We want to empower the next generation of scientists and entrepreneurs with a multidisciplinary training in the field of single-entity nanoelectrochemistry (SENTINEL). We have received funding from the European Commission under the Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions for 15 fully funded PhD fellowships based at several institutions in Europe. The scientific training will be complemented with comprehensive training on science communication, effective public engagement, creative thinking, entrepreneurship and project management .
The EU has put nanotechnology at the top of its scientific agenda as a key enabling technology with huge potential for addressing societal challenges including energy supply and health care, which SENTINEL will help to achieve. The overarching objective of the SENTINEL program is to join together leading teams from across Europe, with global partners in industry (SMEs and multinationals) and the academic sector in the USA and China, to train a new generation of scientists who have the skills to tackle electrochemistry at individual entities such nanoparticles (metal, semiconducting, soft matter), living cells at the nanoscale, as well as single redox-active (macro)molecules. The study of systems at the “single entity” level is a hugely important emerging area of electrochemistry, which is inter/multidisciplinary and intersectoral.
Desired skills and experience
- Diploma and/or Masters Degree in Engineering, Chemistry or Biochemistry, Physics or Biology
- Less than 4 year’s research experience.
- Excellent spoken and written English and good communication skills.
- Candidates must not already have a PhD
- Candidates must not have lived in or carried out their main activity (work or study) in the hosting country for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to their recruitment start date.
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15 PhD Positions, University of Leeds, UK (2019)