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The Quantum Matter and Functional Materials Research Modelling Group (https://www.claudiocazorla-physics.com) lead by Dr. Claudio Cazorla at The Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Barcelona, Spain) is recruiting a postdoctoral scholar to perform theoretical modelling and simulation of multicaloric effects in ferroelectric and hybrid organic-inorganic materials. Multicaloric effects are associated with crystal phase transitions presenting large entropy changes, and can be exploited to engineer energy efficient and environmentally friendly solid-state cooling technologies. The postdoctoral scholar will use first-principles methods based on density functional theory and molecular dynamics simulations to predict and estimate the size of electrocaloric and barocaloric effects in a wide variety of multifunctional materials.
The postdoc will have a PhD in Physics, Chemistry or Materials Science, and demonstrated experience in computer modelling of materials (quantum and/or classical techniques). The postdoc will be directly supervised by Dr. Claudio Cazorla and will work closely with an experimental and multi-disciplinary team in the Department of Physics at UPC (Barcelona, Spain) lead by Prof. Josep Lluis Tamarit by providing complementary expertise to the experimental characterization efforts.
The conditions of the postdoctoral position are the following:
Duration: 1 year and a half (with the possibility of renewal)
Salary (gross): 29,000 euros/year
Start date: January 2021 (or February 2021)
Location: Barcelona (Spain)
Institution: Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC)
Department: Physics
Applicants must submit to the email address [email protected] the following information:
- a cover letter outlining how they meet all the required qualifications
- a curriculum vitae with a list of publications
- the names and contact information of at least two referees who are very familiar with the candidate’s scientific work.
Selected recent works published by the theoretical-experimental group at the Department of Physics at UPC:
- Physical Review Letters 125, 117601 (2020), "Giant thermal enhancement of the electric polarization in ferrimagnetic BiFe1-xCoxO3 solid solutions near room temperature"
- Nano Letters 20, 1262 (2020), "Interface-charge induced giant electrocaloric effect in lead free ferroelectric thin-film bilayers"
- Advanced Materials 31, 1903577 (2019), "Giant and reversible inverse barocaloric effects near room temperature in ferromagnetic MnCoGeB0.03"
- Applied Physics Reviews 6, 041316 (2019), "Novel mechanocaloric materials for solid-state cooling applications"
- Nature Communications 10, 1803 (2019), "Colossal barocaloric effects near room temperature in plastic crystals of neopentylglycol"
- Nature 567, 470 (2019), "Refrigeration based on plastic crystals"
- Nature Communications 9, 3337 (2018), "Room-temperature mechanocaloric effects in lithium based superionic materials"