Research grant for Doctors (1 vacancy) REFERÊNCIA: BI/CITAB/UTAD/QUI/2015
It is available one research grant for a PhD candidate, within the Research Unit CITAB – Centre for The Research and Technology of Agro-Environmental and Biological Sciences (AGR-Norte-VilaReal-4033) from the Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal, funded by national funds through FCT, under the following conditions: Scientific area: Chemistry Admission prerequisites: 1 – PhD in Chemistry, Biological or Biochemistry Sciences. 2 - Experience in the assessment of chemical and phytochemical composition resorting to chromatographic techniques as well as experience in the evaluation of nutritional and phytochemical contents, as well as antioxidant activity, through standard methodologies; 3 – The candidate has to present a strong background regarding vibrational spectroscopy, so as the usage of multivariate statistical approaches for the development of prediction models; 4 - Further, given the increasing internationalization of CITAB, the candidate should present a good command of written and spoken English, presenting international experience proven by research work developed in foreign institutions. Work plan: Regarding the present goals of this task, as well as the new trends to be considered within this research area, it is crucial to hire a PhD staff, able to develop these tasks in close cooperation with the CITAB researchers already involved in these goals, as well as to approach the new challenges that this research area implies, thus taking advantage of CITAB’s resources and available technologies, within the laboratories involved in the research and discovery of new bio-based products, so as in the valorisation of co-products. Besides the development of distinct tasks autonomously, respecting the research work, the candidate has to present the ability to undertake multidisciplinary works, so as to develop collaborations with distinct partners, either from different CITAB associated labs or stakeholders, contributing actively for the design of the experimental works. This implies the ability to introduce the spectroscopical analytical procedures in distinct projects, besides being capable of establishing working relationships with distinct partners.