Open position: PhD Scholarship in Underground Hydrogen Storage

📣 Fully Funded PhD Positions in Underground Hydrogen Storage at University of Sydney, Australia 🇦🇺 !

Closing date: 31 August 2025.

We are looking for two highly motivated hashtag#PhD students to join a funded research project starting in January 2026. The project will focus on the complex phenomenon of salt precipitation in underground hydrogen storage (hashtag#UHS) systems. This research aims to advance our understanding of efficient energy storage and contribute to a sustainable hydrogen-based energy infrastructure in Australia.

📽️ Why this project? Evaporation-induced salt precipitation is a major challenge in UHS, as it can disrupt storage and withdrawal cycles, damage porous reservoirs, and even end the operational life of a storage site due to clogging. You will be contributing to a critical area of research with global impact.

🌐 Supervisors: Dr. Si Suo, A/Prof. Yixiang Gan, and Prof. Martin Blunt. Joint supervision team between School of Civil Engineering USYD and Imperial College London.

🔔 What we offer:

• A PhD stipend of ~$41,753 p.a. (2025 rate) for three years.
• Access to cutting-edge facilities, experimental labs, and high-performance computing.
• A supportive, collaborative, and interdisciplinary research environment.
• Opportunities to collaborate with leading researchers in hydrogen storage and multiphase flow.

🤹 Essential skills:

• Strong academic background in civil, mechanical, or earth science engineering (or a related field).
• Solid knowledge of fluid mechanics, heat and mass transfer, and transport phenomena.
• Proficiency in mathematical modelling and programming (e.g., Python, Matlab, C++).

📩 How to apply: Please send your CV (including academic transcripts) and a personal statement to Dr. Si Suo (s.suo@imperial.ac.uk) and A/Prof. Yixiang Gan (yixiang.gan@sydney.edu.au) to express your interest.