PhD Opportunities in Chemistry, Materials Science, and Sustainable Technology in Finland University of Eastern Finland in Finland

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...

Research Staff Recruitment: Polymer Chemistry and Materials Science The Kyoto City Industrial Technology Research Institute, a public industrial support organization in Kyoto, Japan, is recruiting research staff at researcher/postdoctoral-equivalent and research-and-development/engineering-equivalent levels. The appointment is a permanent, full-time position with no fixed term and no tenure track. The successful candidates will provide technical support to small and medium-sized enterprises, res...

Fully Funded PhD Position in Water Resources Science is available at the University of Minnesota Duluth in the United States. The thesis will investigate how sediment and sunlight exposure influence the generation of 6PPD-quinone from tire wear particles, an emerging environmental contaminant relevant to water quality and pollution science. The project is associated with Dr. Bridget Ulrich and Dr. Melissa Mauerer-Jones in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the Natural Resources Res...

The University of Luxembourg is offering a doctoral researcher position in water engineering and monitoring within the Horizon Europe PFAROS project. The PhD research will investigate the role of hospital wastewater in the pollution caused by per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), a group of persistent chemicals relevant to public health, environmental protection, and sustainable healthcare. The doctoral researcher will examine whether hospital wastewater contributes to PFAS pollution and d...

PhD vacancy at Ghent University in Advanced Analytical Chemistry , within the PFAROS project and the Laboratory for Chemical Technology (LCT) . The project targets challenging analytical problems in the circular economy , especially the characterization of contaminants in plastic recycling streams such as pyrolysis oils, process gases, and aqueous condensates. The research is method-development driven and focuses on chromatography and mass spectrometry , including GC , GC×GC , HPLC , LC×LC , ele...