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This PhD topic is part of the INNOCHEMBIO Doctoral Programme, which is funded through the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) COFUND action. The main objective of INNOCHEMBIO is to train future experts of sustainable chemistry and biotechnology, helping Europe to take the next steps in the green transition. This project aims to study the driving forces in mechanochemical reactions and learn to control reactivity in condensed matter. This PhD position will be hosted at TalTech with main supervisor Prof. Riina Aav and will contain a secondment to co-supervisor Prof. Tomislav Friščić at University of Birmingham (UK).

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This PhD topic is part of the INNOCHEMBIO Doctoral Programme, which is funded through the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) COFUND action. The main objective of INNOCHEMBIO is to train future experts of sustainable chemistry and biotechnology, helping Europe to take the next steps in the green transition. This project aims to unravel novel mechanisms in plant stress signalling and translate this knowledge into crop improvement, specifically to develop new strategies for precision breeding of faba bean. This PhD position will be hosted at TalTech with main supervisor Dr. Triin Vahisalu and will contain a secondment to co-supervisor Prof. Alan Schulman at University of Helsinki (FI).

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This PhD topic is part of the INNOCHEMBIO Doctoral Programme, which is funded through the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) COFUND action. The main objective of INNOCHEMBIO is to train future experts of sustainable chemistry and biotechnology, helping Europe to take the next steps in the green transition. This project aims to extend machine learning potentials to reliably model ions, radicals, or non-equilibrium geometries, enabling rapid and accurate calculation of chemical reactivity. This PhD position will be hosted at TalTech with main supervisor Dr. Mario Öeren and will contain a secondment to co-supervisor Dr. Matthew D. Segall at OPTIBRIUM LIMITED (UK).

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This PhD topic is part of the INNOCHEMBIO Doctoral Programme, which is funded through the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) COFUND action. The main objective of INNOCHEMBIO is to train future experts of sustainable chemistry and biotechnology, helping Europe to take the next steps in the green transition. This project aims to refine various mineral resources and mining residues that remain after the removal of organic fractions for various high-tech applications. The approach follows the cascade principle. These inorganic materials are going to be physicochemically thoroughly characterized to assess their feasibility in/as, e.g., catalysis, energy storage and construction materials. This PhD position will be hosted at TalTech with main supervisor Dr. Birgit Mets and will contain a secondment to co-supervisor Prof. Vesa-Pekka Lehto at The University of Eastern Finland (FI).

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This PhD topic is part of the INNOCHEMBIO Doctoral Programme, which is funded through the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) COFUND action. The main objective of INNOCHEMBIO is to train future experts of sustainable chemistry and biotechnology, helping Europe to take the next steps in the green transition. This project aims to carry out ecotoxicological profiling of plastics additives by multi-level hazard evaluation with terrestrial and aquatic biota. This PhD position will be hosted at National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics with main supervisor Dr. Margit Heinlaan and will contain a secondment to co-supervisor Prof. Anita Jemec-Kokalj at University of Ljubljana (SL).

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This PhD topic is part of the INNOCHEMBIO Doctoral Programme, which is funded through the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) COFUND action. The main objective of INNOCHEMBIO is to train future experts of sustainable chemistry and biotechnology, helping Europe to take the next steps in the green transition. This project aims to provide a framework for a safe and sustainable by design (SSbD) approach for nanocomposite-based materials in environmental remediation. This PhD position will be hosted at National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics with main supervisor Dr. Monika Mortimer and will contain a secondment to co-supervisor Prof. Vera I. Slaveykova at University of Geneva (CH).

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This PhD topic is part of the INNOCHEMBIO Doctoral Programme, which is funded through the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) COFUND action. The main objective of INNOCHEMBIO is to train future experts of sustainable chemistry and biotechnology, helping Europe to take the next steps in the green transition. This project aims to shift the forensic toxicology field toward more sustainable practices with a significantly lower environmental footprint by focusing on integrating deep ultraviolet fluorescence detection (DUV-FD) and microfluidic chip-based electrophoresis to replace traditional lab-intensive techniques. This PhD position will be hosted at TalTech with main supervisor Prof. Jekaterina Mazina-Šinkar and will contain a secondment to co-supervisor Prof. Michał Woźniakiewicz at Jagiellonian University (PL).

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This PhD topic is part of the INNOCHEMBIO Doctoral Programme, which is funded through the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) COFUND action. The main objective of INNOCHEMBIO is to train future experts of sustainable chemistry and biotechnology, helping Europe to take the next steps in the green transition. The project aims to develop novel asymmetric co-catalytic cycloadditions via organocatalysis as the combination of more than one catalytic activation mode can lead to unprecedented reactivities or more efficient reaction paths. To aid in the development of these reactions and in elucidating their mechanisms, we plan to use computational chemistry.  This PhD position will be hosted at TalTech with main supervisor Dr. Mikk Kaasik and will contain a secondment to co-supervisor Prof. Karl Anker Jørgensen at Aarhus University (DK).

