PhD Fellowships in Physics and Mathematics in Germany 2021
Applicant criteria
- No specific age required
- Both
Opportunity criteria
Opportunity description
The University of Konstanz in Germany is offering fifteen PhD positions and three postdoctoral researcher positions in experimental physics, theoretical physics, physical chemistry, and mathematics. The positions are at the University of Konstanz and at CRC partners at the TU Munich and the University of Göttingen.
Benefits
- Excellent personal development and qualification opportunities.
- Academic career support by CRC-integrated graduate school.
- Focused scientific training on topics of the CRC.
- Seed Funding for own research ideas.
- Research collaborations with top-level research groups worldwide.
- Professional infrastructure for conducting research.
- Working in an interdisciplinary young team of highly motivated scientists.
- Family-friendly measures and dual-career program.
Eligibility criteria
- Excellent academic record.
- MSc degree in physics or mathematics (for PhD positions)
- Excellent PhD thesis in physics or mathematics (for Post-Doc positions)
- Profound knowledge of relevant experimental or theoretical methods.
- Research experience relevant to the respective project.
- High motivation, strong interpersonal and influence skills, and great motivation.
- Strong written and oral communication skills in English.
Responsibilities:(depending on the project)
- Development and implementation of:
- laser-based measurement techniques (exp.)
- high-resolution electronic transport measurement methods (exp.)
- microwave excitation and detection techniques (exp.)
- Application of state-of-the-art:
- microscopy techniques (exp.)
- nanofabrication and ultrathin film materials deposition (exp.)
- low-temperature and high-vacuum facilities (exp.)
- Developing methods of quantum transport and quantum optics (theor.)
- Performing numerical simulations and optimization tasks (math.)
About Universität Konstanz:
The University of Konstanz is a university in the city of Konstanz in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Its main campus was opened on the Gießberg in 1972 after being founded in 1966. It is one of Germany's elite "Universities of Excellence". The university is ranked in the top 100 worldwide in the field of social policy and administration in the 2020 QS World University Rankings and ranked 51 in Political Science according to the 2020 Shanghai Ranking. The U.S. Department of Energy also refers to the University of Konstanz as a "small Harvard".
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