PhD in Materials Science: Friedrich Schiller University 727 views

The Otto Schott Institute for Materials Research, Chair of Materials Science at the Faculty of Physics and Astronomy of Friedrich Schiller University has one open PhD position (m/f/d) for 30 hours/week.

Study area:

• Creation and understanding of protein nanofibers and protein nanofiber based scaffolds

Qualifications

• A recently obtained university degree (MSc or diploma) in materials science (preferred), or experimental polymer physics or physical/organic chemistry or biochemistry with excellent study results
• Research experience in one or more of the following fields: Materials science, Biomaterials, Proteins and/or biopolymers, Tissue regeneration
• Research experience in the field of materials fabrication (protein based materials, biomaterials, scaffolds, polymers, polymers, hydrogels) and materials characterization (AFM, DLS etc.)
• Excellent oral and written English and/or German language skills
• Communication and didactic skills

Tasks and responsibilities:

• Fabrication/synthesis of protein nanofibers
• Creation, characterization and understanding (structure-property relationships) of degradable protein nanofiber based scaffolds
• Development of new, groundbreaking materials concepts
• Participation in the preparation of applications for third-party funding and in project management

Duration: initially for 2 years (part time, 75%).

Applications:

Applications with complete application documents (motivation letter, CV, list of publications, summary of research experience, date of availability, as well as the names of three references) to be submitted electronically in one PDF document to  k.jandt@uni-jena.de  (quoting the registration number 179/2019).