PhD position in Oslo, Norway

The desired starting date is August 11th, 2014. Application deadline: April 30th, 2014.

Job description:

The fellowships are based in the Catalysis Research Group and associated with the Center for Materials Science and Nanotechnology (SMN), and the inGAP (Innovative Natural Gas Processes and Products) center for research based innovation, established by the Research Council of Norway.

The vision of SMN is to contribute to the increase of Norway's production through research on materials science and nanotechnology on functional materials, and ensure a level of quality that ensures the recognition of SMN as a leading center amongst the Nordic countries, as well as internationally, within selected fields. The objective of inGAP is value creation in natural gas processes through rational design of processes and products based on atomistic and mechanistic insight in catalyst and reactor parameters under operative conditions. Employment at inGAP center will allow the successful candidate the opportunity to work in a highly cross-disciplinary field in an internationally competitive research group with a high degree of international collaboration.

The positions are elements in on-going, larger efforts related to the energy challenges of the late and post fossil fuels society. More specifically, the projects are related to the synthesis and characterization of nanostructured microporous solid catalysts such as zeolites and spectroscopic and mechanistic investigations of acid catalyzed heterogeneous catalytic processes facilitated by such materials.

Research in the Catalysis Research Group comprises extensive international collaboration, and research visits to partners in Europe is an integrated part of PhD training and research activities.

Requirements:

PLEASE NOTE:

    At least 1.5 years of the total 3 years is required to be spent with industrial partner Haldor Topsøe A/S.
    Due to requirements of the ITN-EID program, at the time of employment at UiO, candidates must not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc) in Norway for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to the reference date. Compulsory national service and/or short stays such as holidays are not taken into account.
    Indicate clearly which of the two positions you apply for.



Applicants must hold a Master's degree or equivalent in materials science, chemistry, physics, or chemical engineering.

The candidate will perform quantum chemical and/or molecular mechanical modeling of solid, porous materials such as zeolite catalysts. Investigations of fundamental materials properties such as defects and as well as catalytic reactions occurring on the catalyst surface are both relevant. The candidate will perform periodic calculations and/or employ extended cluster methods using state of the art computational codes running on the national computing facilities.

Application deadline is April, 30. 2014.

See http://uio.easycruit.com/vacancy/1122329/64294?iso=no for further info.

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