Postdoctoral fellow - Department of Green Chemistry and Technology

OPPORTUNITY DETAILS

Total reward

0 $

State University

Ghent University

Area

Western Europe

Host Country

Belgium

Deadline

05 Mar 2021

Study level

Doctoral Degree

Opportunity type

Post-doctoral

Specialities

Agricultural Science , Engineering , Biology

Opportunity funding

Not funding

Eligible Countries

This opportunity is destined for all countries

Eligible Region

All Regions

Last application date Mar 05, 2021 12:00

Department LA24 - Department of Green Chemistry and Technology

Contract Limited duration

Degree a relevant PhD degree in biobased sciences and/or bio-engineering

Occupancy rate 100%

Vacancy type Research staff

Introduction

Ghent University (Belgium) is internationally one of the leading institutes in resource recovery and renewable resources. It is home to the BioRefine Cluster Europe (www.biorefine.eu), a network of international research and development projects with dedicated focus of guiding innovation towards applied market implementation.

Our research group at UGent consists out of 40 enthusiastic researchers. We are currently actively involved in 15 running European projects, several of which as lead partner. For fluent organisation of the management and execution of the research, the team currently relies on a management structure consisting postdocs and other supporting functions. In order to support the growing activities we enjoy in frame of circular economy research, we are looking to expand our R&D management structure.

Job description

We are looking for a dynamic postdoc / postdocs with management skills to support our growing team and management group on Bioresource Recovery. More specifically, we are looking for someone with hands-on experience in EU projects – ideally including managerial tasks in such projects.

In particular, we are looking for someone to take a proactive approach to the project management of the running H2020 NUTRI2CYCLE (www.nutri2cycle.eu) which we are leading as well as support the management of other H2020 projects that we are involved in (such as H2020-BIONANOPOLYS (https://particula-group.com/horizon-2020-project-bionanopolys/).

Job profile

We offer

How to apply

Send the following documents to: sylvie.dewerte@ugent.be and erik.meers@ugent.be before Friday March 5, 17h (Central European Time) (put „BIORESOURCE-POSTDOC“ in the email title).

Selected candidates will be invited for an interview in the course of February with foreseen to start at the earliest convenience thereafter (based on candidate availability, but as soon as possible from our perspective).