About the role
Senior Research Fellow (Polymer Upcycling) is a active engineering role at ntu in NTU Main Campus, Singapore. Open the role to review the official description and apply on the company site.
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Key Responsibilities
- Develop green and scalable mechanical or chemical polymer upcycling technologies, particularly for polyurethane.
- Conduct research and development activities on polymer pre-treatment and mechanical/chemical upcycling, including formulation of problem statement, design and execution of lab-scale and pilot-scale experiments/operations, sample characterizations, data analysis, and so on.
- Engage and communicate with existing or future industrial and academic collaborators to advance the developed technologies from lab-scale verification to pilot implementation.
- Prepare technical reports, intellectual properties documents, safety documents, and academic publications
Requirements
- PhD degree in Materials Science, Polymer Science, Chemical Engineering, or fields related to polyurethane.
- At least 6-8 years graduate study or working experience in research and development on topics on polymer science, chemical engineering, and green technologies
- Proficiency in hands-on and characterization techniques such as TGA, DSC, FTIR, DMA, rheology, NMR, CHNS, XRD, XPS, engineering design and drawing etc.
- Able to exhibit leadership roles in handling and managing multi-disciplinary projects
- -operation proposals
- Good team-player, good communication skill, problem solver, thinker and doer
- Good wet laboratory practice and familiar with considerations on laboratory safety
- Passionate in research and solving real-time environmental issues related to plastic upcycling
- Software skills relevant to process design, mass balance, cost analysis, and life-cycle-analysis are favorable
- Industrial experience in polymer upcycling and productization is favorable
- We regret to inform that only shortlisted candidates will be notified.
- Hiring Institution: NTU