This three-year postdoctoral research position at the University of Birmingham is available for candidates with expertise in computational materials research.

An emerging challenge at the forefront of quantum materials research is the complexity induced by the possibility of correlated structural disorder. Here, our project aims to understand the role of correlated structural disorder in quantum materials and establish its relationship with their exotic magnetic properties.

Our goal is not just to understand a few target materials, but to develop the strategy to understand this class of materials. Inspired by the ab initio random structure searching (AIRSS) technique, we will develop a high-throughput framework for predicting the magnetic structure of the materials found in the project using random search and our in-house Matador code to capture both the structural and magnetic disorder present. Once the structure is known, these magnetic configurations will be further explored using more advanced techniques available in the Morris group (e.g. many-body perturbation theory, time-dependent DFT and dynamical-mean field theory) developing model Hamiltonians to describe the behaviour of the experimentally synthesised materials.

This three-year position will form part of an interdisciplinary team, funded through the Leverhulme Research Project Grant Unravelling Correlated Disorder in Quantum Material and based in the School of Chemistry at the University of Birmingham, working with computational modellers in the School of Metallurgy and Materials and experimental condensed matter physicists at the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source.

Further details and applications can be made via: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CTR439/research-fellow-in-computational-quantum-materials-research 

Informal enquiries can be made to Dr Lucy Clark at [email protected]