A 3 years PhD position in Computational Photochemistry/Photophysics (starting 1st October, 2013) is now open at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon under the supervision of Prof. Marco Garavelli and Dr. Elise Dumont.
The project will involve the modelling of photoinduced events in biological photoreceptors, DNA and polypeptides/proteins (of biological/bio-medical interest) and the simulation of the corresponding bi-dimensional electronic spectroscopy for diagnostic purposes. Both development and applications of computational tools/methods for delivering an experimentally reliable analysis will be the target of these studies. This project is part of a more general interdisciplinary experimental/theoretical effort involving a tight cooperation with world leading experts in transient spectroscopy and non-linear optics (e.g., Prof. Giulio Cerullo, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, and Prof. Shaul Mukamel, Irvine University, California, USA).
The ideal candidate, that must be ready to travel and spend some time abroad within the teams of the international cooperation network, will have a background in computational photochemistry/photophysics and/or theoretical spectroscopy. The candidate will go through a formal competitive selection process, and the PhD grant will be assigned only to outstanding candidates.
ENS Lyon is an international-oriented institution with a multinational research environment and excellent computing facilities.
Interested candidates should send their own CVs and presentation letters to: [log in to unmask] and [log in to unmask]
For more information, please contact Prof. Marco Garavelli and/or Dr. Elise Dumont at: [log in to unmask] and [log in to unmask]
Some selected publications: Nature, 2010, 467, 440-443; Proceeding of the National Academy of Science USA, 2010, 107, 20172–20177; Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2010, 49, 1790-1793.
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