Tyndall National Institute
Cork, Ireland
Job description
Applications are invited for a 12 month Postdoctoral Researcher position in materials chemistry for the development of a solid state sensor platform for a nationally funded project under the supervision of Dr. Kafil M. Razeeb. The target of this project is to investigate the mitigation of bio-fouling for a multi-analyte nanowire/nanoparticle sweat sensor employing interference modelling methodologies.
This project will aspire to develop a new and low cost, fabrication technique to realise a multi-analyte sensor system using nanomaterials. The aim of this project is to investigate methods for applying solid state metal oxide based pH probe for skin sweat pH and glucose monitoring whilst retaining the sensitivity by eliminating the interference issues through algorithm development. The concept is to fabricate and develop a solid state pH sensor based on nanomaterials and particularly based on metal oxide/metal core/shell 3D nanowire arrays. Through this project, a complete sensor system should be developed based on novel nano-heterostructured catalytic materials and to integrate it with the targeted demonstrator system.
Responsibilities
- To present at international conferences;
- To prepare and submit scientific publications;
- To attend and present project results and work package and project meetings;
- To present the results of these studies to interference modelling partner and integrate the model in characterizing the sensor;
- To perform interference study of the fabricated sensor;
- To evaluate the materials as glucose and pH sensor;
- To fabricate novel nanocatalyst, heterostructured materials for sensor.
Requirements
- The minimum academic qualification is a PhD degree (or an equivalent international degree) in chemistry, materials engineering or related relevant discipline;
- Experience in electrochemistry and related techniques;
- Fabrication of novel catalytic materials using different chemical techniques.