Vacancies

At DIFFER we perform fundamental research on renewable energy. Are you interested in supporting our research team and extend the technical support capacity within our Solar Fuels Facilities and Instrumentation group? We are seeking a support / research technician who will assist the scientists on a daily basis in our laboratories in which we perform research across the borders of physics, chemistry and material science.

At DIFFER we perform fundamental research on renewable energy. Are you interested in supporting our research team and extend the technical support capabilities within our Solar Fuels Facilities and Instrumentation group? We are seeking a research technician who will manage several optical laboratories and setups and who can assist the scientific staff.

This position is part of a recently granted NWO project, entitled CO₂SPARE, which is aimed at the valorisation of CO₂ in biogas. This project is executed jointly with the Non-equilibrium Fuel Conversion (NFC) group of DIFFER. It entails fundamental studies of the reverse Boudouard reaction, in support of an overall process involving pyrolysis of methane follows by reaction of CO₂ with the carbon thus formed.

Our future energy infrastructure will need ways of efficiently converting, transporting and storing electricity from sustainable but fluctuating sources. One approach uses sustainable electricity for the reverse combustion of atmospheric CO₂ into so-called solar fuels, thereby converting electricity into the chemical bonds of high-density fuels. DIFFER pursues plasma-assisted conversion of CO₂ into CO and O₂ as an exciting new approach to recycling carbon dioxide into fuels, thereby closing the carbon cycle and eliminating the need for fossil fuels.