Postdoc in Tire and road effects on wear and particle emissions

Job description

You will work on reducing the tire wear and emissions from tire wear in the form of respirable particles and microplastics. The project is a collaborative project between KTH, Karolinska Institutet and the Swedish Automotive Industry. The tasks include being responsible for and carrying out experimental studies in the laboratory and in full scale of tire and road wear. As well as studying the wear in the form of respirable airborne particles and microplastic particles that can migrate into nature.You can read more about what is included in a postdoctoral position in the Employment Regulations and on the Swedish Agency for Government Employers - postdoctoral agreement

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
• Guidance on relocating and settling in at KTH and in Sweden.

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Qualifications

Requirements

• A doctoral degree or an equivalent foreign degree. This eligibility requirement must be met no later than the time the employment decision is made.
• We would like you to have experience in experimental work, especially tribological material, component and full-scale testing.
• You have experience in measuring wear-generated airborne particles

Preferred qualifications

• A doctoral degree or an equivalent foreign degree, obtained within the last three years prior to the application deadline 
• experience in measuring wear, friction and airborne particles in parallel.
• experience in using impactors to collect particle emissions on filters and to analyze the chemistry of the airborne particles
• experience in chemical mass balance analysis of airborne particles
• can communicate scientific results orally and in writing in Swedish and English since we use both languages as our work language.
• We would like you to have the ability to work independently and in groups with others both in the laboratory and in full-scale trials on various test tracks in Sweden.
• Awareness of diversity and equal opportunity issues, with specific focus on gender equality
• Research expertise
  

  Great emphasis will be placed on personal skills.

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To apply for the position

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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, three 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

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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