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ORGANISATION/COMPANYElvesys
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RESEARCH FIELDPhysics › Applied physics
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RESEARCHER PROFILEFirst Stage Researcher (R1)
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APPLICATION DEADLINE15/12/2019 12:00 - Europe/Brussels
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LOCATIONFrance › PARIS
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TYPE OF CONTRACTTemporary
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JOB STATUSFull-time
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HOURS PER WEEK35
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OFFER STARTING DATE01/01/2020
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EU RESEARCH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMMEH2020 / Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
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MARIE CURIE GRANT AGREEMENT NUMBER812780
OFFER DESCRIPTION
You do not recognize yourself in the academic world?
You want to combine entrepreneurship and PhD?
You feel ready to work on an interdisciplinary research project?
IMPORTANT: You must not have spent time in France more than 12 months during the 3 past years.
Start: January 2020
Place: based in PARIS – 6 months in Germany, 1 month in Switzerland, 1 month in Italy
Areas of expertise: Physics, Engineering, Chemistry
Type of financing: MSCA-ITN Active Matter — PhD Position for 3 Years
Key Words: microfluidics, chemistry, physics, engineering, active matter
About us:
In short, Elvesys is THE Microfluidic Innovation Center. Our start-up is based in the most beautiful place, Paris!
The company was founded by 3 former researchers in microfluidics. Our mission? To make instruments that go beyond the state-of-the-art to help researchers to surpass the state-of-the-art in their own field.
Since 2011, we have also created a dozen innovative companies that cover all the aspects of microfluidics. All those companies now make up the Microfluidic Valley and we work in close collaboration with them.
About the PhD:
A PhD at Elvesys has nothing to do with a typical PhD. You will be immersed in a start-up with a strong entrepreneurial and innovative spirit. You will start your PhD with three months of entrepreneurship. Your mission: bring to the market a new product. This experience will allow you to learn entrepreneurship basis. After these 3 months of training you will continue working on an entrepreneurial project in parallel to your scientific project.
The scientific project: You will be involved in an innovative consortium with partners from the whole Europe in the project which aims to achieve the full potential of active matter in real-life settings.
To develop a microfluidic platform using elegant flow management to study and characterize active matter generated by photoactivated catalytic reactions in picoliter droplets. Future applications of this platform comprise drug delivery, water treatment, sensor development, nano/micro motors, among others.
About You:
Your background: A master degree/level in a “hard science” (whether it is chemistry, physics, microfluidics, …).
Your personality: You like to think “outside the box”, to be put out of your comfort zone. You would like to take up the challenge of doing a lot with little. You are able to adapt yourself quickly in a changing environment. You have team spirit and like to share your scientific problematics with a multicultural and diverse environment.
Why should you join us?
Because you want to do a PhD in a stimulating environment and to create the new marketable microfluidics innovation!
Send us your CV at: rh@elvesys.com
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Offer Requirements
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REQUIRED EDUCATION LEVELPhysics: Master Degree or equivalent
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REQUIRED LANGUAGESENGLISH: Good
Specific Requirements
You must not have spent time in France more than 12 months during the 3 past years and you need to have done less than 4 years of full time research after the obtention of your master degree (or equivalent).
EURAXESS offer ID: 460704
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