Responsibilities: 

- Designing, assembling and testing bioelectrochemical reactors

- Development of analytical (in particular HPLC, electrochemical) protocols

- Optimisation of BES performance

- Upscaling and modelling BESs

- Implementation of machine learning tools for optimisation and upscaling of BES

- Guidance and collaboration with PhD students

- Scientific writing

Requirements:

- Previous experience with microbial fuel cell or other bioelectrochemical systems technology

- Fluency in additive manufacturing techniques, BES assembly, BES design

- Fluency in statistic tools or moddelling apporoaches

- Machine learning tools nicely seen but not required

- Previous experience in working with younger adepts of science

- Excellent or very good English skills

- Proven scientific track record in high ranked journals

- Enthusiasm

Requirements of the National Science Centre (NCN)

The person appointed to this position must meet all of the following conditions:

• The Principal Investigator (PI) must not have acted as the supervisor or auxiliary supervisor of the candidate’s doctoral dissertation.

• The candidate must be selected through an open recruitment process conducted by a recruitment committee appointed by the head of the institution implementing the research project. The committee shall consist of the PI as chairperson and at least two individuals designated by the PI who possess appropriate scientific or professional qualifications. Candidates will be assessed according to the criteria specified in the recruitment announcement. A mandatory formal eligibility criterion is that the candidate obtained their PhD degree in the year of employment in the project or within seven years prior to 1 January of the year of employment in the project.

  This seven-year period may be extended by the duration of documented long-term sick leave (exceeding 90 days) or rehabilitation benefits received due to incapacity for work. Additionally, the period may be extended by the number of months spent on parental and childcare-related leave granted under the provisions of the Polish Labour Code. Female applicants may alternatively extend this period by 18 months for each child born or adopted, if this method of accounting for career breaks is more advantageous. The above-mentioned period may neither be shortened nor further extended by the competition organizer.

  The results of the recruitment process will be made publicly available on the website of the institution where the research project will be carried out.

• The candidate must have obtained their PhD degree at an institution other than the institution where they are to be employed, or must have completed at least a continuous, documented 10-month postdoctoral fellowship at an institution other than the project-hosting institution and in a country different from the one in which they obtained their PhD degree.
• The candidate must be employed for a period of no less than six months.
• During the period of receiving this salary, the candidate may not receive any other remuneration funded from the direct costs of research projects financed through NCN funding schemes.
• During the period of receiving this salary, the candidate may not be employed under an employment contract with any other employer, including employers based outside Poland.
• During the period of receiving this salary, the candidate may not receive retirement or pension benefits from the social security system.

Period of employment and remuneration: 

Employment in accordance with the provisions of the Polish Labour Code and the Act on Higher Education and Science, for a period of 12 months (with the possibility of extension up to 36 months).

Salary: approximately PLN 8900,00 gross per month, plus a 13th-month salary and participation in the Employee Capital Plans (PPK) scheme, corresponding to a total employer cost of approximately PLN 11666,00 gross-gross per month.

We offer: 

• contributing to the cutting-edge bioelectrochemistry science
• stable employment at the prestigious University,
• possibilities of career development, 

Development prospects: 

Scientific development related to access to numerous training and motivational programs as well as the possibility of establishing international cooperation

The controller of your data processed as part of the recruitment of an academic teacher for the project is Wrocław University of Science and Technology, located in Wrocław, at Wybrzeże Stanisława Wyspiańskiego 27 (postal code 50-370 Wrocław). You can contact the controller via the form on the website www.pwr.edu.pl/kontakt or by mail to the controller's registered office address (please indicate " recruitment – XXX*" (*enter the appropriate reference number)).

The controller has appointed a Data Protection Officer (DPO), who can be contacted by email: IOD@pwr.edu.pl. You can contact the DPO regarding matters concerning the processing of personal data by Wrocław University of Science and Technology (the DPO does not provide information about recruitment processes nor accept documents).

Purposes and legal basis of processing

Your personal data are necessary to comply with the controller's legal obligations (Article 6 paragraph 1 letter c of the GDPR) to the extent specified in Article 221 §1 and §2 in conjunction with Article 119 paragraph 1 of the Act of 20 July 2018 - Law on Higher Education and Science (including first and last names, date of birth, contact details, education and professional qualifications, and employment history) will be processed for the purpose of conducting recruitment procedures before hiring for a specific type of work or position. These data are necessary to define the candidate profile and assess candidates. Such profiling will be carried out solely for internal recruitment purposes.

