Hotice: There are allways more positions open in the department than listed below. Feel free to ask for more info!
Diploma / Master
PhD Positions
Supervisor: Dr. Rustem Valiullin, Prof. Jörg Kärger
One position for a PhD student is open for 3 years within the DFG-funded Saxon Research Group “From local constraints to macroscopic transport” bringing together 7 scientific groups from Leipzig, Chemnitz and Dresden. The open position in our group is related to one of the sub-projects “Particle dynamics under nano-structured confinements” within the research group. This project concerns the experimental study of various aspects of molecular dynamics under artificially designed nanoconfinements with complex geometries using the PFG NMR method and their further theoretical quantification. These studies will mainly be focused on elucidating the changes in the elementary mechanisms of microscopic dynamics due to a superimposed confinement of a predefined geometry leading to transient and anomalous patterns in the molecular propagation under equilibrium and non-equilibrium conditions. In particular, dynamics of both chain and sphere-like molecules in channels of comparable diameters and modulated pore morphology will be investigated. In this way, in close connection with the theoreticians of the research group, non-Fickian local dynamics emerging from transient single-file to free diffusion and from complex hydrodynamic effects will be studied.
