PhD studentship

PhD Scholarship Project: Lignin valorisation for the circular economy at Imperial College London , Department of Chemical Engineering. This PhD project focuses on the valorisation of lignin, the most abundant renewable source of aromatic carbon on Earth. The research will convert lignin into well-defined aromatic and aliphatic building blocks using reductive catalytic fractionation, mechanocatalysis, and related depolymerisation strategies applied directly to lignocellulosic biomass. You will wo...

PhD studentship in Chemical Engineering at the University of Cambridge , hosted in the Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry and supervised by Professor Erwin Reisner . The project is part of the Reisner Laboratory and focuses on solar energy conversion , photoreforming , plastic waste upcycling , sustainable fuels , and organic platform chemicals . The successful PhD student will work on developing a scalable process for photoreforming technology, design continuous-flow solar reactors , and demo...

PhD studentship in photocatalysis and air-to-fuel conversion at the University of Cambridge , Department of Chemistry, in the Reisner Laboratory under Professor Erwin Reisner . The project focuses on developing integrated systems for direct air capture and subsequent CO2 conversion to green fuels and valuable chemicals. Research themes include solar-driven conversion , photocatalytic systems , gas-phase CO2 conversion, carbon capture integration, sunlight concentration, outdoor testing, and broa...

PhD Studentship in Chemical Engineering at the University of Nottingham, within the EPSRC and BBSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Negative Emission Technologies for Net Zero (CDT in Net2Zero). The project sits in the areas of chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, materials science, chemistry, environmental science, biomass conversion, biochar, CO2 capture, BECCS, and negative emission technologies. The research aims to develop and demonstrate a laboratory-scale multifunctional reactor ...

Imperial College London’s Department of Chemical Engineering is advertising a PhD scholarship project on chemical recycling and upcycling of PET (poly(ethylene terephthalate)). The project focuses on converting PET waste streams into monomers and higher-value chemical building blocks through catalytic depolymerisation routes such as glycolysis, methanolysis, and hydrolysis. You will work on catalyst design and characterisation, reaction mechanism studies, and the translation of laboratory findin...