英国普利茅斯大学博士后研究职位

英国普利茅斯大学博士后研究职位

POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOW (TYRE LOSS PROJECT)

Description

A Postdoctoral Research Fellow is required to work on this NERC funded project Lost at Sea - where are all the tyre particles? (TYRE-LOSS). The post will be based in the International Marine Litter Research Unit, Faculty of Science and Engineering at the University of Plymouth . You will work with Prof. Richard Thompson, and Prof Daniel Conley at the University of Plymouth and collaborate with co-investigators at other UK research organisations (Prof Tamara Galloway, Universities of Exeter, Dr Geoff Abbott, University of Newcastle and Prof Pennie Lindeque, Plymouth Marine Laboratory)

You will join a leading international team examining the effects of plastic debris dispersed in the environment. Led by Prof Richard Thompson (a marine biologist based in the Marine Biology and Ecology Research Centre) this team were the first to describe the accumulation of microplastic in the ocean and have since been working to establish the environmental consequences of this debris. The team have an excellent reputation for their work with papers in Science , Nature , Current Biology , Philosophical Transactions of the Royal society and many other leading scientific journals. Their work has directly informed industry and policy in the UK, EU and internationally.

Interviews are expected to take place on 30th November 2020.

This is a full-time position working 37 hours per week on a fixed-term basis for a period of 36 months due to funding. Start date January 2021.