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The Emmy-Noether group SPECSY at the Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, University of Tübingen has an opening on electronic structure modelling and computational spectroscopy under the supervision of Dr. Matthias May. The 3-year PhD position is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).
Project description: With anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions not dropping quickly enough, the removal and permanent storage of CO2 from the atmosphere is likely to become an important pillar of climate change mitigation. In the NETPEC project (www.netpec.org), we aim to establish the basis for photoelectrochemical negative emission technologies, achieving CO2 conversion and storage at much higher efficiencies than what natural photosynthesis offers. This would translate to smaller land footprints and render the approach more sustainable. A highly interdisciplinary team from six universities and research institutes will look at the whole process chain, from climate modelling to geological storage. The sub-project at the University of Tübingen in the SPECSY group will investigate catalysts and their coupling to photoelectrochemical solar cells by computational as well as experimental approaches.
Your responsibilities are
- to work in an interdisciplinary research team on photoelectrochemical CO2 reduction in the project „NETPEC“
- to conduct computational experiments on catalyst-electrolyte and catalyst-semiconductor interfaces by density functional theory
- to compute reflection anisotropy spectra starting from the DFT ground state
- to evaluate computational results in context with experimental data (scripting skills, such as Python, beneficial)
- to publish, discuss, and present the results of your research
We expect
- a university degree (M.Sc. or equivalent) in physics, chemistry, materials science, or related fields
- an interest in the investigation of solid-liquid interfaces by computational spectroelectrochemistry
- experience in electronic structure methods
- willingness and ability to work in an international and interdisciplinary team
We offer
- an excellent, dynamic and international research team at a renowned university in the vibrant and beautiful city of Tübingen (www.tuebingen.de/en/)
- interdisciplinary research on a highly relevant research topic and the possibility to closely work together with computational chemists to understand fundamental aspects of the topic
- salary: PhD position: 50% TV-L E13 [1] for 3 years
Please send your application or any questions to Dr. Matthias May via email to [email protected], including the following documents:
A letter of motivation, a CV, certificates and transcript of records (all in a single pdf), and the pdf or link to a written document such as your M.Sc. thesis and ate least one references who can be contacted by phone or email.
(We also currently have two open experimental positions, one PhD and one postdoc opening. See http://www.uni-ulm.de/specsy for more information.)
[1] https://www.research-in-germany.org/en/plan-your-stay/finances/salary.html