Job Description

Location

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Duisburg

Application area

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RAR RC FEMS/Faculty of Physics


Physicist as Post-Doc (f/m/d, No. 447-25)

salary group 13 TV-L

The Research Alliance Ruhr (RAR) is looking for a Post-Doc (f/m/d) for the Research Center Future Energy Materials and Systems (RC FEMS) at the University of Duisburg-Essen in the Faculty of Physics for the newly appointed professorship Functional Ferroic Systems (FFS) at the Duisburg campus at the earliest possible date.

Topic: Controlling emergent electronic properties at ferroelastic domain walls

Interfaces in oxide materials offer amazing opportunities for basic and applied research. Completely new functional properties can arise at the interfaces, ranging from unusual electric order to superconductivity. Ferroic domain walls play a very special role in this context, as they are spatially mobile and can move almost “freely” through the material. This provides the unique opportunity to manipulate their position, density and orientation on demand, enabling electronic signal control at ultra-small length scales.


The aim of this project is to better understand the fundamental physics and structure-property relations in ferroelastic domain walls and to develop novel strategies for property-engineering/optimization to make them technologically usable, with a focus on innovative applications in nanotechnology and unconventional computing.

Start of employment

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2025-10-01 or as soon as possible

Duration of employment

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24 months

Working time

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39 h 50 min (100%, part time employment is possible)

Your main tasks

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We are pleased to announce the opening of a postdoc position in our newly established team at the University of Duisburg-Essen. The selected applicant will conduct frontier research in the field of functional ferroic systems, with a focus on ferroelastic domain walls and their study by correlated microscopy techniques, including scanning probe microscopies, focused-ion-beam nanostructuring and scanning (transmission) electron microscopy. An important part of the experimental work will be to set up new laboratories for advanced materials characterization.

Your profile

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a PhD degree in Materials Physics, Condensed Matter Physics or a related field a strong background in oxide materials and ferroic systems, in particular ferroelastics broad experience in advanced materials characterization, including scanning probe microscopy, scanning (transmission) electron microscopy and focused-ion-beam nanostructuring experience with complementary characterization techniques, such as x-ray diffraction and electrical characterization, is a plus affinity for nanotechnology or unconventional computing is a plus experience in setting up lab equipment is desired programming and laboratory/experiment automation experience is a plus fluent in oral and written English a high degree of independence, meanwhile also stimulate interaction with colleagues

We offer you

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employment in a multifaceted field of activity as part of research-intensive environment with international collaborations an interesting, responsible job with great creative potential a non-discriminatory working environment with respectful, appreciative cooperation a wide range of training and development opportunities, individual induction training family friendliness through childcare services for your children advice on family care responsibilities the possibility of working from home excellent public transport connections and free parking spaces attractive sports and health offers (university sports)

Application deadline

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2025-08-20

Code number

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447-25

Application

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Your application should contain:


a cover letter describing your motivation for pursuing this work and how you expect the work to fit into your long-term goals a CV including the list of publications copies of your two most relevant publications with a statement describing your contribution to each two letters of reference by people familiar with your work.

Please email your application to Prof. Dr. Dennis Meier, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Fakultät für Physik, 47048 Duisburg, E-Mail dennis.meier@uni-due.de using the subject line “ferroelastic postdoc application” and quoting the reference number

447-25

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Information about the job

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Further information on the RAR, the RC FEMS and the Faculty of Physics can be found at:


https://www.uaruhr.de/forschung/research-alliance-ruhr/rc-future-energy-materials-and-systems/


https://www.uni-due.de/physik/twist


https://www.uni-due.de/physik/

Research Alliance Ruhr

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As the densest university landscape in Europe, the Metropole Ruhr offers attractive career opportunities for excellent scientists from all over the world.

In order to bundle their top international research on the major challenges facing humanity, the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, the TU Dortmund University and the University of Duisburg-Essen founded the Research Alliance Ruhr in 2021. Four research centres and a college have been established here.



This is the latest development in the long-standing cooperation as the University Alliance Ruhr (UA Ruhr), a community of 14,000 researchers and 120,000 students.

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In accordance with the State Equal Opportunities Act, women with the same qualifications are given referential considered.



Applications from suitable disabled persons and persons of equal status within the meaning of § 2 para. 3 SGB IX are desired.



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