Modelling and Analysis of the dynamic performance, reliability and durability of a Fuel Cell-based hybrid system

JOB TITLE

JOB TYPE

Post-doc, Engineer

JOB HOURS

Full time

QUALIFICATIONS

PhD

EMPLOYER

UBFC – Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté

HOST LABORATORY

FEMTO-ST

ADDRESS HOST LABORATORY

FEMTO-ST, UMR CNRS 6174, Belfort (France)
in relation with UAR FCLAB, Belfort (France)
13 Rue Thierry Mieg, 90010 Belfort (France)

URL HOST LABORATORY

www.femto-st.fr/
www.fclab.fr

KEYWORDS

Fuel Cell System, Battery, Modeling & Simulation, degradation, diagnostics, prognostics, durability, hybrid systems, maritime application, heavy-duty transport.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Context
The Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté (UBFC) is a French Higher Education and Research organization, created in 2015, federating three public universities (uB, UFC, UTBM), three public engineer schools (ENSMM, AgroSup, ENSAM) and one private business school (BSB) in the Bourgogne Franche-Comté (BFC) Region according to the collegiate university model (COMUE: Communauté d’Universités et Etablissements). Altogether, UBFC gathers about 60,000 students across 13 sites and 54 research laboratories of which FEMTO-ST, a French leading lab in hydrogen-energy research.
SHARPAC team within FEMTO-ST, partner of FCLAB and member of the French national research network on hydrogen (FRH2 CNRS), is a French leading team in modelling, optimization, reliability and durability of fuel cell systems, experimenting, for about 20 years, different approaches to increase their reliability (diagnostic) and improve their durability (prognostic).

UBFC is currently looking for a

The postdoctoral fellow

In order to develop models of a Fuel Cell-based hybrid system. Dynamic performance, reliability and durability are of interest.
The postdoctoral position is funded by the VIRTUAL FCS project (H2020 – FCH JU2 program funding). This is a three-year project starting from January 2020 on.
The VIRTUAL FCS project brings together academic, industry and end-users from Norway, Denmark, Poland, France and UK, with the aim to develop an open source platform for fuel cell hybrid system designing and optimization.

The assigned tasks include:
The postdoctoral fellow is expected to carry out the following tasks:
• Design performance, diagnostics and prognostics algorithms for fuel cells stacks, batteries and the BoP components of a hybrid fuel cell system, different experimental data will be used to tune and optimize the validity of the algorithms.
• Testing and validation of the algorithms in simulations:
• Interfacing of the algorithms, in partnership with the project partners, with the control system.
• Prepare the testing campaigns (assessing the needs, ordering needed material, build-up of the test bench, setting up testing protocols with partners, running, follow-up of the testing campaigns)
• Validation in Simulation and under real operation
• Reporting the results and ongoing research activities in written (deliverables, clear notices of the developed code, regular web tutorial about the code use) or during in project meetings (face to face, conference calls, webex, …)
• Participating in dissemination activities (scientific publications in selected journals and participations in workshops and conferences, web tutorials).

CANDIDATE PROFILE

Required qualifications include:
• Holding a PhD degree
• Having competencies in one or several of the following topics: electrical engineering, electrochemistry, automatic control, computer science, applied mathematics, data mining, artificial intelligence
• Having a solid background in modelling and scientific computing
• Having a good written and oral communication skills in English
• International applications strongly encouraged
• Experience with fuel cells systems, batteries or other electrochemical devices would be appreciated.
• Experience with diagnostics and prognostics techniques would be highly appreciated.

CONTRACT DURATION

12 months

SALARY

Gross monthly salary [2400€, 2600€] according to experience

STARTING JOB

As soon as possible

APPLICATION DEADLINE

15/04/2021

SUPERVISORS

Prof. Nadia YOUSFI STEINER

+33 (0)3 84 58 36 67

nadia.steiner@ubfc.fr

Prof. Daniel HISSEL

+33 (0)3 84 58 36 21

daniel.hissel@ubfc.fr

APPLICATION

Application instructions

Please send the following documents (all in one PDF file) by e-mail to:

nadia.stiener@ubfc.fr

and

daniel.hissel@ubfc.fr

1) For EU candidates: Copy of your national ID card or of your passport page where your photo is printed.

For non-EU candidates: Copy of your passport page where your photo is printed.

2) Curriculum Vitae (may include hyperlinks to your ResearchID, Research Gate Google Scholar accounts).

3) Detailed list of publications (may include hyperlinks to DOI of publications).

4) Letter of motivation relatively to the position (Cover Letter) in which applicants describe themselves and their contributions to previous research projects (maximum 2 pages).

5) Copy of your PhD degree if already available.

6) Coordinates of reference persons (maximum 3, at least your master thesis supervisor):
Title, Name, organization, e-mail.

If you have questions regarding the application, please contact the supervisors.