R&D PhD Summer Intern: Dissolution-Based Recycling
Core
Develop and apply engineering principles to create new materials, packaging, and plastic recycling processes that improve product performance and sustainability.
Role type
PhD summer intern (chemical engineering/polymer science)
Builds
New materials, packaging solutions, and plastic recycling processes
Domain
Consumer packaged goods / Chemical engineering / Polymer science
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | research | infrastructure
Required skills
Chemical engineering principles, polymer science, material science, mass transfer, chemical separation, fluid dynamics, experimental design, data analysis, laboratory quantitative skills
Preferred skills
Process scale up, process engineering, polymer processing, DSC, TGA, GPC, rheology, plastic recycling, life cycle analysis
Technologies
DSC, TGA, GPC, rheology, chemical reactors
Responsibilities
Design and execute laboratory-based to pilot-scale experiments, develop technical models and prototypes, design upstream materials through process design, perform bench-to-pilot experiments to define material and process parameters, conduct lifecycle and techno-economic analysis
Seniority
Intern
