Are you interested in how corrosion impacts sustainability and looking for a postdoctoral opportunity in the field? Would you like to develop innovative technology with superb colleagues who are top experts in their field? Do you want to build an excellent science career and work at the interface of academy and industry? Are you enthusiastic about working with fascinating projects in state-of-the-art research facilities? VTT might be just the place for you. If you are an international talent searching for a new opportunity, read more about the benefits of living in Finland and VTT’s support for relocation here!
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VTT started a Postdoc programme in 2023 to develop new ways to support scientific excellence and to strengthen career paths from universities to VTT. We want to provide development opportunities for recent university PhDs in applied research and industry collaboration. As a Postdoctoral Researcher at VTT, you are able to make an impact on our customers and society. Our researchers work closely together with industry, often in interdisciplinary research groups. VTT has excellent research infrastructure and internal services to support your research work.
We are now recruiting four Postdoctoral Researchers in the Knowledge Driven Design research area to boost the concept of a Materials Acceleration Platform (MAP).
The MAP (Materials Acceleration Platform) concept is a next era of materials science beyond integrated computational materials engineering. It comprises set of highly automated building blocks merging experimental and modelling capabilities. It utilizes quantum computing, and application of data analytics and AI for the generation of new information and knowledge of materials.
In this Postdoctoral Researcher position, you will have an essential role in defining the corrosion behaviour of materials in aggressive conditions, utilising electrochemical and characterisation methods. Our team “Materials performance and interactions” works on studying the degradation of materials related to mainly corrosion and tribology. To create new sustainable solutions, materials’ durability in increasingly aggressive environments is often the key – and understanding the reasons for materials’ degradation is one of the essential factors in developing new materials, as well as making better materials selection for the applications.
We focus on solving material challenges in diverse industrial applications. In our team you will be working in close collaboration with researchers and scientists from many different domains in material research and testing as well as microbiology.
The position is located in Espoo, Finland.
Read more about our research:
Corrosion in biomass power plants – | VTT News (vttresearch.com)
Your responsibilities as a Postdoctoral Researcher:
Please send your CV and application via our recruitment system as soon as possible but at the latest by 30th September 2024. We will process applications as they come in and fill in the position as soon as we find the right candidate. A security clearance procedure may be conducted during the recruitment process.
For further information, please contact Research Team Leader Vilma Ratia-Hanby, vilma.ratia-hanby@vtt.fi, tel. +358 406 887 168 on 11.9. at 9-11 EET or 19.9. at 13-15 EET.
This postdoc position is part of Postdoctoral Programme for Research Institutes. The Programme has been granted 40 million euros in funding based on the Finnish government's multi-annual research and development (R&D) funding plan. This funding enables recruitment of 85 PhD-level experts to 12 Finnish government research institutes between 2025 and 2028. The aim of the Programme is to strengthen RDI competence in areas important to society and business. Postdoctoral researcher will conduct goal-oriented high-level research at the interface between the academic community, industry and administration. The Programme supports postdoctoral researcher’s networking and mobility between sectors.
Apply between 6 September 2024 and 30 September 2024 14:37 (Europe/Helsinki)
Employment type: Full-time, three-year PostDoctoral contract starting in January 2025
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