SoftComp

PhD position focused on vitrimers within the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Doctoral Network ReBond
2023-11-07 08:00 - 2024-03-01 17:00 (Europe/Berlin)
Dear Colleagues,
Please find information, through the link below, about an exciting PhD position within the new Horizon Europe – Marie Sklodowska-Curie – Doctoral Network: “ReBond: A Universal platform for recycling plastic waste using dynamic covalent bonds”. The PhD studentship is focused on resolving how the kinetics of vitrimer bond exchange influences the properties of polymer-vitrimer systems; the influence of composition, structure, mechanical deformation and flow on the local dynamics of vitrimers will be investigated. Experimental techniques include broadband dielectric spectroscopy, as well as multispeckle light scattering and SAXS/WAXS, with a particular focus on combining these techniques with mechanical deformation. The research will be conducted in the Dept. of Physics at the University of Ioannina (Ioannina, Greece) with Prof. George Floudas and at the CNRS, Laboratoire Charles Coulomb (Montpellier, France) with Prof. Laurence Ramos, with a four month secondment to the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Leeds (Leeds, U.K.) with myself.
Further details can be found through the following link:
https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/153739
Please forward to anyone who might be interested.
Thanks a lot!
Best Regards,
Johan
Johan Mattsson
School of Physics and Astronomy
University of Leeds
E-mail: k.j.l.mattsson@leeds.ac.uk

PhD in Soft Matter physics: Dynamics of chiral guest-host systems based on liquid crystals
2024-02-22 08:00 - 2024-04-30 17:00
Dear colleagues,
I’m looking for a motivated student to join as a PhD candidate our Soft Matter team at Laboratoire Charles Coulomb (L2C), Montpellier (France), in the context of my project “CHIRALGHOST” newly funded by the french Agence Nationale de la Recherche via the call ANR JCJC 2023. This project will focus on the dynamics of chiral guest-host systems in frustrated chiral liquid crystal systems, for more details please refer to https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/196425.
The project will take place entirely in Montpellier, L2C. The candidate will perform mainly experiments (polarized microscopy in transmission or fluorescence, optical tweezers, electrical driving, etc), data analysis using standard software or scripting languages, and, depending on the candidate skills, will also perform supporting simulations using in-house finite element and optical simulation codes. The PhD will be directed by Maurizio Nobili (full professor at L2C) and supervised by myself (CNRS permanent researcher).
The deadline for application is April 30th. The position is for 36 months and must start by September 1st, 2024, at the latest. Interested candidates can contact me directly at the email address given in the above link.
Best regards,
Guilhem Poy
