Postdoctoral Fellowship in Water Quality and Treatment from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden

The Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden is offering a two-year, full-time Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in water quality and treatment.

The research will be carried out within the division Water Environment Technology (WET), dept. of Architecture and Civil Engineering at Chalmers. In this project, you will work with experts on DOM characterization, chemometrics, and drinking water and wastewater treatment. You will be surrounded by numerous ongoing projects related to environmental assessment, water treatment, and resource recovery. Collaborators in this project work at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and at Lund University. The project will also connect to the Swedish Center for drinking water research (DRICKS). The applicant may be invited to teach up to a maximum of 10 % FTE.

In this project, you will work to analytically and mathematically resolve the complex signals from DOM in order to expose hidden data from low-concentration organic constituents. The sample matrices will include drinking water and wastewater. Experiments will be performed in the lab to assess DOM and micropollutant removal during biological and chemical water treatment.

• You need to hold a doctoral degree in one of the following fields, or in a field that is closely related: analytical chemistry/ aquatic chemistry/ chemical ecology / environmental engineering.
• Your Ph.D. degree should not be older than six years excluding allowable absences (parental and sick leave).
• You are energetic and organized and communicate proficiently in written and spoken English.
• You have a quantitative approach to data analysis with solid statistical and programming skills.
• You have laboratory experience especially in analytical methods for water quality analysis.

Major Responsibilities:

Your duties will include:

• literature review.
• planning and implementing experiments in the laboratory.
• implementing data analyses under the oversight of subject experts.
• managing and archiving datasets arising from the project.
• co-supervising junior staff, potentially including Ph.D. and Masters’ students.
• communicating interim results to team members on regular basis.
• scientific writing for journal publications and presenting results at scientific meetings/conferences.
• The above activities will be performed in close collaboration, and regular communication, with team members.

About Chalmers University of Technology:

The Chalmers University of Technology conducts research and offers education in technology, science, shipping, and architecture with a sustainable future as its global vision. Chalmers is well-known for providing an effective environment for innovation and has 13 departments. Graphene Flagship, an FET Flagship initiative by the European Commission, is coordinated by Chalmers. Situated in Gothenburg, Sweden, Chalmers has 10,300 full-time students and 3,100 employees.

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