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Please join us in welcoming Dr. He Jia as a Post-doctoral researcher to our team! Dr. Jia brings a strong background in polymer-based solid/semi-solid lithium-ion batteries and a passion for…
We are excited to welcome Ms. Ngoc Anh Ta to our team! As a PhD student, Ms. Ta is deeply engaged in researching the design, mechanisms, and applications of high-performance…
We would like to welcome Christin Weilandt as a new technician to the team! With her technical and practical knowledge, she will help us support scientific projects, look after the…
Job offers
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Computational Chemist / PostDoc HIPOLE Jena – Battery (m/w/d) Reference no.: HI 2024/20 (until 08.02.2025)
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Computational Chemist / PostDoc HIPOLE Jena – Molecular solar thermal energy (m/f/d) Reference no.: HI 2024/19 (until 31.01.2025)
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PhD student HIPOLE Jena – Screening procedure batteries (m/f/d) Reference no.: HI 2024/18 (until 18.01.2025)
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Doctoral Student Jena and/or Berlin Reference no.: HI 2024/17 (until 17.01.2025)
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Junior Research Group Leader Theoretical Chemistry of Polymers in Energy Applications (m/f/d) Reference no.: HI 2024/16 (until 18.01.2025)
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Doctoral Student Reference no.: HI 2024/15 (until 17.01.2025)
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Research Associate (Postdoc, PhD) Reference no.: HI 2024/14 (until 17.01.2025)
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Full Professorship (W3) for Sustainable Polymer Chemistry (Closing date: 19.01.2025)
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Job (HiWi) for students in chemistry, physics, material science (Dr. Valentina Pirela Wilhelm)
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Job (HiWi) for students in chemistry, physics, material science (Dr. Andrea Cabrera-Espinoza)
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Chemistry Internship opportunities for school and university students
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Talents Community – Research Associate (Postdoc, PhD) HIPOLE Jena
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Talents Community – Technician (m/f/d) HIPOLE Jena
The central strategic goal of HIPOLE Jena is the accelerated, knowledge-based development of sustainable polymer materials for scalable energy technologies.
HIPOLE Jena is based on three research pillars:
- Material design & synthesis
- Scalability, prototypes, and transfer
- Characterization, theory & modeling and data science
This triad forms the basis for 5 areas of the HIPOLE Jena research mission:
Polymer redox-flow batteries
Redox-flow batteries (RFB) are a special battery technology. In contrast to many other battery systems, with RFB the performance and capacity can be scaled independently of each other. RFBs are particularly interesting for stationary energy storage. As part of HIPOLE Jena, organic, polymer-based electrolytes are being investigated, which makes the use of critical metals/metal ions in the electrolytes obsolete.
Polymer-based thin-film batteries
The large area of organic electronics opens up many new application possibilities, such as in the area of smart textiles or the “Internet of Things”. In this context, polymer-based active materials and electrolytes allow the printing production of flexible, tailor-made batteries. In HIPOLE Jena, the next generation of these materials is being investigated, which should, for example, enable a longer lifespan.
Photovoltaics
Commercial photovoltaic technologies have reached the terawatt (TW) range in terms of installed capacity worldwide. There will continue to be a very high demand for photovoltaic systems in the next few years, requiring scalable technologies to meet the ever-growing demand. HIPOLE Jena is dedicated to perovskite solar cells. The use of polymers is intended to improve stability, for example.
Functional self-healing materials
Functional self-healing materials represent a special field of research. These can restore their original properties after damage. For example, in battery electrodes, the conductivity should be restored after damage to the electrode. Comparable approaches should also be used for solar cells.
Sustainable chemistry
In the plastic age, which is also strongly associated with the negative environmental impacts of plastics (e.g. microplastics), sustainability plays an important role. Therefore, the polymers for the various applications should be created based on sustainable resources and their recycling should be possible. For example, the use of CO2 as a building block for polymers plays an important role.