The Molecular Toxicology Group at the Helmholtz Centre of Environmental Research (UFZ) is looking for a creative and ambitious PhD candidate to use novel approaches to remove persistent PFAS from living organisms.
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The Institute for Environmental Sciences of the University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU) are seeking to hire a PhD student (m/f/d) to conduct field and laboratory sorption experiments, determine PFAS concentrations, and characterize the sorption layer using TGA-MS.
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The Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland (BUND) has recently detected high PFAS levels in 42 out of 46 drinking water samples collected from households across Germany. They now call for a comprehensive PFAS restriction and consistent application of the polluter pays principle to protect drinking water.
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A new extensive review article assessing the state of global chemical pollution highlights the challenges for global chemical assessment, regulation and management systems.
France has passed a new law that will ban PFAS in several products including clothing and cosmetics.
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Two PhD positions are available at the Pharmacological Institute of Heidelberg University to study PFAS Adverse Outcome Pathways (AOPs). The first position is in the field of environmental toxicology and the second is in the field of tissue engineering, both looking at of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).
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The Institute of Fisheries Ecology of the Johann Heinrich von Thünen Institute, Federal Research Institute for Rural Areas, Forests and Fisheries, at the Bremerhaven site is seeking to recruit a Research Assistant PFAS specialist for collaboration in the third-party funded project „PFAS Pattern – Contamination of Fish with Fluorinated Compounds from the River to the Sea“.
Continue readingThe Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam is hiring a PhD researcher to study the ecotoxicity of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) to terrestrial and aquatic organisms.
Continue readingThe University of Amsterdam is hiring a PhD researcher to study the environmental fate, bioavailability, and bioaccumulation of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).
Continue readingTwo PhD student positions in Environmental Chemistry are open in Uppsala, Sweden at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU). Continue reading