Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology

The Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology is seeking a Post-Doctoral Research Associate (candidates who are about to submit their PhD thesis may apply) to step into the ongoing project. The project is part of a large collaborative research effort involving Imperial College London, University of Bristol and three other groups at Cambridge. More information about the overarching project can be found here: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/bio-sustainable-materials/

VALUED is aiming to demonstrate the development of functional materials derived from bio-renewable resources. Several different applications are being developed in the project. The experimental programme involves development of high-throughput experimental capability (at Imperial College London). The SRE group (Prof Lapkin) is developing ML methods supporting the experimental HT workflows and, so far, focused on intelligent design of experiments based on Bayesian Optimisation. The team at Cambridge has its own high-throughput and robotics facilities. In this period of the project the team will focus on ML-assisted experimentation for developing functional materials based on bio- and natural polymers. Specific knowledge of ML for polymers is essential for this project. 

https://www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/research-assistantresearch-associate-fixed-term-nq48688