UNIVERSITY OF AARHUS, Department of Physics and Astronomy
PhD Scholarship in Molecular Physics
At the Faculty of Science two PhD scholarships are offered within the area
of Molecular Physics. The PhD scholarships are to be filled by 1 October
2007 or as soon as possible thereafter.
The PhD scholarships are a part of a project on ‘the photophysics of gas-
phase chromophore ions’ under the supervision of Professor Lars H Andersen.
If you are awarded a scholarship you are expected to participate in the PhD
programme and attain a PhD degree. It is therefore a condition for
employment that the applicant is approved for enrolment as a PhD student at
the Faculty of Science, University of Aarhus.
Your salary and further terms of employment are governed by the agreement
between the Danish Ministry of Finance and the Danish Confederation of
Professional Associations (Akademikernes Centralorganisation).
The project
Experiments will be carried out with state-of-the-art equipment at the
University of Aarhus, such as the storage ring ELISA and fs-lasers. The
goals are:
• to elucidate the absorption characteristics of isolated molecular
ions in vacuo and study how the electronic structure is perturbed by a
chemical environment, e.g. a solvent or protein interior
• to explore the dynamics and kinetics of photo-dissociation
processes by using short laser pulses.
The interplay between light and molecules, both neutral and ionic, is
fundamental in nature and materials science: photosynthesis, vision, signal
transduction, fluorescent proteins, DNA photodamage, optical devices - just
to mention a few important cases. The part of the molecule that interacts
with the light is denoted the chromophore, and its absorption spectrum
depends on the surrounding chemical environment, for example a solvent or
protein interior. We study the photophysics of isolated systems (the gas
phase) to understand the complicated molecular perturbations that are found
in different environments. Color vision, for example, is made possible only
because of such perturbations. We have developed state-of-the-art
instruments at the University of Aarhus that have put us at the forefront
when it comes to addressing the electronic structure of macromolecular
ions, in particular bio-chromophores. Currently, chromo¬phores are being
studied both experimentally and theoretically in collaboration with the
Chemistry Department and foreign institutions.
Application procedure
Please attach your CV, a motivation for your application, complete official
transcripts from colleges or universities including the grades, and up to
three letters of recommendation (max. 1 page/letter). More information can
be found at:
http://www.phys.au.dk/molecular/application/application.pdf
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