Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Opportunity

The award of a National Research Foundation SARChI Chair in Minerals Beneficiation at the University of Cape Town has created an opportunity for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow within the Department of Chemical Engineering, as part of the collaborative Minerals to Metals Initiative.
Scope of Research:
The ‘Minerals to Metals Initiative’ was established in 2007 as a signature theme at UCT to deliver integrated interdisciplinary research focused on enhanced value addition and resource productivity through the conversion of minerals to metals in a manner congruent with providing a sustainable future for the South African people and their environment.
This fellowship is intended to support the development of an integrated modelling framework for the minerals beneficiation chain. This is a key component of the initiative and will enable the technical, economic, environmental and social implications of process options or interventions to be evaluated.
The Research Fellow will be required to:
 Identify the most suitable existing tools that can incorporate mineralogical attributes to develop into the appropriate framework for technical assessment of different ores being processed via selected processes,
 Develop the conceptual framework required to integrate technical quantitative assessment with qualitative sustainability principles in minerals beneficiation and upgrading process flowsheet development,
 Assist in the technical supervision of relevant Minerals to Metals post-graduate research projects;
 Identify further research opportunities and initiate new post-graduate research projects;
 Liaise with potential research partners and sponsors, with a view to promoting collaborative research in this field.
In addition, the successful applicant will be encouraged and supported to conduct his/her own self-initiated research during the tenure of the Fellowship, under the supervision of the Initiative Director, Professor Dee Bradshaw.