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• Part-Time Green Processes Research Assistant

  Jan 27, 2025 8:30 am

  ISTC is seeking to hire an Academic Hourly or Student Hourly to conduct research to advance the development of green processes for hydrogen production in support of industrial decarbonization. The position is based in Champaign, Illinois.

• Research Lab Part-Time Assistant

  Jan 27, 2025 8:30 am

  The Illinois Sustainable Technology Center, a division of the Prairie Research Institute at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, is seeking an upper-level undergraduate/graduate research hourly with a chemical engineering/nuclear and plasma engineering/chemistry/mechanical engineering background to work on a 12–24-month research project related to Plasma-based CO2 capture and conversion.

• Environmental Laboratory Assistant (Hourly Assistant)

  Jan 10, 2025 4:15 pm

  Illinois Sustainable Technology Center, Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 
  

  We are seeking an individual to provide support in an environmental lab.

  Duties will include glassware cleaning, housekeeping, reagent and sample preparations. The candidate will be trained and required to support projects relating to environmental contaminants, with a focus on rare earth elements. This will include the processing of aqueous and solid samples. The candidate will also perform ion chromatography and spectroscopic analysis of materials and will prepare data reports for review. 

• Postdoctoral Research Associate, Analytical Chemistry - Illinois Sustainable Technology Center

  Oct 30, 2024 9:00 am

  The researcher will primarily focus on developing analytical methods for major cations, anions, trace metals, and rare earth elements (REE) in CCR effluents. Desired expertise includes inorganic analytical chemistry, sample enrichment/separation, spectroscopic analytical instrumentation, and processing of REE and critical minerals (CM).

• Postdoctoral Research Associate - Illinois Sustainable Technology Center, Prairie Research Institute

  Oct 1, 2024 12:00 pm

  ISTC is seeking to hire a Postdoctoral Research Associate to conduct laboratory and field experiments for plant uptake and mitigation of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) derived from biosolids application. In particular, there is interest in developing new treatment techniques to remediate these forever chemicals in various environmental media, including water, soils, biosolid,s and food plants.