The University of Luxembourg (UL) is seeking to recruit two Doctoral Candidates (PhD students) (m/f) within the chair for Theoretical Chemical Physics, led by Prof. Alexandre Tkatchenko in the Physics and Materials Science (PhyMS) Research Unit
The successful candidates will join a strong and highly-motivated research team with an excellent funding track-record in competitive national, international and European grants, including the recently funded European Research Council Consolidator Grant “Beyond Static Molecules: Modeling Quantum Fluctuations in Complex Molecular Environments”.
Your Role
The scientific topics of research range from machine learning approaches for describing molecular potential-energy surfaces, development of improved quantum methods for the description of non- covalent interactions, path-integral approaches to nuclear quantum effects (including the molecular Aharonov-Bohm effect), and synergies between these methods to interpret puzzling experimental observations and predict new phenomena in complex molecular systems.
2 PhD candidates in Theoretical Chemical Physics
Initial 14 months fixed-term contract, renewable for up to 48 months (depending on thesis progress evaluation), full-time (40h/week)
Student and employee status (36 months studies programme)
