External Opportunities

Current opportunities:

PhD and ECR opportunities from the catalysis community.


Postdoctoral Research Associate University of Edinburgh

We are looking for a highly motivated post-doc to work on a project at the chemistry-biology interface looking to improve the sustainability of chemical synthesis. The project seeks to design new metalloenzymes using unnatural amino acids or synthetic cofactors and to apply these catalysts in selective chemical synthesis. Initially these metalloenzymes…

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Research Fellow (Anniversary Fellowship) Southampton University

From revolutionising the rail infrastructure and improving the lives of people affected by dementia, to gaining a deeper understanding of culture and creativity, research at the University of Southampton addresses some of the most challenging issues facing society today.   Now, to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the award of the…

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PhD Studentship – Iridium-free Catalysts for Water Electrolysis with Manchester Metropolitan University

The clean and sustainable production of hydrogen offers an essential pathway to decarbonisation of numerous industries and technologies.  Electrolysers, which split water into hydrogen and oxygen using electricity are expected to play a critical role in achieving such ambitions. Today, commercial proton exchange membrane electrolysers utilise precious metal catalysts such as…

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Scientist position with Drochaid Research Services Ltd

Drochaid Research Services Ltd is a leading commercially focussed contract research organisation with an expertise in the fields of Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysis and Materials Science. The Company is based in St. Andrews and is key part of St. Andrews Applied Research Ltd (StAAR), the technology, innovation and enterprise arm…

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Extension of the FLUENCE Award

The FLUENCE award has been extended to the 31st December 2022. FLUENCE will meet the agreed travel and subsistence cost for research by UK scientists on the FELIX free electron laser facility in Nijmegen.  In order to qualify for support you must submit an application to use the facility and be…

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Postdoctoral Research Associate/Fellow at University of Nottingham

Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Associate/Fellow in Synthetic Organic Chemistry and Catalysis to work under the supervision of Dr Miriam O’Duill in the School of Chemistry, University of Nottingham for a period of 36 months. This post is funded by the EPSRC project ‘Alkyl(aryl)iodonium Reagents for Late-Stage Alkylation’ which investigates the…

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Fully funded PhD studentships – HeatToPower: A new generation of sustainable thermoelectric materials and devices

The EPSRC and SFI Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Sustainable Chemistry: Atoms-2-Products is offering 48-month PhD studentships associated with materials synthesis and characterisation in its thematic area “HeatToPower: A new generation of sustainable thermoelectric materials and devices”.Thermoelectric materials are capable of converting wasted heat into useful electrical energy and…

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Machine Learning and Tomography Scientist – Finden Ltd

Learning and Tomography Scientist. The position is initially limited to 1 year. As the Machine Learning and Tomography Scientist, you will be responsible for developing algorithms and machine/deep learning models to handle, analyse and denoise X-ray CT, spectroscopy and diffraction/scattering data. Finden offers research & development services to clients across…

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