PhD Position in ChemEng

Organisation/Company

Delft University of Technology (TU Delft)

Research Field

Technology

Researcher Profile

First Stage Researcher (R1)

Country

Netherlands

Application Deadline

9 Feb 2024 – 22:59 (UTC)

Type of Contract

Temporary

Job Status

Not Applicable

Hours Per Week

40.0

Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme?

Not funded by an EU programme

Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?

No

Offer Description

Artificial intelligence (AI) promises great advances for the modeling and operation of chemical industrial processes. We are seeking a highly motivated PhD student to work on AI methods and applications in chemical industrial processes.

In this PhD project, you will develop novel tools for the design and operation of chemical processes with AI. You will combine chemical process engineering knowledge with data-driven approaches in an effective way. The methods that you will develop and apply can potentially include hybrid modeling, graph neural networks (GNNs), transformer models and much more.

We support you to become a future leader in AI in chemical engineering. This project will prepare you for a future career in academia and industry.

Start date would be between February 2024 and August 2024.

Requirements
Specific Requirements

We are looking for candidates that meet the following criteria:

• Hold a M.Sc. degree in Chemical Engineering
• Prior expertise in deep learning and data models
• Excellent programming skills in Python are essential. Knowledge of other programming languages is desired.
• Excellent skills in relevant PyTorch are necessary
• Familiarity with version control, for example, git
• Ability to work in a team and mentor other students
• Ability to communicate scientific results
• Excellent oral and written English with good presentation skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with continuous integration and testing pipelines.
• Experience with graph neural networks
• Experience in computer vision (i.e., object detection)

Doing a PhD at TU Delft requires English proficiency at a certain level to ensure that the candidate is able to communicate and interact well, participate in English-taught Doctoral Education courses, and write scientific articles and a final thesis. For more details please check the Graduate Schools Admission Requirements .

Additional Information
Benefits

Doctoral candidates will be offered a 4-year period of employment in principle, but in the form of 2 employment contracts. An initial 1,5 year contract with an official go/no go progress assessment within 15 months. Followed by an additional contract for the remaining 2,5 years assuming everything goes well and performance requirements are met.

Salary and benefits are in accordance with the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities, increasing from € 2770 per month in the first year to € 3539 in the fourth year. As a PhD candidate you will be enrolled in the TU Delft Graduate School. The TU Delft Graduate School provides an inspiring research environment with an excellent team of supervisors, academic staff and a mentor. The Doctoral Education Programme is aimed at developing your transferable, discipline-related and research skills.

The TU Delft offers a customizable compensation package, discounts on health insurance and sport memberships, and a monthly work costs contribution. Flexible work schedules can be arranged.

For international applicants, TU Delft has the Coming to Delft Service . This service provides information for new international employees to help you prepare the relocation and to settle in the Netherlands. The Coming to Delft Service offers a Dual Career Programme for partners and they organize events to expand your (social) network.

Selection process

If you are interested in joining our team, please press the application button below before 09-02-2024 and upload:

• A motivation letter (max 1 page);
• Your curriculum vitae;
• Your BSc and MSc academic records (including courses and grades)

The available position will be filled as soon as possible (i.e. once a suitable candidate is found). This means that the selection of candidates will already start before the application deadline.

A pre-employment screening can be part of the selection procedure.
You can only apply online. We will not process applications sent by email and/or post.
Please do not contact us for unsolicited services.

Additional comments

For more information about this vacancy, please contact Dr. Artur Schweidtmann .

Website for additional job details

https://www.academictransfer.com/337069/

Work Location(s)

Number of offers available

1

Company/Institute

Delft University of Technology

Country

Netherlands

City

Delft

Postal Code

2628 CD

Street

Mekelweg 2

Geofield

Where to apply

Website

https://www.academictransfer.com/en/337069/phd-position-in-chemeng/apply/#apply

Contact

City

Delft

Website

http://www.tudelft.nl/

Street

Mekelweg 2

Postal Code

2628 CD

STATUS: EXPIRED