PhD in Development of Novel Flow Biocatalytic Reactors for a Sustainable Future University of Southampton in United Kingdom

Imperial College London is advertising a Research Associate position in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the South Kensington Campus (hybrid). The project focuses on the development of a biobased solvent extraction system for recovering biological products, with emphasis on fermentation products such as lipids and proteins . The work is supervised by Professor Jason Hallett in collaboration with Professor Rodrigo Ledesma , and is part of the wider EU project PROPEL: Protein Production i...

Funded PhD opportunity at Coventry University in the Centre for Discoveries in Life Sciences, delivered through the Midlands Integrative Biosciences Training Partnership (MIBTP). This project focuses on bioleaching , tantalum recovery , superalloy waste , critical minerals , and environmental biotechnology . The research will investigate microbial mechanisms for mobilising tantalum from superalloy-processing wastes and selectively removing contaminating metals such as calcium and tungsten. It co...

PhD opportunity in programmable DNA nanotechnology for the selective recovery of critical and rare elements at The University of Edinburgh . The project is jointly supervised by Davide Michieletto and Jason Love and explores how DNA nanostructures could enable more selective, reusable, and sustainable recovery of rare-earth elements and other rare and precious metals. These elements are important for electronics, permanent magnets, and low-carbon technologies, but their clean separation and recy...

PhD opportunity in AI-powered enzyme engineering and computational chemistry at the University of Bristol , offered through a BBSRC SWBio CASE PhD project in partnership with AstraZeneca . The project is titled Optimizing biocatalysts for industry through machine-learning based enzyme activity screening (no. 3680). It focuses on developing and applying advanced computational workflows that combine machine-learned potentials , molecular simulation , and enzyme engineering to predict enzyme activi...

PhD opportunity for UK students at the University of York in a project on reducing chemical pollution through future farming systems . The advertised project is titled “Understanding consumers’ responses to underutilized crops and implications for the environment” and is associated with Eleanor Jew . This is a research-focused doctoral opening spanning environmental science , agriculture , and chemistry , with additional relevance to crop systems, consumer responses, and sustainability in farmin...