Postdoctoral Research Associate

Position Highlights

The Chorover laboratory seeks a full-time postdoctoral scholar to support on a Strategic Environmental Research and Development (SERDP) project focusing on the use of engineered colloidal polymeric sorbents for the remedial uptake and retention of poly- and per-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in porous geomedia.

Duties & Responsibilities

• organic synthesis of colloidal polymers
• column experiments to measure the reactive transport and adhesion of colloidal polymers in sand media representative of aquifer solids
• column and batch experiments to quantify the uptake of various PFAS species
• data analysis
• manuscript writing
• graduate student mentoring

Minimum Qualifications

• Must have a Ph.D. in environmental science, soil science, chemistry, hydrology, or a related field upon hire.
• Demonstrated capabilities for conducting bench-scale environmental chemistry experiments.
• Prior experience with liquid-chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) methods for analysis of various PFAS species.

Preferred Qualifications

• Expertise in conducting highly precise solute transport experiments for porous media at bench scale.
• Prior experience with multiple reaction monitoring experiments using LC-MS/MS.