PhD Researcher – Paper Technology

Job summary

The collaborative laboratory Associação AlmaScience - Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Celulose para Aplicações Inteligentes e Sustentáveis (CoLAB AlmaScience), funded by the Centro 2020 Operational Program, in the Competitiveness and Employment thematic area, through the European Social Fund (ESF), CENTRO-04-3559-FSE-000094, has opened a job position for the role of Senior Researcher in Paper Technology.

Envisioned as a bridge to connect – on one side – a set of science producers with outstanding track record at European level in the fields of Advanced functional materials and pioneers in promoting the area of Transparent Electronics and Paper Electronics and – on the other side – major paper and pulp developers and producers and a set of its end-users willing to revolutionize their market approach, CoLAB AlmaScience aims to establish in Portugal an integrated and innovative sustainable smart paper-based platform able to serve multi-sectors with fully recyclable product-ranges, capturing the needs associated with the Internet of Things (IoT).

In close contact with the academic and the industry associates, and within a multidisciplinary scientific environment, integrated in project teams the candidate will conduct R&D activities in the field of Paper Technology, besides other scientific and management activities better described in the candidate profile and main attributions sections bellow.

About the CoLAB AlmaScience

Colab Almascience – Research and Development on Cellulose for Smart and Sustainable Solutions, is a non-profit private association focused on research, innovation, development and deployment activities in interdisciplinary fields, involving the exploitation of nanotechnology and advanced functional materials and their use to create eco-game-changing paper-based, fully printable, multifunctional devices and systems.

On this base, Colab Almascience aims to deliver sustainable and universally accessible solutions, with real life impact on people and companies, by effectively enabling IoT in areas like, security, environment, health, electronics, logistics, food or energy.

Envisioned as a bridge to connect a set of science producers (Raiz – Forest and Paper Research Institute; Fraunhofer Portugal Research; NOVAidFCT – Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT; and Universidade Nova de Lisboa) with outstanding track record at European level in the fields of Advanced functional materials and pioneers in promoting the area of Transparent Electronics and paper Paper electronics Electronics and – on the other side – paper and pulp developers and producers and a set of its end-users willing to revolutionize their market approach (The Navigator Company; INCM - Portuguese Mint and Official Printing Office; and Clara Saúde), CoLAB AlmaScience aims to establish in Portugal an integrated and innovative sustainable smart paper-based platform able to serve multi-sectors with fully recyclable, eco-product-ranges, capturing the needs associated with the Internet of Things (IoT).

Main attributions

The Senior Researcher shall be responsible for performing the following tasks:

• Modification of cellulose pulps;
• Development and processing of speciality papers and functional coatings;
• Cellulose based hydrogels and aerogels development;
• Preparation of periodic technical-scientific reports in english on relevant wok developments;
• work in multidisciplinary teams, in different faculties or schools in academia, and in different functions of business and industry;
• Collaborate with industry and academia to apply the results of research and develop new techniques, products and practices; 
• Device or help to draw up new research proposals and apply for funding; 
• Supervise students ( in co-coordination with academia), train and supervise other members of staff.

The Senior Researcher shall fully devote the whole of his/her professional activity to AlmaScience on an exclusive basis.

How to apply

The candidate must send an application to [email protected] until the 31st January 2022 with:

The email subject shall only contain the job reference: ASc Senior/PhD Researcher – Paper Technology ( PhD16).