PRR Project

Summary

The successful candidate should have a Chemical Engineering degree (bachelor/master) and a doctoral degree in the scope of the scientific area and sub-areas identified. The researcher is expected to play an important role in advancing research initiatives of the host institution, contributing to establishing and developing a research line aligned with its strategic vectors, namely, in one or more of the following fields:Environmental Technologies (e.g., novel water and wastewater treatments; products recovery; air pollution control; waste management; One Health)Reneawable resources and energy  (e.g., biorefineries, biofuels, green hydrogen, decarbonization)Digital Industry (e.g., fault detection, diagnosis, and prognosis in large-scale industrial systems, digital twins, soft sensors, process supervision and improvement).The successful candidate must have a strong background in theoretical and applied aspects of chemical engineering, with a focus on innovation and practical applications.The successful candidate will carry out the following activities:Conduct innovative research in one or more of the fields identified above, including planning and management of the laboratory and/or computational facilities allocated, safeguarding the safety and well-being of the research team.Be involved in training activities in several of the following subjects as an extension and outreach of the research conducted. Topics of particular interest are thermodynamics, transport phenomena, unit operations, reaction engineering, environmental technologies, energy & biofuels, multiphasic systems, process and product design, systems engineering, data science, and their industrial applications.Actively engage in public and private funding applications and attract human resources to build up the critical mass necessary to sustain the research line.Supervise students from different levels (graduate or undergraduate) and junior researchers.Attract and supervise high quality national and international PhD students and post-doctoral researchers.Submit the research work to high impact journals and participate in or organize dissemination events.Engage in activities with the national and international research community, increasing the visibility of the host institution and its establishment as a reference research institution.Actively participate in extension activities involving companies and stakeholders as well as communication of science targeting general public showing the research conducted in the Department of Chemical Engineering and its contribution to the society.Providing services to the community taking advantage of the CERES R&D unit infrastructures.