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4 PhD positions at TU Darmstadt, Germany (No replies)
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The Materials Modelling Division (Albe group) at TU Darmstadt, Germany, invites applications for four open positions as doctoral students within the Collaborative Research Center (Sonderforschungsbereich, SFB) 1548 – FLAIR.
FLAIR deals with Fermi Level Engineering Applied to Oxide Electroceramics and consists of 13 research groups distributed over five Universities within Germany and Austria. The goal is to develop an understanding of the relation between Fermi level and materials properties of electroceramics and apply it as a new toolkit for designing a wide variety of materials and applications.
The Materials Modelling Division contributes to this CRC with atomistic simulations (classical and machine-learning potentials) and electronic-structure calculations (density functional theory) within four projects:
A01 Fermi level engineering of doped perovskites: From the dilute limit to phase formation
A02 Polaronic contributions to Fermi level tolerance in perovskite-type oxide electroceramics
B01 Fermi level engineering of grain boundaries in perovskite oxides by first-principles calculations
B02 Understanding dopant-controlled modification of electronic structure and reactivity of perovskite surfaces using ab initio calculations
Your tasks
Planning, execution and analysis of atomistic simulations and electronic-
structure calculations in close collaboration with experimentally running
project partners within one of the above-listed projects
Presentation of results in/at international scientific journals and conferences
as well as at regular general assemblies of the SFB
Active data exchange and discussion of preliminary results with
experimentally working project partners
Support of the teaching activities of the Materials Modelling Division
(assistance in exercise groups and lab courses as well as support of Bachelor
and Master students)
Your profile
Completed university studies (MSc/Diplom) in Materials Science, Physics, Chemistry or a related field
Profound knowledge in Solid-State Physics/Chemistry and experience in at least one of the areas: classical molecular dynamics, density functional theory calculations, machine learning and programming (preferably in Python)
Social skills, organizational skills, as well as a hard-working mentality
Very good English and EDP skills
Basic knowledge of German is also necessary for teaching at the undergraduate level
For details concerning the application procedure see here.