Professor in Environmental Technologies for Energy Transition

Professor in Environmental Technologies for Energy Transition (AP25-04-59505)

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Position Summary

Ranked first in Canada for research intensity (grant total per professor), INRS brings together 170 professors and about 800 students and postdoctoral fellows in four centres located in Quebec City, Montreal, Varennes and Laval.

INRS Eau Terre Environnement Research Centre (ETE) is situated in the heart of Quebec City, with major research facilities located in the Quebec Metro High-Tech Park. The Centre brings together a total of 37 faculty members, 100 research and research support staff, 33 administrative employees and 220 graduate students.

INRS’s Joint research units (UMRs) are interuniversity partnerships established with collaborating universities to develop cutting-edge research capacity in areas of significant societal impact, in regions of Québec that are strategically important to these fields. The five UMR themes include: materials and technologies for the energy transition, cybersecurity, digital transformation in support of regional development, sustainable health, and Indigenous studies. Each UMR brings together professors from both institutions, trains students, and generates significant regional impacts.

The Centre invites applications for a position of Professor in environmental technologies for energy transition. within the UMR formed in collaboration with the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR). This position is aligned with the UMR's theme and aims to meet societal and scientific demands related to climate change mitigation through economic decarbonization, with a focus on batteries, hydrogen, and the recycling of critical and strategic minerals. The UMR is located near key industrial stakeholders working in the heart of the Vallée de la transition énergétique innovation zone, particularly in the battery and hydrogen sectors.

The recruited candidate will be a member of the professorial assembly or the ETE Centre and will work at the UMR facilities at UQTR, with others professors affiliated with both the INRS’s Energy, Materials and Telecommunications Centre and UQTR’s Department of Biochemistry, Chemistry, Physics and Forensic Science. They will be part of a dynamic interdisciplinary research environment focused on the energy transition. They will contribute to the scientific programming of the UMR while also enhancing the ETE Centre's research program.

The candidate’s research program should focus on emerging areas of the energy transition, with emphasis on several key themes, including batteries and green hydrogen, innovative materials for electrodes and electrolytes, circular economy and waste recycling related to the energy transition, and green hydrogen production and usage technologies. The successful applicant will collaborate with a team of researchers using physical and chemical approaches for the synthesis and characterization of materials, while also leveraging numerical simulations to accelerate discovery and model energy systems.

The candidate will have access to existing infrastructure within the UMR and INRS, including the equipment available at the Environmental Technologies Laboratory (LISTE), and will eventually benefit from infrastructure under development within the INRS-UQTR UMR and at UQTR.