PhD Position: Synthetic Organic Chemistry 995 views

The Department of Life Sciences & Chemistry at Jacobs University is inviting applications within a funded project in Synthetic Organic Chemistry.

Qualifications:

• Applicant must hold MSc. degree in organic chemistry and two or more years of industrial experience synthesizing organic compounds.
• Know how to set up reactions, monitor them, quench them, and purify the products. Within that framework you know how to optimize reactions.
• Applicant must have very good knowledge of 1H and 13C NMR spectroscopy and good knowledge of IR and MS data interpretation for structure elucidation.
• Applicant must have experience with writing experimental descriptions and can express spectral and HPLC data in a text format.
• Applicant’s curiosity for organic chemistry should be high and you want to expand your theoretical and mechanistic knowledge.

Applications:

• Application to be sent via email to Prof. Dr. Thomas Nugent (t.nugent@jacobs-university.de) and application must include:
• Letter of motivation
• CV (including: obtained degrees with dates and the university that granted the degree and a list of your publications)
• Contact information for 2-3 references