Fundación Ramón Areces PhD Fellowships in Sciences of Life and Matter

PhD and integrated PhD (MS-PhD) positions are available in the Computational Chemistry Lab in the Department of Chemistry at the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), South Korea. The group focuses on the structure and dynamics of water and aqueous solutions, using molecular dynamics simulations, density functional theory (DFT), and graph theory. The project theme includes molecular aggregation behavior and its effect on water structure and dynamics in solution. The exact topic wil...

PhD opportunity at The University of Queensland (St Lucia, Australia) in photothermal catalysis and solar methanol synthesis . The project, titled “Unravelling the photothermal effect in solar methanol synthesis” , explores how light-driven and heat-driven effects work together to improve catalyst performance for converting small molecules such as CO2 or CO into fuels like methanol under mild, energy-efficient conditions. You will work across chemical engineering , chemistry , materials science ...

PhD scholarship in self-driving labs for ligand design in nanocrystal synthesis and catalysis at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) . This PhD project focuses on making ligand identity a continuous, model-driven design variable inside closed-loop autonomous experimentation . The work combines high-throughput synthesis and optical characterization of cesium lead halide perovskite nanocrystals , DFT-based ligand libraries , surrogate models, and a Bayesian optimizer for self-driving lab wor...

PRISM (PhD Research Programme for International Training in Sustainable Soft Matter) at Paris Sciences & Lettres (PSL) University is offering a fully funded PhD fellowship in theoretical chemistry for the project MICADO: Microdroplet catalysis of CO2-amine C-N bond formation, from machine learning-based simulations to predictive control . The position starts on 1 March 2027 and is hosted at ENS - PSL / Laboratoire de Chimie Physique et Chimie du Vivant (CPCV) in Paris, France. The project sits a...

PhD opportunity at The University of Queensland in the School of Chemical Engineering, focused on engineering next-generation nanocatalysts for solar-driven production of methanol . The project targets the conversion of CO2 and CO from industrial emissions and by-products into methanol and related fuels via a photothermal pathway . Research will involve nanomaterials synthesis , catalyst design, and advanced characterisation to build robust structure–activity relationships. Students will gain ha...