Assistant Professor in ‘Stabilization of sustainable, high performance organic photovoltaic devices’
Assistant Professor in ‘Stabilization of sustainable, high performance organic photovoltaic devices’
The Mads Clausen Institute, Center for Advanced Photovoltaics and Thin-Film Energy Devices (SDU CAPE) invites applications for a fully-funded Assistant Professor position in ’Stabilization of sustainable, high performance organic photovoltaic devices’. The starting date is Feb. 1st, 2026, or as soon as possible thereafter, for a 3-year period.
What we offer
The Assistant Professor position is a part of the SDU CAPE research center, which aims to develop new sustainable photovoltaics and energy technologies using scalable and green processing techniques. This includes activities within degradation processes and stabilization techniques for organic molecules, thin-films and complete organic photovoltaic devices, to push the limits of new flexible thin film photovoltaics for the green energy transition. We offer an Assistant Professor position within a dynamic research environment that includes students, researchers and research engineers. The position includes both research and teaching responsibilities.
What we expect
Candidates who have a previous PhD degree in a field relevant to the mentioned area may seek the position (material science, chemistry, physics, electrical engineering and similar). You must have a proven strong track record of publications within the areas of e.g. organic solar cells or related organic technologies, degradation and stabilization of organic molecules and devices, synthesis of sustainable organic molecules and thin films, processing of organic photovoltaic devices. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of the work, the candidates are expected to have excellent collaboration skills. A very good capability of communicating scientific results in English, both orally and in writing is required.
The Assistant Professor is thus expected to:
Collaborate with other team members at SDU CAPE
Take responsibility for and lead new research directions within the overall area of stabilization of sustainable, high performance organic photovoltaic devices
Contribute to the development of new concepts for stabilization of organic molecules
Contribute to the development of new device concepts based on green and sustainable organic semiconductor molecules
Be responsible for teaching courses at SDU and supervise BSc, MSc and PhD students
Contribute to obtaining funding for research and innovation projects
Contribute to establishing and maintaining international collaborations
Workplace description / Research environment
We are an international research center working in the field of green energy technologies (CAPE), and we are looking for a highly motivated Assistant Professor to join our CAPE research center at University of Southern Denmark (SDU), campus Sønderborg. We offer a modern, inclusive, international and interdisciplinary working environment with state-of-the-art facilities as well as a strong tradition of international collaboration. Our ambition is, to recruit, develop, and retain talented scholars committed to both academic excellence and departmental development.
Having a focus on thin film technologies for energy conversion and storage, the center has full access to a surface science laboratory facility for the fabrication and characterization of thin films and photovoltaic devices, as well as a fully equipped Roll-to-Roll (R2R) facility for upscaling flexible devices. collaboration partners from both academia and industry. SDU CAPE is also leading the new SDU Climate Cluster (SCC) Elite Center SOLEN, which span across four faculties at SDU to foster, in a cross-disciplinary manner, new thin film solar energy conversion and storage technologies based on green and sustainable solutions.
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Contact information
For information about the Mads Clausen Institute, please see www.sdu.dk/en/mci.
Further information about this position is available from Professor Morten Madsen, e-mail: madsen@mci.sdu.dk
Please be aware that we will not accept any email applications, as all applications must be submitted through the SDU online recruitment system.
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Read more and apply at https://www.sdu.dk/en/om-sdu/job-sdu