2024 EMS Council elections
Dear EMS Member,
The European Membrane Society is managed by a council of elected members. According to our statutes, the council must be partly renewed every other year. Five positions will be open in 2024 to replace our departing members, Carla Brazinha, Eric Favre, Karel Friess, Elena Tocci, and Alexey Volkov.
To fill these positions, we will hold an election to recruit five new council members who will serve from 2025 to 2028.
The EMS council has approved a list of nine candidates.
The balloting will be online at www.emsoc.eu/elections, active from October 2nd, 2024, until November, 1st, 2024.
Only active EMS members with a membership registered on or before October 2nd can vote for this election.
Would you have any question regarding this vote, please do not hesitate to contact us at ems@emsoc.eu.
Elena Tocci
EMS President
On behalf of the council
2024 EMS Council elections - Deadline is approaching! 18/09/24
Dear EMS Member,
The European Membrane Society is managed by a council of elected members. According to our statutes, the council must be partly renewed every other year.
Five positions will be open in 2024 to replace our departing members, Carla Brazinha, Eric Favre, Karel Friess, Elena Tocci, and Alexey Volkov.
To fill these positions, we will hold an election to recruit five new council members who will serve from 2025 to 2028.
According to our statutes, the primary responsibilities of council members include:
- Electing the board (President, Vice-Presidents, Secretary, and Treasurer)
- Assisting the President in running the society
- Coordinating working parties on various matters as decided by the council or the General Assemblies
Council members elected by the society's members represent the broader membrane community rather than any private or public institutions. The major activities of our society, which are detailed on our website (www.emsoc.eu), include sponsoring the esteemed "Euromembrane" conference series and the annual Summer School. The council is responsible for organizing calls for applications, reviewing proposals, and selecting hosts for these conferences. Additionally, the council oversees the society's budget, offering travel grants and awards, especially to students and young researchers. The council also collaborates with other prominent societies, such as NAMS and the Aseanian Membrane Society, in organizing the rotating world membrane conference, ICOM. As a founding World Association of Membrane Societies (WA-MS) member, EMS nominates representatives to the WA-MS steering committee.
We invite you to consider becoming a candidate for the council. As a council member, you will represent the entire membrane community. If you have ideas for enhancing our society's management or introducing significant innovations, now is the perfect time to step forward and make a difference!
To be a candidate, you need to:
- Be an EMS member, i.e., all registration procedures are complete and effective by 25/09/24.
- Submit a 2-page CV, a short motivation letter (max 300 words), and 2 nomination letters from current EMS members
- Send your applications to ems@emsoc.eu
Election Timeline:
- Application Period: 17/07/24 - 18/09/24
- Application Review by the Council: By 25/09/24
- Balloting Period: 30/09/24 - 30/10/24
- Announcement of Results: Mid-November 2024, after Council validation
Elena Tocci
EMS President
On behalf of the council
EMS General Assembly
Dear EMS Members,
According to our Society's statute, a General Assembly (GA) must be held at least every two years. Since the last GA occurred during Euromembrane 2022, we will hold the next one this year.
The upcoming GA is scheduled for September 12, 2024, at 13:15 (CET) in the Congress Hall at the Prague Congress Centre, Prague.
Click here to see the agenda.
On behalf of the EMS Council members,
Elena Tocci
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EMS President
EMS Academy, 7-8 September 2024, Prague
Want to dive into membrane processes and their industrial applications?
Join the EMS Academy on 7-8 September 2024 in Prague before Euromembrane 2024!
More info: https://euromembrane2024.cz/ems-academy-1/
Research Fellow in Separation Technologies at Polymeric Materials & NanoComposites (PMNC) Group, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Post Specification: Research Fellow in Separation Technologies at Polymeric Materials & NanoComposites (PMNC) Group, AMBER/School of Chemistry, Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin. (www.pmnc.ie )
Fixed-term Contract or Specific Purpose Contract – Specific Purpose Contract-Full time
Salary: Appointment will be made on points 1 of the IUA post-doctorate researcher Level 1 salary scale PD1 at points 1-3 in line with Government Pay Policy [€43,907 to €46,447 per annum] based on the experience, appointment will be made no higher than point 3
Closing date: Until filled.
Position:
An experienced researcher is required in separation technologies and wastewater treatment for an Industry-driven project, IMPRESS (https://impress-he.eu/, co-funded by Horizon Europe. This EU project centred around the EU bioeconomy and blue growth strategies to build a sustainable and zero-waste aquatic food value chain. This four-year multidisciplinary project, led by Teagasc, the Irish Agriculture and Food Development Authority, brings together a consortium of 14 partners involving academic and research institutes, business associations, non-profit organisations and SMEs from seven countries. The project will develop tangible solutions for advancing European marine and freshwater bio-based economies, leveraging the underutilised marine and freshwater low trophic species.
This current project at TCD mainly focuses on developing the separation process for processing water generated from marine-based industries. The project involves the lab scale evaluation of various pre-treatment and separation technologies followed by a scale-up of the best-selected process for recovering value-added components and removing other contaminates from marine industry processing water. This project involves working in collaboration with 14 partners and process development, intensification and scale-up of the best separation process involving various technologies, e.g., precipitation, pre-treatments, membranes separations, ion exchange resins, adsorbent and other suitable technologies to remove/recover various value-added components from marine-processing wastewater to improve sustainability.
