Postdoc in electrification of the Metallurgical Process Industry - Hiring in process/Finished, not possible to apply

Job description

A postdoctoral position is available in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology. The candidate will work in close collaboration with the industrial partners to substitute fossil combustion processes with innovative electric technologies, such as electric resistance heating and microwave heating. For these specific applications, appropriate demonstration plants have to be designed, built, tested close to the process and validated. This is supported by corresponding activities to provide suitable high-temperature materials and tools for instrumentation and effective process control. Challenges regarding thermal load management or intelligent energy management are simulated by means of numerical models.

You will be required to work in close collaboration with other researchers from industry and research institutes in Europe. Regardless, you should not be afraid of traveling around Europe and staying in other European countries, since the majority of the work will be carried out in close collaboration with our industrial partners.

What we offer

• A position at a leading technical university that generates knowledge and skills for a sustainable future
• Engaged and ambitious colleagues along with a creative, international and dynamic working environment
• Work in Stockholm, in close proximity to nature
• Help to relocate and be settled in Sweden and at KTH

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Qualifications

Requirements

A doctoral degree or an equivalent foreign degree in Materials Science, Chemical Engineering, Metallurgy, Physics, Sustainable Energy Engineering, or a relevant field. This eligibility requirement must be met no later than the time the employment decision is made.

Preferred qualifications

A doctoral degree or an equivalent foreign degree, obtained within the last three years prior to the application deadline.

The following qualifications are considered important:

• Research expertise
• Skillful oral and written communication in English
• Scientific article, proposal and report writing experience
• Ability to independently manage sub-projects
• Teaching and supervision assistance abilities
• Ability to work independently and in collaboration with others
• Awareness of diversity and equal opportunity issues, with specific focus on gender equality

Experience in contributing in publically funded projects is competitive advantage for this position. It is also advantageous if you have demonstrated communication skills with industrial companies. Business travel will be required to communicate with the project industrial participants.

Great emphasis will be placed on personal skills.

Trade union representatives

You will find contact information to trade union representatives at KTH's webbpage.

To apply for the position

Log into KTH's recruitment system in order to apply for this position. You are the main responsible to ensure that your application is complete according to the ad.

The application must include:

• A CV including relevant professional experience and knowledge
• Copy of diplomas and grades from your previous university studies. Translations into English or Swedish if the original documents have not been issued in any of these languages.
• Brief account of why you want to conduct research, your academic interests and how they relate to your previous studies and future goals. Maximum two pages long.

Your complete application must be received at KTH no later than the last day of application, midnight CET/CEST (Central European Time/Central European Summer Time).

About the employment

The position offered is for, at the most, two years.

A position as a postdoctoral fellow is a time-limited qualified appointment focusing mainly on research, intended as a first career step after a dissertation.

Others

The position may include security-sensitive activities. To become authorized, you therefore need to pass a possible security check.

Striving towards gender equality, diversity and equal conditions is both a question of quality for KTH and a given part of our values.

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