At TU Dresden, Faculty of Chemistry and Food Chemistry the Chair of Theoretical Chemistry offers a position subject to the extension of the project duration as

Research Associate / Postdoc Position

(Subject to personal qualification employees are remunerated according

to salary group E 13 TV-L)

The tentative starting date is July 1^st, 2021 with flexibility for an earlier or later start. The position is initially limited to 3 years with the option of extension. The period of employment is governed by the Fixed Term Research Contracts Act (Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz – WissZeitVG). The position offers the chance to obtain further academic qualification.

The position is available in the junior research group of Dr. Dorothea Golze at TU Dresden. Dorothea’s research group will launch in June 2021 as part of the Emmy-Noether program of the German Research Foundation. The goal of the group will be to develop highly accurate theoretical methods for core-level spectroscopy of complex materials. The project will focus on X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS), which are powerful tools for materials characterization.

Tasks:

In your position, you will develop and implement GW Green’s function methods for the new generation of (pre-)exascale high-performance computing architectures and apply these methods to novel 2D materials. More specifically, you will develop low-scaling GW algorithms for core-level calculations and implement them for massively parallel execution, taking also GPU acceleration into account. The development will proceed in collaboration with Prof. Patrick Rinke at Aalto University (Aalto University, Helsinki) and with the Novel Materials Discovery (NOMAD) team. Collaborations are also planned within the Collaborative Research Center 1415 (Chemistry of synthetic 2D materials) at TU Dresden. In particular, you will collaborate with the group of Prof. Thomas Heine, Prof. Xinliang Feng and the junior group of Dr. Renhao Dong.

Requirements:

University and PhD degree in computational physics / chemistry / material science. We are looking for a motivated candidate with strong background in developing electronic structure methods. Solid programming skills and experience in parallelizing code on CPU HPC architectures are expected. Good team working skills and ability to collaborate with other researchers on community codes are advantageous. Experience in theoretical spectroscopy methods, such as GW and GW+BSE, and experience with GPU programming are a plus, but not mandatory.

What we offer:

• work in international, interdisciplinary and collaborative environment;
• broad qualification program and career support by the Graduate Academy of TU Dresden;
• training courses and participation in hackathons at supercomputing centers.

Applications from women are particularly welcome. The same applies to people with disabilities.

Application:

Please send your complete application preferably as a single PDF document (CV, cover letter explaining your motivation to apply for this position and contact information of one reference) by April 30^th, 2021 (stamped arrival date of the university central mail service applies) via the TU Dresden SecureMail Portal https://securemail.tu-dresden.de to dorothea.golze@mailbox.tu-dresden.de with the subject “Application for open Postdoc position/GW” or by email to: TU Dresden, Fakultät Chemie und Lebensmittelchemie, Professur für Theoretische Chemie, z. H. Frau Dorothea Golze, Helmholtzstr. 10, 01069 Dresden. Please submit copies only, as your application will not be returned to you. Expenses incurred in attending interviews cannot be reimbursed.

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