Research Assistant / Research Fellow in Environmental Chemistry
- Employer
- CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY
- Location
- Cranfield, United Kingdom
- Salary
- £28,929 - £39,864 per annum
- Closing date
- 15 Jan 2025
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- Academic Discipline
- Physical Sciences, Chemistry, Geology, Environmental, Earth & Marine Sciences
- Job Type
- Academic Posts, Research Fellowships, Research Related, Research Assistants / Officers
- Contract Type
- Fixed Term
- Hours
- Full Time
Job Details
Faculty or Department: Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Based at: Cranfield Campus, Cranfield, Bedfordshire
Hours of work: 37 hours per week, normally worked Monday to Friday. Flexible working will be considered.
Contract type: Fixed term contract
Fixed Term Period: Until 31 December 2026
Salary: Research Assistant (if close to completing PhD): Full time starting salary is normally in the range of £28,929 to £33,825 per annum, with potential progression up to £39,586 per annum; Research Fellow (if PhD obtained): Full time starting salary is normally in the range of £37,337 to £39,864 per annum
Apply by: 15/01/2025
Role Description
We welcome applications from passionate, skilled and committed individuals to join our team working on nature-based solution (NbS) for wastewater treatment.
About the Role
This is a project funded by Sanofi S.A., titled "Nature-based Solutions for Pharmaceutical Wastewater Treatment", through Sanofi’s Planet Care Challenge programme. The successful candidate will design, construct, and validate innovative constructed wetland technologies as a nature-based solution for treating wastewater contaminated with pharmaceutical compounds. The project will assess the removal, transformations, and risks of these chemical micropollutants during the treatment. Additionally, the research will evaluate co-benefits, such as biodiversity enhancement and carbon sequestration, provided by the treatment wetland technologies. The final technology will be deployed at a Sanofi site for real-world wastewater treatment. The candidate will also visit the partner organisation and attend national and international conferences to disseminate research findings.
About You
You will be educated to doctoral level, or near completion, in a relevant subject such as Environmental Engineering or Chemistry. Demonstrated skills in environmental chemistry, particularly in the remediation of chemical micropollutants and the use of advanced analytical instruments (e.g., LC-MS/MS), are essential. These skills will have been acquired through a recognised course and research experience. Your knowledge of pharmaceuticals or other chemical micropollutants and data analysis should be evidenced through publications, reports, or research projects. Experience in water and wastewater treatment, particularly in constructed wetlands or other biological treatment technologies, is desirable. Excellent communication skills are essential, as this role requires collaboration with university staff and coordination of international partnerships with the industrial partner.
About Us
As a specialist postgraduate university, Cranfield’s world-class expertise, large-scale facilities and unrivalled industry partnerships are creating leaders in technology and management globally. Learn more about Cranfield and our unique impact here.
Cranfield Water and nature-based solutions working group have significant expertise on researching, enhancing and helping to implement nature-based solutions, including constructed wetlands, on the ground. We are keen to act as a link between industry and academia, in matters related to wastewater treatment processes in constructed wetlands.
Our Values and Commitments
Our shared, stated values help to define who we are and underpin everything we do: Ambition; Impact; Respect; and Community. Find out more here.
We aim to create and maintain a culture in which everyone can work and study together and realise their full potential. We are a Disability Confident Employer and proud members of the Stonewall Diversity Champions Programme. We are committed to actively exploring flexible working options for each role and have been ranked in the Top 30 family friendly employers in the UK by the charity Working Families. Find out more about our key commitments to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and Flexible Working here.
Working Arrangements
Collaborating and connecting are integral to so much of what we do. Our Working Arrangements Framework provides many staff with the opportunity to flexibly combine on-site and remote working, where job roles allow, balancing the needs of our community of staff, students, clients and partners.
How to apply
For an informal discussion about this opportunity, please contact Dr Tao Lyu, Senior Lecturer in Green Technologies, on (E): t.lyu@cranfield.ac.uk
Please do not hesitate to contact us for further details on (E): peoplerecruitment@cranfield.ac.uk. Please quote reference number 4991.
Closing date for receipt of applications: 15 January 2025
Please note that we reserve the right to close this advert prior to the stated closing date should we receive sufficient numbers of applications. Therefore, we would encourage you to complete and submit your application as soon as possible.
Company
Cranfield is world-leading in its contribution to global innovation. With our emphasis on the aerospace, agrifood, defence and security, environmental technology, leadership and management, manufacturing and transport systems sectors, we have changed the way society thinks, works and learns.
We generate and transform knowledge, translating it to the benefit of society. Our partners, from micro SMEs to the largest blue-chip multinationals, from governments across the world to NGOs and charities, tell us this is what they value about Cranfield.
Innovation is part of Cranfield’s ‘corporate DNA’, evolved over 60 years of commitment to this agenda.
Our work informs policy for governments and produces new technologies and products for the world of commerce. We draw on this pool of research and consultancy to provide our students with a distinctive ‘real-world’ learning environment, allowing them to develop as professionals and transfer their new knowledge to the global economy. This has always been the ‘Cranfield way’ but it has never been more important than in today’s world.
People are key to our competitive advantage and so we need to attract, develop and retain the best talent for our business. We aim to create a culture where you can flourish and succeed and, in turn, contribute towards Cranfield’s success.
- Telephone
- +(44)01234 750111
- Location
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CRANFIELD
CRANFIELD
BEDFORDSHIRE
MK43 0AL
GB
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