PhD Researcher in the scientific area of Environment and Resources

The Rector of Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Prof. Isabel Capeloa Gil deliberated the opening of an international selection tender for vacancy of PhD Researcher to perform, in an exclusive dedication, the exercise of scientific research activities, in the scientific area of Environment and Resources to be developed in the CBQF - Centre of Biotechnology and Fine Chemistry located at the Faculty of Biotechnology of the Catholic University of Portugal (ESB), at Porto. Under the scope of the project “GReAT -Biomassa granular de microalgas-bactérias para o tratamento de águas residuais de aquicultura”. It is financed by Operational Program for Competitiveness and Internationalization, in its FEDER component, and the Foundation for Science and Technology, in its State Budget component .
 
This project will run until May 31, 2021, has as its main objective the development of algal-bacterial granular sludge that will be further used as biomass for the inoculation of a bioreactor system aiming at treating water from marine aquaculture systems. Different marine environments will be screened to isolate potential microalgae strains that can be further used in wastewater treatment systems. The selected microalgae strains will be combined with activated sludge to produce mixed microbial granules. After the biogranulation process, the feasibility of the aggregates to treat marine aquaculture wastewater in SBR systems will be evaluated.
Terms of candidature: 10-09-2018 until 10-10-2018 (5pm Lisbon time).
You can find all the information in the website of CBQF - Centre of Biotechnology and Fine Chemistry (http://www.cbqf.esb.ucp.pt/en/).