Before establishing an employment relationship with a person selected through recruitment, the data controller will use their data necessary to verify the conditions arising from Article 21 of the Act of May 13, 2016 on counteracting the threat of sexual crimes and the protection of minors (consolidated text: Journal of Laws of 2024, item 1802, as amended) in conjunction with § 14 of the Regulation of the Minister of Justice of July 31, 2017, regarding the procedure, method and scope of obtaining and sharing information from the Register with limited access and the method of creating a user account (consolidated text: Journal of Laws of 2024, item 1516). This will be the PESEL number and if a PESEL has not been assigned: 1) first name, 2) last name, 3) maiden name, 4) father's name, 5) mother's name, 6) date of birth. The controller may also require such a candidate to:

− submit information from criminal records of countries other than the Republic of Poland and the country of his or her citizenship, or

− submit (under pain of criminal liability) an appropriate declaration regarding the candidate's clean criminal record for crimes listed in the Act of 13 May 2016 on counteracting the threat of sexual crimes and the protection of minors (if the countries referred to in the previous point do not envisage the processing of such information).

Any other data you provide to us voluntarily, on your own initiative, will be processed on the basis of voluntary consent (Article 6, paragraph 1, letter a and Article 7 of the GDPR) in conjunction with Article 221a and Article 221b of the Labor Code. If you intend to grant such consent to the processing of additional data in your documents, please also include an appropriate clause – such as:

I consent to the processing by Wrocław University of Science and Technology of additional personal ordinary* or special* (*delete as appropriate) data, which I include in my CV, cover letter and other attached documents - in order to include them in the recruitment procedure of academic teachers for the implementation of projects financed from external sources.

Data Recipients

Your personal data will be processed by individuals participating in the recruitment process. Unsuccessful candidates will be allowed to collect their documents for 6 months (with a receipt), after which the documents will be destroyed and the data will be deleted. The personal data on the receipt will also be processed for 6 months from the date of document collection. Data from accepted candidates will be included in the personnel files.

Recipients of your data may include entities contracted by the controller to perform services requiring access to data (IT, consulting, legal, courier, and those related to the destruction of documents or data media). External institutions in connection with project financing may also be data recipients.

Wrocław University of Science and Technology accepts the European Commission's 2005 recommendations (European Charter for Researchers and Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers) "Human Resources Excellence in Research". Recruitment documentation may therefore be subject to review and archiving obligations, which may result in disclosure of its content to authorized institutions. This is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the controller (Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR).

Data storage period

Data processed solely for the recruitment process will be processed during the recruitment process and then only for the next 6 months. In connection with the recruitment process, data processing will also be carried out using electronic communication tools that contain backup copies of messages and files sent with them. Employees of the data controller may use, for example, employee accounts in the Google Workspace system to store and transmit your data via the data controller's official email. The provider of this system has declared that it processes information for Wrocław University of Science and Technology within the European Economic Area (EEA) in accordance with the GDPR (the provider's declaration in a continuously updated version can be found at https://cloud.google.com/terms/data-processing-addendum/ (Appendix 3: Specific privacy provisions). Data will be deleted from backup copies of emails sent to the controller within the timeframes specified by the provider. For the controller, this provider is the data processor for the purposes of Wrocław University of Science and Technology.

Data Transfer Outside the EEA

Your personal data may be processed outside the EEA based on an adequacy decision or subject to appropriate safeguards (in accordance with Articles 45 and 46 of the GDPR, respectively). For example, from July 10, 2023, the transfer of personal data to organizations based in the US is possible because it is based on an adequacy decision. Companies and organizations in the US that declare that their data processing complies with the Data Privacy Framework requirements are disclosed in a publicly available list at: https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/list.

Rights of Data Subjects

The controller provides you (after contacting the entity conducting the recruitment process and confirming your identity) with the right to request:

− information about the range of information about you processed by the controller;

− access to your data and receiving a copy of the data (this does not apply to copies of the documents themselves);

− rectification (correction, addition) of your data;

− restriction of processing;

− data portability, as referred to in Article 20 of the GDPR;

− deletion of personal data (unless the legal basis for processing your personal data is, for example, a legal obligation to which the controller is subject).

As a rule, the controller does not provide you with the right to:

− delete data processed on a basis other than consent;

− object to the processing of personal data (pursuant to Article 21 of the GDPR) when the processing is based on the controller's legal obligation or if there are grounds for processing that override your rights (for the purposes referred to in Article 6 paragraph 1 letters e and f of the GDPR).

Furthermore, any data subject who believes that the controller is violating the GDPR has the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority (in Poland, the President of the Personal Data Protection Office, address: ul. Moniuszki 1A, 00-014 Warsaw). 

Information about the obligation to provide data

Providing your personal data, within the scope defined by law applicable to the controller, is not voluntary, as processing such data is necessary to fulfill legal obligations during the recruitment process. However, participation in the recruitment process and the provision of such data that you provide voluntarily, beyond the scope specified by law, are voluntary.

