Research Assistant (E 13 TV-L)
In the team of Business Chemistry at the University of Münster, a position is available at the earliest possible date as
Research Assistant (E13 TV-L)
with 65% of the regular weekly working hours in the third-party funded project NOWEAR. The position is associated with the completion of a doctoral project. The position is initially limited to 3 years, but can be extended within the scope of the doctorate. The teaching load is 4 semester hours per week (SWS) on a full-time basis.
About our institute:
We combine expertise in chemistry, management, and technology to address the full spectrum of economic and ecological issues in the chemical industry and related sectors. We conduct interdisciplinary research in four interconnected areas:
- Innovation and technology management,
- Electrochemical energy storage technologies,
- Sustainability and circular economy, and
- Business models.
Our degree programs include the interdisciplinary M.Sc. Business Chemistry.
The research project NOWEAR
comprises the production of battery electrodes and the establishment of a scaled L(M)FP dry coating process at TRL-7 level. In doing so, the ecological implications of critical process steps are evaluated in the context of battery cell production.
Your tasks:
The focus of your work is research and project work, particularly in the areas of data management, data analysis, and modeling of production processes and electrochemical energy storage systems, as well as their techno-economic and ecological assessment.
Your central tasks include:
- Development and execution of process-based life cycle assessments (LCA) for L(M)FP-based battery electrodes.
- Cost analysis of specific coatings for plant components and other technological optimizations.
- Active participation in the acquisition of further third-party funding and in teaching in the form of seminars, exercises, as well as the supervision of seminar and master's theses.
- Writing scientific publications.
- Conducting a doctoral project.
Our expectations:
- You have successfully completed a Master's degree (university degree) in Business Chemistry or Chemistry.
- Prior knowledge in the areas of life cycle assessments, techno-economic evaluations, and electrochemical energy storage technologies, their business models, and associated production technologies is an advantage.
- Good English language skills and a confident handling of standard software products are required.
- Team spirit and the ability to work independently on projects are essential.
Your benefits:
- Appreciation, commitment, openness, and respect – these are values that are important to us.
- With a large variety of working time models, we enable flexible working – also from home.
- Whether caregiving or childcare – our Family Service Office offers you concrete support services so that you can balance private and professional life.
- Your individual, tailored further training is not only important to us as an educational institution, but a matter close to our hearts.
- From Aikido to Zumba – our sports and health offers from A to Z ensure your work-life balance.
- You benefit from numerous public sector benefits such as attractive company pension schemes (VBL), an annual special payment, and a workplace that is hardly dependent on economic fluctuations.
The University of Münster is committed to equal opportunity and diversity. We welcome all applications regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic or social origin, religion or worldview, disability, age, or sexual orientation or identity. A family-friendly design of working conditions is a matter of course for us.
Applications from women are explicitly welcome. Women will be given preferential consideration if they have the same qualifications, abilities, and professional performance, unless reasons related to the person of a competing applicant prevail.
Are you interested? Then we look forward to receiving your application by 30.10.2026 at
University of Münster
Institute of Business Chemistry
Prof. Dr. Simon Lux
Leonardo-Campus 1
48149 Münster
E-mail: simon.lux@uni-muenster.de
Job reference number for queries: 2026_09_11