PhD Studentships

Application Process:

We have vacancies for a number of fully funded PhD positions across AMBER for enrolment in 2018. Studentships must have started by Sept/Oct 2018. To apply please review the projects listed below. Submit your CV, a cover letter explaining your interest in the programme and a maximum of 3 project selections that are of interest to you to colm.faulkner@tcd.ie. Not all applications will be funded.

Closing Date:

Friday 29th June 2018

PhD Studentship - A Smart Biosensing Cell Reservoir For Treatment of Diabetes

PhD Studentship – Corrosion and Surface Properties of Medical Implant Devices

PhD Studentship - Design and exploration of Immobilised Transition Metal Catalysts in Continuous Flow Processing for API synthesis

PhD Studentship - Design and synthesis of new biomimetic materials with tunable biodistribution profiles, as conjugates to RNAs in gene therapy

PhD Studentship - Design and Synthesis of Surface Immobilised Additives to Improve Engine Efficiency and Cleanliness

PhD Studentship – Develop Novel Translational Imaging Methods to Transition AMBER-Developed Joint Repair Materials into Clinical Practice

PhD Studentship - Developing Innovative Injectable Collagen-Bioceramic Composites for Medical Devices

PhD Studentship - Developing next generation lithium ion battery electrodes using nanoscience

PhD Studentship - Development of a 3D scaffold-based cell culture platform for oncology drug design and screening

PhD Studentship – Development of next generation transcutaneous heart valves with long-term durability and reduced risk of calcification

PhD Studentship - Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction at Single Au and Cu Nanoparticles

PhD Studentship - Engineering the Bone-Cartilage Interface for Joint Repair

PhD Studentship - Evaluation of Additive Manufacturing as a Novel Fabrication Route for High-performance Electron Microscopy

PhD Studentship – Finish machining of orthopaedic implants

PhD Studentship – Immune modulating biological scaffolds for functional tissue regeneration

PhD Studentship - Industrial Mineral Ore Sorting by Selective Microwave Heating

PhD Studentship - Infrared Plasmonic Behavior of 2D and 3D Patterned Conducting Polymer Metamaterials

PhD Studentship - Additive manufacturing approach to particle engineering for drug delivery

PhD Studentship – Mechanotransducing Magnetic Biomaterials

PhD Studentship - Novel polypeptide bioinks for 3D printing of bioactive scaffolds for tissue engineering applications

PhD Studentship - Novel Porphyrin Functionalised Nanoribbon Devices: Towards Integrated Functional Nanoribbon Electronics

PhD Studentship – Printable soft matter with self-healable and tuneable properties through supramolecular engineering

PhD Studentship - Simulation of switching mechanism of 2-D materials for flexible electronics

PhD Studentship - Simultaneous Exfoliation and Functionalization of Graphene in Water: Towards Bio-Useful Graphene

PhD Studentship - Smart Inverse Piezoelectric Biomaterials for Cardiac Organoid Engineering

PhD Studentship in SoDHA (solution deposit of Hydroxyapatite)

PhD Studentship - Soft Bio-inspired Micro-robotics

PhD Studentship – Optically active artificial chiral structures for chirality sensing

PhD Studentship - Targeted Nanotherapy for Pancreatic Cancer Treatment

PhD Studentship - Development of an Implantable Bioengineered Tracheal Scaffold for Respiratory Tissue Regeneration

PhD Studentship - The development of smart 4-D materials utilising melt processed stimuli sensitive polymers

PhD Studentship - Timed to Perfection: Development of a novel circadian drug delivery platform and its application in osteoarthritis

PhD Studentship – 3D Printing – Understanding microstructural effects due to changes in process parameters

SFI Industry Fellowship

The SFI Industry Fellowship Programme aims to enhance industry-academia collaborations, and to stimulate excellence through the funding of collaborative industry-academia research projects. This is realised via secondment of academic researchers in industry, or of industry researchers in academia.

If funded, the AMBER centre places researchers, on-site with collaborating companies for 1 year full time or 2 years part time. Alternately it hosts industry researchers on-site. Some applicants transition to full time roles in industry partners, subsequent to completion of the project. Other fellows have leveraged the secondment for: [1] preparation of large scale successfully funded H2020 funding applications; [2] publication of high impact academic publications; [3] pathfinding/seeding new collaborative research projects; [4] the development of new intellectual property.

To date AMBER has placed candidates across Ireland, Europe and the US addressing challenges in materials research for applications ranging across Bioengineering, Energy, ICT, and Medical Devices.

The next call deadline is Nov 26th - http://www.sfi.ie/funding/funding-calls/sfi-industry-fellowship-programme/. Typically there are 2 calls per annum. Companies or researchers interested in prospective applications can contact colm.faulker@tcd.ie for further information/informal discussions.

PhD, PostDocs in Biomaterial Scaffold Development

2 Postdoc and 2 PhD positions are available with Dr Cathal Kearney in RCSI arising from his ERC Horizon 2020 Starter Grant funded in the area of biomaterial scaffold development for diabetic foot ulcers. There are several parallel arms to the project that will look at aspects of scaffold design, on-demand drug delivery, nucleic acid delivery and induced pluripotent stem cells.

Postdoc – iPSCs and Scaffold - https://my.corehr.com/pls/coreportal_rcsip/erq_jobspec_details_form.jobspec?p_id=013127

Postdoc – biomaterials - https://my.corehr.com/pls/coreportal_rcsip/erq_jobspec_details_form.jobspec?p_id=013126

PhD – iPSCs and Scaffold - https://my.corehr.com/pls/coreportal_rcsip/erq_jobspec_details_form.jobspec?p_id=013125

PhD – On Demand Delivery - https://my.corehr.com/pls/coreportal_rcsip/erq_jobspec_details_form.jobspec?p_id=013145

Open Call for EDGE Scholarship Applications

EDGE is led by Trinity College Dublin on behalf of 10 Irish academic institutions of excellence. In our 2nd call we expect to award up to 45 Fellowships, each 24-months duration, who will relocate to Ireland to join expert supervisors in the ICT (networks, date and materials) field. Career progression is a primary aim of MSCA schemes, and we will provide comprehensive training and development to our Fellows to support their growth as independent research professionals. Researchers currently residing outside of Ireland, with a PhD or equivalent status, can apply by submitting a research proposal before the Call deadline on 1st November 2017.

Before beginning the application process, applicants should:
1. review the eligibility criteria and other information on our website - http://www.edge-research.eu
2. contact a prospective supervisor from those listed on the programme website to gain their support

Research Themes
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- Future Networks & Communications
- Advanced Materials & Bioengineering
- Digital Content & Media Technologies

Full topic list: http://edge-research.eu/fellowships/research-themes/

Contact: Richard Twohig, EDGE Programme Manager: edge@tcd.ie

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 713567.