Required documents: 

1. Application for participation in the recruitment addressed to the Rector
2. Short biography (CV)
3. A copy of the document confirming possession of a professional title, academic degree/title
4. Self-report containing information on research, teaching and organizational activities 
5. List of publications
6. List and description of scientific internships
7. Statement on having read the information regarding the processing of personal data
8. Statement on meeting the requirements set out in Art. 113 of the Act of July 20, 2018. Law on higher education and science 
9. Declaration of the candidate that in the case of winning the recruitment, Wrocław University of Science and Technology will be the primary place of employment *,**

* In the case of full-time employment

** If a person who is employed under an employment relationship with another employer conducting research, research and teaching, research and development, or implementation activities (excluding cases specified in art. 125 sec. 3 of the Act) wins the recruitment process, and this employment does not expire on the date of employment at Wrocław University of Science and Technology as the primary place of work, this person, in accordance with art. 125 sec. 1 of the Act, taking into account art. 125 sec. 2 of the Act, is obliged to obtain the Rector's consent to additional employment under an employment relationship with another employer after being employed at Wrocław University of Science and Technology. If a person who conducts business activity wins the recruitment process, the requirement of art. 125 sec. 7 of the Act must be met.

Public documents:

The consolidated text of the Regulations for conducting open competitions for the position of an academic teacher and other necessary documents can be found here: LINK PL, EN: https://wch.pwr.edu.pl/pracownicy/konkursy-oferty-pracy/konkursy-projekty-badawcze-eng-zw-1352025-4.html Please send your application documents in Polish or English:

• by traditional mail to the correspondence address Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Chemistry, C.K. Norwida 4/6, 50-373, Wrocław, room 131 or

   

• by email to the email address: grzegorz.pasternak@pwr.edu.pl by 10.07.2026, by 15.00 CET.

In the title of the message, please indicate the reference number: (AD19/W3/06/2026)

Applications submitted without a specific reference number or after the deadline for submission will not be considered. For any information regarding the recruitment, please contact grzegorz.pasternak@pwr.edu.pl.

The date of receipt of documents is decisive. The deadline for receipt of application documents is considered to be 15:00 on the day indicated in the Recruitment Information. Receipt of documents from the candidate will be confirmed by a designated administrative employee via email to the address provided in the application. 

Candidates' applications will be evaluated by the Recruitment. After the recruitment process closes, applications submitted by post from unsuccessful candidates will be returned. Applicants may collect their applications from a designated administrative employee within six months of the recruitment process closing, with acknowledgment of receipt.

Information on the recruitment procedure can be found in the Guide for Applicants

LINK PL: https://pwr.edu.pl/uczelnia/europejska-strategia-dla-naukowcow/otm-r

LINK EN: https://pwr.edu.pl/en/university/european-human-resources-strategy-for-researchers/otm-r

The University reserves that the recruitment may remain unresolved.

The recruitment conducted by the Wrocław University of Science and Technology is open, implemented in accordance with clear and transparent principles based on clear and unambiguous criteria for substantive evaluation, taking into account diverse career paths. Wrocław University of Science and Technology conducts recruitment procedures in accordance with the guidelines of the European Charter for Researchers and the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers and the Open, Transparent and Merit-Based Recruitment of Researchers (OTM-R) Policy at the Wrocław University of Science and Technology.

LINK PL: https://pwr.edu.pl/uczelnia/europejska-strategia-dla-naukowcow/otm-r

LINK EN: https://pwr.edu.pl/en/university/european-human-resources-strategy-for-researchers/otm-r

Recruitment processes conducted by Wrocław University of Science and Technology are conducted in accordance with the equal opportunities policy: "Equality, Diversity and Well-being Policy of Wrocław University of Science and Technology for 2025-2028".

LINK PL : https://rowna.pwr.edu.pl/fcp/BGBUTODtYP0c5WRc5HApeDRZIBzo5CBA/191/public/docs/polityka_rownosci_roznorodnosci_i_dobrostanu_2025-2028.pdf

LINK EN: https://rowna.pwr.edu.pl/en/

As a friendly employer, Wrocław University of Science and Technology supports the employment of people with disabilities. Information on the accessibility of selected Wrocław University of Science and Technology buildings: https://przewodnik.pwr.edu.pl/pl. Information on support for employees with disabilities and special needs: https://dzd.pwr.edu.pl/en.

Before establishing an employment relationship with the successful candidate, Wrocław University of Science and Technology will conduct a background check in accordance with the Act of 13 May 2016 on Counteracting Sexual Crime Threats and Protecting Minors. The data required for this verification (PESEL number or, in the absence thereof, maiden name, father's name, mother's name, date of birth) will be obtained solely from the successful candidate and should not be provided at the application stage. 

Wrocław University of Science and Technology has a Regulation on reporting cases of irregularities and protection of persons making reports (whistleblowers). It can be found at the link below:

https://pwr.edu.pl/uczelnia/informacje-ogolne/wladze/pelnomocnicy-rektora/pelnomocnik-ds-przeciwdzialania-korupcji