Centro de Física de Materiales (CFM), a joint center between the University of the Basque
Country (UPV/EHU) and the Spanish Research Council (CSIC) located in San Sebastian (Basque
Country, Spain), is currently accepting applications for 2 PhD positions to work on the research
team led by Ion Errea at the CFM. This is a unique opportunity for highly motivated junior
researchers to join a motivated group and a research institute with a scientifically rich atmosphere.

The positions will be funded by the SuperH ERC Starting Grant project led by Ion Errea. The preferred starting date will be February 2019.

Applicants must have a Master degree or equivalent in Physics, Chemistry, Materials Science or
similar that enables the access to a PhD program. Interested candidates must follow this link to apply http://cfm.ehu.es/cfm/index.php/job-application , choose 26_10_2018_PhD
job offer and upload their updated CV, including an academic transcript of both Bachelor and
Master degrees, and a brief statement of interests.

Deadline for applications is 9 December 2018.

The goal of the SuperH ERC Starting Grant project is to use first-principles theoretical calculations to, first, correctly characterize the physical and chemical properties of hydrogen-based superconductors, and, second, to predict new high-temperature superconductors. New first-principles methods will be developed to accurately calculate the electron-phonon interaction and the phonon frequencies in these cases.

The tasks of the PhD students will be mainly to apply novel first-principles methods to understand and predict the superconductivity of hydrogen based-compounds both at high and ambient
pressure.

More information can be found in the attached file.