Postdoctoral Research Associate (Geological Hydrogen Storage)
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Description
Job Description
Grade UE07: £41,064 - £48,822 per annum
College of Science and Engineering / School of GeoSciences
Full-time: 35 hours per week
Fixed-term contract: for 24 months
The Opportunity
The University of Edinburgh is a world-class, research-intensive institution. We offer a supportive working environment, excellent facilities, and opportunities for professional development within a diverse and international community.
This is an Academic Research (Postdoctoral Research Associate) opportunity within the School of GeoSciences.
We are seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate to support the University of Edinburgh contribution to the Horizon Europe Clean Hydrogen project HyCavern, which is developing safe and scalable hydrogen storage in mined, lined rock caverns.
The postholder will deliver a laboratory programme focused on low-carbon concrete performance and sliding-layer/interface material stability. This will include concrete slurry and early-age testing, hydrogen durability and transport testing on cementitious materials, and ageing/compatibility testing of candidate sliding-layer and interface systems under controlled exposure conditions. The role will involve applying appropriate analytical and characterisation techniques, maintaining rigorous QA/QC and traceable datasets, and providing robust outputs for consortium reporting, technical guidance, and publications.
Your Skills And Attributes For Success
Grade UE07: £41,064 - £48,822 per annum
College of Science and Engineering / School of GeoSciences
Full-time: 35 hours per week
Fixed-term contract: for 24 months
The Opportunity
The University of Edinburgh is a world-class, research-intensive institution. We offer a supportive working environment, excellent facilities, and opportunities for professional development within a diverse and international community.
This is an Academic Research (Postdoctoral Research Associate) opportunity within the School of GeoSciences.
We are seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate to support the University of Edinburgh contribution to the Horizon Europe Clean Hydrogen project HyCavern, which is developing safe and scalable hydrogen storage in mined, lined rock caverns.
The postholder will deliver a laboratory programme focused on low-carbon concrete performance and sliding-layer/interface material stability. This will include concrete slurry and early-age testing, hydrogen durability and transport testing on cementitious materials, and ageing/compatibility testing of candidate sliding-layer and interface systems under controlled exposure conditions. The role will involve applying appropriate analytical and characterisation techniques, maintaining rigorous QA/QC and traceable datasets, and providing robust outputs for consortium reporting, technical guidance, and publications.
Your Skills And Attributes For Success
- PhD (awarded, or thesis submitted by the start date) in cement/concrete materials, civil/material engineering, materials science, geoscience/geochemistry (cement/engineered barriers), chemistry, or a closely related field.
- Demonstrated ability to deliver a laboratory programme to deadline, including test planning, QA/QC, documentation, and reliable execution.
- Practical experience in cementitious materials testing, including slurry/early-age behaviour and/or durability/transport behaviour.
- Strong understanding of cementitious materials chemistry and durability (hydration and pore solution chemistry, transport/permeation processes, and ageing mechanisms) relevant to long-term integrity of lined rock cavern concrete and interfaces.
- Strong capability in materials characterisation, with evidence of applying several relevant analytical techniques (e.g., SEM/EDS, XRD, µCT, FTIR, TGA/DSC, DMA, and porosity/transport/permeability methods).
- Strong data handling and reporting skills, with excellent written and verbal communication, and ability to work effectively in a collaborative international project environment.
This post is full-time (35 hours per week).
This is a laboratory-based role and requires regular on-site attendance (daily during active experimental runs). Remote working will be limited and only permitted occasionally for specific tasks, subject to prior agreement with the line manager. As such, applicants should not expect routine or regular home working as part of this post.
Informal enquiries may be directed to Dr Aliakbar Hassanpouryouzband ( Hssnpr@ed.ac.uk ).
Apply now to join an international consortium and deliver new experimental and modelling insights relevant to natural hydrogen systems.
A career with us has a range of other benefits that can be tailored to your lifestyle:
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Please Include The Following Documents In Your Application
This is a laboratory-based role and requires regular on-site attendance (daily during active experimental runs). Remote working will be limited and only permitted occasionally for specific tasks, subject to prior agreement with the line manager. As such, applicants should not expect routine or regular home working as part of this post.
Informal enquiries may be directed to Dr Aliakbar Hassanpouryouzband ( Hssnpr@ed.ac.uk ).
Apply now to join an international consortium and deliver new experimental and modelling insights relevant to natural hydrogen systems.
