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Senior Research Fellow (Polymer Upcycling)

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CompanyNTU Main Campus, SingaporeOnsitePosted 4 weeks ago

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