Project title: Designing Efficient and Affordable Energy Materials by Manipulating Disorder

Project description: The successful applicant will work on an exciting research program that
has the potential to push sustainable energy technologies beyond their current limits. This
program will specifically focus on designing efficient and affordable materials for sustainable
catalysis and/or fuel cell applications by manipulating inevitable disorder present in materials. This
critical research problem will be tackled with the aid of advanced modeling techniques (capable
of analyzing materials from nano- to electronic- scales and under practical conditions),
interdisciplinary approach, and experimental collaborations. The person appointed will work as
part of a newly established interdisciplinary team focused on developing novel energy materials
and will have access to world-class computational facilities and collaborations.

Research area: Computational materials design, Sustainable energy, Disordered materials,
Catalysis, Fuel cells, Quantum and classical mechanics simulations, Nanomaterials

Starting date: August 2020

Financial support: All students are entitled to receive financial support during their graduate
studies out IML's research funds. Moreover, students are also invited to apply for external scholarships from FRQNT,
NSERC, etc.

Eligibility: Applicant should have a degree (M.Sc.) in Materials Science, Physics, Chemistry, or
equivalent and must be fluent in English or French (orally as well as in written). He/She should be
able to work independently as well as with a team. His/Her ability to demonstrate critical and
independent thinking will be invaluable assets. Strong scientific writing experience. 

Send resume, research proposal, 2 letters of references and transcripts to [email protected]