IMPRS-CPQM: Doctoral program in Chemistry and Physics of Quantum Materials 2021 views

International Max Planck Research School for Chemistry and Physics of Quantum Materials (IMPRS-CPQM) is a joint PhD program between the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Technische Universität Dresden and the University of St Andrews, Scotland.

By working together, a highly attractive overall package of PhD level research is created on solid-state chemistry and condensed matter physics.

Requirements:

• Applicant to be highly motivated PhD student who have a record of excellence in their previous studies.
• Applicant must have Masters or MPhys degrees as part of their entry qualification.
• Applications from candidates with excellent Bachelor degrees will also be considered for some projects involving St Andrews supervisors.

Applications:

Apply via the online form 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, and discuss them in the cover letter),
• a CV with complete description of your academic career,
• a transcript of courses taken and grades obtained,
• If candidate would like to submit further documents in support of applications, may do so via online form as well.
• Make sure to have these documents ready as separate pdf files when starting the online application procedure

Available projects:

1. Access to 2D Topological Insulators by Chemical Delamination; Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Michael Ruck, Prof. Dr. Claudia Felser
2. Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy of delafossites; Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Phil King, Prof. Dr. Andrew Mackenzie
3. Atomic-scale visualization of strain effects; Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Peter Wahl, Dr. Clifford Hicks
4. Chemical properties of quantum materials; Supervisors: Dr. Iryna Antonyshyn, Prof. Dr. Thomas Strassner, Prof. J. Grin
5. Chemistry with covalent intermetallic compounds; Supervisors: Prof. Juri Grin, Prof. Dr. Michael Ruck, Dr. Frank R. Wagner
6. Chiral photo-transport in Weyl semi-metals; Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Lukas Eng, Prof. Dr. Sebastian T.B. Goennenwein, Prof. Dr. Claudia Felser
7. Correlated Electron Physics of Delafossite Oxide Metals; Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Phil King, Prof. Dr. Andrew Mackenzie
8. Correlation of Berry phase transport with the topological magnetic textures in Heusler compounds: From the bulk to the thin-film limit; Supervisors: Dr. Bernd Rellinghaus, Dr. Chandra Shekhar, Dr. Jacob Gayles, Dr. Daniel Wolf
9. Development of a Faraday magnetometer based on piezoresistors for very high magnetic fields; Supervisors: Dr. Manuel Brando, Prof. Dr. Jochen Wosnitza
10. Discovery of new misfit compounds for twistronic applications; Supervisors: Dr. Chandra Shekhar, Prof. Dr. Thomas Doert, Prof. Dr. Claudia Felser
11. Electrochemical catalysis and asymmetric synthesis on the surface of topological crystals; Supervisors: Dr. Guowei Li, Prof. Dr. Claudia Felser, Prof. Dr. Xinliang Feng
12. Electron hydrodynamics; Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Andrew Mackenzie, Prof. Dr. Laurens Molenkamp
13. Electronic Structure of Delafossite Oxides; Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Phil King, Dr. Helge Rosner
14. Exploring bulk Dirac- and Weyl- fermion magnetism by local probes: NMR and µSR; Supervisors: Dr. Michael Baenitz, Prof. Dr. Hans-Henning Klauß
15. Fermi surface of metallic delafossites; Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Elena Hassinger, Prof. Dr. Andrew Mackenzie, Prof. Dr. Phil King
16. High-throughput electronic structure calculations for discovery of new Hall materials; Supervisors: Dr. Yan Sun, Dr. Oleg Janson, Prof. Dr. Jeroen van den Brink, Prof. Dr. Claudia Felser
17. Mesoscopic correlated electron and topological physics; Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Andrew Mackenzie, Prof. Dr. Phil King. Dr. Andreas Rost, Dr. Haijing Zhang
18. New metals and superconductors from ionic liquid gating; Supervisors: Dr. Haijing Zhang, Prof. Dr. Andrew Mackenzie, Dr. Andreas Rost
19. Photoemission and Strain Tuning of Correlated Electron Systems; Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Phil King, Dr. Clifford Hicks, Prof. Dr. Andrew Mackenzie
20. Pressure-tuning of topological materials; Supervisors: Dr. Michael Nicklas, Dr. Michael Baenitz, Prof. Dr. Jochen Wosnitza
21. Resolving multipolar ordering, superconductivity and Rashba effect in the newly discovered quantum critical system CeRh2As2; Supervisors: Dr. Seunghyun Khim, Dr. Manuel Brando, Dr. Christoph Geibel, Prof. Dr. Jochen Wosnitza
22. Scanned Josephson Spectroscopy; Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Andrew Mackenzie, Prof. Dr. James C. Davis
23. Scanning tunnelling and magnetic spectroscopy of unconventional superconductors and exotic magnets; Supervisors: Prof. Dr. James C. Davis, Prof. Dr. Andrew Mackenzie
24. Searching materials for three-dimensional quantum Hall effect; Supervisors: Dr. Chandra Shekhar, Prof. Dr. Jochen Wosnitza, Prof. Dr. Claudia Felser Skyrmions under strain; Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Lukas Eng, Prof. Dr. Claudia Felser, Prof. Dr. Andrew Mackenzie
25. Solid-state synthesis of correlated electron materials; Supervisors: Dr. Eteri Svanidze, Prof. Juri Grin
26. Spin transport across magnetic oxide/metal interfaces; Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Claudia Felser, Prof. Dr. Sebastian T. B. Goennenwein
27. The effect of anisotropic strain on correlated electron systems; Supervisors: Dr. Clifford Hicks, Prof. Dr. Jochen Geck
28. Theory of spin liquids: Instabilities and defects; Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Matthias Vojta, Prof. Dr. Andrew Mackenzie
29. Thermodynamic study of novel strongly correlated electron systems; Supervisors: Dr. Manuel Brando, Prof. Dr. Jochen Wosnitza, Dr. Eteri Svanidze
30. Thermodynamics of designer quantum materials; Supervisors: Dr. Andreas Rost, Prof. Dr. Andrew Mackenzie
31. Tuning frustration of magnetic moments in a metal by pressure; Supervisors: Dr. Michael Nicklas, Prof. Dr. Hans-Henning Klauß