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Posted September 7, 2024
Postdoc or PhD Student Positions Available in Dresden, Germany:
Professor Stefan Odenbach has two vacancies in the field of magnetic hybrid materials for which he is looking for committed, science-oriented, ambitious candidates who are interested in experimental work. Since the usual job advertisements (which are enclosed both in the original German and in an English version - the English form is not an official text but only a translated reading version) generally provide very little in the way of content, I am adding a few lines below that describe in a little more detail what it will be about.
One position (w24-160) is a DFG-funded position in a research group. This research group, which also includes Andreas Menzel, Günther Auernhammer and Markus Kästner from our community, will be working on structure formation in magnetic hybrid materials that are polymerized in a magnetic field. We are responsible for the experimental part, both in terms of microstructure elucidation and rheological characterization. The particular challenge - and this will be a real challenge - will be to track the movement of the particles during the polymerization process in three dimensions using X-ray microtomography. Initial preliminary work has shown that this will be possible - but it will be a really exciting task (as a fall-back plan, the idea is to investigate the microstructure of series of frozen states, i.e. polymers interrupted at certain points in the structure formation process). All of this is done under the direct theoretical supervision of the theoretical groups in the research group - the researcher is therefore optimally embedded in a theoretical network. The position is currently limited to 4 years, but can be extended for a further 4 years following a successful evaluation.
The second position (w24-154) is budget-financed and therefore has the great advantage of being virtually thematically free. I would like to take this opportunity to once again address one of the many questions that have remained unanswered in the investigation of magnetic hybrid materials - from the rheology of ferrofluids to the structure-property relationships of magnetic elastomers. I can't say exactly what will happen there at the moment - I want to discuss this with the candidate we select at the end. It is therefore a position to which someone can also contribute their own ideas from the outset (as long as they remain within the framework mentioned above ;-)). Funding is available for this position for five years.
Both positions can be used for a doctorate (there is enough time), as well as by a postdoc for a leap in scientific development. Both positions should be filled as soon as possible, i.e. ideally this year. It is probably well known that we in Dresden have the necessary technical equipment for all these tasks and a new tomography facility is currently under construction, which is due to go into operation before the end of the year, which will offer even better parameters than the well-known TomoTU facility and will also be able to work with very strong magnetic fields.
Check out the details here:
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