10 PhD positions: Chemistry and Physics of Quantum Materials 2388 views

The International Max Planck Research School for Chemistry and Physics of Quantum Materials (IMPRS-CPQM) is a joint PhD program and is seeking to recruit up to ten PhD students in 2021 to a range of inter‐institutional research projects in the broadly defined field of quantum materials.

Requirements:

• Applicant must hold a Master’s degree (or equivalent), applications from candidates with excellent Bachelor degrees will also be considered.
• Excellent candidates from any country are encouraged to apply.

Projects:

1. Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy of delafossites
2. Atomic-scale visualization of strain effects
3. Charge carrier control in 2D Quantum Materials
4. Chemical properties of quantum materials
5. Chemistry with covalent intermetallic compounds
6. Chiral and non-linear photo-induced electronic transport in Weyl semi-metals
7. Correlated Electron Physics of Delafossite Oxide Metals
8. Correlation of Berry phase transport with the topological magnetic textures in Heusler compounds: From the bulk to the thin-film limit
9. Development of a Faraday magnetometer based on piezoresistors for very high magnetic fields
10. Discovery of new misfit compounds for twistronic applications
11. Electrochemical catalysis and asymmetric synthesis on the surface of topological crystals
12. Electronic Structure of Delafossite Oxides
13. Exploring bulk Dirac- and Weyl- fermion magnetism by local probes: NMR and µSR
14. Mesoscopic correlated electron and topological physics
15. New metals and superconductors from ionic liquid gating
16. Non-oxy delafossites: unconventional spin orbit entangled magnetism and electron transport
17. Photoemission and Strain Tuning of Correlated Electron Systems
18. Planckian dissipation
19. Pressure-tuning of topological materials
20. Resolving multipolar ordering, superconductivity and Rashba effect in the newly discovered quantum critical system CeRh2As2
21. Scanned Josephson Spectroscopy
22. Scanning tunnelling and magnetic spectroscopy of unconventional superconductors and exotic magnets
23. Searching materials for three-dimensional quantum Hall effect
24. Solid-state synthesis of correlated electron materials
25. Synthesis, transport and thermodynamics of strongly correlated micro-crystals
26. Chemistry Experiment Physics
27. The elastocaloric effect in correlated electron systems
28. Theory of spin liquids: Instabilities and defects
29. Thermodynamic study of novel strongly correlated electron systems
30. Thermodynamics of designer quantum materials
31. Tuning frustration of magnetic moments in a metal by pressure

Applications:

Apply online and upload the following documents:

• A cover letter describing motivation for applying to IMPRS-CPQM and a statement discussing the projects most interested in (priorities regarding the selected projects to be discussed in the cover letter)
• A CV with complete description of academic career
• A transcript of courses taken and grades obtained