奥地利维也纳天然物和应用生命科学大学化学工程博士后岗位
InstitutionUniversity of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences Vienna PositionPostdoc Position Available(http://www.map.boku.ac.at/157...)LocationVienna A-1180 AustriaDate PostedJanuary 31 2008D ...
Institution
University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna
Position
Postdoc Position Available(http://www.map.boku.ac.at/157...)
Location
Vienna A-1180 Austria
Date Posted
January 31, 2008
Date Expires
March 27, 2008
Description
Molecular Modelling and Simulation in Chemical Engineering: Adsorptionfrom aqueous solutions
The Priority Research Program ‘Molecular Modelling and Simulation inChemical Engineering’ with international participation is financed byDeutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. In this program, the project‘Adsorption from aqueous solutions’ was granted to our Institute ofChemical and Energy Engineering in Vienna, Austria.
Adsorption from liquid solutions and in particular from aqueoussolutions is of great practical interest. Molecular modelling of thisprocess, however, is less developed than for adsorption from the gasphase. An additional challenge is adsorption from dilute or demixingsolutions. So far, we have modelled adsorption via the Potential of MeanForce (PMF), which is determined by integration of the mean forcecalculated with MD simulations [1-3]. Future work shall concentrate onthe improvement of the method by non-equilibrium MD simulations ordensity functional theory [4]. Finally, the results shall be used fordeveloping engineering models.
The position is open for a postdoc for a period of two years and is paidaccording to Austrian FWF conditions(http://www.fwf.ac.at/de/projects/personalkostensaetze_2008.html).
Contact
Please send applications with CV and list of publications to ProfessorM. Wendland by mail (Institut für Verfahrens- und Energietechnik,Universität für Bodenkultur, 1190 Muthgasse 107, Wien, Austria) ore-mail. Reprints of the referenced and related papers of our Institutecan be requested for further information by e-mail.
[1] W. Billes et al., Langmuir 19, 10862-10868 (2003).
[2] W. Billes et al., Molecular Simulation 33, 655-666 (2007).
[3] R.Tscheliessnig et al., Adsorption from oversaturated aqueoussolution: Mean force molecular simulations, submitted for publication.
[4] K. Bucior et al., J. Chem. Phys. 126, 094704, 1-10 (2007)