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This PhD topic is part of the INNOCHEMBIO Doctoral Programme, which is funded through the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) COFUND action. The main objective of INNOCHEMBIO is to train future experts of sustainable chemistry and biotechnology, helping Europe to take the next steps in the green transition. This project aims to merge well-developed organocatalysis with electrochemistry, opening new horizons for asymmetric transformation beyond the classical thermochemical activation. This PhD position will be hosted at TalTech with main supervisor Prof. Maksim Ošeka and will contain a secondment to co-supervisor Prof. Timothy Noël at The University of Amsterdam (NL).

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This PhD topic is part of the INNOCHEMBIO Doctoral Programme, which is funded through the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) COFUND action. The main objective of INNOCHEMBIO is to train future experts of sustainable chemistry and biotechnology, helping Europe to take the next steps in the green transition. This project aims to investigate viral disease development combined with plant transcriptome and metabolome profiling in response to native and/or artificial microbial communities. This PhD position will be hosted at TalTech with main supervisor Dr. Merike Sõmera and will contain a secondment to co-supervisor Prof. Sébastien Massart at University of Liège (BE).

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This PhD topic is part of the INNOCHEMBIO Doctoral Programme, which is funded through the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) COFUND action. The main objective of INNOCHEMBIO is to train future experts of sustainable chemistry and biotechnology, helping Europe to take the next steps in the green transition. This project aims to develop and apply next-generation droplet analysis tools that are more efficient and sustainable for high-throughput biological assays in collaboration with Estonian flagship biotechnological companies. This PhD position will be hosted at TalTech with main supervisor Prof. Ott Scheler and will contain a secondment to co-supervisor Prof. Tomasz Kaminski at University of Warsaw (PL).

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This PhD topic is part of the INNOCHEMBIO Doctoral Programme, which is funded through the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) COFUND action. The main objective of INNOCHEMBIO is to train future experts of sustainable chemistry and biotechnology, helping Europe to take the next steps in the green transition. This project aims to develop and apply cutting-edge methodologies to detect and quantify the spatial heterogeneity of AMP and ADP within cardiomyocyte microdomains. Additionally, to develop mathematical models to analyze the experimental data and predict how microdomain formation influences AMPK signaling cascades and mitochondrial respiratory regulation. This PhD position will be hosted at TalTech with main supervisor Prof. Marko Vendelin and will contain a secondment to co-supervisor Prof. Uwe Schlattner at Université Grenoble Alpes (FR).

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This PhD topic is part of the INNOCHEMBIO Doctoral Programme, which is funded through the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) COFUND action. The main objective of INNOCHEMBIO is to train future experts of sustainable chemistry and biotechnology, helping Europe to take the next steps in the green transition. This project aims to develop eco-friendly organic mixed ionic–electronic conductors (OMIECs) by combining renewable lignin with conductive polymers for advanced biosensor applications. This PhD position will be hosted at TalTech with main supervisor Dr. Yevgen Karpichev and will contain a secondment to co-supervisor Prof. Jean-Manuel Raimundo at Aix-Marseille Université (FR).

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This PhD topic is part of the INNOCHEMBIO Doctoral Programme, which is funded through the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) COFUND action. The main objective of INNOCHEMBIO is to train future experts of sustainable chemistry and biotechnology, helping Europe to take the next steps in the green transition. The project will firstly focus on understanding the hyperpolarization process and its workings, optimizing it for different applications, metabolite classes, and biological sample types. And secondly, combine this expertise with benchtop NMR spectrometers. This PhD position will be hosted at National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics with main supervisor Dr. Indrek Reile and will contain a secondment to co-supervisor Dr. Sören Lehmkuhl at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE).

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This PhD topic is part of the INNOCHEMBIO Doctoral Programme, which is funded through the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) COFUND action. The main objective of INNOCHEMBIO is to train future experts of sustainable chemistry and biotechnology, helping Europe to take the next steps in the green transition. This project aims to develop PVY-resistant Estonian tomato cultivars using CRISPR/Cas gene editing, while preserving the key agronomic traits of the original varieties. Additionally, advance the understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying PVY infection in tomato. This PhD position will be hosted at TalTech with main supervisor Dr. Cecilia Sarmiento and will contain a secondment to co-supervisor Dr. Jean-Luc Gallois at Institut National de Recherche pour l’agriculture, l’alimentation et l’environnement (FR).

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