The available postdoctoral associate position is based in the Physics Department at King’s College London, one of the UK’s best Physics Departments with the QS World University Rankings placing us in the top 10 universities in the country. 

 

The Faculty of Natural, Mathematical & Engineering Sciences (NMES) comprises Chemistry, Engineering, Informatics, Mathematics, and Physics, all departments highly rated in research activities and a wide-ranging portfolio of education programmes. 

Applications are invited for a postdoctoral position in the group of Dr. Chiara Gattinoni — within the Theory and Simulation of Condensed Matter research group — on the materials modelling of ultrathin ferroelectric films. The overall goal of this research project is to produce strategies to manipulate the polarization in ultrathin ferroelectrics, and to design ferroelectric thin films possessing the desired magnitude and direction of the polarization. 

 

The successful candidate will perform atomistic simulations, using both density functional theory and classical molecular dynamics, on ultrathin films of a range of ferroelectric perovskites of technological interest.

 

This position is supported by the EPSRC New Investigator Award grant “Customisable polarization in ultrathin ferroelectrics”.

 

The position is based in the Department of Physics, King’s College London on the Strand Campus in the heart of central London.

 

This is a full-time post (35 Hours per week), and you will be offered a fixed term contract with a two-year length.

 

Research staff at King’s are entitled to at least 10 days per year (pro-rata) for professional development. This entitlement, from the  Concordat to Support the Career Development of Researchers, applies to Postdocs, Research Assistants, Research and Teaching Technicians, Teaching Fellows and AEP equivalent up to and including grade 7. Visit the  Centre for Research Staff Development for more information.