{"id":222,"date":"2017-04-06T13:44:57","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T12:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/anke.neumann\/?p=222"},"modified":"2017-04-06T15:30:04","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T14:30:04","slug":"phd-opportunity-available-now-closing-date-27-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/anke.neumann\/2017\/04\/06\/phd-opportunity-available-now-closing-date-27-april\/","title":{"rendered":"PhD opportunity available NOW, closing date 27 April 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Neumann group has funding available for one EPSRC PhD studentship in Environmental Engineering, with the topic of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/ceg\/study\/postgraduate\/scholarships\/789enveng\/\"><em>Assessing the sustainability of iron clay mineral redox reactions for application in engineered systems<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Application deadline: 27 April<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Selection interviews: 17-19 May<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Start of studentship: September 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The project aims to provide fundamental understanding to aid in designing effective (natural) remediation strategies as well as engineered water systems such as aquifer storage and recovery. In the project, we will test the validity of the paradigm that iron-bearing clay minerals are a renewable source of reduction equivalents in the environment and expand current knowledge from closed systems to more realistic, flow-through conditions. To this end, we will investigate aspects of reversibility of clay mineral redox reactions; the effect of redox cycling on clay mineral stability and reactivity; and differences between chemical, microbial, and biologically mediated clay mineral iron reduction. We will complement our experimental work with quantitative modeling of the processes involved.<\/p>\n<p>For this project, <span lang=\"EN-GB\">I am looking for a highly motivated candidate with a strong background in environmental chemistry, geochemistry, soil science or a related discipline and with experience in the laboratory. The candidate should be motivated to conduct extensive laboratory work, including aqueous and solid phase analyses (HPLC, ICP-MS, XRD, M\u00f6ssbauer spectroscopy). Experience in any of these techniques would be advantageous<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">.<\/span><br \/>\nThe award is available to UK\/EU applicants only. Depending on how the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.epsrc.ac.uk\/skills\/students\/help\/eligibility\/\">EPSRC\u2019s eligibility criteria<\/a> are met, the applicant\u00a0may be entitled to a full or a partial award.\u00a0For required English language skills (international students only), please see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/postgraduate\/courses\/degrees\/civil-engineering-environmental-mphil-phd\/#entryrequirements\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please contact <a href=\"anke.neumann@ncl.ac.uk\">me<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Neumann group has funding available for one EPSRC PhD studentship in Environmental Engineering, with the topic of Assessing the sustainability of iron clay mineral redox reactions for application in engineered systems. Application deadline: 27 April Selection interviews: 17-19 May Start of studentship: September 2017 The project aims to provide fundamental understanding to aid in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/anke.neumann\/2017\/04\/06\/phd-opportunity-available-now-closing-date-27-april\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PhD opportunity available NOW, closing date 27 April 2017<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/anke.neumann\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/anke.neumann\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/anke.neumann\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/anke.neumann\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/anke.neumann\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/anke.neumann\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229,"href":"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/anke.neumann\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions\/229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/anke.neumann\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/anke.neumann\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/anke.neumann\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}