Standard Duties and Responsibilities of the Post
The post holder will be responsible for developing processes for removing/recovering components from wastewater from marine-based/food industries and contributing to developing the sustainable and zero-waste aquatic food value chain. This project required working knowledge of ICP-MS, GC-MS, HPLC, UV-Vis, Metal analysis, COD, BOD, Protein, vitamin, and amino acid analysis, and other analytical tools. He/she will be expected to run the research programme day-to-day under the direction of Prof. Ramesh Babu.
The core tasks are as follows:
1. Use various MF/UF/NF/RO /PV membrane processes at the lab and pilot scale.
2. Evaluation of various ion-exchange resins and adsorbents for the removal of phosphates and nitrates.
3. Characterisation of wastewater using ICP-MS, Hach testing, COD, BOD, elemental analysis and enzyme assay kits
4. Scaling up lab-scale procedure for pilot scale/demo scale
5. Life cycle analysis (LCA) of process developed
6. Writing papers and giving presentations on the research conducted.
7. Willing to travel to partner's sites for scaling and demonstration of technologies
8. Helping with the day-to-day running of the research group, training and supervising the students, procuring orders, and managing the laboratories.
Person Specification
The experienced candidate must have a PhD in relevant fields such as Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Biotechnology, materials science, or physics and/or equivalent industrial experience.
Desirable
1. Knowledge in Anaerobic digestion/Fermentation technologies will be added advantage.
2. Experience of working with industrial collaborators.
3. Use of LCA analysis software
4. Experience in the training and supervision of junior researchers is desirable.
Applicants should submit a full Curriculum Vitae including the names and contact details of 3 referees (including email addresses) to babup@tcd.ie
EMS Awards - AMSIC 2024 - New Deadline: August 16th 2024, 12 PM CET
EMS offers 2 Young Academics Awards and 2 MS/PhD Students Awards for the 4th Congress of the African Membrane Society in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - November 5-8, 2024 (https://www.amsic-africa.com/amsic4)
The deadline has been extended to August 16th, 2024, 12 PM CET!
For applying to this award, you don't need to be an EMS member.
http://emsoc.eu/ems-awards/
European Membrane Society Summer School 2025: Call for proposals is open
European Membrane Society Summer School 2025: Call for proposals is open
The Society is keen on supporting scientific or technical events related to the field of membranes and membrane processes, particularly with a focus on events involving young and early-stage researchers. Therefore, the EMS has opened the Call for Proposals for the 39th EMS Summer School in 2024.
In order to have your Summer School accepted as an EMS event, you should apply to the EMS Council according to the following guidelines:
The application should specify the following:
- description of the facilities for the Summer School and proposed dates;
- the tentative program, including course contents and timing;
- members of the organizing committee (including members of the EMS Council);
- members of the scientific committee (including members of the EMS Council);
- budget outline, including:
- any request for EMS funding or loan;
- list of sponsors;
- expected number of participants;
- break-even number;
- registration fee estimation. Any organizational work outsourcing should be included in the budget. Any EMS loan received would be expected to be returned as the first call on excess income over expenses. Additional excess income will be split evenly between the EMS and the organizers. The EMS will not cover losses beyond the EMS funding. The EMS membership fees should be collectible with the registration fees. All rights and duties will be formalized in a contract with the EMS.
- Important websites related to the proposal.
Proposals will be selected according to the following criteria:
- Scientific program
- Conference venue/organizational and professional planning
- Registration fees
- Financial risk involved in the event
- Geographical distribution
The selected application will be announced in November 2024.
Please, send your proposal by September 30, 2024, to:
Karel Friess, karel.friess@vscht.cz
Carla Brazinha, c.brazinha@fct.unl.pt
Elsa Lasseuguette, e.lasseuguette@ed.ac.uk
EMS Secretary, ems@emsoc.eu
Recovery of bioactive peptides from wastes for edible antimicrobial coatings formulations, DC6, PhD position in Bio-GENTLE Doctoral Network, University of Bologna, Italy
The successful candidate for this post (DC6) will be employed full-time for a fixed-term of 36 months and enrolled on a PhD at the University of Bologna from 1st November 2024 to research and write a PhD thesis on Recovery of bioactive peptides from wastes for edible antimicrobial coatings formulations within Work Package 4 “Enhancing sustainability of bio-processes assisted with assessment tools”.
Job duration: 36 months
Main research field: membrane separation processes
Research subfield: chromatography, enzymes, polymer science, microbiology
Job description: DC6 – ‘Recovery of bioactive peptides from wastes for edible antimicrobial coatings formulations’
Design of membrane chromatography units and their implementation in bioprocessing, DC9, PhD position in Bio-GENTLE Doctoral Network, University of Bologna, Italy
The successful candidate for this post (DC9) will be employed full-time for a fixed-term of 36 months and enrolled on a PhD at the University of Bologna from 1st November 2024 to research and write a PhD thesis on ‘Design of membrane chromatography units and their implementation in bioprocessing’ within Work Package 3 “Maximising process throughput and precision via design of separation units/systems (S/T)”.
Job duration: 36 months
Main research field: membrane chromatography
Research subfield: process chromatography, bioprocessing, mathematical modelling
Job description: DC9 – ‘Design of membrane chromatography units and their implementation in bioprocessing’
PhD Position in Recycling Lithium-Ion Batteries in Collaboration with Toyota Motor and Nordic Membrane Lab, Umeå, Sweden
Title of position: PhD Position in Recycling Lithium-Ion Batteries in Collaboration with Toyota Motor and Nordic Membrane Lab, Umeå, Sweden
Link for the application: https://www.umu.se/en/work-with-us/open-positions/phd-position-in-chemistry-with-a-specialization-in-recycling-lithium-ion-battery_734707/