Job Details
Type: Full Time
Post Date: 30+ days ago
Industry: Education
Job Description
The Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at College of Engineering,
United Arab Emirates University Calls Application for a Postdoctoral Researcher to work in the field of bio-based materials.
The Postdoctoral fellowship will be supported by a research grant for two years and the selected candidate will work under the supervision of Professor Mohammad Jawaid.
Roles and Responsibilities:
o Extraction of Lignin using natural deep eutectic solvents from biomass
o Characterization of extracted Lignin from biomass o Application of modified lignin for adsorption
o Testing extracted and modified lignin using advanced characterization techniques like Thermal, Structural, Morphological, NMR, UV Spectroscopy, Particle size Analysis (PSA), Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) Analysis.
o Present and report research results at national and international conferences and publish scientific results in peer-reviewed Q1 journals
Minimum Qualification
o The successful candidate should have at least a degree in PhD Materials Science completed within the last two years preferably from top 200 University Ranking (QS World University Ranking)
o Candidates with experience in the production of lignocellulosic biomass into lignin and its modifications will be preferred
o Experience in preparation of Natural Deep Eutectic Solvent(NADES) and use NADES for lignin extraction from Biomass
Founded in 1976 by the late Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan, UAEU is a comprehensive, research-intensive university enrolling about 15,000 National and International students. As the UAE’s flagship university, UAEU offers a full range of accredited, high-quality graduate and undergraduate programs through nine Colleges: Business and Economics, Education, Engineering, Food and Agriculture, Humanities and Social Sciences; IT, Law, Medicine and Health Sciences, and Science.
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