One-week internship at DTU Energy

Are you a student in 8th to 10th grade who finds science exciting? Are you curious about how our energy will be produced in the coming 10, 20 or even 50 years? If so, then this one-week internship at DTU Energy is just what you need!

At DTU Energy our focus lies with the energy solutions of the future, and we are always looking for new and better ways to produce and store energy. As such, we focus on a wide array of different energy technologies such as batteries, fuel cells, electrolysis, thermal energy storage, carbon capture and more.

Our research goal is to ensure sustainable energy for the future, which we try to achieve through both theoretical understanding of the technologies we research and an excellence in the experimental methods required to create and study them. We use supercomputers to run simulations and are building autonomous laboratories that reduce the amount of tedious assembly and lower the experimental uncertainty through higher repeatability.

For this one-week internship, which takes place every year in week 44, we accept applications from school students in the 8th to 10th grade. During this week, you will get to experience both the research areas we focus on and the methods we use in our daily work. The internship will mainly be in Danish, but do expect some English, since there are many international employees at DTU Energy.

Below is an example program for the week. The time slots are set, but the content changes from year to year.

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
9:00-12:00	Introduction to DTU Energy and a guided tour of DTU	Alkaline Electrolysis	3D-printing	Electron Microscopy	Simulating Materials
12:00-12:30	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch
12:30-15:00	Automated Experimental Design	Electromag­netism	Surface Science	Computational Physics	Solid Oxide Fuel Cells

If you want to participate in this one-week internship, then please write an email to Benjamin Heckscher Sjølin, benjas@dtu.dk, wherein you give a short introduction of yourself and your motivation for participation. This email can be in either Danish or English.