Great Lakes ReNEW Postdoctoral Fellowships
Great Lakes ReNEW Postdoctoral Fellowships
Postdoctoral Research Opportunities for innovative selective separation AND RESOURCE RECOVERY technologies
The Great Lakes Water Innovation Engine, Great Lakes ReNEW, is hiring nine postdoctoral research fellows interested in working on the selective separation of nutrients, critical minerals, and energy from wastewater. This includes sensors and sensor networks for detection of these targets and testbeds for the validation of technologies developed.
Please note: As positions are filled, projects will be removed from the application form.
About Great Lakes ReNEW
Great Lakes ReNEW was selected as part of the National Science Foundation’s Inaugural Regional Innovation Engine Awards, launched in 2024. ReNEW is a six state coalition serving the Great Lakes Region focused on resource recovery and inventing new ways to extract valuable minerals and toxic forever chemicals from our wastewater.
Our mission is to accelerate the transition to a circular and inclusive blue economy, turning waste into wealth for the communities of the Great Lakes region and beyond.
ReNEW is designed to discover, develop, and deploy materials, sensors, technologies, and processes that will accelerate and enable resource recovery (e.g., nutrients, critical minerals, energy, water) from wastewater and nontraditional water sources, facilitating the delivery of cost-effective and energy efficient fit-for-purpose water.
ReNEW employs a convergent, collaborative, transdisciplinary approach to strategically engage and connect the expertise and resources of diverse stakeholders including: research institutions; minority-serving institutions (MSIs); industries; utilities; workforce development, science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education, and entrepreneurship experts; and investors across the Great Lakes region.
Hiring Institutions
Projects & Qualifications
To apply for a Great Lakes ReNEW Postdoctoral Fellowship, you must have the following qualifications:
- Highly motivated individual with a PhD or equivalent degree is required
- Strong interest and prior record of conducting basic or translational research
- A minimum of one first-author publication
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
Download the PDF below to see the full list of projects and project-specific qualifications.
Project Leads
Junhong Chen
University of Chicago
Tianhong Cui
University of Minnesota
Seth Darling
Argonne National Laboratory
Vinayak Dravid
Northwestern University
David Lampert
Illinois Institute of Technology
Paige Novak
University of Minnesota
Anthony Parolari
Marquette University
Paige Peters
Marquette University
Keith Tyo
Northwestern University
George Wells
Northwestern University
Daniel Zitomer
Marquette University