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At the Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology (HIF), innovative technologies for the circular economy are developed to provide and use mineral and metal-bearing raw materials more efficiently and to recycle them in an environmentally friendly way.
The Group Electron Beam Analytics within the Department of Analytics is looking for a PhD Student (f/m/d) - Development and implementation of an automated workflow for multi-element deportment analysis using TIMA (TESCAN SEM).

• Development of an automated workflow for deportment studies based exclusively on SEM-based mineralogical data
• Implementation of the automated workflow into the control system of the TIMA instrument for a freely definable number of chemical elements
• Estimation of the overall uncertainty of the methodology based on independent analytical data and bootstrapping-based statistical methods
• Estimation of the relationship between analytical effort and total uncertainty in order to make the methodology applicable to different commodities
• Scientific publication activity