PhD and Postdoc Positions in Material Characterization in China

This 16-month postdoctoral project focuses on improving the circularity of polyolefin-containing plastic waste through reactive processing and the development of a new generation of grafting agents. The work is hosted at the C3M laboratory of the Ecole supérieure de physique et de chimie industrielles de la Ville de Paris in collaboration with the industrial high-throughput screening partner Xplore s.r.l. near Naples, Italy. The research combines organic synthesis, high-throughput experimentatio...

This postdoctoral position is based at the Centre Science des Matériaux et des Structures (SMS) , within the Laboratoire Georges Friedel , a joint research unit with the CNRS at the Ecole nationale supérieure des mines de Saint-Etienne . The researcher will join a materials science environment focused on the relationships between processing, microstructure, and properties, with access to advanced preparation and characterization tools and a multi-scale materials-by-design approach. The project, ...

The Department of Chemistry at Colorado School of Mines is recruiting a postdoctoral fellow to join a research program on next-generation materials for perovskite solar cells. The project is centered on designing and synthesizing novel materials for solar energy applications, then incorporating those materials into perovskite solar cell devices and evaluating their performance. The fellow will work across materials discovery, device fabrication, and advanced characterization, contributing to stu...

[Annual stipend at the UKRI minimum rate currently £21,805 per year plus £1,000 per annum enhancement, and a research training support grant of up to £20,000 for the full 4-year programme.] This PhD studentship at The University of Manchester develops a new class of additively manufactured metallic acoustic metamaterials for shaping and amplifying sounds that matter for human communication. The project is designed around a human-informed inverse-design framework , where information about ear-can...

Oak Ridge National Laboratory is seeking two Postdoctoral Research Associates in the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences to advance next-generation electron microscopy and spectroscopy for quantum materials. The work will examine connections between material structure, electronic behavior, and collective excitations. The researchers will develop and apply momentum-resolved electron energy-loss spectroscopy (qEELS), contributing to instrument development, commissioning, experimental measureme...

Argonne National Laboratory is seeking a postdoctoral researcher in the Nanocomposite Materials and Membrane Manufacturing group within the Applied Materials Division. The project focuses on advanced materials and membrane technologies for water treatment and critical mineral recovery. The researcher will develop element-selective sorbents and polymer membranes using chemical reaction and solution-based synthesis. Work will include designing material compositions and microstructures to achieve t...

This PhD project at the Technical University of Denmark focuses on the processing and modification of renewable polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) materials through reactive extrusion. The student will work on developing next-generation PHA compounds by combining advanced polymer processing, formulation design, and reactive processing routes. The project is centered on understanding and improving how PHA formulations behave during extrusion-based processing, with an emphasis on the links between formula...

This URA-Sandia Graduate Student Summer Fellowship offers a 12-week summer research experience at Sandia National Laboratories, with the project primarily centered on Materials Science . Fellows will work within Sandia’s Research Foundations and may be placed in research areas that align with the laboratory’s broader STEM portfolio, including bioscience, computing and information science, engineering science, earth science, nanodevices and microsystems, and radiation/electrical/high energy densi...

This PhD project at DTU Energy , Technical University of Denmark, focuses on one of the central durability challenges in green hydrogen production: understanding how solid oxide electrolysis cells (SOECs) degrade and how some of that degradation can be reversed during reversible operation. The student will use operando transmission electron microscopy to observe a miniaturised SOEC while it operates under gas atmospheres and temperatures up to 900 °C. The goal is to watch nanoscale changes as el...