Call for open Doctoral Researcher position for Materials and Mechanical Engineering Research in I4WORLD program

I4WORLD - Imaging and Characterisation for a Sustainable World (2022-2027) is a new doctoral programme within a well-established doctoral training environment at the University of Oulu in Finland co-funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action Co-funding of regional, national, and international programmes (COFUND).

Sustainable Advanced Steels for Hydrogen Society

  • Project description: The containment and transportation of high-pressure hydrogen gas in steel structures present a stiff challenge. The common high strength steels can possess a wide range of properties imparted through judicious alloying, processing, and heat treatment, rendering them appropriate for use in high-pressure hydrogen gas vessels and pipelines. The focus of doctoral researcher in this study will be to design suitable heat treatments and processes, while employing advanced characterization and imaging techniques to discern microstructural evolution leading to the desired mechanical/metallurgical properties. The focus will be on the dissolution and diffusion of atomic hydrogen into steels leading to deterioration of mechanical properties, a phenomenon termed as hydrogen embrittlement (HE).
  • Related I4WORLD theme(s): Sustainable Industries and Production
  • Location of position: Materials and Mechanical Engineering Research Unit
  • Supervisors: Prof. Jukka Kömi, Prof. Mahesh Somani

Second supervisor: Dr. Ilchat Sabirov, IMDEA Materials Institute, Madrid

Co-supervisor: Dr. Pasi Suikkanen, SSAB Europe, Raahe

  • Partners: IMDEA Materials Institute Madrid (TEM Nanotomography), KTH Royal Institute of Technology (APT, HE-XRD), Pohang University of Science and Technology, South Korea (HE)
  • Double degree info: No intended double degree.

Characterization and Imaging for Green Steels

Project description: Higher strength of sustainable steels means possibilities of less material usage, lightweight products, and reduced CO2 emissions. With the use of highly energy-efficient processing techniques, not only the emissions can be further reduced, and sustainability boosted, but also ultrafine multiphase microstructures can be generated in steels leading to excellent combinations of properties including ultrahigh strength. Therefore, the doctoral researcher’s focus will be on the development of nano-scaled multiphase martensitic/bainitic microstructures in lean, inexpensive steels via novel microstructural engineering approaches. Advanced characterization and imaging techniques will be used to gain fundamental knowledge on the principles governing the advanced properties at different length scales.

  • Related I4WORLD theme(s): Sustainable Industries and Production
  • Location of position: Materials and Mechanical Engineering Research Unit
  • Supervisors: Prof. Mahesh Somani, Prof. Jukka Kömi

Second supervisor: Prof. Peter Hedström, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm

Co-supervisor: Dr. Pasi Suikkanen, SSAB Europe, Raahe

  • Partners: KTH Royal Institute of Technology (APT, HE-XRD), IMDEA Materials Institute Madrid (TEM Nanotomography), MAX IV (HE-XRD), Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India (Fatigue and fracture mechanics)
  • Double degree info: No intended double degree.

Last updated: 10.1.2023