西班牙萨拉戈萨大学招聘材料科学博士后

Two exciting R&D job opportunities are available in the context of the ERC Advanced Grant HECTOR, entitled “"MICROWAVE-ASSISTED MICRO-REACTORS: DEVELOPMENT OF A HIGHLY EFFICIENT GAS PHASE CONTACTOR WITH DIRECT CATALYST HEATING".

 

Project description: HECTOR aims to create microwave-absorbing sites in heterogeneous catalytic micro-reactors to enable efficient gas phase catalytic processing at comparatively lower bulk gas phase temperatures.

 

Research center:

 

The Nanoscience Institute of Aragon (http://ina.unizar.es) is committed to performing excellent research on the fundamental and applied aspects of Nanoscience. It offers a highly interdisciplinary research environment, with state of the art synthesis and characterization instruments.

 

Research profiles sought

 

Postdoctoral position 1.

 

The successful candidate will have a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Physics or Materials Science, and previous experience in one or more of the following fields:

 

- Synthesis and characterization of microwave-sensitive materials.

 

- Synthesis and characterization of metal nanoparticles and films

 

- Design and operation of gas phase catalytic micro-reactors

 

- Micro-fabrication techniques for micro-reactor design

 

Postdoctoral position 2.

 

The successful candidate will have a Ph.D. in Physics, Chemical Engineering or Materials Science, and previous experience in one or more of the following fields:

 

- Microwave heating of inorganic materials

 

- Heat transfer dynamics in reaction systems and/or microsystems,

 

- Mathematical modelling of the heating of microsystems

 

Conditions

 

- 2 year initial contract with the possibility of extension for a further 2 years.

 

- Salary, social security, etc. according to Spanish university standards

 

- Positions available on March 1st 2011.

 

Application:

 

Interested applicants should send CV, cover letter and reference letter(s) in a single pdf document to:

 

Prof. Jesus Santamaria (Jesus.Santamaria@unizar.es) before the 15th of May 2011.