Job description:
The LSRE – Laboratory of Separation and Reaction Engineering – in partnership with the LCM – Laboratory of Catalysis and Materials – holds the statute of “Laboratório Associado” since December 2004. Both the LSRE and the LCM are located in the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto.
The attribution of the statute of “Laboratório Associado” was based on the verification of the needs for developing certain areas of the national industrial tissue and the will of enlarging its influence area to the society in general, realizing missions of public interest which, beyond the R&D activities, can be classified as rendering services to the chemical and similar industries, with the objective of a sustained technological and industrial development.
Information about the past, recent and current research projects in which the LSRE and the LCM were involved, together with a short description of the achieved results, can be found in the Website of the Laboratório Associado (http://lsre.fe.up.pt/).
The R&D activities of LSRE comprise the execution of national and international projects, financed by FCT and other national institutions, by The European Union (JOULE, BRITE, ALFA programmes) and by other international agreements and programmes (CYTED, ERASMUS). The LSRE counts also projects in collaboration and financed by national end european companies and industries. The outcome of the work done in the LSRE is well expressed in terms of its scientific production, with more than 50 PhD theses and more than 250 scientific publications in international journals since 1996.
Innovation and technology transfer are key objectives of the LSRE, which counts currently with four pending international Patent requests. Several works developed in the LSRE were recently awarded, including a first prize and a honor mention in the CUF Prize for the best PhD thesis and the first prize in the Solvay Ideas Challenge. Two spin-off companies originated in the LSRE were recently launched, one in the Perfumes Engineering area – the I-Sensis – and another in the Fluid Engineering area – Fluidinova.
By this announcement, the LSRE intends to hire one Post-Doc Researcher for a five years period. The selected candidate(s) will work on the study and characterization of the mechanisms of fluid mixing.
In the scientific field related to the mixture in Industrial Processes, the LSRE was involved in the last few years in the (i) Development of the NETmix® technology: modeling and simulation of new injection configurations, geometries and patterns, implementation of complex reactions of industrial relevance; construction of a prototype at the industrial scale; (ii) Development of the RIMcop® technology: construction of a pilot machine, implementation of a third jet to feed monomers; exploitation of new chemical formulations, CFD simulation to study the influence of using fluids with different densities and/or viscosities, CFD simulation of the first steps of the polymerization process.
In recent years, methodologies involving simulation and experimentation for the study and characterization of the mixing mechanisms were developed in the LSRE; these methodologies are essential components of processes going from the simple mixing of fluids with different temperature or composition, until complex reactions. New technologies, NETmix® and RIMcop®, were developed which gave origin to two national and international patents requests and a spin-off company, “Fluidinova, Engenharia de Fluidos, S.A.”, was established with the objective of transferring these technologies to the national and international industries. The LSRE in partnership with Fluidinova intends to hire one researcher for this scientific area with the objective of developing and optimizing the two technologies to implement specific processes and products. At the end of this program it is predicted that at least one of the researchers will be permanently hired by Fluidinova.
Besides the participation in ongoing projects, the activity of the successful candidate(s) will include the supervising of PhD students and other young researchers, the preparation of proposals to R&D projects both at national and international levels, the accompanying of master projects and the participation in the management of the LSRE - Laboratório Associado.
The selection will be based on the appreciation of the curriculum vitae of the candidates and of one three-year R&D research program (maximum of two A4 pages) written by the candidates. If necessary, the evaluation may be done in two phases, the second one reserved to candidates selected in the first phase; in the second phase one personal interview, the presentation of a seminar or the elaboration of a project can be required.
The applications, including a detailed curriculum vitae, graduation certificate, reference letters, one three-year R&D research program (maximum of two A4 pages), as well as an application letter directed to the Director of the LSRE - Laboratório Associado, should be personally delivered or sent by registered surface mail to the LSRE until August 30, 2007.
Application deadline: 30-08-2007
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