A two-year postdoctoral position is offered to work on first-principles modeling of 2D materials (graphene, transition metal dichalcogenides and other layer materials) at the University of Rome la Sapienza (Italy) under the supervision of Prof. Francesco Mauri. The research will be carried in collaboration with Prof. Matteo Calandra in Paris (France). The fellowship, supported by the graphene flagship initiative, will be granted by the IIT and should start on April 2016.

The candidate will carry out first principles and analytical calculations to understand the physical properties of these materials with a focus on transport, superconductivity, electron-phonon interaction, carrier relaxation, magnetic and charge-density-wave instabilities. The candidate should have a solid background in condensed matter physics and a good experience in electronic structure calculations.

Interested candidates can apply electronically (CV including full publication list and references) by sending an email to: [email protected]

Publications related to the subject:

Strong anharmonicity induces quantum melting of charge density wave in 2H−NbSe 2 under pressure
Maxime Leroux, Ion Errea, Mathieu Le Tacon, Sofia-Michaela Souliou, Gaston Garbarino, Laurent Cario, Alexey Bosak, Francesco Mauri, Matteo Calandra, Pierre Rodiere
Phys. Rev. B, 92, 140303 (2015).

Universal Increase in the Superconducting Critical Temperature of Two-Dimensional Semiconductors at Low Doping by the Electron-Electron Interaction
M Calandra, P Zoccante, F Mauri
Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 077001 (2015)

High-Pressure Hydrogen Sulfide from First Principles: A Strongly Anharmonic Phonon-Mediated Superconductor
Ion Errea, Matteo Calandra, Chris J Pickard, Joseph Nelson, Richard J Needs, Yinwei Li, Hanyu Liu, Yunwei Zhang, Yanming Ma, Francesco Mauri
Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 157004 (2015)

Thermal conductivity of graphene and graphite: collective excitations and mean free paths
G Fugallo, A Cepellotti, L Paulatto, M Lazzeri, N Marzari, F Mauri
Nano letters 14, 6109 (2014)

Phonon-mediated superconductivity in graphene by lithium deposition,
Profeta, Gianni; Calandra, Matteo; Mauri, Francesco
Nature Physics 8, 131 (2012)

Charge-Density Wave and Superconducting Dome in TiSe2 from Electron-Phonon Interaction
Calandra, Matteo; Mauri, Francesco
Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 196406 (2011)

For complete publication list, see:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=it&user=4uDyhe0AAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate