A postdoctoral fellow is being sought to join Chester Upham's group of 10 collaborative and welcoming students and postdocs at UBC's Vancouver campus. We are all working in some way to solve the CO2 problem by developing affordable new and out-of-the-box solutions. Several project options are available, including a new method of producing sustainable aviation fuels.
As the lead researcher, you will have the freedom to develop a new catalyst, design a reactor, and/or synthesis and characterization your catalyst using all of our reactor systems and equipment. Your work will seek to understand and control the interaction between reactivity, catalyst surfaces, carbon and reactants. The majority of the work will be experimental and performed in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering's 3 Heterogeneous Catalysis Labs and the Clean Energy Research Center under Dr. Upham’s supervision.
The candidate should have a PhD in Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, or a related field. Priority will be given to candidates with experimental experience in heterogeneous catalysis. The ideal candidate will work well with the other group members and collaborate on other projects.
Please email your CV with the names and contact information of three references along with your cover letter to chester.upham@ubc.ca. The annual salary for this position will be $55,000-$65,000, depending on your experience. Review of applications will begin immediately and this ad will remain posted until the position is filled; however, initial interviews are expect in early September. Please include use this job title as the title of your email.
The group website is available here: https://upham.chbe.ubc.ca
Equity and diversity are essential to academic excellence. An open and diverse community fosters the inclusion of voices that have been underrepresented or discouraged. We encourage applications from members of groups that have been marginalized on any grounds enumerated under the B.C. Human Rights Code, including sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, racialization, disability, political belief, religion, marital or family status, age, and/or status as a First Nation, Metis, Inuit, or Indigenous person.