March 16th, 2023
HIU research group leader Dr. Simon Fleischmann received a highly endowed scholarship from the Daimler and Benz Foundation this year. Eleven other researchers, mostly postdocs and junior professors, were also honored together with Fleischmann. The duration of the scholarships is two years. Dr. Simon Fleischmann heads the research group “Nanoconfined Electrochemical Interfaces” at HIU.
The award is intended to strengthen your professional career, especially during the productive phase after your doctorate. The funding amount is 40,000 euros per scholarship. The funding program is open to applicants from all scientific disciplines, there are no thematic restrictions. Fleischmann’s funded research topic reads as follows: “Sodium replaces lithium: development of novel electrode materials for a more sustainable battery cell”. In his research at the HIU, he cooperates with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and the Reinhard Frank Foundation.
Congrats Simon ??? HIU PI Dr. @SFleischmann_ has received a grant from @dbstiftung. He is among 12 selected young scientists who received a scholarship from the foundation. Funding amount is 40,000 €/ scholarship for a period of 2 years. @KITKarlsruhe @uni_ulm @ClusterPolis https://t.co/hWnraBV28k
— Helmholtz Institute Ulm ???? (@HelmholtzUlm) March 23, 2023
Projekt description
Lithium-ion batteries are experiencing enormous demand in e-cars, portable electronics or stationary energy storage – and the trend is rising. While previous developments were mostly aimed at increasing energy density, aspects of sustainability are becoming increasingly important in times of disrupted supply chains and scarcity of raw materials. One promising approach is to replace lithium with sodium, which is chemically similar but available in large quantities. However, its larger diameter places special demands on the electrodes so that they can absorb and release the ions with high reversibility. Simon Fleischmann’s project explores new electrode materials that are specially designed for sodium transport at fast rates and with high long-term stability.
Simon Fleischmann is a materials scientist at HIU and received his doctorate in 2018 from Saarland University. He then spent two years researching as a postdoc at North Carolina State University and one year as a winner of the Young Energy Storage Scientist Award and scholarship holder at the Université Paul Sabatier in Toulouse. Since November 2021 he has been a junior research group leader at the Helmholtz Institute Ulm. In his work, he researches, among other things, innovative materials for batteries and supercapacitors.
Further information:
https://www.daimler-benz-stiftung.de/cms/de/foerdern/stipendienprogramm/stipendiaten/605-stipendiaten-2023.html