PhD Candidate within Mass Transfer in Gas Fermentation Bioreactors

In regards to the place

The PhD place is a part of a research-based innovation centre on industrial biotechnology (SFI-IB ) which is constituted by universities, analysis organizations, and trade. This PhD undertaking focuses on gasoline fermentation the place gases with low solubility problem economical and viable large-scale operation of the multiphase bioreactor. To comprehend new viable industrial-scale fermentation processes, the multiphase bioreactor should be designed and operated such that the mass switch between bubbles and liquid is optimized. This undertaking goals to make use of each experimental and computational methods to know the favorable operation window for gasoline fermentation processes. This undertaking is in collaboration with an industrial companion who’s creating a proprietary gasoline fermentation course of to transform waste CO2 emissions into chemical substances. The novel gasoline fermentation course of by the SFI-IB industrial companion is a related case on this PhD undertaking.

For a place as a PhD Candidate, the purpose is a accomplished doctoral training as much as an obtained doctoral diploma. Your quick chief is Prof. Jannike Solsvik.

Duties of the place

The PhD candidate will by means of experimental and theoretical research determine beneficial operational circumstances for the gasoline fermentation processes. The PhD candidate will participate in planning and conducting laboratory experiments and computational analyses. The investigation ought to lead to higher understanding of how numerous parameters influence mass switch between bubbles and liquid, like stress, liquid composition, stream dynamics, rector design and operation. Laboratory gear and computational assets on the Division of Chemical Engineering and SINTEF BTN’s gasoline fermentation laboratory can be used within the undertaking together with enter from the trade companion. The outcomes of the undertaking are anticipated to be printed in scientific journals, at worldwide conferences, and within the PhD thesis. The Phd candidate can even participate in and current at common conferences with the supervising group. The PhD candidate can be a part of the SFI-IB PhD Community and actions throughout the innovation centre.

Required choice standards

• You need to have a professionally related background in Chemical Engineering, Bio-chemical Engineering, Fluid Mechanics, or related.
• Your training should correspond to a five-year Norwegian diploma program, the place 120 credit are obtained at grasp’s degree
• You need to have a robust tutorial background out of your earlier research and a mean grade from the grasp’s diploma program, or equal training, which is the same as B or higher in contrast with NTNU’s grading scale. For those who would not have letter grades from earlier research, you have to have an equally good tutorial foundation. You probably have a weaker grade background, you could be assessed in the event you can doc that you’re notably appropriate for a PhD training.
• You need to meet the necessities for admission to the college’s doctoral program (Chemical Engineering )
• Good written and oral English language abilities.

The appointment is to be made in accordance with Laws on phrases of employment for positions corresponding to postdoctoral fellow, Phd candidate, analysis assistant and specialist candidate  and Laws in regards to the levels of Philosophiae Physician (PhD) and Philosodophiae Physician (PhD) in inventive analysis nationwide pointers for appointment as PhD, publish physician and analysis assistant 

Most well-liked choice standards

A powerful background and expertise with multiphase gas-liquid techniques from a theoretical and sensible viewpoint. The perfect candidate has a robust tutorial background in chemical engineering, biochemical engineering, or related, with expertise in transport phenomena (interface mass switch), reactor know-how, and fluid dynamics. Moreover, the candidate has experience from each operating numerical simulations and expertise from laboratory work, ideally associated with reactor operation, interface mass switch, experimental fluid dynamics.

Private traits

• Communicative abilities, each written and oral.
• Skill to work individually and in group.
• Enthusiasm for educational work.
• Curious and keen to study.
• Virtually and theoretically expert.
• Take duty for personal progress and may work independently.
• Be organized, focused and resolution oriented.
• Constructive and pleasant angle.

Emphasis can be positioned on private and interpersonal qualities.

We provide

Wage and circumstances

As a PhD candidate (code 1017) you’re usually paid from gross NOK 532 200 every year earlier than tax, relying on {qualifications} and seniority. From the wage, 2% is deducted as a contribution to the Norwegian Public Service Pension Fund.

The interval of employment is 3 years.

Appointment to a PhD place requires that you’re admitted to the PhD programme in Chemical Engineering (web site ), inside three months of employment, and that you just take part in an organized PhD programme in the course of the employment interval.

