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Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia (ICN2) @icn2.bsky.social · 2d

📢 NEW JOB OFFER❗

➡️ 𝐏𝐡𝐃 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭
🤝 For our @wearenanoup.bsky.social, led by ICREA Prof. Daniel Maspoch

🎯 More details and application here! 👉 https://f.mtr.cool/jhrxugnirw
🔃 Feel free to spread the word with your contacts!

#PhDPosition #ClipOff #BarcelonaJobs

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Ivy Tsang @ivymytw.bsky.social · 9d

We have a 2 years (24 months) fixed term industrial postdoc position open for ammonia capture using porous liquids. Deadline is next week!
www.euraxess.pl/jobs/376594

Senior Specialist - Rresearch Engineer in Functional Macromolecules and Porous Materials Research Group

The postdoctoral researcher position is a fixed term contract for 2 years (48 months).

www.euraxess.pl

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Van Slageren Group @agvsl.bsky.social · 12d

We are looking for postdoctoral candidates in the areas of organic electronics, operando spectroscopy in catalysis, advanced EPR. CV and cover letter to [email protected], stating what complementary expertise you bring and why our group interests you.

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Kim Jelfs @jelfschem.bsky.social · 23d

📣 PhD position now open for Oct 2026 start based at @imperialchemistry.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/PhDFDF. An interdisciplinary project combining experimental
& computational materials discovery in a collaborative Royal Society-funded team. Co-supervised by @beckylgreenaway.bsky.social.

PhD position available in Experimental and Computational Organic Materials Discovery at Imperial College London on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - PhD position available in Experimental and Computational Organic Materials Discovery at Imperial College London, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Robert Mulvey @remglasgow.bsky.social · 25d

Congratulations to the colleagues in the chemistry dept @unistrathclyde.bsky.social for their hard work and dedication and for creating the people-oriented environment in which we work daily that makes such accolades possible
@rsc.org

www.theguardian.com/education/ng...

Best UK universities for chemistry – league table

The science of matter – the composition of substances, their properties and reactions

www.theguardian.com

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Gavin Craig @g-craig.bsky.social · 29d

To be fair, I took about 17 seconds to come to the wrong answer. Marginal gains and all that.

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martaestrader.bsky.social @martaestrader.bsky.social · Sep 8

We offer a 4-years fully funded PhD position in magneto-semiconductor nanomaterials at the Faculty of Chemistry (Barcelona). LM2N reserach group.
Deadline 06/10/2024. More info 👇

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Gavin Craig @g-craig.bsky.social · Sep 6

Really happy to see this team effort out in Angew. Chem., where we used 3D electron diffraction to observe a metal-organic polyhedron-to-polymer transition, and observe the activated phase.

Big thanks to @leverhulme.ac.uk for supporting our work on this.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

A Metal‐Organic Polyhedron‐to‐Coordination Polymer Transition Revealed by 3D Electron Diffraction

Here, we show that 3D electron diffraction (3D ED) is an effective technique to observe structural transformations in porous metal-organic polyhedra (MOPs), as well as for obtaining the structure of ....

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Frederik Haase @frederikhaase.bsky.social · Sep 3

Come join our team! We have a PhD position available on noncovalent interactions in COFs. The position is part of the BEAM graduate school. (Details in the alt text)

PhD Position:
One fully-funded doctoral student (m/f/d) position (salary level 65% E13) is available in the group of Jun.-Prof. Frederik Haase at the MLU Halle in Germany (https://www.chemie.uni-halle.de/AK_Haase).
Self-organization in covalent organic frameworks via multiple noncovalent interactions
This project is part of the BEAM: Beyond Amphiphilicity graduate school that also offering career development courses. Applicants must have a completed or soon to be completed scientific university degree (Diploma or Master's) in chemistry, have a solid background in organic chemistry and an interest in organic solid-state chemistry.
Very good knowledge of written and spoken English is required.
Please send your application until 8. September 2025 to frederik.haase@chemie.uni-halle.de. The application should include a cover letter and CV that include your previous research experience.
For the full application text see:
https://www.verwaltung.uni-halle.de/dezern3/ausschr/25_5_8919_25_D_engl.pdf

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Frederik Haase @frederikhaase.bsky.social · Sep 2

We have an independent Junior Group leader position advertised at MLU Halle for female candidates only! Please share this with anyone that might be interested.
(full text in the alt text and under www.verwaltung.uni-halle.de/dezern3/Auss...)

The Faculty of Natural Sciences II at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg located in Halle (Saale),
Germany, offers a 4-year fixed-term position of a
Junior Research Group Leader (f)
focusing on research into polymeric and self-organized materials, to be investigated with modern
experimental methods with regards to their structure and dynamics.
As a junior research group leader, you will pursue a larger research project with your own budget,
hosted by the Institutes of Chemistry and Physics, where you can use our state-of-the-art facilities
including x-ray scattering, solid-state NMR, EPR, rheology, fast DSC, AFM and many more.
You can fill the position of a doctoral researcher as soon as the junior research group is established.
Both you and the doctoral researcher will be associated with the Research Training Group RTG 2670
"Beyond Amphiphilicity" (https://beam.uni-halle.de/).
Additional positions might be obtained through further third-party funding.
You have the opportunity to qualify for a professorship (e.g. habilitation) and gain the necessary
teaching experience. By requirement of the funding body, this opening is directed to female
researchers on an advanced-stage post-doctoral level.
For details we refer to the official job opening at https://www.verwaltung.unihalle.
de/dezern3/Ausschr/25_5_7917_25_H_engl.pdf. Please send your electronic application
including your academic CV, list of publications, a research concept (3-5 pages) and, if applicable, a list
of previous third-party funding and teaching activities to Rositta Mothes: rositta.mothes@physik.unihalle.
de. Please include a reference to Reg.-Nr. 5-7917/25-H. The deadline is October 6, 2025 (an
extension by 2 weeks may be granted).

