Phd Trainee 2023

Company Information:
**TOYOTA** is one of the world’s largest automobile manufacturers and a leading global corporation. Founded in 1937. Toyota now sells vehicles in 170 countries and employs over 350.000 people. Based in Brussels, Belgium, and staffed by 2.700 people and more than 60 nationalities, Toyota Motor Europe (TME) handles the wholesale marketing of Toyota and Lexus vehicles, parts & accessories, and manages Toyota’s European R&D, manufacturing, and engineering operations.

We are excited to be transforming into a mobility company focusing on bringing even more happiness to our customers through various mobility solutions.

**We offer**

Toyota offers a comprehensive remuneration package, including a bonus scheme and interesting extra-legal benefits. We provide flexibility to take care of both your career and your personal life by providing hybrid work environment with structural possibility to both work from home & collaborate in the office. You can also take your work abroad for up to 20 days/year.

At Toyota Motor Europe, we are committed to providing equal employment opportunity to all. All our recruitment decisions are based on the individual and their qualifications along with the job requirements. The selection process is without regard to nationality, gender, age, ethnicity, or disability. We do not tolerate harassment or discrimination as our individual experiences and overall diversity is our key strength. Together we have the power to make a positive change and go beyond the ordinary.

If you need any specific consideration for the interview process due to disability or any other reason, please let the recruiter know.

**Benefits**

Your team and your responsibilities:
**Description**

DC1 will (i) expand this model with smaller scale models (including transport properties calculated by Molecular Dynamics (MD) during the one-month secondment), (ii) develop and assess sub-models with reduced complexity and dimensionality, (iii) incorporate interfaces to the detailed, smaller-scale membrane and catalyst models and build a tool capable to perform analysis at various fidelity levels/costs by emphasizing on the gas diffusion layer (GDL) / micro porous layer (MPL) structure of the PEMFC (iv) train/use Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to replicate the involved physical phenomena, (v) program the adjoint to the background model and run gradient-based optimisation, (vi) set up low-cost hierarchical search processes (using evolutionary algorithms) to optimise the PEMFC topology, identify GDL/MPL structures & material characteristics for max. mass & electron transports.

**Additional comments**
During the first 18 months DC1 will be working at the R&D AT Division of

The second 18-month period DC1 activities will be carried out at the
**Zografou Campus of NTUA in Athens, Greece**. The PCOpt/NTUA group consists of about 15 people, including 4 experienced researchers, among which the developers of the open-source, publicly available adjointOptimisationFoam library (to be extended in this project). Apart from the PhD thesis supervisor (Prof. K. Giannakoglou), researchers of the PCOpt/NTUA Unit with previous experience in similar tasks (OpenFOAM, adjoint methods, evolutionary algorithms, AI, PEMFCs) will support DC1 in her/his project/PhD. The PCOpt/NTUA Unit possesses a powerful multiprocessor platform, including both CPU and GPU clusters, which is expected to be upgraded during the project life; this will support the research to be performed by the DC1.

Your Profile:
**Requirements**:
Research Field: Engineering » Chemical engineering

Education Level: Master Degree or equivalent

Research Field: Engineering » Mechanical engineering

Education Level: Master Degree or equivalent

Research Field: Engineering » Process engineering

Education Level: Master Degree or equivalent

**Skills/Qualifications**:
Excellent knowledge of written and spoken English (working language) is required.

Languages: ENGLISH - Level: Excellent

**Eligibility criteria**:
Applicants can be of any nationality and must hold a Master of Science degree (or equivalent) in Engineering, relevant to the aforementioned topics. They need to fully respect the following eligibility criteria:
(b) Must undertake transnational mobility. Researchers must not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in Belgium for more than 12 months within the 36 months immediately before their date of recruitment. Compulsory national service, short stays such as holidays, and time spent as part of a procedure for obtaining refugee status under the Geneva Convention are not taken into account.