Open Positions


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Postdoctoral Positions

Postdoctoral Researcher Position in Synthetic Polymer Chemistry
(Earliest start date: Summer/Fall 2025)

Prof. Suong NGUYEN

Prof. Xile HU

1. Chemical biology / biophysics of gene regulation

2. Chemical biology of the cytoskeleton

Prof. Beat FIERZ



The Laboratory for Functional Inorganic Materials (LFIM) at EPFL in Switzerland
is looking to hire two postdoctoral collaborators, which have a background in
chemical and/or process engineering. The positions are focused on implementing CO2 adsorbents in a medium-scale (kg) demonstrators for post-combustion and direct air capture

Prof. Wendy QUEEN


Post-doc Position in Peptide Engineering and Diagnostic Assay Development in the Laboratory of Therapeutic Proteins and Peptides

Prof. Christian HEINIS


Mass spectrometry/spectroscopy of biomolecules

Adj. Prof. Oleg BOYARKINE


Postdoctoral researcher position  in the Laboratory of Advanced Separations

Prof. Kumar Varoon AGRAWAL



The Laboratory for Computational Molecular Design has two available positions

at the interface between quantum chemistry and machine learning.

Prof. Clémence CORMINBOEUF


The Laboratory for Functional Inorganic Materials (LFIM) is interested in hiring a postdoctoral collaborator to focus on the design of nano-delivery systems.

Prof. Wendy QUEEN


Research in designing photoelectrochemical devices for artificial photosynthesis Prof. Michael GRÄTZEL

Position 1: NMR spectroscopy Prof. Lyndon EMSLEY
Position 2: Computational aspects of NMR spectroscopy

Material synthesis and characterization, for catalytic applications Prof. Jeremy LUTERBACHER

 

Ph.D Positions

These positions requires acceptance in the Doctoral Program of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, for which candidates are encouraged to fill an online application simultaneously at: https://www.epfl.ch/education/phd/edch-chemistry-and-chemical-engineering/edch-for-applicants/

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3 Ph.D. Positions 
Liquid Flat Jets (LFJ) to study liquid-liquid interface dynamics.

Prof. Andreas OSTERWALDER



in the Laboratory of Inorganic Synthesis and Catalysis

Prof. Xile HU

Ph.D. Position in
Combinatorial Library Synthesis / High-Throughput Screening / Macrocycle Drug Development

Note: for this PhD position in the Heinis lab, the funding instrument requires that candidates
must not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in Switzerland
for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately before the recruitment date

Prof. Christian HEINIS


Ph.D. position: Multi-objective Optimization of Carbon Capture Processes
(Earliest start date: March 2025)

Ph.D. position: Optimization of Hybrid Processes for Direct Air Capture
(Earliest start date: March 2025)

Dr. Marina MICARI
SNSF Ambizione Group Leader

Up to 3 Ph.D. Positions in Synthetic Polymer Chemistry
(Earliest start date: April 2025)

Prof. Suong NGUYEN

Ph.D. Position in Ultrafast Spectroscopy

Prof. Sascha FELDMANN

Chemical biology / biophysics of gene regulation

Prof. Beat FIERZ


Ph.D. and Postdoc Positions in Time-Resolved Electron Microscopy in
the Laboratory of Molecular Nanodynamics (LND)
Prof. Ulrich LORENZ

Laboratory of Computational Systems Biotechnology offers 2 Open Positions starting time-frame beginning 2022.

Prof. Vassily HATZIMANIKATIS



The Laboratory for Computational Molecular Design has available positions
at the interface between quantum chemistry and machine learning as well
as in data-driven projects in the field of homogeneous catalysis.

Prof. Clémence CORMINBOEUF



2 PhD positions to work on “f elements and small molecule activation Prof. Marinella MAZZANTI

Designing novel adsorbents for the extraction of contaminates from water Prof. Wendy QUEEN

Ultrafast x-ray spectroscopy for energy transfer processes in molecules Prof. Christoph BOSTEDT
Single-shot imaging of individual nanoparticles

NMR crystallography Prof. Lyndon EMSLEY

 

Master Projects

2 Master projects in “Machine Learning Modelling of Carbon Capture Processes”  hosted by the Laboratory of Advanced Separations at ISIC

Dr. Marina MICARI
SNSF Ambizione Group Leader


  • Project 1: Development of a method to quantify light sources of photochemical reactions in the context of an automated HTE laboratory.
  • Project 2: Already assigned
  • Project 3: Already assigned
  • Project 4: Development of an automated solid properties testing station
  • Project 5 : Development of an automated and multiplexed kinetic analysis setup based on FT-IR and NMR
  • Project 6: Development of a 2D RPLC-SPE-SFC method
  • Project 7: Development of a chained LC-Prep -> multispectrophotometry setup
    In the
EPFL SB ISIC Swiss Cat+

Master’s Thesis in Materials Chemistry/Spectroscopy/Optoelectronics

Prof. Sascha FELDMANN


Master’s project in chemistry/chemical engineering Characterization and bench-marking of transport properties two-dimensional membranes for dissolved gas extraction in aquatic environments at LAS

Prof. Kumar Varoon AGRAWAL


Master project available at LAS relating to chemistry and engineering of
two-dimensional materials at the angstrom scale

Prof. Kumar Varoon AGRAWAL


Incubating filter technologies Research project in the group of Prof. Wendy QUEEN / LFIM, under the supervision of Daniel SUN