[Wien] Post Doc position for ab initio calculations

[Samaras Maria]

Dear Wien User

 

I am taking the opportunity through this Wien site to contact you about a
Post Doc fellow at the Paul Scherrer Institute to do ab initio calculations.


 

 

 

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The Paul Scherrer Institut is a centre for multi-disciplinary research and
one of the world's leading user laboratories. With its 1200 employees it
belongs as an autonomous institution to the Swiss ETH domain and
concentrates its activities on solid-state research and material sciences,
elementary particle and astrophysics, energy and environmental research as
well as on biology and medicine.

As part of a general program on high temperature nuclear materials
development in the context of an international collaboration, the High
Temperature Materials project is interested in determining the relevant
parameters which affect the long term evolution of materials subjected to
extreme conditions, as will be the case for future gas cooled reactors.
These phenomena occur on a range of scales from the microscopic level of
single crystal defects all the way up to the macroscopic continuum mechanics
level. A hierarchical multi-scale modelling program to study the effects
determining the lifetime of materials is currently underway. First
principles ab initio calculations are at the basis of this multi-scale
approach.

We are looking for a 


Post doctoral fellow in ab initio calculations 


Your tasks

The Post Doctoral fellow will study the atomic scale defect energetics by
first principles ab initio calculations in alloys using commercially
available packages. These results will be used as input into lattice kinetic
Monte Carlo codes in order to study defect evolution at experimentally
relevant time frames.

We are offering a two year appointment starting from October 2005.

Your profile

You have a Ph D in condensed matter physics. Experience in ab initio
calculations of alloys is required. Programming and running parallel codes
is required. Knowledge of Monte Carlo methods is an advantage. You must be
able to communicate in English.

We are looking forward to your application.

For further information please contact Dr Maria Samaras, e-mail
maria.samaras at psi.ch.

Please send your application to: Paul Scherrer Institut, Human Resources,
Mr. Thomas Erb, 5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland.

 

 

 

 

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Dr Maria Samaras

Staff Physicist,

High Temperature Materials NES

Paul Scherrer Institut

CH-5232 Villigen PSI

Switzerland

maria.samaras at psi.ch 

 

 

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