PhD position in Sustainability of Carbon Capture and Utilization and Direct Air Capture
Dr. Dwarak Ravikumar is recruiting a PhD student for his lab at the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment (SSEBE) at Arizona State University (ASU). Dr. Ravikumar is an Assistant Professor in SSEBE, which is the home for Civil, Environmental and Sustainable Engineering students.
The PhD student will receive full benefits including tuition, graduate assistantship, and health insurance.
The position will focus on identifying and addressing sustainability challenges as Carbon Capture and Utilization (CCU) and Direct Air Capture (DAC) systems are scaled to remove and utilize several gigatons of CO2. In addition to applying Aspen to model and simulate CCU and DAC processes, the position will require the student to assess the environmental, economic, and social impacts and recommend incentives when transitioning to large-scale CCU and DAC operations. To this end, the student will conduct a significant amount of analysis and modeling over the course of the PhD.
Required Qualifications
• A Master’s/ bachelor’s degree in engineering (any stream) or a related science stream.
• Modeling in Aspen
• Programming in Python/R/Matlab or any equivalent language
• A strong quantitative/engineering background
Desired Skills
• Life cycle assessment (LCA)
• Techno-economic assessment (TEA)
• Multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA)
Interested candidates can contact Dr. Dwarak Ravikumar at dtriplic@asu.edu with the subject line “Application for PhD position: CCU and DAC”.