Senior/Chief Scientist

H&V is a global leader in filtration and energy storage solutions. Our advanced materials are used in nearly every industry and touch every aspect of modern life. Wherever you work, live or travel, chances are an H&V solution is close by, contributing to a cleaner, healthier, more sustainable world. H&V serves the world from 13 strategically located facilities. Our footprint in the Americas, Europe and Asia lets us meet the unique requirements of global and regional customers efficiently, accurately and cost effectively, while capturing supply chain efficiencies. These advantages help make H&V a valuable partner and a true worldwide leader. Our success comes from our ability to adapt, our values and the people of H&V. We act with integrity, and we treat customers, partners and each other with dignity and respect. We live these values every day and could not have prospered for more than 200 years without them. SUMMARY: Hollingsworth & Vose is creating a dedicated scientific role for a pioneer researcher: someone who works best at the frontier of a field, defines their own questions, and is energized by the absence of a roadmap. Your mandate is to identify, investigate, and de-risk platform-level opportunities in porous media — materials and mechanisms that could define entirely new product categories for H&V. You will report directly to senior R&D leadership, operating with genuine scientific autonomy. Title depends on experience and track record in the industry. ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Scan the porous media landscape — nonwovens, polymer membranes, MOFs, zeolites, aerogels, other fibrous structures — for convergence zones and white-space opportunities invisible from within a single material class. Formulate original research hypotheses, design experiments to de-risk them, and execute at TRL 1–3 with full scientific independence. Build and maintain an active presence in the external scientific community: publish, present, collaborate with academic partners, and serve as H&V's scientific antenna in your domain. Apply computational and AI-assisted tools — high-throughput experimentation, design of experiments, Bayesian optimization — to accelerate discovery cycles. Communicate findings clearly to senior R&D and executive leadership: what you found, what it means, and — just as importantly — what you killed and why. Identify opportunities to connect emerging platform concepts to H&V's existing technical and manufacturing capabilities where genuine synergy exists. Lead or aid in the commercialization of platform concepts EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE: PhD in STEM category - Chemical, Mechanical, Material sciences, and other porous media related disciplines or BS/MS degrees with equivalent work experience A track record of originating research and successful commercialization, First-author publications in peer-reviewed journals and/or Named inventorship (not just assignee) 10+ years of product development…