Overview
Research Associate – Strand, London, WC2R 2LS
About Us
You will be part of an active research programme in the Heat and Fire Lab (https://heatandfire.github.io/ ) in the Department of Engineering at King’s College London.
About the role
We are looking to appoint a full-time (1.0 FTE) Research Associate as part of a Faraday Institution funded project on battery fire modelling, specifically focusing on thermal runaway and cell-to-cell propagation of flaming combustion. The role-holder will be part of a larger team on the SAFEBATT Project, major grant of the faraday institution, being led by UCL. At King’s, you will be joining a department with new laboratory facilities.
The post is funded until 29th March 2026.
The research in this project at King’s will help develop a full model that integrates a thermal electrical coupled battery model, a chemical kinetics model and a flame dynamics model to provide a tool that can be used to predict battery fire propagation and flame properties as well as heat transfer feedback to predict cell-to-cell propagation.
This project will lay the foundation to enable:
- Design of safer battery packs.
- Quantification of hot gases and flames emanating from ruptured battery cells
- Quantification of heat generation and fire propagation in varying realistic operating conditions for battery packs.
Candidates with a background in Fire Science, and battery safety modelling particularly encouraged to apply.
This is a full time post (35 hours per week), and you will be offered a fixed term contract until 29/03/2026.
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