Ofertes de treball ICRA

• Job location:  ICRA – Catalan Institute for Water Research, Girona, Spain
• Position: 2 Full Time PhD Student Positions
• Expected start date: May-June 2016
• The position up to for 3 years
• Temporal position
• Gross salary package: 15.000 €

Project Description:

The Catalan Institute for Water Research (ICRA), based in Girona (Spain), is offering 2 PhD Student Positions in the Area of Technologies and Evaluation within the framework of a recently awarded project “Smart decentralised water management through a dynamic integration of technologies, WATINTECH” from the JPI Water - WATERWORKS 2014 EU call. The project is focused on solutions for Water Smart Cities and explores novel sewer mining technologies with urban run-off treatment in decentralised facilities to enhance the local recovery of valuable resources including water, methane and value-added chemicals, either extracting or producing them from the fluxes inside a sewage pipe, in addition to harvesting stormwater. The project is composed by 5 different international research and industry organizations. The project is coordinated by Prof Ignasi Rodríguez-Roda, from the Technologies and Evaluation research area of ICRA.

The topics of the PhDs will be:

• Decentralised energy recovery from sewage.
• Producing Value-added products from sewage to control sewer corrosion.

Both PhDs will include intensive experimental work at lab-scale facilities, data analysis and elaboration of scientific reports/publications with the results obtained.

Key Responsibilities:

• Set-up and operation of experimental lab-scale reactors for the project tasks.
• Design and execution of well control experiments.
• Sample analysis.
• Data analysis and compilation in scientific reports and publications.

REQUERIMENTS

Studies:

The applicant should have a degree in chemical engineering, environmental engineering, chemistry or related degrees with a good track record. Also a MSc in Water treatment/technologies or related areas is required. The candidates will enrol to the PhD program offered by the University of Girona.

Furthermore applicants should:

• Provide good marks.
• Documented interest in experimental research like activities (e.g. demonstrated in the form of master thesis work) is of large importance.
• Demonstrate an interest in connecting knowledge of multiple disciplines as the PhD projects will we embedded in a wider context that includes aspects of engineering, microbiology, electrochemistry, and wastewater.

• Be flexible to move to other research labs during the duration of the PhD

Languages:

The candidates should have English proficiency. Spanish/Catalan fluency will be also positively evaluated.

Competences:

• Ability to work in a multidisciplinary environment with high level of communication.
• Good communication skills

DOCUMENTACION SUBMITTED

• Applicants must send full application consisting of Curriculum Vitae (including academic marks), a motivation letter (400 words max.) and the contact details for at least 2 academic referees that might be contacted for recommendation.

• If the candidate can’t prove a good level of English through an official certificate, part of the interview will be in English.

• The deadline to submit documentation to this call is 08th May 2016, and candidates should send the required documents to ICRA address call@icra.cat indicating ref. PhD_WATINTECH.