Four (4) PhD Scholarships in Green Chemistry, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland (2015)

Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) is an agile, international science university – a pioneer in combining technology and business ever since 1969. Our strategic focus areas are green energy and technology, sustainable value creation and our role as an international hub of Russian relations. LUT’s operation is solution-focused and characterized by ”open your mind” thinking: crossing boundaries open-mindedly, together.

LUT´s Laboratory of Green Chemistry is focused on minimizing the hazard and maximizing the efficiency of any chemical choice. One approach is also to find new solutions to prevent and decrease environmental pollution.

The Laboratory is located in Mikkeli, Finland and Head of the Laboratory is Prof. Mika Sillanpää. In the past, the laboratory has specialized in water analysis and water, wastewater and soil purification techniques in following research areas:

- Adsorption
- Advanced oxidation processes (AOPs)
- Analytics and online monitoring
- Electrochemical technologies and electrokinetics.

We now have four (4) Doctoral Student positions available.

Doctoral students will be working in research projects where ion mobility spectrometry will be used for determining pollutants from water, electrochemical sludge treatment and utilization of waste for production of biofuels and water purifications materials/adsorbents.

A Doctoral Student should have MSc or MSc (Eng.) degrees (either in chemical engineering or chemistry is considered as an advantage), the ability to complete the doctoral degree in the target time and a postgraduate study and research plan which are approved at the beginning of the employment relationship (for the person appointed). In addition, the Doctoral Student has to get the postgraduate study right in Lappeenranta University of Technology at least within the one year of the beginning of the employment relationship.

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