Last Date: 04/11/2024.
JOB DESCRIPTION
Are you a highly competent, ambitious, and hard-working young scientist wanting to excel in the exciting field of gas fermentation in one of the best foundations and collaboration schemes to accomplish this? Then this advertisement is for you.
At DTU Chemical Engineering a PhD position is available in the frame of a research project funded by the Novo Nordisk foundation. The project addresses the main bottlenecks of gas fermentation technology, and it is within our ambitions that we overcome these through the design of a revolutionary, novel reactor type.
Responsibilities and tasks
Your overall focus will be to contribute to strengthen the department’s competences within gas fermentation technology. You will work with nearby colleagues and academic partners in Denmark as well as abroad. Your primary tasks will be to:
- Setting-up gas fermentation and bioelectrochemical conversion systems.
- Cultivating and enriching mixed microbial consortia on carbon dioxide.
- Investigating electron flow to final metabolic products under different operating conditions.
- Developing and testing new bioreactor configuration for carbon dioxide biological conversion.
- Modelling carbon dioxide fermentation.
- Contribute as teaching assistant to BSc and MSc courses and co-supervising BSc and MSc student projects.
Qualifications
In accordance with the abovementioned, you should have qualifications within several of the following areas:
- Handling of pure and mixed microbial cultures under anaerobic conditions.
- Operating bioreactors in batch and/or continuous mode with suspended and/or attached growth (biofilm).
- Experience in gas fermentation.
- Experience in modeling biological processes.
- Experience in use of process simulation tools such as Matlab, Aquasim, Superpro Designer or similar.
Expertise within fermentation technology and/or gas fermentation should be documented with the Master/Bachelor thesis and/or relevant publications in international journals.
The project and co-supervision of the PhD student will be in close collaboration with personnel enrolled at DTU Chemical Engineering. Availability for a highly active period, openness, and willingness for a fruitful collaboration is a prerequisite. Also, you should be available to start the PhD project on the 15 August 2024.
You must have a two-year master’s degree (120 ECTS points) or a similar degree with an academic level equivalent to a two-year master’s degree.
Approval and Enrolment
The scholarship for the PhD degree is subject to academic approval, and the candidate will be enrolled in one of the general degree programmes at DTU. For information about our enrolment requirements and the general planning of the PhD study programme, please see DTU’s rules for the PhD education.
Assessment
The assessment of the applicants will be made by an evaluation committee headed by Associate Professor Hariklia Gavala.
We offer
DTU is a leading technical university globally recognized for the excellence of its research, education, innovation and scientific advice. We offer a rewarding and challenging job in an international environment. We strive for academic excellence in an environment characterized by collegial respect and academic freedom tempered by responsibility.
Salary and appointment terms
The appointment will be based on the collective agreement with the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations. The allowance will be agreed upon with the relevant union.
The period of employment is 3 years. Starting date is the 15 August 2024. The employment is for a full-time position.
You can read more about career paths at DTU here.
Further information
Further information may be obtained from Associate Professor Hariklia Gavala, [email protected].
You can read more about DTU Chemical Engineering at www.kt.dtu.dk.
If you are applying from abroad, you may find useful information on working in Denmark and at DTU at DTU – Moving to Denmark. Furthermore, you have the option of joining our monthly free seminar “PhD relocation to Denmark and startup “Zoom” seminar” for all questions regarding the practical matters of moving to Denmark and working as a PhD at DTU.
Application procedure
Your complete online application must be submitted no later than 10 April 2024 (23:59 Danish time). Applications must be submitted as one PDF file containing all materials to be given consideration. To apply, please open the link “Apply now”, fill out the online application form, and attach all your materials in English in one PDF file. The file must include:
- A letter motivating the application (cover letter)
- Curriculum vitae
- Grade transcripts and BSc/MSc diploma (in English) including official description of grading scale
Non-complete applications will not be further evaluated; therefore, make sure that all abovementioned documents are included as one pdf file in your application.
You may apply prior to obtaining your master’s degree but cannot begin before having received it.
Applications received after the deadline will not be considered.
All interested candidates irrespective of age, gender, race, disability, religion or ethnic background are encouraged to apply.
