IMDEA Energy
Madrid, Spain
The IMDEA Energy Institute is a Research Centre created by the Regional Government of “Comunidad de Madrid” to develop world-class R&D on clean and renewable energy. The ultimate goal of the IMDEA Energy Institute is to achieve outstanding scientific and technological contributions for reaching a sustainable energy system. The IMDEA Energy Institute is expected to strength and to have a significant impact on the R&D activities on energy themes by bringing together high quality researchers, providing them with excellent infrastructures and resources, and promoting their close collaboration with the industrial sector.
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Madrid, Spain
The IMDEA Energy Institute is a Research Centre created by the Regional Government of “Comunidad de Madrid” to develop world-class R&D on clean and renewable energy. The ultimate goal of the IMDEA Energy Institute is to achieve outstanding scientific and technological contributions for reaching a sustainable energy system. The IMDEA Energy Institute is expected to strength and to have a significant impact on the R&D activities on energy themes by bringing together high quality researchers, providing them with excellent infrastructures and resources, and promoting their close collaboration with the industrial sector.
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Applications are invited for a Postdoc Position in Biotechnological Processes for Energy Production Unit at IMDEA Energy (Spain). This Unit is looking for a motivated postdoctoral researcher to join a research project dealing with the improvement of bioethanol production. The strategy will be focused on engineering non-cellulolytic organisms that exhibit high product yields and titers to express a heterologous cellulase system enabling cellulose utilization.
• The successful candidate will join the Biotechnological Processes for Energy Production Unit to reinforce the research line “Biofuel production using biotechnological approaches”.
• Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowships (IEF) offers a 2-year contract. The call deadline is 16th August 2012.
• Furthermore, the selected candidate will participate in some other activities of the Unit including yeast and microalgae genetic modification.
• We offer very interesting salary conditions according to Marie Curie rules.
• Candidates should have a PhD degree or 4 years of research experience (full-time) and not have lived/worked in Spain for more than 12 months in the last 3 years.
• Candidates with a strong background in biochemistry and biofuels are searched.
• Candidates with a strong background in biochemistry and biofuels are searched.
For more information about the Marie Curie call, please visit:http://ec.europa.eu/.../people?callIdentifier=FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IEF
Applicants should send a letter of interest and a CV to: cristina.gonzalez@imdea.org
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