Description Help us to unlock the secrets of hydrogen degradation! Are you ready to dive into the world of advanced materials and make real scientific impact this summer? This summer research internship offers an exciting opportunity for a curious, motivated, and hands-on students to join our research team investigating hydrogen degradation. Hydrogen can have a key role to play as an energy carrier that could support the Net Zero transition. It could also help enable the decarbonisation of ‘difficult to decarbonise’ sectors, like aviation, steel, and cement making, where direct electrification routes are either impractical or do not exist. However, both hydrogen storage and transmission are limited by our understanding of current materials, which can be degraded or embrittled by hydrogen at ambient temperature. While hydrogen-induced failure is well documented, the underpinning mechanisms are not comprehensively understood for many materials, new and conventional, thus there is an opportunity to develop methods that can appraise these phenomena in real time under ambient conditions. This project aims to assess the viability of real time appraisal of hydrogen-induced damage under an elastic tensile load using spatially resolved acoustic spectroscopy and optical microscopy. The project will be centred on the design and creation of a test rig that can apply a tensile load and an electrochemical load to cathodically charged sheet metal test samples. Start Date: 30/06/25 End Date: 05/09/25 Working Hours: 36.25 Pay Rate: £12.60 per hour plus holiday pay Location: Advanced Manufacturing Building, Jubilee Campus, Nottingham Dress Code: Casual The duties will include: Design and make of mechanical test equipment Specification of parts Calibration and testing Design of experiments Skills and experience required for the role: You will be a mechanical engineering undergraduate student with at least one year remaining on your degree programme Experience and competence in design and make project work Self-motivated, curious, and able to work with others! The successful candidate will develop skills in the following: Teamwork Problem solving Hands on design experience Experimental practice Application Instructions: Application Closing Date : 16/06/25 The Careers and Employability Service supports student and alumni to make choices about their future after their studies. To support you every step of the way, the team can help you to: ace the recruitment process providing advice on CV writing and interview preparation. explore a wide range of careers areas through web resources and sector events. connect with employers with vacancies through careers fairs. generate career ideas if you're not sure what you want to do. develop the skills you need to be successful in the workplace. Go to the Careers and Employability Service website to find out more. Our University is a supportive, inclusive, caring and positive community. We warmly welcome those of different cultures, ethnicities and beliefs – indeed this very diversity is vital to our success, it is fundamental to our values and enriches life on campus. We welcome applications from UK, Europe and from across the globe. Further information: The University of Nottingham will ask you whether you have any unspent criminal convictions as part of our pre-assignment checks. If the position you are applying for is ‘exempt’ from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 you will be asked to confirm both spent and unspent convictions at the point of offer. Examples of such posts include clinical, medical and allied health roles, roles involving childcare services. A DBS check may also be required. The University will only use information relating to criminal convictions where the law allows us to do so in line with our Data Protection Policy. Personal data relating to criminal convictions will be retained confidentially and securely and access to that data will be strictly controlled. More information relating to the manner in which we process your personal data is located within our privacy notice for staff, job applicants and others working at the University. Information about your rights relating to the use of your personal data can be found within our website privacy notice. What Next: To apply for this vacancy please click ‘Apply Now’ to complete your details. Please contact JobZone@nottingham.ac.uk for further information. Please note that applications sent directly to this email address will not be accepted.