. B, 84, 014103 (2011)

3. R. Sanchez-Carrera and B. Kozinsky, “First-principles spectroscopic characterization of rechargeable Li/O2 batteries”, 220^th ECS Meeting (2011), online.

4. P.Albertus et al, “Identifying Capacity Limitations in the Li/Oxygen Battery Using Experiments and Modeling”, J. Electrochem. Soc. 158, A343 (2011)

5. D. Wee, B. Kozinsky, N. Marzari, & M. Fornari, “Effects of filling in CoSb₃: Local structure, band gap, and phonons from first principles”, Phys. Rev. B, 81, 045204 (2010).

Attachments:
Bosch_research_ab-initio_2011.pdf

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