Post-Doctoral Researcher (level 1)

Department:

Chemistry

Vacancy ID:

041543

Closing Date:

24-May-2026

Maynooth University is committed to a strategy in which the primary University goals of excellent research and scholarship and outstanding education are interlinked and equally valued.

We are seeking to recruit a postdoctoral researcher to work on an SEAI-funded research project on the photoelectrochemical generation of green hydrogen, combining solar cell materials with electrochemistry. The successful candidate will join the Electro-Materials, Environmental and Renewable Energy research group in the Department of Chemistry, directed by Professor Carmel Breslin. The research will involve computational studies on the design of perovskite-based materials for the photoelectrochemical production of green hydrogen. The computational studies will be carried out in collaboration with Dr Sousa Javannikkhah and will involve a combination of density functional theory (DFT) and molecular dynamics (MD) to screen perovskites and other materials for the photoelectrochemical splitting of water.

Post-Doctoral Researcher (level 1)

€46,805 p.a. (1 point)

Appointments will be made in accordance with public sector pay provisions.

Closing Date:

23:30hrs (local Irish time) on Sunday, 24th of May 2026.

Applications must be submitted by the closing date and time specified above. Any applications which are still in progress at the closing time on the specified closing date will be cancelled automatically by the system.

Late applications will not be accepted.