Postdoctoral Researcher, Corrosion

at  VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd

Are you interested in how corrosion impacts sustainability and looking for a postdoctoral opportunity in the field? Would you like to develop innovative technology with superb colleagues who are top experts in their field? Do you want to build an excellent science career and work at the interface of academy and industry? Are you enthusiastic about working with fascinating projects in state-of-the-art research facilities? VTT might be just the place for you. If you are an international talent searching for a new opportunity, read more about the benefits of living in Finland and VTT’s support for relocation here!
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WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR:

• You have recently (max 5 years ago) gained your doctoral degree in corrosion engineering, materials science or chemistry, or a closely related field.
• You have experience in electrochemistry and knowledge of materials and their characterisation methods.
• You have excellent communication skills in English, both written and spoken.
• You understand also the wider general as well as practical implications of material challenges in the changing industry and society and are willing to tackle those issues
• You have hands-on experience in electrochemistry

• Actively engaging in experimental research, monitoring and modifying the laboratory set ups: participating in conducting experimental work, its analysis and characterisation
• Creating a process to enhance our ability to use and commercialize the research results and data, and how to make our data usable in computational materials science
• Advancing the knowledge of material behaviour in association with alternative fuels and circular economy in specified projects
• Collaborating in research team and project group with co-writing and project work
• Utilizing our existing data and co-writing articles about the results: You’ll use your advanced skills in English to write research reports and publications that help the team communicate its results impactfully
• Tutoring junior team members
• Collaborating in project preparations