EU:3 PhD (European Industrial Doctorate) positions in theoretical chemistry-physics

Deadline: 30th August 2012

Three PhD positions in theoretical chemistry /physics are available  starting between October 2012
and March 2013. The EU-funded 3-year European Industrial Doctorates have very attractive salary
and benefits conditions. The three years will be equally spent between Amsterdam, recently
elected most attractive city to live in Europe, and Bremen with a gorgeous UNESCO world heritage
historical city center.
The subjects of the three PhD projects are:
1) Ground state molecular dynamics: implementation, testing, and optimization (linear scaling) of
established ground state ab initio MD methods (BOMD, CPMD, P propagation).
2) Excited state dynamics: implementation of Liouville-von Neumann MD
(LvNMD) and time-dependent DFT-MD (TDDFT-MD) for thermally and electronically excited
systems
3) QM/MM excited state dynamics: implementation and application of hybrid TDDFT-QM/MM to
study photochemistry of biophysical systems.
Day-to-day guidance in method development in Amsterdam will be by the highly experienced
development staff of Scientific Computing & Modelling, SCM, while scientific guidance will be by
Prof. Thomas Heine  (Jacobs University Bremen) and Prof. Luuk Visscher (VU University
Amsterdam).
Key requirements for the successful candidates are:

A full description of the projects, benefits, requirements, and application procedure can be found
on http://www.scm.com/jobs