One PhD mobility scholarship within the areas listed above is available at the Department of Physics, Chemistry and Pharmacy as from 1 May, 2012 or shortly thereafter.
This mobility scholarship is intended for students, who are not currently enrolled at or have not previously obtained a degree from the University of Southern Denmark. Applicants with a Master’s degree may apply. A PhD project defined in collaboration with one of the two supervisors listed below is an integral part of the application.
The Department of Physics, Chemistry and Pharmacy employs 36 tenure researchers covering a wide scientific area within life sciences within which the department has several cross-disciplinary activities.
A PhD study at the Faculty of Science is a three-year programme which requires a Master’s degree. The application should include a short proposal outlining a research project within the areas of “Chemical Lake Restoration” or “Drug Transport & Delivery” as described in detail below. This proposal must be written in collaboration with Associate Professor Ulla Gro Nielsen or Professor Martin Brand, respectively.
PhD Project: Chemical Lake Restoration
We have an opening for a PhD project to work on phosphate remediation in freshwater bodies using physical, analytical and environmental chemistry. This interdisciplinary project involves researchers at the Department of Physics, Chemistry, and Pharmacy (PCP) and Centre for Lake Restoration (CLEAR), Institute of Biology, University of Southern Denmark.
The project aims at achieving a molecular level understanding of current and potentially new inorganic materials used to restore freshwater systems. This project will investigate how the chemical structure of these materials dictate their ability to selectively sequester phosphate and further study the stability of the products in the environment. The project combines analytical chemistry with NMR spectroscopy (liquid and solid state) with limnology.
PhD Project: Drug Transport & Delivery
The successful candidate will conduct a PhD project within drug transport and delivery, more precisely dealing with drugs of limited solubility and/or oral bioavailability as well as formulation strategies to overcome such challenges.
The project includes investigation into solubility, dissolution and in-vitro permeability properties of drugs, by using approaches developed in our team, as well as novel NMR- methods currently under development. Our aim is to better understand the mechanisms behind bioavailability-improvement especially of solubility-enhancing formulations.
PhD Scholarship in Pharmaceutics or Environmental Chemistry
