Are you interested in the sustainable use of natural resources and would you like to research and develop new, efficient recycling methods as part of your scientific career? Then the Research Training Group WERA „Wertstoff Abwasser“ (Valuable Wastewater) at the University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU) is a good place for you. The Institute of Particle Process Engineering of RPTU involved in WERA is looking for a postdoctoral researcher from 01.07.2025.

In WERA (website: rptu.de/wera), cooperative research projects on the recovery of the important raw material phosphorus (P) from wastewater are being worked on together in the fields of process engineering, chemistry, physics and wastewater technology using novel natural scientific and engineering approaches through to technical implementation. In WERA, various processes, such as the synthesis of tailor-made adsorbers and innovative separation units for phosphorus recovery will be developed, combined in process chains and validated on a wastewater recycling pilot plant. Suitable methods for process analysis and characterization will be extended and the chemical-physical relationships will be studied using molecular and thermodynamic simulations on the microscale with combined particle and flow simulations on the macroscale.