Postdoctoral Research Associate (0.4FTE, Fixed-term for 9 months)

Founded in 1837, the Royal College of Art is the world’s largest community of postgraduate art and design students. It is also the oldest art and design university in continuous operation and has been ranked as the world ‘s number 1 art & design university for a remarkable nine consecutive years, according to the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2023 – the largest world-wide survey of academic and industry opinion.

Applications are invited for Postdoctoral Research Associate. The post holder will work closely with the RCA- PI (Dr Elif Ozden Yenigun), team members and project partners including Nanoloom and the University of Leeds to deliver the research outcomes of the project. 

Project: Biodegradable and recyclable graphene-based clothing

This project is the subject of an Innovate UK Smart Grant, reserved for only the most game-changing innovations, and funded by the UK government’s innovation body. The aim of the project is to work with Nanoloom Limited to create a range of fibres from a graphene-based polymer and use them to construct a range of fabrics that will be strong, elastic, biodegradable and recyclable, suitable for applications in the performance-wear sector of apparel (sportswear, outdoor-wear, winter-wear).

Nanoloom was recently highlighted by Forbes as one of London’s leading fashion tech innovators, and its new materials have large potential across a range of applications within fashion and beyond. The vision of the company is to create scalable, biodegradable and recyclable materials that mechanically outperform the materials currently relied upon by the apparel industry which shed microplastics. 

See Information Pack for further details.

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