PhD Opportunities in Catalysis in Italy

[Competition-funded UoM-Peking dual award scheme; applicants are instructed to enter 'Dual award funding' in the application. Not all advertised projects will offer a place on the programme.] This PhD studentship sits within a dual-award collaboration between The University of Manchester and Peking University and focuses on the chemistry of porous metal-organic framework (MOF) materials for the capture and separation of reactive air pollutants. The project addresses a major environmental challen...

The Department of Chemistry at the Autonomous University of Madrid offers a PhD position in organic synthesis and catalysis . The doctoral researcher will join the doctoral student programme at UAM and work within the group of Prof. Mariola Tortosa . The project focuses on the development of novel asymmetric catalytic transformations using transition metals . This is a research opportunity for a first-stage researcher interested in advanced organic synthesis, catalysis design, and mechanistic or...

This four-year PhD project at the University of Birmingham will investigate synthetic methods for accessing strained chiral heteroatom cages containing boron, nitrogen, silicon and phosphorus. The research will examine the properties of heteroatoms in challenging chemical environments and explore their potential across organic reaction methodology, metal, main-group and organocatalysis, photoluminescence and supramolecular chemistry. The project offers scope to develop new chemical approaches, t...

This four-year PhD project at the University of Birmingham will investigate synthetic methods for accessing strained chiral heteroatoms, including boron, nitrogen, silicon and phosphorus. The research will examine the properties of these heteroatoms in challenging chemical environments. The project has broad potential across organic reaction methodology, metal, main-group and organocatalysis, photoluminescence and supramolecular chemistry. It offers scope to develop new chemical approaches, purs...

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...

This doctoral position is based at Uppsala University’s Department of Physics and Astronomy, in the Ångström laboratory, within the research program for Chemical and Bio-Molecular Physics. The program works on the fundamental properties and ultrafast processes of matter at atomic length and time scales, and develops novel X-ray methods and instrumentation for studying atoms, molecules, and chemical and biomolecular systems. The PhD student will join the division of X-ray Photon Science and work ...

This research opportunity at the DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory focuses on single-atom catalysts designed for methane-to-liquids conversion and related methane upgrading reactions. The selected researcher will work on catalyst preparation, characterization, and testing, with an emphasis on achieving high metal loading and durability. The project involves preparing SAC materials by high-temperature fusing and evaluating them using a range of analytical and structural techniques, including SEM/TE...

The Center for the Transformation of Chemistry (CTC) in Leipzig is a newly founded national research hub in Germany focused on rethinking chemistry for global sustainability challenges. The PhD project sits in the Sofiadis group and is part of a collaborative, mission-driven research environment that brings together chemistry, physics, engineering, data science, and social sciences. This doctorate will focus on the development of sustainable organic photocatalysts for facilitating organic reacti...

The Center for the Transformation of Chemistry (CTC) in Leipzig, Germany, is seeking a PhD candidate to join the Sofiadis group and develop sustainable organic photocatalysts for circular chemistry. The project addresses the limited use of organic photocatalysts in synthetic chemistry and aims to replace heavy-metal-based photocatalytic complexes with more sustainable organic alternatives. The researcher will design new photocatalysts and investigate their reactivity in organic reactions that su...