PhD Thesis - Tailored oxide membranes for energy applications (m/f/d)

Your Profile:

• Completed Master degree in Physics, Materials Sciences or Chemistry, with a good track record
  
• Willingness to familiarise yourself with new methods or new scientific challenges
  
• Interest in issues about electrochemistry, nanoelectronics and novel phenomena.
  
• Previous knowledge in materials synthesis, thin film characterization, x-ray spectroscopy or electrochemical characterization in desirable
  
• Fluent knowledge of written and spoken English
  
• High degree of motivation and reliability and analytical working style
  
• Excellent ability to cooperate and work in a team

Your Tasks:

• Create a novel catalyst design, based on state-of-the-art thin film technologies and subsequent delamination of atomically defined oxides.
  
• Demonstrate the transfer process for heteroepitaxial systems.
  
• Develop materials design strategies to improve catalyst performances, such as activity and stability.
  
• Perform active research on the materials synthesis, characterization, and catalyst fabrication.
  
• Receive individual trainings in state-of-the-art methodology, comprising pulsed laser deposition (PLD), atomic force microscopy (AFM), advanced X-ray diffraction (XRD), and transport measurements (Hall effect and magneto-transport at low temperature), membrane-transfer techniques,
• Electrochemical benchmarking (RDE) and microscopy and spectroscopy techniques.
  
• Directly exchange with national and international project partners, embedded in an ERC-funded project.

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