Company Information
Veridis wants to create a better future for humanity and the planet. Our mission is to deliver key recycling technologies to advance the transition to a circular economy. We are trying to create a place of work where scientists and engineers can develop technical opportunities to benefit society and the climate. To achieve these objectives, we offer a challenging internship with flexible working hours, an informal atmosphere, and a lot of independence and responsibility.
Veridis is a deep-tech startup developing a new system to improve quality control in plastic recycling, called MADSCAN®. This technology is a new thermal analysis method that recyclers can use to analyse plastics/polymers to give the material characteristics (type, degradation, etc.). With our MADSCAN® technology, we scale up the sample size of a thermal analysis by a factor of 100.000, which allows us to give a representative analysis of large batches of plastics, thereby increasing the relevance to the recycling industry. With this method, we can analyse dark plastics, detect material degradation, and, most importantly, directly improve recycled plastics’ commercial value.
Assignment Description
Focus will be on research into the effect of one or multiple factors on the thermal behaviour of polymers. This can range from additives to degradation, mixing, etc.
The assignment can/will include measurements on our MADSCAN® system but also literature research.
This internship assignment will allow you to impact the improvement of plastic recycling and, therefore, the circular transition as a whole. Because of the multidisciplinary start-up environment, you will learn a lot from different disciplines. And most importantly, you will develop your research skills a lot by working independently on a challenging project with the rest of the team to give unique insights to help you. Finally, if the internship works out well, we are always interested in considering extending your stay with us or even taking you on board as an employee.
Intern Profile
You like taking initiative and contributing new ideas or research directions. You have high standards with the ability to dive deep, critically evaluate the work of yourself and others, and relate the research you are performing to the MADSCAN® system output. You can condense state-of-the-art papers at an academic level and extract relevant conclusions from those.
Requirements
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Currently enrolled in or having acquired a MSc student in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, (Applied) Physics, or anything related to those.
Preferences
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Basic knowledge of polymer science.
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Experience with thermal analysis methods.
Note that we can only consider students that are situated in the Netherlands during the duration of the internship. Please send your CV and list of grades to [email protected].
