An exciting Innovate UK funded PhD studentship is available from January 2023 based in Durham within an EU Horizon Europe project consortium, including partners from Johnson Matthey, VTT (Finland), Valio Oy (Finland), University of Antwerpen, University of Maastricht, and Steinbeis Europa Zentrum.
The project requires an outstanding, ambitious chemist / catalyst scientist under the supervision of Dr. Simon Beaumont at Durham University. The overall CANMILK project is focused on abatement of methane emissions from dairy and meat production that contribute almost 4 % of global GHG’s – an exciting and timely problem to be working on. The technology that can answer to this challenge is based on adsorption and catalysis of methane from cattle barns. The goal of this specific PhD project is to develop and innovate on the use of sorption and catalysis to enable delivery of a low-cost system in conjunction with other partners, which can be tested on a real dairy barn in Finland. We will use a variety of techniques and methodologies to develop an understanding of the performance of the sorbent and catalyst technologies and their tandem operation. The project also includes team members in engineering under the supervision of Dr Andrew Smallbone, with whom the PhD student will be expected to work closely.
Essential qualifications: Candidates should have or expect to obtain a 1st or 2:1 class MChem, MPhys, MSci degree in Chemistry, Physics, Materials Science or Natural Sciences. (Applicants with other qualifications may be considered on an individual basis).
The funding for the 39-month studentship covers the standard UKRI stipend (£17,668 per annum in 22/23) and tuition fees for students with a “home & islands” fees classification (https://www.durham.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/tuition-fees-and-charges/tuition-fees---how-much-are-they/).
Please note the funding is guaranteed by Innovate UK and not dependant on the UKs accession to the Horizon Europe programme.
For further details please see: https://durhamuniversity-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/personal/vmzt89_durham_ac_uk/ESwwd-hhcWJKmanDNvOYpIoBLSiknzi_A4kxNBkVxzY4yA?e=ID0Efx
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