The Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia with headquarters in Genova (Italy), is a non-profit institution with the primary goal of creating and disseminating scientific knowledge and strengthening Italy's technological competitiveness. Current IIT scientific program has a strong multidisciplinary character, merging expertise from different platforms from neuroscience to drug discovery, from nanotechnologies to computation.
IIT has recently created an IIT-Network of centers at Italian research institutions in Lecce, Milan, Naples, Pisa, Turin, Parma and Trento. The Center for Advanced Biomaterials for Healthcare at CRIB uses cutting edge technologies to engineer bio-logically inspired material platforms for applications in the biomedical sector.
Applications are invited for the following four post doctoral positions:
Research in the area of smart materials
The post doctoral positions are available for highly motivated candidates in a project concerning the implementation of nanotechnologies in the leather industry. The project aims at exploiting proprietary processes to conjugate nanometric objects with animal dermis in order to produce leather goods with improved macroscopic properties, i.e. mechanical, surface and transport properties. In particular, the research activities concern the production of synthetic/inorganic nanoparticles and the development of chemical routes to functionalize them. The research activities are part of the "Implementation of bio and nanotechnologies for the production of novel leather goods" project, granted by MIUR, within the Smart Materials platform at the Center for Advanced Biomaterials for Health Care of the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT@CRIB) in Naples. The candidate will undertake research activities in laboratories equipped with state-of-the-art technologies including optical microscopy, multiphoton and STED microscopy, dynamic light scattering, ellipsometry, SEM, TEM, scanning force microscopy.