Who are we looking for?

Scholarship offer for PhD student, Project “eQualitySens - Electrochemical Sensing platforms spatial fabrication brings eQuality to Quality control. Case study - illicit drugs.” financed by the National Science Centre of Poland – OPUS 28 call.

Wymagania / Requirements

- Very good writing skills (being a coauthor of scientific publications will be considered as an asset);

- High English fluency that will be verified during the interview;

- Proven experience with the voltammetric techniques, general knowledge about the electroanalytical tools;

- Proven experience with the surface characterization and spectroscopic techniques (at leas two out of the indicated methods: SEM, AFM, FTIR, ATR-FTIR, optical profilometry);

- Proven experience related to material chemistry will be considered as an asset;

- PhD student should know how to use Office package and OriginPro software;

- PhD student should have experience with 3D printing and be fluent in the CAD software utilization.

- High degree of self-organization, self-motivation, ability to work in a team, and high creativity.

- The candidate should have experience gained in different scientific units.

Link do strony www jednostki/Link to the unit's website: https://www.uni.lodz.pl/

Responsibilities

# The PhD student will be responsible for the solid platforms 3D printing that will be used as the electrifed liquid-liquid interface supports. He/she will be using this system as the platform for illicit drugs and cutting agents sensing.

# The PhD student will be responsible for conductive interface modification and characterization.

# He/she will develop new electrochemical platforms and fabrication techniques.

# Writing manuscripts.

# MSc students' supervision.

# Results dissemination during national and international conferences.

# Additionally, we offer: work in a growing and young team; you will gain the knowledge pertaining to soft matter formulation and 3D printing; you will gain the knowledge pertaining to electrochemical techniques and electrified liquid-liquid interface; soft-skills development paths, budget for international conferences; scholarship.

Position title: PhD student scholarship

Number of positions : 1

Deadline for applications: 19.10.2025 12:00 (Polish time)

Date of interviews: 20.10.2025 (to be agreed with the invited candidates).

Competition closing date: 21.10.2025

For how long: 48 months 

The application should be sent to: lukasz.poltorak@chemia.uni.lodz.pl

Name of the unit: Faculty of Chemistry, University of Lodz, Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry

Required documents (attachments in PDF format):

• Motivation letter;

• CV (the summary of scientific activity, scholarships, awarded prizes, international experience, workshops and scientific trainings, activity in scientific projects, list of publications and attended conferences);

• Document certifying the MSc degree if the candidate is from outside of the University of Lodz

All documents, preferably in the form of one PDF file have to be sent to lukasz.poltorak@chemia.uni.lodz.pl

Competition closing date: 21.10.2025

Chosen candidates will be invited for an interview. The selected candidate can start a new position starting from 1^st November 2025.

Due to law requirements, we ask all candidates to familiarize themselves with RODO rules.

• Legally Required Informational Obligation for Candidates (PL:RODO):