PhD in Agricultural Polymer Fragmentation into Micro- and Nanoplastics in Soil University of Vienna in Austria

The University of Vienna is offering a fully funded PhD position in analyzing polymer degradation by soil enzymes within the MSCA Doctoral Network AGRIPOLYS. The doctoral researcher will join the EDGE group at the Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science (CeMESS) in Vienna, Austria. The project applies environmental analytical chemistry and high-resolution mass spectrometry to investigate enzymatic degradation pathways of promising polymer classes in agricultural soils. The rese...

MSc opportunity at the University of Guelph in the School of Environmental Sciences (SES), located in Guelph, Ontario, Canada . This thesis-based MSc project focuses on microplastics in agricultural soils , with particular attention to how microplastics enter soils through municipal composts and biosolids . The research aims to develop and validate innovative methods for detecting and characterizing microplastics by combining simultaneous thermal analysis (STA–FTIR) and FTIR microscopy . A key g...

Postdoc opportunity at Agroscope in Zurich, Switzerland, on microplastics quantification in fruits and vegetables . The project focuses on method development and initial application, including sample preparation workflows for isolating microplastics from fruit and vegetable matrices, transfer of the pipeline into a verified standard operating procedure, and development of risk-based and exposure-based monitoring strategies. The work involves quantification of microplastics, data analysis, evalua...

PhD Position in Environmental Contaminants and Microplastics The Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (IDAEA-CSIC) is seeking a motivated predoctoral researcher for a PhD project on the analysis of environmental contaminants in water. The research combines field sampling, instrumental analysis, and data processing. The project will investigate the detection and characterisation of environmental contaminants, microplastics, and their associated additives, together with degrada...

Fully funded PhD opportunities in Resilient Chemistry are being advertised for a start date of October 2027 at the University of Nottingham . This is a research-focused doctoral opportunity for candidates interested in chemistry and closely related areas such as materials science and environmental science . The post does not provide detailed project descriptions, supervisor names, or specific admission criteria in the text shared here, but it clearly points to a formal application advert hosted ...