W&T3 - PhD fellowship fundamental research

The scope of the expert panel W&T3 covers fundamental research of condensed matter, including both (bio-)physics and chemistry. This encompasses theoretical and computational condensed matter physics and chemistry and in-silico design of materials; experimental condensed matter chemistry and physics; as well as physical chemistry- chemical physics of condensed matter.

Topics to be addressed include theoretical and experimental determination of properties; synthesis and characterization of materials (from bulk down to nanoscale); computational models and advanced measurement techniques.

More specifically the scope covers following aspects on:

Materials and systems

• Solid state materials and soft condensed matter including condensed matter aspects of biophysics
• Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems
• Physics and chemistry of surfaces and interfaces, low-dimensional, self-assembled and nanoscale systems
• Synthesis, nucleation and deposition, growth and surface modification

Properties and phenomena

• Structure, defects, phase transitions, and structure-property relationships
• Properties of condensed matter: transport, mechanical, acoustical, electronic, ionic, optical, magnetic, electrochemical... etc. and their characterization
• Electronic structure and transport mechanisms
• Collective quantum phenomena and excitations
• Condensed matter – beam interactions (photons, electrons, etc.), spectroscopic and microscopic methods; nuclear solid state physics and instrumental physical chemistry