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Latest news: We’re hiring four PhD students in Organic / Analytical Chemistry

9 April 2021

applyWe’re hiring four PhD students in Organic / Analytical Chemistry who are interested in an European Industrial Doctorate (EID) within an ambitious multidisciplinary project on reference materials for the environmental contaminants chlorinated paraffins (CPs) and perfluorinated alkyl compounds (PFAS). Would you help us find the right candidates? Or maybe it’s you? Please apply by 30 April 2021. Get paid while earning your PhD in a groundbreaking Marie Skłodowska-Curie European Training Network (ETN) REVAMP @VU Amsterdam. Applicants must apply online via https://workingat.vu.nl/ad/four-phd-students-3-years-organic-analytical-chemistry/9et7sx

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