Dear colleagues,
Can you please share this opening for a PhD position with your students?
Applications are now open and will *close on May 13th 2024. *Thank you in
advance!
Sincerely,
Martha Pamato & Razvan Caracas
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Ph.D. Position Opening
University of Padua, Department of Geosciences
An opening for a Ph.D. student is available within the INHERIT project –
2021 ERC starting grant awarded to Dr. Martha Pamato, Associate Professor
at the University of Padua (Italy). The aim of this project is to improve
our fundamental understanding of the dynamic and static behavior of
hydrogen in diamonds. This Ph.D. thesis project will involve the study of
various chemical and structural factors that control how interstitial
hydrogen diffuses through diamond. The successful candidate will employ
atomistic simulations to evaluate the rates and mechanisms of H diffusion
as a function of mechanical, thermodynamical, and thermochemical
conditions. She/he will perform molecular dynamics simulations using a
combination of ab initio methods and machine learning interatomic
potentials. The project will be fully funded by the ERC starting grant
INHERIT. For more information about the INHERIT project visit
https://www.marthapamato.com/inherit.
For more information about the PhD project, and for applying, please visit
https://www.geoscienze.unipd.it/phd-research-projects-2024 (see Fixed
Topic scholarships, project title “Atomistic simulations of hydrogen
diffusion and point defects in diamond”).
Applications open on April 8th and close on May 13th 2024.
(https://www.unipd.it/en/phd-programmes-calls-and-admissions
https://www.unipd.it/en/phd-programmes-calls-and-admissions).
With a duration of three years (36 months), the thesis will start in
November, 2024. The successful candidate will work under the supervision of
Dr. Martha Pamato (University of Padua) and Dr. Razvan Caracas (IPGP,
Paris). The position is based at the University of Padua, Department of
Geosciences. The thesis work will involve several long-term visits to the
computational groups at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP,
Paris, France) and the Center for Planetary Habitability at the
University of Oslo (Norway). A master degree in Earth sciences, solid-state
physics and/or chemistry or materials science is preferred. Computing and
programming skills/experience are highly recommended. Proficiency in
written and spoken English is mandatory.
While the application needs to be done on the website specified
above, for more information about the position and application process you
can contact:
Martha G. Pamato
Associate Professor or Mineralogy
University of Padua
martha.pamato@unipd.it
https://www.marthapamato.com/
or
Razvan Caracas
Senior Researcher
Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP)
caracas@ipgp.fr
https://razvancaracas.info/--
Martha G. Pamato
Associate Professor of Mineralogy
Department of Geosciences
University of Padova
Via G. Gradenigo, 6
35131, Padova, Italy
tel: +39 049 827 9138
Email: martha.pamato@unipd.it