Chemnitz University of Technology is an established innovative scientific and educational institution, which takes on the challenges connected with the competition between the universities. Chemnitz University of Technology offers attractive employment for personalities with proven scientific excellence who want to contribute to the further innovative development. Starting at 01.10.2025, the Faculty of Natural Sciences, Professorship Organic Chemistry, offers an employment for a Doctoral Candidate (DC) / PhD Positions for a period until 30.09.2026 (with a planned extension until 30.09.2028).
Selection is based on suitability, qualification and professional performance. Chemnitz University of Technology aims to support women in particular and therefore expressly asks qualified women to apply. In the case of equal suitability, severely disabled persons or persons of equal status will be given priority in accordance with SGB IX.
The above position is one of the Doctoral Candidate positions of the CATALOOP (Closing the Loop in stereoselective Catalysis by data-driven Approaches) Doctoral Network (cataloop.eu). The described open position has the topic âAsymmetric copper hydride chemistry with libraries of chiral carbene ligandsâ and is supervised by Prof. Dr. Johannes Teichert. The CATALOOP network aims at the development of powerful and readily applicable workflows for data-driven development of stereoselective catalysis.
As a main training goal we want to educate researchers in comprehensive data-driven experimental approaches for realizing challenging asymmetric catalytic methods. This network brings together academic research groups with expertise in experimental catalyst development with theoretical groups skilled in computational and data-driven chemistry in order to develop new catalytic asymmetric reactions. World-leading industrial partners with a wide range of interests will provide advice on which approaches may have the most impact on industry and will host the students in secondments.
Students will be assigned experimental and theoretical supervisors and be trained to a minimum level of proficiency in both aspects. This envisaged combination of research and training will develop researchers with a unique skill set who are well suited to developing new enantioselective catalytic processes that are in high demand in academia and industry.
The CATALOOP project offers the possibility to pursue the PhD within the Network at different universities/research centres/industrial companies from 7 European countries (Israel, Germany, Ireland, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Spain, England).
Deadline: 15 May 2025
More information at https://www.tu-chemnitz.de/cataloop/