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Posted: 20-Sep-25
Location: Charlotte, North Carolina
Internal Number: 64240
Position Number: 004434
Department: College of Engineering (Col)
Employment Type: Permanent - Full-time
Months Per Year: 9
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Establish a strong externally funded research program
- Lead multidisciplinary proposal efforts across teams of faculty and industry partners
- Provide visionary guidance toward growing the resources and productivity of the BATT CAVE
- Assist the development of junior faculty and support staff
- Expand collaborations with the other UNC Charlotte units such as Chemistry and Nanoscale Science graduate programs, School of Data Science
- Improve national visibility of the center through scholarly accomplishment, invited research talks, and conference exhibition
- Teach at the undergraduate and graduate levels and supervise undergraduate capstone projects and graduate theses/dissertations
Minimum Experience / Education:
UNC Charlotte gives primary consideration to the earned doctorate or terminal degree in the teaching discipline or a related discipline.
Preferred Education Skills and Experience:
- PhD in Mechanical Engineering, Material Science, or other related fields
- a proven academic record of scholarly accomplishment, teaching, and leadership,
- demonstrated an ability to work across disciplines,
- demonstrated the ability to collaborate and build working partnerships nationally and internationally
An ideal candidate would have broad backgrounds in battery material science, battery engineering, and/or vehicle autonomy to help facilitate blended projects between faculty members in all research areas of BATT CAVE. Preference will be given to candidates with expertise in novel batteries (including novel materials, modeling and control, and battery recycling), vehicle autonomy and control, connected vehicles, and other advanced applications of energy storage for grid modernization. Candidates with established industrial ties are preferred.