Job title: LCA modelling of emerging technologies
Job description: Gemmate Technologies (www.gemmate-technologies.com) is a technological micro-enterprise that innovates existing products and develops new ones from science and technology advances. In the frame of its wide international collaboration network with public and private research organizations and enterprises potential businesses are evaluated, novel production solutions developed from early-stage research to commercialization in the frame of the circular economy paradigm, by up-scaling the key enabling technologies throughout the production value chains of the most profitable sectorial fields.
From an LCA point of view, re-engineering of processes and products starting from emerging technologies will involve both process/product specific technology modelling as well as gaining an understanding of the wider context where this technology will operate. Therefore, you are expected to discuss with partners and clients for understanding their needs to optimize processes and/or develop new products, helping them to understand how solving their business and design problems, and how they can benefit from Life Cycle Assessment, Life Cycle Costing and Eco Design solutions to cut resources use and fostering sustainable transition. You will work with us on methodological development in LCA, establishing a framework for modelling emerging solutions and technologies and their interaction with the surrounding related market. You will be in a pivotal role for helping us to succeed in the medium-long term; we expect you can also contribute with new insights and ideas to research directions and support us in the acquisition of public and private funding.
Aiming at a long-lasting relationship, we are searching for the right person to invest on, to complement / enrich our technical staff – relatively young and heterogeneous – to pursue the growth roadmap and fulfil its mission. In the short term, you will be primarily involved in the execution of collaborative research projects (https://www.gemmate-technologies.com/collaborative-research/) where emerging technologies will be assessed in view of their application in different fields like energy conversion and storage, e-mobility, and manufacturing. After an initial hot-spotting and testing conclusions that guide the decision-making during the experimental phase in an eco-design perspective, the focus will shift to performing continual sustainability assessment of the products/processes developed in the projects.
Your primary tasks will be to:
- Consolidate and communicate data needs with project partners
- Develop inventory models for emerging technologies, and upscale data up to industrial scale
- Develop modelling for emerging technologies and systems
- Environmental impact assessment of emerging technologies and their economic implications
- Analyse and disseminate results through communication for stakeholders and peer-to-peer publications
Your expertise:
- Solid scientific background, preferably in Engineering, Sustainability, Environmental Science, or related disciplines. Candidates with PhD will be closely evaluated.
- Analytical Skills and Research abilities
- Strong Communication skills
- Experience with Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) modeling and assessment of technologies.
- Experience in using software for LCA modelling and corresponding databases.
- You enjoy working in interdisciplinary teams
We offer to work in a multidisciplinary and dynamic environment in which you will have the chance to deal with different domains like additive and hybrid manufacturing, energy conversion and storage, e-mobility and devices for IoT.
Job location: Turin, Italy.
Contact person: Alessio Tommasi, PhD; e-mail: alessio.tommasi@gemmate-technologies.com