Main professional opportunities

Doctors of the Chemical and Environmental Engineering Program find a job within 6 months after the defense of their doctoral thesis. Our PhDs work in public research centers, universities and a very high percentage (more than 50%) in private companies. The positions they occupy are

  • R+D+i technicians
  • Project managers
  • Senior Researchers
  • University professors
  • R&D&I Consultants

According to statistics, 90% of these jobs are located in national territory and the rest in any part of the world.

Some career opportunities for the most recent PhDs in the program are:

  • Project Manager at VEOLIA RECHERCHE & INNOVATION
  • Project Manager at HydroThane STP BV, 's-Hertogenbosch
  • Researcher in the R&D Department of Kepler Ingeniería y Ecogestión
  • Senior Researcher at IMDEA Energy
  • R&D Technician. URBASER
  • Online Adverstising Consultant at Internet Advantage.
  • Senior Project Engineer at the Integrated Biotechnologies Group in Callaghan Innovation (Wellington, New Zealand).
  • Project Manager at Renmatix (Pennsylvania, USA).
  • Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Biomaterial Science (Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Germany)
  • R&D Engineer at Abengoa (Spain)
  • Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Valladolid (Spain)
  • Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Burgos.
  • Innovation and Technology Department. FCC AQUALIA.
  • Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Minho (Portugal).
  • Air Quality Consultant at Temple Group (UK).
  • Assistant Professor at the Dept. of Chemical Engineering and Environmental Technology (UVa).
  • Assistant Professor at the Technical University Federico Santamaría (Chile).
  • Associate Professor in the department of the Universidade Federal de São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil.
  • Assistant Professor at the National University of Córdoba (Argentina).
  • R&D Project Technician at AB Azucarera Iberia.