Job Description

The successful candidate will work with Prof. Sam Li under a project on Development and Verification of Prototype Real-time and Online Monitoring System for Sustainable Clean Water Supplies.

The main responsibilities of the position include:

• Design of an automation system for a water sensor prototype
• Fabrication of the designed automation system 
• Integration of the fabricated system with the sensor and its software 
• Testing and evaluation of the fabricated system 
• Improvement of the fabricated system where necessary 
• Multi-element analysis using the automated sensor system, inductively coupled plasma triple quadrupole mass spectrometer (ICP-QQQ) and metal speciation analysis using liquid chromatography (LC) coupled to ICP-QQQ (LC-ICP-QQQ) 

Qualifications

• Qualifications / Discipline:
  • PhD in chemistry, chemical engineering or electronic engineering  
• • Skills:
  • Competency in designing and performing experiments related to heavy metals and metal speciation analysis
  • Skills to design an automation system for real application
  • Skills to build the automated prototype toxic metals detection and speciation system
  • Competence to write the software or app for the system to communicate with the sensor software
  • Competence to integrate the automation system and sensor for a final automated smart sensor
• Experience:  
  • Expertise in chemical sensors and biosensors development

More Information

Location: Kent Ridge Campus
Organization: NUS Environmental Research Institute
Department : Research
Employee Referral Eligible: No