Open Positions

Roles at Battery Startup Incubator

Head of Batteries – TUM Venture Labs

Join BaStI, Germany’s leading Battery Startup Incubator, and support Deep-Tech founders in transforming cutting-edge battery technologies into commercial innovations.

  • Lead the BaStI project and ensure the achievement of strategic goals.
  • Support battery startups by facilitating access to research infrastructures and expert networks.
  • Develop and maintain partnerships with research institutes, universities, and industry players.
  • Manage incubator activities in collaboration with TUM Venture Labs and industry stakeholders.
  • Represent BaStI at public events, conferences, and networking opportunities.
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Startup Success Manager

Supporting Deep-Tech startups in their journey from concept to commercialization, with a focus on market validation, funding, and scaling.

  • Coach startups on business models, customer discovery, and market entry strategies.
  • Connect founders with investors, partners, and key stakeholders.
  • Facilitate funding opportunities and help startups secure investment.
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Program Manager – Community Manager

Building and managing a thriving startup community within the battery innovation ecosystem.

  • Develop and grow a network of battery researchers, startups, and investors.
  • Organize events, conferences, and community meetups.
  • Facilitate collaboration between academia and industry.
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Program Manager – Entrepreneurship Education

Designing and implementing educational programs to empower entrepreneurs in the battery and Deep-Tech sectors.

  • Develop and enhance startup education curricula.
  • Collaborate with academic and industry leaders to create high-impact learning programs.
  • Organize workshops, training sessions, and mentoring programs for aspiring founders.
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Graduate Students

We are looking for outstanding and highly motivated people to further enrich our group in the fields of solid-state Li-ion batteries, solar-to-fuel conversion, and memristive information storage devices and solid-state gas sensors. If interested, please contact Prof. Rupp at jrupp[at]tum.de.

Undergraduates and Prospective Visiting Students

We are always looking for enthusiastic undergraduate students and visiting master students to join our lab. Experience with ceramic and metal thin film processing, photolithography and microfabrication, or electrochemistry is an advantage. Knowledge on ionic and electronic transport in solid state, fuel cells, resistive switching memories, perovskites, structure-electric property relations, ceramic powder processing, multilayer thin film processing is utmost welcome. For details, please contact Prof. Rupp at jrupp[at]tum.de.

Postdoctoral Researchers

Applications from outstanding postdoctoral researchers in the topics stated above are always welcome. Please contact Prof. Rupp at jrupp[at]tum.de.

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