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We are particularly interested for this role in the strengths and lived experiences of women and underrepresented groups to help us avoid perpetuating biases and oversights in science and IT research. In instances of equal merit, the incorporation of the under-represented sex will be favoured.

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The current needs for decarbonization have placed hydrogen and hydrogen-enriched fuels as an efficient solution for the transition to a clean, low-carbon energy system. Nonetheless, reducing the emissions and the carbon dependency to the levels of the EU targets brings new challenges to the energy-intensive industrial processes like steel manufacturing or power generation. The development of power-to-X (P2X) technologies can be used to produce hydrogen from renewable electricity referred as “green hydrogen” and supply the fuel demands of such processes reducing the carbon-foot print and the fossil fuel dependency of the process. Hydrogen-based technologies are identified to be key for the energy transition and demands digital tools and advanced software to accelerate the deployment of these technologies to the market. Within this context, the candidate will develop a research activity comprising the development of infrastructure for the generation of Digital Twins based on process data using Artificial Intelligence (AI) and physics-based reduced-order models.

Green hydrogen is generated from water and renewable electricity in an electrolyser. This renewable hydrogen can be stored and distributed for later use in highly efficient electrochemical systems such as fuel cells. The most efficient electrolyzers and fuel cells are based on Solid Oxide Cells (SOCs) operating at high temperatures. These novel technologies for electrolysis Solid Oxide Electrolysis (SOEs) involve multiple physical and chemical phenomena ranging from thermo-fluidics occurring at the cm-scale to electrochemistry taking place at the nanoscale. This multi-physics multi-scale complexity makes such devices extremely challenging from the simulation point of view while, at the same time, makes simulation outputs highly valuable to predict and design real operating systems.

The applicant will join the Propulsion Technologies Group (PTG), a research group from the Computer Applications in Science and Engineering (CASE) Department at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. As part of the PTG, the applicant will join a multidisciplinary team with background in advanced computational models for high fidelity simulation of energy conversion systems. The PTG is actively involved in several European research-oriented for which results are disseminated in highly ranked scientific journals, and conferences, and industrial projects with focus on technology transfer to industry.

The funding for these actions/fellowships and contracts comes from the European Union Recovery and Resilience Facility - Next Generation, within the framework of the General Invitation by the public business entity Red.es to participate in the talent attraction and retention programs within Investment 4 of Component 19 of the Recovery, Transformation, and Resilience Plan.
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