PhD Student in Safe and Sustainable Green Electronics

Materials science and technology are our passion. With our cutting-edge research Empas around 1100 employees make essential contributions to the well-being of society for a future worth living. Empa is a research institution of the ETH Domain.

Empas Technology & Society Laboratory (TSL) is dedicated to creating and sharing knowledge supporting the transformation to a sustainable society within planetary boundaries by analyzing and evaluating novel materials and technologies from a circularity life cycle impacts and safety perspective and providing guidance for designing more sustainable materials technologies and systems.

The ERAM group within TSL have great experience in SSbD especially in combining different methods such as modeling mass flows analysis (MFA) Life cycle analysis (LCA) and semi-quantitative methods for decision support for sustainable innovation.

Your tasks

With the PhD work we plan to adapt and advance the SSbD framework in the area of green electronics with a special focus on bio-based materials and an application in agriculture health and textiles in order to identify application fields with high environmental sustainability potentials. This PhD position is part of the project FERNS (Holistic integration of eco-Friendly dEsign tools and mateRials fabrication techNologies for the responsible co-creation of future Sustainable integrated electronic systems) an EU MCSA Doctoral Network with 15 funded 3-year PhD positions in parallel.

Your profile

• Master Degree in environmental / natural sciences or engineering or similar.
• Experience with developing computational models
• Preferably some experience with LCA MFA Risk Assessment green electronics
• Excellent communication skills and fluency in English (both written and oral)

Applicants must not have lived or carried out their main activity in Switzerland for more than 12 months in the past 3 years immediately prior to the Call deadline.

Our offer

You will be based at Empa in St. Gallen (Claudia Som principal supervisor Dr. Roland Hischier and Prof. Dr. Bernd Nowack co-supervisors) and enrolled as a PhD student at CML Leiden University NL (Prof. Jose M. Mogollón doctoral advisor). The Institute of Environmental Sciences at CML has ample expertise in prospective LCA upscaling methodologies for nascent technology development and its integration into SSbD.

We look forward to receiving your complete online application including a letter of motivation CV certificates diplomas and contact details of two reference persons. Please submit these exclusively via our job portal. Applications by e-mail and by post will not be considered.

Sarah Stüdli Bereichspersonalleiterin / HR Partner

Key Skills

Anti Money Laundering,Access Control System,Catering,Assessment,Communication

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1