CDT in Sustainable Chemistry

Applications are invited from suitably qualified graduates for a fully funded 4-year PhD studentship in the area of Sustainable Chemistry.

We are looking to recruit students interested in a wide range of research areas within the fields of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Biosciences and Synthetic Biology to the following thematic research areas:

• Synthesis (efficient and safer routes to pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals and polymers)
• Catalysis (metal, organic and enzymatic catalysis, high rates and selectivities)
• Energy (batteries, fuel cells, organic photovoltaic and thermoelectric materials)
• Fundamentals (kinetics and mechanisms, spectroscopy and modelling)
• Manufacturing (additives and 3D printing, life-cycle analysis, cyclic manufacture)
• Computational (data extraction, machine learning, maths in medicine)
• Process engineering (reactor design, Supercritical fluids, microwave processing)
• Food Science (biopolymers, polysaccharides, genomic analysis)
• Biotechnology (biovalorisation, synthetic biology, platform chemicals)

Benefits

• A comprehensive student-centred professional skills training programme
• Integral involvement of industry and other relevant organisations in training and research
• Access to our world-class experts and research facilities
• Opportunity to design and develop own research project
• Competitive stipend, consumables and conference budget
• Fully funded external placement
• Being a part of a multidisciplinary cohort of students