Graduate School and Research Training Group
Education & Training
Skilled scientists and engineers are key for further development and implementation of electrochemical energy storage. Within CELEST, comprehensive teaching to doctoral researchers in this field is offered by two institutions: The Graduate School Electrochemical Energy Storage (GS-EES) and the research training group Simulation of Mechanical-Electrical Thermal Processes in Li-ion Batteries (SiMET).
Graduate School Electrochemical Energy Storage (GS-EES)
The GS-EES supports almost 90 doctoral researchers at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Ulm University and Justus Liebig University Giessen (JLU) and is the largest graduate school in Germany in the field of electrochemical energy storage. It addresses the full interdisciplinary spectrum of electrochemical energy storage and conversion, from fundamental science to processing and application. Among the topics are Lithium-ion batteries, post-Lithium batteries and fuel cells.
Highlights of the GS-EES training and support measures are:
- Three-month research stay abroad
- Two weeks of interdisciplinary Block Course "Materials, Functioning and Technology of Batteries"
- Annual Summer School
- Broad portfolio of workshops on scientific or method-related topics and professional skills.
Mission
- Educate and train the next generation of researchers and engineers in the field of electrochemical energy storage.
- Support them in all aspects regarding research.
- Empower them to foster their creativity and independence as researchers, to build scientific networks within and beyond the GS-EES, to learn develop their personal skills, to raise awareness for rights and obligations as researchers in modern society.
- Prepare them for successful careers in both industry or academia.
GS-EES | Sarah Hameister
Simulation of Mechanical-Electrical Thermal Processes in Li-ion Batteries (SiMET)
The German Research Foundation (DFG) is funding the Research Training Group "SiMET - Simulation of mechanical-thermal processes in Lithium-ion batteries" (GRK 2218) at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in collaboration with Offenburg University of Applied Sciences and the Helmholtz Institute Ulm. In SiMET, doctoral researchs from various disciplines jointly research and develop cross-scale and multidisciplinary models and simulation methods for lithium-ion batteries. The models cover a broad spectrum of approaches and make it possible, for example, to simulate the operating behaviour under various conditions, to show the effect of changes in the manufacturing process on the cell properties or to contribute to the understanding of damage effects and aging processes.
