Salary: From €31200 to 43200 per annum, subject to skills and experience
Job title: Postdoctoral Researcher in the Energy Technologies Laboratory
Contract term: Full time employment, 1 year minimum with the option to extend.
The Energy Technologies Laboratory (ETL) at the National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics is offering a Postdoctoral position centred around the rational design of carbon nanomaterials via molten salt electrolysis and synthesis scale-up starting from December 2023. The work at this position focuses on unravelling synthesis-structure-property correlations via electrochemical methods, physical characterization and scaling up the synthesis of doped carbon nanomaterials.
The National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (NICPB) in Tallinn, Estonia is an independent research institute, which carries out basic and applied research in materials science, genetic engineering and biotechnology, environmental technology, in the field of particle physics and informatics, employing researchers from all over the world. The Energy Technologies Laboratory (ETL) at NICPB focuses on furthering fundamental understanding of electrochemical processes both at low and high temperatures, recycling of Li-ion batteries and developing novel functional materials with a minimal CO2 equivalent. Key aspects of the research at ETL include the synthesis of carbon nanomaterials from CO2 and biomass, battery recycling and advanced electrochemical testing, physical characterization and production scale-up. Our core aim is to replace the high CO2 equivalent carbon materials in fuel cells, batteries and supercapacitors with sustainable alternatives.
The postdoctoral position will initially be limited to 12 months, with an option to extend the contract.
This position will offer the unique opportunity to work in a solid team that combines experience in the research of carbon nanomaterials synthesis with a strong background in electrochemistry with ample opportunities to publish and a chance to make real impact on the levels of CO2 in our atmosphere.
The candidates are expected to have:
Documents required:
For applying or more information, please contact:
Dr. Sander Ratso
Energy Technologies Laboratory
National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics
Akadeemia tee 23
Tallinn 12618
Estonia
Graduate student Maria Volokhova defended her PhD thesis “Magnetic Nanomaterials Synthesis and Functionalization for Biomedical Applications” on the 4th of July 2022 in the room SCI-109 (Akadeemia tee 15, Tallinn).
Supervisor: Liis Seinberg PhD (National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics).
Opponents: Associate Prof Yoij Kobayashi (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia).
Associate Prof Janno Torop (Tartu Ülikool, Estonia).
The laboratories of NICPB invite PhD students and postdoctoral researchers as well as Master’s and Bachelor students who are interested in a scientific career and outstanding research to join our research teams.
NICPB also welcomes ideas and proposals for extending the research groups and developing our research fields from postdocs as well as independent researchers. For financial support, we would encourage you to consider the following programmes: Mobilitas +, ETAg personal research funding, Horizon 2020, Horizon Europe, etc.
New research topics for students and postdoctoral researchers will be posted here in November, 2020. For interest to join a research topic in NICPB before, we would ask you to take a look at the laboratory webpages and contact the Head of the Laboratory or the research group about joining the research team of interest.
Additional information about NICPB research programmes, researchers and infrastructure can be found on the laboratory webpages.
NICPB Laboratory of Environmental Toxicology is looking for MSCA Early Stage Researcher (doctoral student) in the framework of MSCA-ITN project “PRORISK”.
Eligible candidate has to meet the following MSCA criteria:
1) At the date of recruitment (tentatively Sept. 1, 2020), the applicant must have no PhD and less than 4 years of full-time equivalent research experience from the award of the degree that entitles them to undertake a doctorate;
2) The applicant must not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in Estonia for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately before the recruitment date.
Deadline for applying is May 31, 2020.
Please see further information and eligibility terms in EURAXESS https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/489675.
Ambassador Ms Yoko Yanagizawa visit to NICPB
We are honoured to invite you for an excursion to a National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (NICPB) on the 22 of November 2017.
Tiina Titma defended her PhD Thesis entitled “Cytotoxicity of Metal-based Nanoparticles in Epithelial Barrier Models” on May 23, 2017 at Tallinn University.
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Dr Liis Seinberg and her colleagues prof Shinpei Yamamoto and prof Hiroshi Kageyama received the JSPM (Japan Society of Powder and Powder Metallurgy) Award for Advanced Research.
The research was performed during Liis Seinberg’s PhD studies in Kyoto University. The work was supervised by prof Shinpei Yamamoto (Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences, Kyoto University) ja prof Hiroshi Kageyama (Kyoto University). The thesis “Low temperature Synthesis and Properties of Ferromagnetic-Metal Nanomaterials and Square-Planar Coordinated Iron Oxides” featured five high impact publications.
The award ceremony was in Japan on May 24th 2016.
Today, on April 08, 2016, the Science Council of NICPB elected Urmas Nagel the new director of the Institute for the next five year period. Dr Nagel will assume office on April 29, 2016.
On the 7th December 2015 session the Science Council of NICPB elected the Vice-Rector for Research of the Tallinn University of Technology, Prof Renno Veinthal as its new member and re-elected Research Professor of NICPB, Dr Toomas Rõõm to the Council.
