PostDoc Position in Materials Chemistry and Heterogeneous Catalysis

Updated: almost 3 years ago
Job Type: FullTime
Deadline: 31 Aug 2021

Workplace: Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic

Type of Contract: temporary position with 1-year contract (with possible extension), non-academic

Working Hours: 1 FTE (full-time employment of 40hours per week)

Expected Start Date: upon agreement

Number of Open Positions: 1

Pay: CZK 50.000 per month before taxation

Application Deadline: August 31, 2021

EU Researcher Profile : R2

About the Workplace

Masaryk University is the second-largest university in the Czech Republic with ten faculties, more than 5000 staff, and more than 30 000 students.

Faculty of Science MU, a proud holder of the HR Excellence in Research Award by the European Commission, is a research-oriented faculty, offering university education (Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Doctoral degree programs) closely linked to both primary and applied research and high school teaching of the following sciences: Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Earth sciences. We are the most productive scientific unit of the Masaryk University generating around 40 % of MU research results.

Department of Chemistry at the Faculty of Science MU offers a postdoctoral position in materials chemistry and heterogeneous catalysis. Selected candidate will join the Laboratory of Advanced Materials and Precursors Synthesis led by prof. Jiří Pinkas and will participate on a research project tackling carbon dioxide utilization in a topical reaction with epoxides.

Job Description

Key Duties:

  • To synthesize new heterogeneous catalysts based on silica by advanced non-aqueous methods
  • To characterize prepared materials by various physico-chemical methods (i.e., IR and MAS NMR spectroscopy, porosimetry, XRD,…)
  • To test new catalysts in various reactions with a special focus on a coupling of epoxides with carbon dioxide


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