Materials Chemist

**Materials Chemist**

**Competitive Salary**

**6 Month fixed-term contract**

**What You’ll Do**:

- Work independently within the laboratory to transfer computational designs into real-life materials.
- Use existing synthesis procedures to experimentally synthesize new porous materials.
- Characterize materials using techniques such as Powder X-Ray diffraction and other suitable analytical methods such as SEM and/or elemental analysis
- Gather all relevant data and report results in the form of a scientific report

**Who You’ll Be**:

- Have a PhD or equivalent in Materials Chemistry or related discipline
- Be experienced in carrying out the synthesis of porous materials using a variety of synthetic routes
- Be able to carry our analytical testing to confirm type, purity and crystallinity of the sample using methods such as Powder X-Ray diffraction and SEM
- Be able and willing to work independently and plan workload efficiently
- Experience working in industry would be beneficial but not essential
- Experience in computational chemistry would be advantageous but not essential.

On this occasion LiCa Scientific is acting as an employment agency.