Are you an early-career researcher with fresh ideas and a global mindset? We welcome diverse perspectives, especially from women in science and international talents to help shape the next generation of sustainable, water-driven materials. Our mission is to create interactive, sustainable, and intelligent material systems that either unfold their unique functionality in aqueous environments or derive their properties directly from nature's most powerful resource: Water.

BlueMat brings together four Research Areas: mechanical, fluid transport, photonic, and energy materials, supported by four Cross Areas dedicated to imaging, modeling, data, and exploitation. Together, they form a vibrant interdisciplinary research ecosystem.

We are seeking a PhD student in the research area D - Energy Materials - sustainable aqueous batteries, hydrovoltaic energy harvesting, and advanced catalysis. The focus of this PhD project located at the DESY NanoLab will be the structural and compositional evolution of electrocatalytically active nanoparticles such as Pt and Ir02 under oxygen and hydrogen evolution reaction conditions.