Department/Location: Department of Chemistry

We invite applications for a PhD studentship to start in October 2015 to work in the Reisner group's Christian Doppler Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. The project will focus on developing a chemical process that captures and stores the energy from sunlight in a chemical fuel by a process known as artificial photosynthesis. The inexpensive capture and storage of the energy in abundant sunlight in the form of a renewable fuel is of major scientific and societal interest.

The PhD student will thereby work in a collaborative, international and multi-disciplinary research environment ranging from synthetic molecular and materials chemistry to spectroscopy, electrochemistry, photo-catalysis and engineering. Further information about the work of the Reisner group and the Christian Doppler Laboratory is available at: http://www-reisner.ch.cam.ac.uk/

The applicant should have (or expect to obtain) the equivalent of a UK first class honours degree (and preferably a Masters degree) in a scientific discipline that is relevant to the project. The studentship will cover tuition fees and an annual maintenance grant for EU nationals. Non-EU nationals will be considered only if they can cover the differential for overseas tuition fees.

Applications should include a cover letter, CV, detailed academic transcripts and the contact details for at least two academic referees, and should be sent by email to Mrs Inger Lomax, Reisner group administrator (pa-reisner<στο>ch.cam.ac.uk), to whom any informal enquiries can be addressed.

Please quote reference MA04987 on your application and in any correspondence about this vacancy.

Closing date: 15 January 2015