Digital Applications Specialist, Innovation Centre for Applied Sustainable Technologies (iCAST)

Join the innovation leaders in clean growth in the UK and internationally. Our new cross-institutional Innovation Centre is working in bio-based feedstocks, sustainable chemical production systems and sustainable engineering materials and plastics.

This is an exciting opportunity for a skilled and motivated researcher to become involved in developing the next generation of fully digitised and integrated process analytical technology platforms in close collaboration with a wide range of industrial stakeholders.

As a Digital Applications Specialist in iCAST, you will be part of a vibrant team responsible for developing and delivering the underpinning research elements of the iCAST core innovation programme in Sustainable Manufacturing. This includes hard- and software development for remote instrument control and data fusion of real-time process analytical technologies (PAT) applied to sustainable catalytic processes.

Working with the Universities of Bath and Oxford and its core partners - the High Value Manufacturing Catapult’s National Composites Centre (NCC) and Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) – you will have the opportunity to collaborate with a dynamic partnership of over 45 spin-outs, high growth SMEs and multinational corporates to deliver sustainable and circular chemical process-based research and innovation projects.

Further information:

This is a fixed-term role until September 2024.

The £17m Innovation Centre for Applied and Sustainable Technologies (iCAST) is a new, unique innovation facility hosted by the Centre for Sustainable and Circular Technologies (CSCT) at Bath. Its purpose is to kick-start a step-change in the UK industrial strategy for translating sustainable chemical technologies into clean growth. Its ambition is to be the go-to place for companies working on clean growth technologies to easily invest in R&D and to partner with critical mass academic strength to enable them to scaleup, deliver innovation commercially and deliver economic impact, build supply chains, jobs and green growth in the UK and overseas.

For an informal discussion about the role please contact Dr Ulrich Hintermair (uh213@bath.ac.uk or 01225 386682), however, please submit your application via the University website.

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