Tecnico Lisboa is offering a Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship for the BioMembrOS Project in the Scientific Areas of Thermofluids and Energy Conversion Technologies or Chemical Engineering Sciences.
Objectives
- Develop hemocompatible hybrid and composite membranes for gas permeation.
- Integrate Metal–Organic Frameworks (MOFs) to enhance oxygen and carbon dioxide permeability and selectivity.
- Design hemocompatible coating strategies to improve membrane–blood interactions.
- Model and optimize membrane performance using computational tools, machine learning, and artificial intelligence
Work Plan
- Synthesis and characterization of hemocompatible hybrid and composite membranes for gas permeation.
- Synthesis and characterization of Metal Organic Framework (MOF) and understand its role on the enhancement of the
permeability and selectivity of hybrid and composite polymer/MOF membranes for oxygen and carbon dioxide. - Hemocompatible coating of membranes
- Modelling & Optimization of gas permeation of hybrid and composite membranes with recourse to parameters pertaining to membrane casting solutions composition, MOF structures, coating techniques and membrane casting procedure.
- Modeling and optimization of parameters of the system using machine learning and artificial intelligence algorithms.
- Assist the IST research team in the preparation of technical reports, presentations, and meetings, as well as the purchasing process of materials and services required for the development of the project according to plan
Admission Requirements
- to hold a PhD degree obtained in the 3 years previously to the submission of the fellowship application
- to have carried out the research work that led to the PhD degree in a different entity from the host institution of the fellowship
- Not to exceed, with this fellowship contract, including the possible renovations, an accumulated period of 3 years in this type of fellowship, continuously or with interruptions
- Not to have previously held a post-doctoral fellowship from IST.
Find more Information here: Research_scholarship_IST_2026_en.pdf