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Robert Mulvey @remglasgow.bsky.social · Aug 29

@usic-2025.bsky.social excellent talk from Megan Wilkinson of the @g-craig.bsky.social in a pedagogical style easy for non experts to understand
@rsc.org

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Petra Agota Szilagyi @paszilagyi.bsky.social · Aug 28

📢A great opportunity to be involved in an @erc.europa.eu Synergy project: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬⚗️

Should go without saying, but... as it is a position in XAS, experience in XAS is mandatory.
Please re-post.

Researcher in X-ray absorption spectroscopy of metal-organic frameworks for C-H activation (285599) | University of Oslo

Job title: Researcher in X-ray absorption spectroscopy of metal-organic frameworks for C-H activation (285599), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Thursday, September 18, 2025

www.jobbnorge.no

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RSC Porous Materials Interest Group @rsc-pormat.bsky.social · Jul 25

Still time to register for our next online seminar, given by Pierre Karam and Sara Realista - registration link below.

RSC Porous Materials Interest Group @rsc-pormat.bsky.social · Jul 18

After a break, our next PorMat Webinar is on Tuesday 29th of July at 10:00 UK time:

Pierre Karam - Smart Luminescent MOFs: Dual Strategies for Thermal Sensing and Structural Design
and
Sara Realista - Exploring MOFs for CO2 Electrocatalysis.

Registration: attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/560...

Slide advertising online seminars by Pierre Karam and Sara Realista

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RSC Porous Materials Interest Group @rsc-pormat.bsky.social · Jul 18

After a break, our next PorMat Webinar is on Tuesday 29th of July at 10:00 UK time:

Pierre Karam - Smart Luminescent MOFs: Dual Strategies for Thermal Sensing and Structural Design
and
Sara Realista - Exploring MOFs for CO2 Electrocatalysis.

Registration: attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/560...

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Jamie Lewis @lewischemistry.bsky.social · Jun 13

We have a 3-year postdoc position available, starting in October, to work on molecular capsules for catalysis. Click on the link below to apply! 👇 Happy to have informal chats about the post - send me an email. Application deadline 6 July. edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... #chemsky

Research Fellow - School of Chemistry - 105878 - Grade 7

To create and contribute to the creation of knowledge by undertaking a specified range of activities within an established research programme and/or specific research project.

edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com

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Martijn Zwijnenburg @zwijcompchem.bsky.social · Jun 3

Come and join us. Lecturer position available in Inorganic and Materials Chemistry at @uclchemistry.bsky.social in London, open to experimental, theoretical, computational, & digital inorganic and materials chemists with big ideas.

Please share ! Deadline 24-June

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

www.ucl.ac.uk

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RSC Porous Materials Interest Group @rsc-pormat.bsky.social · May 19

***REGISTRATION EXTENDED! Final deadline 23rd May***

RSC Porous Materials Interest Group @rsc-pormat.bsky.social · May 14

#UKPorMat2025 is fast approaching & registration is still open at the moment

ukpormat.com

Not only do we have an outstanding invited speaker list, we're delighted to be able to advertise the rest of our fantastic lineup.

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Dr Andrea Laybourn @andrealaybourn.bsky.social · May 12

📢 We are hiring!!
3 year PDRA available in our group on self-optimising flow microwave platforms for #MOFs At Leeds Uni, UK, with me & Rich Bourne. ⏰ Deadline: 8th June. #flowchemistry #automation #chemjobs #chemsky
@universityofleeds.bsky.social Info & to apply:
jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Research Fellow in Automation and Flow Reactor Engineering

Are you an experienced and ambitious researcher looking for your next challenge? Do you want to further your career in one of the UK’s leading research-intensive Universities? Are you looking to apply...

jobs.leeds.ac.uk

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Gavin Craig @g-craig.bsky.social · Apr 25

I’ve got a song for take off and landing too. I’m not qualified to say whether it’s normal or not though.

(Immigrant Song - Led Zeppelin).

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RSC Porous Materials Interest Group @rsc-pormat.bsky.social · Mar 24

Still time to register for tomorrow's webinar!

Details below

RSC Porous Materials Interest Group @rsc-pormat.bsky.social · Mar 21

Our next Porous Materials webinar is this Tuesday at 14:00 UK time, the speakers are Sadhan Jana & Marc Little

Register here:
attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/756...

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RSC Porous Materials Interest Group @rsc-pormat.bsky.social · Mar 21

Our next Porous Materials webinar is this Tuesday at 14:00 UK time, the speakers are Sadhan Jana & Marc Little

Register here:
attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/756...

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Tim Easun @timeasun.bsky.social · Mar 14

This year's Annual UK Porous Materials conference is on June 3/4 at @uobchemistry.bsky.social in Birmingham - registration and abstract submission are open and it's going to be great!

More details here:

www.ukpormat.com
#ChemSky

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Gavin Craig @g-craig.bsky.social · Mar 13

Delighted to see the facecake reaching a wider audience - it was quite something.

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RSC Porous Materials Interest Group @rsc-pormat.bsky.social · Feb 4

Exciting news - our 8th Annual UK Porous Materials Conference (UKPorMat) will be held at Birmingham 3-4 June and is open for abstract submission and early bird registration.

www.rsc.org/events/detai...

8th Annual UK Porous Materials Conference (UKPorMat)

www.rsc.org

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