Are you interested in working in an interdisciplinary research group with diverse backgrounds in mathematics, physics, chemistry, and material science? Do you have a passion for combining fundamental theoretical work with real-world applications? We are looking for an Assistant Professor for the Computational Quantum and Molecular Dynamics group. This vacancy is part of the Irène Curie Program and is currently only open to female candidates. Our new colleague is enthusiastic about working on the development of multiscale electronic structure methods. You are enabling the predictive modeling of dynamical electronic processes in complex systems crucial for a large variety of fundamental and industrial problems. Application examples are the design of novel materials or next-generation computing architectures.
In this role you will focus on fundamental theoretical aspects and mathematical techniques for the study and modeling of many-electron systems beyond the limitations of the current state of the art. Direct application to length- and time scales representative of real-world systems is often hindered by high-dimensionality of the models. Instead, multiscale computational methods are required, which rely on the development of efficient algorithms and often surrogate models.
Systematic quality control for a very wide range of computational methods needs to be addressed. This to improve existing models and to design new model approaches towards more robustness and higher computational efficiency. Of particular interest here is the systematic development of embedding models, coarse-grained or reduced order models, and the role that Machine Learning can play in the heavy numerical computations.
The Computational Quantum and Molecular Dynamics group The Assistant Professor in Multiscale Electronic Structure Methods is expected to drive the development of the underlying mathematical and computational approaches closely connected to on-going efforts in the
Computational Quantum and Molecular Dynamics group.
Our research is focused on the development and application of multiscale simulation approaches for the study of complex molecular materials, building on frameworks given by wave-function based theories, density-functional theory, and/or Green’s functions methods.
The group is part of the
Centre for Analysis, Scientific Computing and Applications (CASA) and the position is at the intersection of several strategic themes within CASA, including “multiscale modelling form quantum to material”, “scientific machine learning”, and “large-scale numerical linear algebra”. The position is intended to further strengthen the links with several of TU/e’s institutes such as the
Institute for Complex Molecular Systems (ICMS), the
High Tech Systems Center (HTSC) and the
Eindhoven Hendrik Casimir Institute (EHCI).
In collaborations, you can contribute to the work on challenging applications in the fields of energy materials, opto-electronics, and semiconductors. As part of an international team with partners in the US and Europe, you also have the opportunity to drive the continued development of high-performance open-source simulation software and have substantial impact in various fields.