Education and recruitment - iCSI - industrial catalysis science and innovation
Education and recruitment
Education and recruitment
The Centre emphasizes PhD education to provide candidates with high competence in industrial catalysis to the Norwegian process industry.
The results obtained and the competence built will be important to the international competitiveness of Norwegian industry beyond that of the partners, as well as to ensuring future industrial chemistry with minimum environmental impact.
In total, 15-20 PhD fellows will be graduated in the Centre and approximately 6 post-doctoral fellows will be trained.
The industry partners in the center are actively involved in the research programs, and offer a two months industry exchange program to the PhD fellows. This is a unique opportunity for the candidates to gain experience with industrial challenges and thinking.
The gender equality within the consortium is very good, reflecting a highly inclusive (gender, ethnicity, religion) working environment with all of the partners over time. Representation of both genders at the iCSI board and among the international advisors is targeted, Among the Centre management, as well as in research and education (PhD, post doc.) at least 30% will be ensured. Efforts will be taken to encourage leadership in science and innovation for female investigators.
iCSI is attractive for international researchers. Among the 90 master students, PhD candidates, postdocs and guest researchers within or affiliated with iCSI, more than 20 countries are represented.
The two first candidates finalized their PhD in December 2019, Ata ul Rauf Salman and Dimitrios Pappas. They have both got relevant new positions at Norwegian companies.
This year, 15 students do their master within the IKP catalysis group, together with two visiting master students, from France and Germany and two visiting bachelor students, from Germany and Spain.
