Postdoc in smart sustainable electronic composites for health

Job description

This project focuses on developing smart and sustainable functional materials by combining cellulose, one of the world’s most abundant and renewable biopolymers, with advanced conducting nanomaterials such as MXenes and conducting polymers. By merging sustainability with high-performance electronic functionality, the research aims to create new hybrid materials that are not only environmentally friendly but also highly suitable for healthcare applications.

The envisioned materials will be engineered into thin films, membranes, and 3D-printed structures with tunable electrical, mechanical, and sensing properties. These “smart” materials will enable next-generation health technologies, including advanced biomedical patches, wearable monitoring systems, and smart absorbent products such as diapers that can track and respond to physiological signals in real time. The outcomes have the potential to impact not only healthcare and wellbeing, but also to set new standards for sustainable materials innovation in the broader field of bioelectronics.

This postdoc position provides a unique opportunity and environment as the candidate will work at both KTH, the Swedish research institutes, and in close collaboration with the industry.

Qualifications

Requirements

• A doctoral degree in chemistry with focus on fibre- and polymer technology or an equivalent foreign degree. This eligibility requirement must be met no later than the time the employment decision is made.
• Very good skills in English, since we work in an international research environment.
• Very good knowledge and experience in nanocellulose composites
• Very good experience of laboratory work in chemistry lab and high voltage lab.

Preferred qualifications

• A doctoral degree or an equivalent foreign degree, obtained within the last three years prior to the application deadline
• Awareness of diversity and equal opportunity issues, with specific focus on gender equality
• Teaching abilities
• Prior work in nano technology

As a person, you are used to collaborating with both colleagues and external partners. You also have a great ability to work independently with a strong focus on results when it comes to writing reports.

Great emphasis will be placed on personal skills.

Join us at KTH

KTH shapes the future through education, research and innovation. As a leading international technical university, we play an active role in advancing the transition towards a sustainable society. At KTH, you have the opportunity to grow and develop in a creative and dynamic environment, with good working conditions and attractive benefits. Equality, diversity and equal opportunities are essential to quality and form an integral part of KTH’s core values as a university and public authority.

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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.

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