The engagement is to be made in accordance with the laws in drive regarding State Workers and Civil Servants , and the acts regarding Management of the Export of Strategic Items, Companies and Know-how. Candidates who by evaluation of the applying and attachment are seen to battle with the standards within the latter legislation can be prohibited from recruitment to NTNU. After the appointment you have to assume that there could also be adjustments within the space of labor.

The place is topic to exterior funding. 

It’s a prerequisite you could be current at and accessible to the establishment each day.

In regards to the software

The appliance and supporting documentation for use as the idea for the evaluation should be in English.

Publications and different scientific work should be hooked up to the applying. Please notice that your software can be thought of based mostly solely on info submitted by the applying deadline. You need to subsequently be certain that your software clearly demonstrates how your abilities and expertise fulfil the standards specified above.

The appliance should embody: 

• Motivation letter (max 1 A4-page)
• CV and certificates
• Transcripts and diplomas for bachelor’s and grasp’s levels. You probably have not accomplished the grasp’s diploma, you have to submit a affirmation that the grasp’s thesis has been submitted.
• Title and phone info of three referees
• You probably have publications or different related analysis work

If all, or components, of your training has been taken overseas, we additionally ask you to connect documentation of the scope and high quality of your complete training, each bachelor’s and grasp’s training, along with different larger training. Description of the documentation required could be discovered right here . If you have already got an announcement from NOKUT, please connect this as properly.

We’ll take joint work under consideration. Whether it is tough to determine your efforts within the joint work, you have to enclose a brief description of your participation.

Within the analysis of which candidate is finest certified, emphasis can be positioned on training, expertise and private and interpersonal qualities. Motivation, ambitions, and potential can even rely within the evaluation of the candidates. 

NTNU is dedicated to following analysis standards for analysis high quality in accordance with The San Francisco Declaration on Analysis Evaluation – DORA.

Common info

Working at NTNU

NTNU believes that inclusion and variety is our energy. We need to recruit individuals with totally different competencies, instructional backgrounds, life experiences and views to contribute to fixing our social obligations inside training and analysis. We’ll facilitate for our workers’ wants.

Town of Trondheim is a contemporary European metropolis with a wealthy cultural scene. Trondheim is the innovation capital of Norway with a inhabitants of 200,000. The Norwegian welfare state, together with healthcare, faculties, kindergartens and general equality, might be the very best of its variety on the planet. Skilled backed day-care for kids is definitely out there. Moreover, Trondheim provides nice alternatives for training (together with worldwide faculties) and prospects to take pleasure in nature, tradition and household life and has low crime charges and clear air high quality.

As an worker at NTNU, you have to always adhere to the adjustments that the event within the topic entails and the organizational adjustments which might be adopted.

A public listing of candidates with title, age, job title and municipality of residence is ready after the applying deadline. If you wish to reserve your self from entry on the general public applicant listing, this should be justified. Evaluation can be made in accordance with present laws . You can be notified if the reservation just isn’t accepted.

You probably have any questions in regards to the place, please contact Prof. Jannike Solsvik, e mail: [email protected] .

You probably have any questions in regards to the recruitment course of, please contact HR Advisor Nina Sandberg, e-mail: [email protected]

For those who suppose this seems to be attention-grabbing and consistent with your {qualifications}, please submit your software electronically through jobbnorge.no along with your CV, diplomas and certificates hooked up. Purposes submitted elsewhere won’t be thought of. Upon request, you have to be capable of get hold of licensed copies of your documentation.  

Utility deadline: 24.01.2024

NTNU – information for a greater world

The Norwegian College of Science and Know-how (NTNU) creates information for a greater world and options that may change on a regular basis life.

Division of Chemical Engineering 

We take chemistry from laboratory scale to industrial manufacturing. This calls for a variety of information, from molecular processes and nanotechnology to constructing and operation of huge processing crops. We educate graduates for a few of Norway’s most vital industries. The Division of Chemical Engineering is one in every of eight departments within the College of Pure Sciences.  

Deadline twenty fourth January 2024
Employer NTNU – Norwegian College of Science and Know-how
Municipality Trondheim
Scope Fulltime
Length Momentary
Place of service Sem Sælands vei 4, 7491 Trondheim