Three PostDocs or Scientists at Empa in Switzerland

In line with Empa’s mission, the Technology and Society Laboratory (TSL) creates and transfers knowledge to support the transformation to a more sustainability society. In particular, TSL analyses novel materials and emerging technology applications with a focus on associated material and energy stocks and flows, and evaluates them with regard to both natural environment and societal constraints.

Three PostDocs or Scientists responsible for advancing the SSbD framework.

Within TSL, the Advancing Life Cycle Assessment Group (ALCA) and the Environmental Risk Assessment and Management Group (ERAM) are looking for three Postdocs or Scientists.

Two positions are related to the HORIZON Europe project 'Safe and sustainable by design: integrated approaches for Impact assessment of advanced materials' (SUNRISE). SUNRISE has the aim to develop an overarching Integrated Impact Assessment Framework to support SSbD decision making along all lifecycle stages and value chains of advanced materials and products. The first of the two positions will be about developing material flow and release models for advanced materials at different stages of the innovation, while the second position will focus on developing (quantitative) life cycle (impact) assessment approaches for advanced materials at different stages of the innovation.

The third position is related to the HORIZON Europe project 'Provision of Integrated Computational Approaches Addressing New Markets Goals for the Introduction of Safe-and-Sustainable-by-Design Chemicals and Material' (PINK). The aim of PINK is to provide an innovative modelling software and integrated workflows for the development of Advanced Materials and Chemicals, implementing the SSbD Framework as an industry-ready open innovation platform. In this context, the third position will be about developing exploratory and prospective LCA approaches within step 4 of the SSbD framework and applying them to two case studies.