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Applications are invited for several PhD positions (initial funding for 3 years with possible extension, payment according to public service’s salary agreement: TVL E13, 50%), which are available immediately or upon mutual agreement at the Research Center Chemical Sciences and Sustainability/Chair for Theoretical Chemistry II headed by Professor Jörg Behler at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany. The Research Center Chemical Sciences and Sustainability is a newly established research institute of the Research Alliance Ruhr funded by the State of North-Rhine Westphalia.
We offer an exciting interdisciplinary research environment and excellent working conditions with above average equipment and state-of-the-art high-performance computing facilities. You will work in a leading group with about two decades of experience in the development of machine learning potentials and their application to various topics in chemistry and materials science. The projects will involve the development and implementation of advanced methods to represent high-dimensional potential energy surfaces employing neural networks. Moreover, atomistic simulations of various systems like complex materials, interfaces or chemistry in solution will be performed. A close collaboration with the cluster of excellence RESOLV is anticipated.
Successful candidates have an excellent Master/Diploma Degree in chemistry, physics, materials science or a related field and very good communication skills in English (equal to B2 or better, oral and writing). The ideal candidate will have some knowledge about electronic structure calculations (preferably density functional theory), atomistic simulation techniques like molecular dynamics or Monte Carlo, and programming skills in Python and/or Fortran.
Candidates should send a detailed resume together with the usual material (CV, certificates and transcripts, names of academic references) as a single pdf file via e-mail to [email protected]. There are several openings for which consideration of candidates will begin immediately and end when suitable candidates have been found.