Twenty (20) PhD & Postdoctoral Positions, Novel Materials Discovery (NOMAD), Europe (2016)

The NOMAD CoE develops a Materials Encyclopedia and Big-Data Analytics tools for materials science and engineering. Eight complementary research groups of highest scientific standing in computational materials science along with four high-performance computer centers form the synergetic core of this CoE.

Scope
Essentially every new commercial product, be they smart phones, solar cells, batteries, transport technology, artificial hips, etc., depends on improved or even novel materials. Computational materials science is increasingly influential as a method to identify such critical materials for both R&D. Enormous amounts of data, precious but heterogeneous and difficult to access or utilise, are already stored in repositories scattered across Europe. The NOMAD CoE will open new HPC opportunities by enabling access to this data and delivering powerful new tools to search, retrieve and manage it.

The NOMAD CoE will become a crucial facility for atomistic simulations and multi-scale modelling in the physical, materials, and quantum-chemical sciences. This field is characterised by a healthy but heterogeneous eco-system of many different codes that are used at all HPC centers worldwide, with millions of CPU hours spent every day. The NOMAD CoE will integrate the leading codes and make their results comparable by converting (and compressing) existing inputs and outputs into a common format, thus making these valuable data accessible to academia and industry.

The European Center of Excellence (CoE) on Novel Materials Discovery (NOMAD) offers 20 positions for highly qualified PhD students and postdocs

The NOMAD CoE develops a Materials Encyclopedia and Big-Data Analytics tools for materials science and engineering. Eight complementary research groups of highest scientific standing in computational materials science along with four highper-formance computer centers form the synergetic core of this CoE. Interested candidates are invited to contact the PI they are interested to work with.

Further details:
http://nomad-coe.eu