A career with us has a range of other benefits that can be tailored to your lifestyle:
- Competitive salary
- Generous annual leave and public holiday entitlement
- Defined benefits pension scheme
- A wide range of staff discounts
- Family-friendly initiatives and wellbeing support
- Professional development and training opportunities
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Please Include The Following Documents In Your Application
- CV
- Cover letter
- If shortlisted, 2 references will be requested before the interview.
- A competitive salary.
- An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work.
- To be part of a diverse and vibrant international community.
- Comprehensive Staff Benefits, including generous annual leave entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme, a wide range of staff discounts, family-friendly initiatives, and flexible work options. Check out the full list on our staff benefits page and use our reward calculator to discover the value of your pay and benefits.
The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter, and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.
We welcome applications from all qualified candidates.
Prior to any employment commencing with the University, you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work webpages
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The University may be able to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role. This will depend on a number of factors specific to the successful applicant.
Key dates to note
The closing date for applications is 2 nd April 2026.
Unless stated otherwise the closing time for applications is 11:59pm UK time. If you are applying outside the UK the closing time on our adverts automatically adjusts to your browsers local time zone.
About Us
As a world-leading research-intensive University, we are here to address tomorrow’s greatest challenges. Between now and 2030 we will do that with a values-led approach to teaching, research and innovation, and through the strength of our relationships, both locally and globally.
About The Team
The School of GeoSciences explores the factors and forces that shape our world. The School aims to understand the world through fundamental curiosity-driven research and to support prescient decision-making at individual to global scales. We undertake world-leading research; offer new ways of understanding natural and social drivers of change; provide inter-and trans-disciplinary solutions; and work in partnership to improve livelihoods and explore ways to manage the environment that are both sustainable and socially equitable.
With over 500 academics, researchers and research students, we are
The University may be able to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role. This will depend on a number of factors specific to the successful applicant.
Key dates to note
The closing date for applications is 2 nd April 2026.
Unless stated otherwise the closing time for applications is 11:59pm UK time. If you are applying outside the UK the closing time on our adverts automatically adjusts to your browsers local time zone.
About Us
As a world-leading research-intensive University, we are here to address tomorrow’s greatest challenges. Between now and 2030 we will do that with a values-led approach to teaching, research and innovation, and through the strength of our relationships, both locally and globally.
About The Team
The School of GeoSciences explores the factors and forces that shape our world. The School aims to understand the world through fundamental curiosity-driven research and to support prescient decision-making at individual to global scales. We undertake world-leading research; offer new ways of understanding natural and social drivers of change; provide inter-and trans-disciplinary solutions; and work in partnership to improve livelihoods and explore ways to manage the environment that are both sustainable and socially equitable.
With over 500 academics, researchers and research students, we are
the largest and most successful interdisciplinary grouping of geoscientists and geographers in the UK. Research activity is coordinated within three main Research Institutes – Global Change, Earth and Planetary Science, and Geography and the Lived Environment – and within smaller research groupings that reach across and beyond the School.
A distinctive feature of the School is the combination of academic strength, intellectual breadth and societal relevance. Our interdisciplinary research and teaching builds on established core disciplines (ecology, environmental sciences, geography, geophysics, meteorology, oceanography) to provide a variety of approaches to understanding the world (including, for example, system-scale modelling, process studies and the development of urban and social theory). The School’s research covers fundamental ‘blue-skies’ questions, as well as having application to key societal challenges including inequality and vulnerability; urban precarity; nature and cultural meaning; development and sustainability; climate and environmental change; energy, food and water security; health and wellbeing; natural resources; and natural hazards.
The School of GeoSciences aims to recognise and value diversity in our staff and students, and to support flexible and family-friendly working.
More details about the School is available from http://www.ed.ac.uk/geosciences
A distinctive feature of the School is the combination of academic strength, intellectual breadth and societal relevance. Our interdisciplinary research and teaching builds on established core disciplines (ecology, environmental sciences, geography, geophysics, meteorology, oceanography) to provide a variety of approaches to understanding the world (including, for example, system-scale modelling, process studies and the development of urban and social theory). The School’s research covers fundamental ‘blue-skies’ questions, as well as having application to key societal challenges including inequality and vulnerability; urban precarity; nature and cultural meaning; development and sustainability; climate and environmental change; energy, food and water security; health and wellbeing; natural resources; and natural hazards.
The School of GeoSciences aims to recognise and value diversity in our staff and students, and to support flexible and family-friendly working.
More details about the School is available from http://www.ed.ac.uk/geosciences