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PHD POSITIONS AVAILABLE
Supervisors in TYC research groups advertise their PhD positions but often there are further opportunities available by directly contacting group supervisors.
You are encouraged to contact the supervisors informally by e-mail to find out about any available opportunities, obtain more details, and to find out if your qualifications are suitable. It is always a good idea to attach your c.v. when you first make contact.
Applications are invited for a UCL Impact Scholarship, a fully-funded, three-year PhD studentship at the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at University College London (UCL), starting in October 2011, in Computational Nanophotonics. The project has significant theoretical and computational components, which consist in theoretical analysis, computer modelling and validation of developed computer codes used to investigate and model a broad class of optical metamaterials and their applications to photonic nanodevices. The computational work will be supported by substantial access to UCL's Legion, a 90 TeraFlops, 5680 cores high-performance computing platform.
4 Year PhD studentship, fully funded for students who satisfy EPSRC UK residency requirements.
Applications are invited for a three-year PhD position at the Institute for Solid State Theory, Department of Physics, University of Muenster, Germany, under the supervision of Prof. Nikos Doltsinis.
A 4-year PhD studentship is available from 1. October 2011 to work under the supervision of Dr. Jochen Blumberger at the Condensed Matter and Materials Physics Laboratory, University College London. The project involves the development and application of first principles methods for the modelling of materials for organic solar cells, a promising, low-cost alternative to silicon based solar-cells. A major issue that hampers widespread commercialisation of such devices is their low solar-to-electricity conversion efficiency. Advances in computation will help to provide a detailed microscopic understanding of the loss mechanisms responsible for the low efficiencies, which could aid the rational design of improved materials.
