Available Positions

We are always interested in talented and highly motivated chemists, physicists and material scientists with experimental or theoretical background for Ph.D. programs as well as post-doctoral appointments.

Ph.D. theses can be conducted in all research areas of the department. Several topics are related to charge and mass transport in ionic solids with emphasis on the effects of interfaces (e.g. grain boundaries and solid/solid interfaces) on the conduction properties.
Further subjects deal with chemical surface kinetics of ionic solids. Here, the mechanistic understanding of diffusion processes in and surface reactions on nano-, poly-, and single-cystalline ceramics is of particular interest. Though mainly focussed on fundamental science, many topics are directly related to technically relevant problems in fuel cell, sensor, and electroceramic materials research.
Depending on the particular project a variety of techniques would be applied such as impedance spectroscopy, conductivity relaxation, optical in-situ spectroscopy, thermogravimetry, X-ray diffraction, SEM, AFM, mass spectrometry, NMR, ESR as well as molecular dynamic simulations and finite elements calculations.
All chemists, physicists, and materials scientists with excellent experimental and / or theoretical abilities are encouraged to apply.

Postdoc-positions on several research areas of the department are also available.
Additional information about the department activities can be found here: http://www.fkf.mpg.de/maier

If you are interested, please contact Dr. Giuliano Gregori
Please send your application as PDF-file (file size should not exceed 5 MB).