TUSAIL - 15 PhD positions in modelling of industrial particle systems

The European Training Network TUSAIL (Training in Upscaling particle Systems: Advancing Industry across Length-scales) invites applications for 15 PhD positions. The duration of the appointment is 36 months, full-time employment contract.

TUSAIL is an EU/ Horizon 2020 Initial Training Network which comprises 16 academic and industrial partners, led by the University of Edinburgh. It will train 15 early-career researchers to meet industry’s requirements for highly skilled staff in the multi-disciplinary field of upscaling industrial particle processes. The reliable, validated simulation methodologies and tools developed in TUSAIL will be disseminated to industry, enabling quantitative predictions of large industrial processes which will be of value for design, operation, and optimisation.

We are now recruiting researchers for the following 15 specific PhD projects which will begin around September 2021. If you are interested in doing a PhD with us, we invite you to take a look at the project descriptions and application procedure.

List of available PhD / ESR positions:

• ESR 1: DEM–CFD and PBM for dynamic process simulation of fluidized bed agglomeration – Hamburg University of Technology (Germany) and Process Systems Enterprise (UK)
• ESR 2: Multiscale models for reconstitution of compacted powders – Hamburg University of Technology (Germany) and Société des Produits Nestlé S.A. (Switzerland)
• ESR 3: CFD–DEM and PBM simulation of fluidized bed opposed jet mills for particle micronization – Technical University of Braunschweig (Germany) and DCS Computing (Austria)
• ESR 4: Mechanistic and predictive population balance models for particle comminution size reduction mills – Technical University of Braunschweig (Germany) and Société des Produits Nestlé S.A. (Switzerland)
• ESR 5: Multi-scale modelling of particle agglomeration through sintering – University of Edinburgh (UK) and Johnson Matthey (UK)
• ESR 6: Meso-scale particles for quantitative prediction of powder transfer by pneumatic conveying – University of Edinburgh (UK) and Procter & Gamble Technical Centres Ltd (UK)
• ESR 7: Meso-scale description of wet powders for industrial-scale modelling – University of Twente (Netherlands)
• ESR 8: DEM and CFD–DEM meso-particle modelling of mixing processes –University of Twente (Netherlands) and DCS Computing (Austria)
• ESR 9: Meso-scale DEM for flowability assessment of weakly consolidated fine powders in industry – University of Salerno (Italy) and University of Edinburgh (UK)
• ESR 10: DEM (meso-)particle property calibration with powder rheometry and other flow characterization techniques – University of Salerno (Italy) and University of Twente (Netherlands)
• ESR 11: Mixed discrete–continuum modelling of dense granular flow – University of Edinburgh (UK)
• ESR 12: Continuum–DEM modelling of fluid–solid transition in weakly compacted systems of polydisperse particles of varying shapes – University of Twente (Netherlands) and Procter & Gamble Technical Centres Ltd (UK)
• ESR 13: Fundamental development of structure- and rotation-related coarse graining for micro-polar continuum theories – University of Twente (Netherlands) and University of Edinburgh (UK)
• ESR 14: Discrete particle zoom in continuum Two Fluid Model (TFM) simulations of spout fluidized beds – Johannes Kepler University Linz (Austria)
• ESR 15: Time-extrapolation of continuum Two Fluid Model (TFM) simulations of spout fluidized beds – Johannes Kepler University Linz (Austria) and Hamburg University of Technology (Germany)