Postdoctoral Chem Eng: Carbon Capture & Sorbent Research

SLB; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base salary

Private healthcare for employee and 가족

Subsidized dental care

Health & Wellbeing programs

Job summary

SLB Cambridge Research seeks a Postdoctoral Research Scientist in Chemical Engineering focused on adsorption-based carbon capture. The role is primarily experimental, designing and executing laboratory studies to evaluate sorbents and understand adsorption mechanisms under realistic conditions.

You will generate high-quality adsorption data, develop testing methodologies, and integrate observations with models to support technology optimisation and scale-up, joining a multidisciplinary team

Qualifications

• PhD in Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Materials Science, or a related discipline.
• Proven experimental experience in adsorption, gas separations, porous materials, or related field.
• Experience designing, executing, and troubleshooting laboratory-scale experimental programmes.
• Experience operating adsorption testing equipment and analysing experimental data.
• Strong grounding in adsorption science, transport phenomena, kinetics, and thermodynamics.

Responsibilities

• Design and execute experimental programmes to evaluate adsorption materials for carbon capture applications.
• Operate and develop laboratory-scale adsorption systems to measure equilibrium capacity, adsorption kinetics, cyclic stability, and gas separation performance.
• Characterise sorbent materials using appropriate physicochemical techniques and correlate material properties with performance.
• Investigate adsorption mechanisms, transport phenomena, material degradation, and process limitations through experimental studies.
• Develop robust experimental methodologies, protocols, and data analysis workflows to support technology development.
• Analyse experimental data to extract kinetic, equilibrium, and transport parameters.
• Collaborate closely with materials scientists, process engineers, and business stakeholders to guide research priorities and technology development.
• Contribute to intellectual property generation, including invention disclosures, patents, and scientific publications.
• Communicate findings effectively to technical and non-technical audiences through reports, presentations, and publications.

Skills

Adsorption

Gas separations

Porous materials

Experimental design

Data analysis

Lab techniques

Education

PhD in Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Materials Science, or a related discipline

Job description

SLB Cambridge Research seeks a Postdoctoral Research Scientist in Chemical Engineering focused on adsorption-based carbon capture. The role is primarily experimental, designing and executing laboratory studies to evaluate sorbents and understand adsorption mechanisms under realistic conditions.

You will generate high-quality adsorption data, develop testing methodologies, and integrate observations with models to support technology optimisation and scale-up, joining a multidisciplinary team