Division/School School of Chemistry
Contract type Open Ended
Working pattern Full time
Salary £33,199 – 37,345 per annum
Closing date for applications 31-Aug-2019

The Lennox Lab, located at the School of Chemistry at the University of Bristol, is inviting applications for the recruitment of a PDRA to work under the supervision of Dr Alastair Lennox. The project, which is funded by the EPSRC for 3 years, aims to address important issues for the rapidly growing and exciting field of organic electrochemistry. In this project, we will develop new reactor systems to aid each stage of reaction development, namely; discovery, optimisation, dissemination and replication. We will focus on additive manufacturing (3D printing) as an inexpensive, rapid and flexible prototyping tool to generate systems that are accessible, inexpensive and, importantly, highly reproducible for organic synthesis. We will develop new materials, innovative designs, print procedures and optimisation tools for reactors, which will be used in the development of a number of synthetic transformations, for which we have preliminary data, but require new reactor-systems to advance further.

Applicants should already have a PhD in organic synthesis (ideally in total synthesis or methodology development with experience in multi-step synthesis), along with experience in 3D printing, CAD and DoE.

The successful candidate will have excellent opportunities to develop supervisory, written, teaching and organisational skills, and therefore this post provides ideal training for a career in industry or academia.

Position is available from 1 Sept 2019 or as soon as possible thereafter for a period of 3 years

Details of Dr Lennox’s research can be found at www.lennoxlab.com.

Informal enquiries can be emailed to a.lennox@bristol.ac.uk

We welcome applications from all members of our community and are particularly encouraging those from diverse groups, such as members of the LGBT+ and BAME communities, to join us.