EirBLADE Recruitment

The EirBLADE project is looking for a Senior Post Doctoral researcher to be based at University College Cork. EirBLADE will create a National REposItoRy of Decommissioned Wind Turbine BLADEs (WTBs) and link it directly to WTB reuse in civil engineering and other applications.

More details of the position are available at https://www.ucc.ie/en/hr/vacancies/research/

The creation of EirBLADE will be a key step in enabling the repurposing of WTBs on a large scale, thereby advancing clean energy, by fully transforming waste into resources for the circular economy. EirBLADE is hosted iby MAREI, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Energy, Climate and Marine, and is led by Dr. Vesna Jaksic of Munster Technological University and co-led by Dr. Paul Leahy of UCC. Cork County Council is the third partner in EirBLADE.

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Paul Leahy