NOWELTIES: 14 Early Stage Researchers (PhD) positions 1763 views

NOWELTIES: Joint PhD Laboratory for New Materials and Inventive Water Treatment Technologies is inviting applications for 14 post-graduate researchers (Early Stage Researchers – ESR).   The project is funded by Marie Sklodowska Curie Action European Joint Doctorate (EJD) project (programme Innovative Training Networks (ITN) of Horizon 2020). Candidates should have a strong interest in (waste) water treatment and interdisciplinary research including bioprocesses for wastewater treatment, nanotechnology, and fate of organic and inorganic contaminants in engineered treatment systems.

Research areas:

• Chemistry
• Chemical Engineering
• Environmental Engineering
• Hydrogeological Engineering
• Materials Engineering
• Biotechnology
• Physics

Duration: 3 years

Starting date: September 1st, 2019

Eligibility:

• Candidates from all over the world may apply
• Mobility: at the time of the recruitment, the researcher must not have resided or carried out his/her main activity (work, studies, etc.), in the country of the chosen host institution (recruiting beneficiary) for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to the date of the recruitment.
• Research category of Early Stage Researcher (ESR): researchers who, at the time of the recruitment, have not yet been awarded a doctorate degree and are in the first 4 years (full-time equivalent) of their research careers, including the research training period that would entitle them to a doctorate.

How to apply

Applicants to send full application to nowelties@icra.cat indicating ref. “NOWELTIES” in the subject of the email consisting of:

• CV (Europass format recommended; Please specify your residence/work place in the last 3 years).
• University transcripts (grades)
• A statement letter addressing his/her research interests in relationship to the selected individual research project.
• Applicants should indicate two individual research projects in order of preference (1st and 2nd choice)
• 2 recommendation letters

Available projects with Host Intuition:

Position 1: Understanding biotransformation mechanisms of OMPs during anoxic biological wastewater treatment

University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Position 2: Studying the bioavailability and biodegradability of OMPs during treatment

RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Position 3: Coupling the new concept of sequential biofiltration with in situ electron acceptor delivery for enhanced OMP removal and effective attenuation of disinfection by-product precursors

Technical University of Munich, Germany

Position 4: Design, development and characterization of atmospheric plasma system for wastewater treatment

Institute of Physics, Belgrade, Serbia

Position 5: Understanding transformation of OMPs during plasma treatment and its ecotoxicological implications

Catalan Institute for Water Research, Girona, Spain

Position 6: Application of UV LEDs AOPs for the efficient removal of OMPs  from waste water

Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Zagreb, Croatia

Position 7: Surface modification and functionalisation of adsorbent materials

Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy, Belgrade, Serbia

Position 8: A green microwave – assisted synthesis of Au/TiO2/graphene oxide nano-hybrids for visible light-induced photocatalysis

Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, Zagreb, Croatia

Position 9: Removal of OMPs by nanophotocatalysts and nanobiocatalysts immobilized into magnetic supports

University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Position 10: Novel TiO2-based composite co-catalysts for solar driven water purification

Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Zagreb, Croatia

Position 11: Studying the enhancement of the removal of OMPs from wastewater by adding powder activated carbon in an MBR

University of Ferrara, Italy

Position 12: Design of hybrid nano-engineered reductive bioprocesses for wastewater treatment and biogas generation

Catalan Institute for Water Research, Girona, Spain

Position 13: Development of hybrid treatment system by integrating nanocatalyst and adsorptive composites in situ in sequential biofiltration systems

Technical University of Munich, Germany

Position 14: Hybrid ozone-ceramic membrane process: increasing hydroxyl radical yield and OMP reduction while reducing membrane fouling

Catalan Institute for Water Research, Girona, Spain