PhD Positions, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands (2018)

The Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS) has a vacancy for PhD candidates for polymer separations.

The UNMATCHED project

To create materials for e.g. the electronics industry (materials for chips, housing, coatings), high-tech manufacturing (materials for solar panels, 3D-printing), medicine (biomedical materials, drug excipients), coatings, etc. increasingly smart chemical strategies are being developed.

The applications of such polymers are also increasingly specific. A major bottleneck for the translation of ever smarter and more-sophisticated chemistries into ever better and more-specific products is the lack of appropriate characterization methods.

To establish better correlations between chemical structure and functional properties of polymeric materials its various distributions need to be measured accurately. This is the purpose of the UNMATCHED project (“Understanding MATerials by Characterizing Essential Distributions”) and will be your main task. AkzoNobel, BASF, DSM and The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) are sponsoring this project.

What do we require of you?
- A recent MSc degree in a field relevant to the project;
- have shown affinity with liquid-phase analytical separations, preferably in the above context;
- ability to function within and contribute to an international research team;
- willingness to collaborate with PhD candidates and Postdoctoral researchers in related research projects and with other research groups within and outside The Netherlands;
- that you possess good communication skills in oral and written English.

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PhD Positions, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands (2018)