HITEC (Helmholtz Interdisciplinary Doctoral Training in Energy and Climate) is the international graduate school for scientists and engineers who want to earn a Ph.D. in the challenging fields of energy and climate research.
HITEC is a joint initiative between Forschungszentrum Jlich, the RWTH Aachen University, the Ruhr-Universitt Bochum, the University of Cologne, the Heinrich Heine University Dsseldorf, and the University of Wuppertal. As a rule the Ph.D. certificate is awarded by one of the member universities.
HITEC is committed to scientific excellence, to an interdisciplinary and international research environment, to an accepting learning environment which embraces diversity, and aims to turn the Ph.D. students into well needed experts for academia and industry. HITEC offers a 3-year training programme which accompanies the doctoral thesis: students can select from a variety of HITEC events, including lectures on topics or methods, hands-on training courses in the lab or professional skills training, such as scientific writing or presenting.
Job Description
12 HITEC Ph.D. projects are open for application:
- Determination of thermodynamic key data for the development of advanced Lithium ion battery electrode materials
- Influence of large-scale production processes on the precipitation hardening behaviour of heat resistant ferritic
Iron-base alloys
- Development of liquid silicon hydride-based semiconductor technology
- The dynamics of electrons in linear plasma devices and its impact on plasma surface interactions
- Eco-balance of biogas plants and energy crops cultivation
- Derivation of atomic oxygen and temperature in the middle atmosphere and how they are affected by global change by global change
- Global gravity-wave modelling confined by satellite observations
- The Asian summer monsoon and its impact on the composition of the stratosphere
- Atmospheric profiling of clouds, temperature and humidity using a ground-based infrared spectrometer
- Novel mathematical approaches for estimating air quality and climate forcing emissions of technical energy processes
- On the temperature dependence of the kinetic isotope effect
- Secondary organic aerosol formation from biogenic VOCs: the influence of oxidants from anthropogenic emissions on aerosol formation
12 HITEC Ph.D. projects
