I have a postdoctoral position open in my group available from Jan 2019.  You will join a combined theory/experimental effort looking at simple materials under extreme positions.  The group currently has three postdocs adn ten PhD students.  My main interest is in high pressure hydrogen, and developing methods to look at larger systems than can be tackled by DFT, thermodynamics, simulation of shock processes and direct modelling of the experimental signatures beyond the perturbation theory approach.  The size of the group means you will enjoy a high level of research variety and freedom, and I'm particularly interested in innovative statistical mechanics methods and building interatomic potentials, including using machine learning.  Interest in experiments will be a bonus, and the opportunity will exist to work with our experimental diamond anvil cell group.

The position is funded by an ERC advanced grant, and will run until the end of the grant period, (Sept 30th 2021).  As an added incentive, Edinburgh hosts the UK national supercomputer.

Full details of the application here...
https://www.vacancies.ed.ac.uk/pls/corehrrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=045922

and of the overall project here...

https://www2.ph.ed.ac.uk/~gja/Hecate.pdf