PhD Position in Prospective Environmental and Economic Assessment of an Einstein Telescope Data Center Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH in Germany

FernUniversität in Hagen is advertising a research assistant (PhD opportunity) at the Chair of Production and Logistics Management for work connected to the interdisciplinary project UN:PACK . The project focuses on sustainable logistics , circular economy , and the development of a standardized, decentralized, and scalable reusable packaging pooling system for communal catering contexts such as schools and kindergartens. The role is research- and teaching-oriented and includes analyzing, modeli...

Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH offers a master’s thesis at the Institute of Climate and Energy Systems – Jülich System Analysis (ICE-2), in collaboration with TH Köln. The project examines how industrial biotechnologies could contribute to more sustainable and bio-based production routes in the chemical industry. The thesis will investigate economic evaluation methods for industrial biotechnology production processes. The work includes identifying suitable methods, defining their objectives and f...

Oak Ridge National Laboratory is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to advance lifecycle analysis and technoeconomic analysis for major U.S. industries. The position is based in the Sustainable Manufacturing Technologies Group within the Manufacturing Science Division of ORNL’s Energy Science and Technology Directorate. The researcher will contribute to two major efforts. One focuses on identifying cost-effective emerging and industrial-scale technologies for recycling critical minerals from elec...

Postdoctoral position at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in the Faculty of Applied Sciences , working on the MetNH3Energy project at the intersection of hydrogen , ammonia , sustainability , and the energy transition. The project focuses on assessing the techno-economic and environmental performance of three ammonia value chains to identify sustainable pathways for carbon footprint reduction. The research includes process modeling , ex-ante techno-economic analysis (TEA) , and life cyc...

Funded PhD opportunity at Coventry University within the Centre for Discoveries in Life Science and the Midlands Integrative Biosciences Training Partnership (MIBTP) . The project is titled Sustainable Rare Earth Element Recovery from Secondary Resources: Integrating Bioleaching, Metabolic Engineering and Life Cycle Assessment . It focuses on recovering rare earth elements from electronic waste using engineered yeast-based bioleaching, with an emphasis on microbiology , biotechnology , metabolic...