진학프로석·박사 채용 접수 플랫폼

RECTOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA IN KATOWICE
announces the open call for the position of Assistant Professor (post-doc) in the group of research staffin the research project NCN OPUS 27 „On the road toward equilibrium - unraveling non-equilibrium behaviour of soft matter confined at the nanoscale”, led by Professor Karolina Adrjanowicz.

Place of work: Faculty of Science and Technology, August Chełkowski Institute of Physics

Job location: 75 Pułku Piechoty 1, 41-500 Chorzów

Number of available positions: 1

Key words: glass transition, ultra-stable glasses, glass-forming systems, dielectric spectroscopy, thin films, physical vapor deposition, non-linear dielectric effects, spectroscopic ellipsometry, glass transition dynamics, non-equilibrium phenomena, soft matter, molecular mobility, geometrical confinement

Applications to the open call may be submitted by those who meet the conditions specified in Section 113 of the Act – Law on Higher Education and Science of 20 July 2018 (Journal of Law 2024 item 1571).

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• conducting research in the discipline in the research project led by Prof. Karolina Adrjanowicz:
  • preparation of organic and inorganic thin films by the physical vapor deposition technique,
  • optimizing experimental conditions allowing for the formation of ultrastable glasses and their further characterization (e.g., density profiling, uncovering the amount of irreversibly absorbed layer and its role, investigation of the molecular mobility via dielectric technique, verifying possible differences in the segmental dynamics and density distribution with spin-coated films of approximately the same thickness, etc.),
  • investigating the effect of changes in the surface chemistry on the dynamics of nanometric-size thin films prepared via vapor-deposition and spin-coating,
  • investigating the role of confinement size, surface chemistry, or external electric field on non-equilibrium effects observed at the nanoscale,
• realization of organizational duties in accordance with the Individual Assignment of Duties.