The Group of Professor Giuseppe Milano at the Department of Organic Materials Science University of Yamagata University (Japan), is seeking PhD students.

We are looking for young scientists with a vivid interest in interdisciplinary application-driven projects in the following research areas:

1. Development of Molecular Simulation Methods and Model for Organic Materials
2. Multiscale Modeling
3. Nanomaterials
4. Materials for Organic Electronics
5. Synthetic Biology

Information

PhD position can be fully funded, for a period of 3 years.

Interested candidates should direct questions or apply by emailing the following to Prof. Giuseppe Milano ([email protected])

Application

For the application to be complete, the following electronic documents must be included:

• Cover letter (please, kindly describe your previous experience)
• Detailed CV
• Names and email address of three professional references (including the supervisor of the master thesis)

Example Papers

Self-Assembly of Carbon Nanotubes in Polymer Melts: Simulation of Structural and Electrical Behavior by Hybrid Particle-Field Molecular Dynamics Nanoscale 2016, 8, 15538-15552

Toward Chemically Resolved Computer Simulations of Dynamics and Remodeling of Biological Membranes Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters (Perspective Paper) J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2017, 8 (15), pp 3586–3594

Generation of Well Relaxed All Atom Models of Large Molecular Weight Polymer Melts: A Hybrid Particle-Continuum Approach Based on Particle-Field Molecular Dynamics Simulations J. Chem. Theory Comput., 2014, 10 (12), pp 5651

Biomembrane Solubilization Mechanism by Triton X-100: A Computational Study of The Three Stage Model Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2017, 19, 2978

Self Assembly of Triton X-100 in water solutions: A Multiscale Simulation Study Linking Mesoscale to Atomistic Models Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 2015 11 (10), 4959-4971

Group Websites

http://www.smms.unisa.it/

https://polymorg.yz.yamagata-u.ac.jp/english/laboratory/all/labo_mirano/