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Subject: Two Postdoc positions in First Principles Quantum Transport
Category: Job
From: Stefania Negro
Date: 20-Oct-2008 17:42
Message:
Two Postdoc positions are available immediately in the School of Physics at Trinity College Dublin and the Center for Research on Adaptive Nanostructures and Nanodevices, CRANN (
www.crann.tcd.ie), Ireland flagship research center for nanoscience and nanotechnology. Both the positions will be in the “Computational Spintronics Group” headed by Prof. Stefano Sanvito.
Both the positions will involve the use and the development of density functional theory combined with quantum transport. In particular the successful candidate will work together with the development team of the Smeagol package (
www.smeagol.tcd.ie), to which several new functionalities will be added. For both the positions previous experience with electronic structure methods is required. The specific research topics of the two positions are:
DNAseq:
To investigate transport across DNA molecules with the aim of exploring future protocol for DNA sequencing. This position is sponsored by the European Union under the 7th framework and it is part of a network including partners from Serbia, Germany, Israel and Switzerland. Willingness to work together with experimental groups and previous experience with molecular dynamics and with biological systems will be considered as an advantage.
TMRtor:
To investigate spin-transport in magnetic tunnel junctions and nanostructures. The position will involve the development of methods for calculating spin-transfer torque from density functional theory and will involve a tight collaboration with the Magnetism group of Prof. J.M.D. Coey and with the electronic structure group of Dr. C. Ederer. Previous experience with quantum transport from first principles and computational magnetism will be considered as an advantage, as well as some experience with micromagnetic calculations.
The starting salary will be around 42,000 Euro/year with an initial contract of 2 years eventually renewable (one year for DNAseq and 3 years for TMRtor). Large computational infrastructures are available both at the Trinity Center for High Performance Computing (
www.tchpc.tcd.ie) and at the Irish Center for High End Computing (
www.ichec.ie). For further information contact Prof. Sanvito at
sanvitos@tcd.ie
Applications (indicating either DNAseq or TMRtor) including cover letter, CV, the names of two potential referees and a short statement of research interests should be sent (preferably by e-mail) to:
Ms. Stefania Negro
School of Physics, Trinity College Dublin, IRELAND
negros@tcd.ie
For further information contact Prof. Sanvito at
sanvitos@tcd.ie
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