UCL Chemistry

The research associate will work with Professor Professor Nora de Leeuw and Professor Jawwad Darr in the Department of Chemistry at University College London. This project is part of an EPSRC grant on ‘Bioinspired nano-catalysts for CO2 Conversion’ which is a collaborative research programme between computational and experimental scientists in UCL Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, the Catalysis Centre on the Harwell Research Campus and the ESRF in Grenoble, with industrial input from Johnson Matthey, Air Fuel Synthesis and PV3 Technologies. The successful candidate will develop and apply novel synthesis techniques for the production of sulfide nano-catalysts in a high pressure continuous hydrothermal flow reactor and their application in a solar driven device for CO2 reduction.

University College London - UCL Department of Chemistry

The UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has recently awarded a series of major grants to work in the area of Sustainable Chemical Feedstocks. UCL leads one of these which focusses on the production of value-added fine chemicals and biopolymers from sugar beet pulp (a major UK resource). The project is in collaboration with Imperial College and the University of Bath and is supported by a Steering Group of 10 leading companies.