Job announcements relevant to people interested in electronic structure calculations…
Due to the large number of posts recently, there is currently a delay of several weeks between posts being submitted and the corresponding emails being distributed to all users. Please bear with us while we try to improve this. In the meantime – and until this notice is removed – it would assist us considerably if you could submit only important and/or urgent posts and thus help to reduce the size of the mail queue. Under no circumstances should you resend posts multiple times when you find the emails are not distributed immediately.
In light of the Russian military offensive in Ukraine, we request that announcements relating to events, jobs and other activities associated with institutions supported by the Russian and Belarusian states are not posted to the Psi-k forum.
Post-Doc in Rome-Italy on First principles model ... (No replies)
Back to Job listings...
We offer a one year post-doc position, eventually renewable up to a total of three years, in Sapienza University of Rome- Italy, Department of Basic and Applied Sciences for Engineering, for an open minded and enthusiastic scientist experienced in ab-initio calculations of materials properties and with proven competence in the first principles modeling of vibrational and optical spectroscopy of materials based on the Density Functional Theory.
The selected scientist will be involved in the “Challenges” project financed by the EU with the final goal to define novel tip enhanced experimental and technical strategies for real time quality testing of semiconducting materials and devices.
The project plan includes a leading experimental activity concerning the synthesis and characterization of novel AFM tips for tip enhanced Raman spectroscopy fully compatible with the semiconductors and electronic devices production lines, and a campaign of experimental testing of the these new tips.
Simulations are planned as a supporting activity for the experimental counterpart to interpret the results and orient the experimentalists to the choice of optimal tips materials and geometry.
In this context, first principles modeling of the materials optical properties, plasmons and enhanced Raman spectra are crucial as a reference for the interpretation of the experiments, and the materials choice and optimization.
Due to the above context of the Challenges project, the candidate should possess good communication skills and the capacity to work in a multidisciplinary team including experimental, technical and industrial counterparts.
We require a degree in Physics, Chemistry, Engineering or equivalent, a PhD and a proven experience, testified by a robust publication list, in DFT based ab-initio calculations of semiconductors, alloys or oxides materials properties, especially focusing on the calculation of vibrational and spectroscopic quantities, approached mainly through many body and density functional perturbation theories or time dependent DFT.
Preference will be for candidates with experience in scientific programming and the usage of the Quantum-Espresso suite (or similar) and related many-body suites for electronic properties (e.g Quantum Espresso, Yambo or similar).
Contact person: Cristina Gippa at the Challenges secretariat
[email protected]