As a PhD candidate you will work within an ongoing project. The main goal is to develop and optimise a hyphenated setup combining supercritical chromatography with DNP-NMR to provide a fast analytical tool to study complex mixtures with superior information content. At present a Gyrotron mm-wave source operating at 395 GHz is available for this purpose, coupled to a 600 MHz NMR spectrometer and a 263 GHz klystron (EIO) coupled to a 400 MHz NMR spectrometer. These setups will be developed further in this project, particularly in terms of probe technology and NMR approach.

• you have an MSc in Chemistry or Physics or a related discipline;
• you are an enthusiastic candidate with a solid background in physical chemistry and with an affinity for out-of-the-box methodology development.

• employment: 1.0 FTE
• a maximum gross monthly salary of € 2,897 based on a 38-hour working week
• the gross starting salary amounts to €2,266 per month, and will increase to €2,897 in the fourth year (P scale)
• in addition to the salary: an 8% holiday allowance and an 8.3% end-of-year bonus
• you will be appointed for an initial period of 18 months, after which your performance will be evaluated. If the evaluation is positive, the contract will be extended by 2.5 years
• you will be classified as a PhD Candidate in the Dutch university job-ranking system (UFO);
• you will be able to make use of our Dual Career Service where our Dual Career Officer will assist with family related support, such as child care, and help your partner prepare for the local labour market and with finding an occupation

 
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The solid-state NMR group at Radboud University is part of the Institute for Materials and Molecules. The motto 'From Molecules to Materials' illustrates our focus on the design, synthesis and characterisation of novel functional systems. The general mission of our NMR group is to develop new methodology to optimise sensitivity and information content of NMR spectra and to apply these methods to target-specific topics in functional molecular systems in terms of local structure and dynamics addressing structure-function relationships. We offer a stimulating and exciting international research environment with state-of-the-art NMR spectrometers.

The advertised position is funded by the Dutch science foundation NWO via Top Institute COAST (www.ti-coast.com). The COAST R&D programme’s overall objective is to advance research, development and technical innovation in analytical science for the benefit of its application areas and science as a whole. In this project two academic groups and three industrial partners cooperate. The combination of academic groups specialising in NMR methodology developments (RU Nijmegen) and separation methodology (UvA), and Bruker and Waters who are the dominating technology providers in the respective NMR and SFC fields, together with Shell as a potential end user of the technology makes a strong consortium to come up with a viable SFC-NMR approach.
 
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