Job Information
- Organisation/Company
- Heliatek GmbH Ulm
- Research Field
- ChemistryEngineering » Materials engineering
- Researcher Profile
- First Stage Researcher (R1)
- Country
- Germany
- Application Deadline
- Type of Contract
- Temporary
- Job Status
- Full-time
- Offer Starting Date
- Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme?
- HE / MSCA
- Marie Curie Grant Agreement Number
- 101119780
- Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?
- No
Offer Description
This position is one of the 10 Doctoral Candidate positions of the EIFFEL (EffIcient Fullerene-Free organic solar cELs) Doctoral Network, which focuses on the development of efficient NFAs, revealing the mechanisms of operation and degradation in NFA-based OSCs, and establishing synthetic strategies for their mitigation to form the basis for a new generation of OSCs - compatible with mass production - for successful commercialisation. The EIFFEL project offers the possibility to pursue the PhD within the Network at different universities/research centres/industrial companies from 7 European countries (Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, Denmark, Cyprus and France). Background information on all DC positions is available on www.eiffelproject.eu.
EIFFEL has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2022 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action Doctoral Networks (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-DN-01) scheme, grant agreement number: 101119780.
Project description:
Objectives: The DC has a passion for organic chemistry and will be trained in organic synthesis of OPV materials and the required analytical methods to characterise the outcome of the synthesis work, including NMR, HPLC-MS, GC-MS, DSC, TGA, and optical spectroscopy. Beside synthesis, the DC will learn which structure motives are suitable for achieving aligned energy levels and to preserve the required thermal stability for the vacuum deposition. Finally, the DC will learn basics about vacuum deposition of OPV and solar cell characterisation to use this information in an iterated feedback loop for improvement of following materials.
Expected Results: 1) Practical and theoretical knowledge in modern organic synthesis of novel solar cell absorber materials suitable for vacuum processing; 2) Complementary skills in synthesis and characterisation of small molecular NFAs including translation of device results to chemical structures; 3) Skilled to perform cutting-edge industrial research with tight collaboration to academia.
The DC will travel abroad for research secondments at partner organisations of the EIFFEL Network and will participate in specialised training meetings and international conferences.
The DC will enroll in the doctoral student programme at University of Angers (France).
Requirements
- Research Field
- Chemistry
- Education Level
- Master Degree or equivalent
- Research Field
- Engineering » Materials engineering
- Education Level
- Master Degree or equivalent
- Applicants must hold a Master’s degree or equivalent in Chemistry or Materials Science providing access to PhD programs and should have experience with experimental research.
- Applicants must have a very good knowledge (written & spoken) of the English language.
- Strong motivation and ability to collaborate in an interdisciplinary and international team.
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Level
- Excellent
- Research Field
- ChemistryEngineering » Materials engineering
Additional Information
Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions (MSCA) offer highly competitive and attractive salary and working conditions.
- Selected candidates will have a fulltime employment contract for the duration of 36 months.
- Selected candidates will receive a salary in accordance with the MSCA regulations for early stage researchers. The basic gross salary (living allowance) is € 3.400,- euro per month. A correction factor will be applied per country, therefore the exact gross salary will be confirmed upon appointment. Please consider that the net salary may be 20-30% lower due to taxes, social benefit premiums etc.
- In addition to the living allowance, selected candidates will benefit from a mobility allowance of gross € 600,- per month. Selected candidates who have a family at the time of recruitmentqualify for an additional family allowance of gross € 660,- per month[1].
- Selected candidates will enjoy at least the same standards and working conditions as those applicable to local researchers at the host institution holding a similar position.
[1] ‘Family’ means persons linked to the researcher by marriage (or a relationship with equivalent status to a marriage recognised by the legislation of the country where this relationship was formalised) or dependent children who are actually being maintained by the researcher.
Applicants can be of any nationality but in order to be eligible for the DC positions the following specific MSCA eligibility criteria apply:
The applicant must not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies) in Germany for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately before the recruitment date.
- For additional information about this research project & DC position, please contact the scientist-in-charge / supervisor: Dr. Dirk Hildebrandt: dirk.hildebrandt@heliatek.com
- For additional information about administrative aspects, please contact hello@eiffelproject.eu
- Some background material about host institution & research group can be found here: www.heliatek.com and www.eiffelproject.eu.
The workplace will be located at Heliatek’s branch office in Ulm (Germany).
- Website for additional job details
Work Location(s)
- Number of offers available
- 1
- Company/Institute
- Heliatek GmbH
- Country
- Germany
- City
- Ulm
- Postal Code
- 89007
- Street
- Sedanstraße 14
- Geofield
Where to apply
- Website
Contact
- City
- Ulm
- Website
- Street
- Sedanstraße 14
- Postal Code
- 89077
- hello@eiffelproject.eu