Description:

A PhD position is available immediately at the New Technologies Research Center(NTC), University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic on “Ab initio and experimental design of energy materials”. The research will be conducted in the group of Dr. Jan Minár and will involve both, computational and experimental work. A main objective is to model, explore and optimize the (electronic, magnetic and spectroscopic) material properties of the photocatalysts for high-purity hydrogen production via electrochemical water splitting. The exact research topic can depend on the background and research interests of the successful applicant. Furthermore, the successful applicant will also have an opportunity to carry out experiments by using our newly acquired state of the art Spin and angle resolved Photoemission spectrometer. Thus providing an excellent platform to bridge the theoretical predictions with experimental realization.

Further information about the project can be found at https://ntc.zcu.cz/en/odbory/CENTEM/, https://cedam.ntc.zcu.cz/en/index.html .

Research Group:

The Research of Advanced materials group at New Technologies Research Center, develops methods and theory for the state of the art computational approaches devoted to the study of spectroscopic phenomena. In particular, the group is at the fore-front of the development of electronic structure method based on the Green’s function formalism. This method is applicable to crystals, surfaces and clusters. It is capable of handling not only periodic systems, but also chemically disordered alloys. NTC is a center of expertise for theory and experiments in the area of chemical disorder engineering for the manipulation of the material functionalities.

Qualification:

Applicants for the PhD position are required to have a Masters degree in physics, chemistry or materials science. Basic knowledge of Density Functional theory (DFT) used for first principle calculations of solid state materials would be very beneficial. Good programming skills (e.g Fortran , Python) are preferred.

Application:

The application should include a CV, Motivation letter, transcripts of grades from Bachelor’s and Master’s Studies, proof of English language skills(if applicable), abstract of Master’s thesis, contact information of at least two professional references. Candidates should send all the above mentioned details as a single pdf file to: [email protected]