Internship – R&D Surface Chemistry & Coating Technology

LipoCoat BV; Enschede; Remote; EUR 8,900 - 13,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Internship allowance

Travel expenses reimbursement

Real project with real impact

Access to a well-equipped lab

Lunch together daily

Graduate position potential

Job summary

LipoCoat BV in Enschede, the Netherlands, offers an internship where you get your own project, your own lab bench and a supervisor who takes your work seriously. Depending on your background and interests, your project sits somewhere in coating formulation, surface characterisation, microbiology or process development.

Your results feed directly into our development programmes and, in many cases, into the products of our customers.

Responsibilities

• Optimising a lipid coating formulation for a new substrate material.
• Characterising coated surfaces using contact angle measurement, QCM-D, ellipsometry, fluorescence microscopy or XPS.
• Setting up and running anti-fouling, protein adsorption or bacterial adhesion assays.
• Testing coating durability and stability under simulated use and sterilisation conditions.
• Supporting the scale-up of a coating process from lab scale towards production.

Job description

As an intern at LipoCoat you do not make coffee and copy files — you get your own project, your own lab bench and a supervisor who takes your work seriously. Depending on your background and interests, your project sits somewhere in coating formulation, surface characterisation, microbiology or process development. Your results feed directly into our development programmes and, in many cases, into the products of our customers.

• Optimising a lipid coating formulation for a new substrate material and mapping the process window.
• Characterising coated surfaces using contact angle measurement, QCM-D, ellipsometry, fluorescence microscopy or XPS.
• Setting up and running anti-fouling, protein adsorption or bacterial adhesion assays.
• Testing coating durability and stability under simulated use and sterilisation conditions.
• Supporting the scale-up of a coating process from lab scale towards production.

What we offer

• A market-conform internship allowance, plus reimbursement of travel expenses.
• A real project with real impact. Your work contributes to medical devices that reach patients.
• Daily supervision by an experienced scientist and short lines to the whole company.
• Access to a well-equipped lab and to our characterisation and testing facilities.
• A small, informal and international team, a flat structure, and lunch together every day.
• A serious look at a graduate position for interns who thrive with us.

Your role

This suits you

about us

Why LipoCoat

We spun out of the University of Twente in 2016 with a single idea. Now our headquarters and labs sit on the same innovation campus in Enschede, the Netherlands, where we innovate novel medical device coatings
We are a team of scientists and engineers small enough that everyone knows what everyone else is working on, and ambitious enough to take a university invention all the way into products used on patients. The structure is flat, decisions are made quickly, and the working language is English.

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