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Postdoctoral Researcher: Time-dependent Ensemble Theories for Non-equilibrium Phenomena in Warm Dense Matter
The Center for Advanced Systems Understanding (CASUS) is a German-Polish research center for data-intensive digital systems research. We combine innovative methods from mathematics, theoretical systems research, simulations, data science, and computer science to provide solutions for a range of disciplines – materials science under ambient and extreme conditions, earth system research, systems biology, and autonomous vehicles.
CASUS was jointly founded in August 2019 by the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, the Technical University of Dresden and the University of Wroclaw. CASUS is located in the heart of Görlitz at the border between Germany and Poland. The CASUS start-up phase is hosted by the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf and is financed by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the Saxon State Ministry of Science and Art.
The Department on Matter under Extreme Conditions is looking for a postdoctoral researcher interested in developing Time-dependent Ensemble Theories for Non-equilibrium Phenomena in Warm Dense Matter. Consideration of candidates will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled.
The Scope of Your Job
You are expected to develop and apply time-dependent density functional ensemble theories with the aim of modeling non-equilibrium behavior beyond the assumption of local thermal equilibrium. Your work will complement numerical modeling of non-equilibrium phenomena in warm dense matter where state-of-the-art electronic structure methods such as DFT-MD and TDDFT are not applicable. Based on existing density functional methodologies, you will derive a suitable formalism for time-dependent ensembles and implement your methodology in a software package. You will verify its effectiveness by computing electronic transport properties (dynamical structure factor, electrical conductivity, stopping power) of HED matter and validate it against data provided by x-ray scattering experiments in warm dense matter.
Submit your application (including a one-page cover letter, CV, academic degrees, transcripts, etc.) online on the HZDR application portal. Further details can be found there under Job-Id: 73/2020 (994).