CDT Studentship in Environmental fate of priority contaminants (with CSIRO)

Imperial College London and CSIRO Land and Water Flagship (Australia) are seeking a high performing Chemical or Engineering Science graduate to undertake research towards a PhD. The proposed project will investigate the environmental fate and behaviour of emerging organic contaminants of high priority as human health or environmental hazards. In particular, the PhD will focus on developing a fundamental understanding of the occurrence, concentrations and degradation pathways of selected organic compounds. Typical redox & chemical conditions in soils, groundwater and biological matrices under which the parent compounds persists and transform will be investigated and a comparison with similar chemical compounds will be determined. This pioneering research work will utilise the recently purchased “Water Synapt GSi-2 Q-TOF MS” instrumentation, funded by UK NERC and based in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Imperial College. The scholarship will involve travel to Australia to work with researchers at CSIRO and the project will be framed to accommodate joint efforts at the two institutions.