The main objective is to develop RDA methodologies for toxicants with respect to hazards and risks to aquatic organisms. This will include novel extraction and dosing techniques, multistep HPLC- and pcGC-based fractionation procedures, biotesting, chemical analysis and structure elucidation, and toxicant confirmation for polar and non-polar toxicants. A major focus will be on the development of methods for structure elucidation of toxicants that are not accessible by classical GC-MS methods including derivatization and LC-MS-based techniques. The methodology will be applied to contaminated surface waters and sediments as well as to selected toxic effluents (e.g. from dye processing).
Formation requirements: MSc. in analytical chemistry or related subjects. The candidate should be interested in environmental and effect-directed issues. He should have experience in structure elucidation by mass spectrometry as well as in GC-MS and LC-MS based chemical analytical techniques. Experience in computer tools for structure elucidation as well as in extraction, passive sampling and fractionation techniques, and biotesting are helpful. The candidate should be open and enthusiastic for new tasks and interdisciplinary and international team work.
Nationality requirements: Non-German nationality filling the conditions for appointment on RTN funding (Handbook of Marie Curie Research Training Networks (RTN)
http://ec.europa.eu/research/fp6/mariecurie-actions/action/training_en.html
Cause-Effect Relationships of Key Pollutants on the European Rivers Biodiversity - KEYBIOEFFECTS RTN
Organisation: Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig
Division/Faculty/Department - Dep of Effect-Directed Analysis
Street - Permoserstrasse 15
City - Leipzig
Postal Code - D-04318
State/Province - Leipzig
Country - GERMANY
Phone - +49-341-235-2656
Mobile Phone - +49-341-235-2401
E-Mail - werner.brack@ufz.de
Website - http://www.ufz.de/index.php?en=6598
Application Deadline - 01/01/2007
