The BIOTRAINS project (FP7 Marie Curie ITN People Programme) is looking to recruit a number of Early Stage researchers (ESRs, 0-4 years research experience after graduation)  to these prestigious positions. Successful candidates will have the opportunity to work within a highly collaborative and interdisciplinary network of leading researchers, with the specific aim to develop the skills needed for the white biotechnology industries. As well as training within a highly respected research group opportunities for exchange experience with other groups in the network and placement with an industrial mentor with some of the most respected European industrialists exist in this program.  We particularly encorage women to apply for these positions. 

 

We are looking for highly motivated researchers with degrees in chemistry, biochemistry, biology or related engineering sciences. Please email your letter of application, curriculum vitae and contact details of two referees, specifying the name of the relevant PI (see list below), to john.whittall@manchester.ac.uk by 31st July 2009.

 

Please note that the following criteria apply: the candidate should not have resided or worked in the host country for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to the date of selection.

 

Professor Nicholas Turner, University of Manchester, UK

 

Dr Gideon Grogan, University of York, UK

 

Professor Thomas Ward, University of Basel, Switzerland

 

Professor Isabel Arends/ Dr Frank Hollmann, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands

 

Professor Roger Sheldon, CLEA Technologies B.V., the Netherlands

 

Professor Vicente Gotor, Oviedo University, Spain

 

Professor Martina Pohl, Forschungszentrum Jülich Gmbh (FZJ), Germany

 

Professor Bo Mattiasson/ Professor Rajni Hatti-Kaul, Lund University, Sweden

 

Professor John Woodley, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

 

Professor Wolfgang Kroutil, University of Graz, Austria

 

Professor Andreas Schmid, TU Dortmund, Germany