Ofertas de trabajo ICRA

The postdoctoral fellow will work in the scope of the “Triceratops” project: http://www.psa.es/es/projects/triceratops/index.php. “Efficient technologies for the abatement of contaminants of emerging concern” (1.1.2016-31.12.2018).

This project is co-ordinated by Plataforma Solar de Almería (Dr Sixto Malato) with three Spanish partners including ICRA. The sub-project of ICRA is led by ICREA research professor Wolfgang Gernjak, who will also be the supervisor of this position (https://www.icrea.cat/Web/ScientificStaff/wolfgang-gernjak-216204).

CHARACTERISTICS OF THE JOB

• Job location:  ICRA – Catalan Institute for Water Research, Girona, Spain

• Position: PostDoctoral Researcher

• Expected start: Between October 1^st and November 1^st, 2016. Justified exceptions for a later start due to personal circumstances may be considered.

• Duration: 24 months

• Temporal position

• Gross salary package: 24.000 € / Year

The post-doctoral fellow will conduct her/ his work in collaboration and with hopefully vivid scientific exchange in a young and dynamic team at ICRA.

The key objectives of ICRA in this project and hence also of the scientific work of the postdoctoral fellow are:

• Study of UV/H2O2 and UV/H2O2/Cl2 in the presence and absence of small amounts of dissolved iron.

• Investigate the influence of illumination wavelength with the view of designing UV LED driven photochemical applications.

• Study the impact of the presence of phenolic and quinone moieties as electron shuttles in iron redox cycles.

• Integration of nanofiltration and AOPs, and more specifically,  study of the impact of pre-oxidation on fouling propensity and the application of polishing post-treatment.

• Characterization of dissolved organic matter and phenolic waste products, including e.g. fluorescence spectroscopy, gel permeation chromatography and electrochemical methods.

• Investigate water quality aspects including contaminants of emerging concern, disinfection by-products and dissolved organic matter with the view of understanding treatment performance.

Key Responsibilities:

• Conduct experiments to pursue the above-mentioned objectives.

• Interpret the obtained results

• Edit scientific publications to be submitted to leading scientific journals in the field of research

• As with all PhD students and postdoctoral fellows a small proportion of the time will be allocated to communal services such as joint laboratory cleanings etc.

REQUIREMENTS

Studies:

A completed PhD degree. Acknowledging that depending on the country of study considerable time may pass from submitting the thesis to being awarded the degree, a submitted thesis at the time of interview may be considered as satisfactory.

Languages:

A high level of written and ideally also spoken English are required.

Knowledge of Spanish and/or Catalan will be taken favourably into account.

Competences:

Any of the following past research experiences will be judged favourably in the selection process:

• Advanced Oxidation Processes, including e.g the use of collimated beam apparatus

• Electrochemistry

• Membrane filtration

• Fate of Contaminants of Emerging Concern

• Dissolved organic matter characterization

• Studies of disinfection byproducts and their precursors

• Reaction kinetics modelling

DOCUMENTATION SUBMITTED

• Motivation letter

• CV including work placements, academic education including grades and a short guide to the local grading system, if the applicant is from outside of Spain, and any other aspects considered relevant.

• List of academic publications if any

• List of 3 potential references that can be contacted

The deadline to submit the required documentation is September, 11^th 2016.

Send the required documents to call@icra.cat indicating ref. “PostDoc_TRICERATOPS” in the subject of the email.