- JOB
- Spain
Job Information
- Organisation/Company
- Universitat de Barcelona
- Department
- OPIR- International Research Projects office
- Research Field
- Physics » Other
- Researcher Profile
- First Stage Researcher (R1)
- Positions
- PhD Positions
- Country
- Spain
- Application Deadline
- Type of Contract
- Temporary
- Job Status
- Full-time
- Hours Per Week
- 37,5
- Offer Starting Date
- Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme?
- Horizon Europe - MSCA
- Reference Number
- 101119598
- Marie Curie Grant Agreement Number
- 101119598
- Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?
- No
Offer Description
FLUXIONIC is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network (DN) (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-DN-01) aiming to provide integrated training for early career researchers, enabling them to achieve scientific excellence and set the foundations of their future careers.
Our main goal is to train young researchers for future leadership in the rapidly growing fields of nanotechnology. Controlling transport of liquid matter through channels with dimensions from Ångströms to nanometres is a fundamental scientific challenge bridging Physics, Chemistry, Materials Science, and nanoscale technologies. It has huge technological and socio-economic impact, as it is a base for vital applications such as clean water, disease treatment, sustainable production, storage and usage of energy. Explaining the anomalous transport behaviour at the sub-nano scale, where the conventional macroscopic description of transport breaks down, necessitates close integration of experiments, theory, and atomistic simulations. The emerging field promises.
FLUXIONIC will train a new generation of early-stage researchers in the diverse skills that are needed to develop and apply precisely controlled nanofluidic mass transport. We are a group of leading experts in the relevant fields and will provide a collaborative and stimulating environment for the doctoral candidates, who will have a chance to participate in a unique, balanced, and timely supra-disciplinary training with opportunities to move between industry and academia. The European network involves academic nodes an industrial partners in Barcelona, Paris, Berlin, Mainz, Bochum, Delft, Trondheim, Cambridge, Oxford, Manchester and Lausanne
This PhD position will focus on the entropic transport of liquid mixtures at the nanoscale.
The miniaturization of fluidic devices, as well as cellular regulation mechanisms and cellular signalling, relies on the transport of ions across channels or pores whose sections vary between the nanometric and the micrometric scale. When the scales over which the dissolved ions or liquid interfaces evolve overlap with the geometric dimensions of the device, the assumption that diffusive transport is locally adapted to the geometry, breaks down.
A new regime with dynamic coupling between solute and liquid transport emerges. In this project we will develop a mesoscopic approach to describe the dynamics of a complex fluid mixture in a dynamically and thermodynamically consistent framework. We will analyse the impact of relative substrate hydrophilicity on effective flow across corrugated channels. The theoretical framework covers the relevant length and time scales in which dissolved species (such as cations and anions) distribute, diffuse and advect, and the impact they have on flow patterns. The project will analyse the flow regimes due to longitudinally correlations induced by such heterogeneities, as well as their impact in the accumulation, transport, and rectification of dissolved species.
We will use the theoretical and computational results as guidance to understand and propose nano devices for pointof- care analysis. These are devices constructed and characterized in the laboratory of Prof. Hernanddz-Machado at UB. An improved performance for these devices requires a proper control of the rheological properties of water solutions by reducing the friction by nano-patterning.
Gross salary per year
33.583,33€
How to apply
Required documents
Application letter, Curriculum vitae, recommendation letters
Send your application to:
Name
Ignacio Pagonabarraga
email subject
Application PhD position FLUXIONIC
Where to apply
- ipagonabarraga@ub.edu
Requirements
- Research Field
- Physics » Other
- Education Level
- Master Degree or equivalent
Degree in Physics or equivalent scientific subject
Knowledge of statistical physics and computational physics
Experience/knowledge of computational languages
Ability to work in an international environment
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Level
- Excellent
Additional Information
To qualify for the positions, candidates have to fulfil the mobility requirement:They cannot have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in Spain for more than 12 months in the 36 months preceding the recruitment start date.
Expertise in computational modelling
Knowledge of programming languages
Courses followed and their overlap with the objective of the project
Duration of the contract of employment: please indicate the duration of the contract taking into account the UB regulations (from 3 months to 4 years)
The candidate proposed for hiring must accept the job offer within 7 working daysfrom the date of notification of the selection.
Priority will be given to people with disabilities (Law 89/2015 of June 2, reserve of quota 2% in favour of people with disabilities in companies of 50 or more people).
Be aware that the starting date sets in this offer is an estimate date. The official starting date will depend on the bureaucratic time that will take the preparation of the labour contract and presentation of the necessary documents to be hired by the selected candidate.
For additional information regards this offer, please, contact: ipagonabarraga@ub.edu
- Website for additional job details
Work Location(s)
- Number of offers available
- 1
- Company/Institute
- Department of Condensed Matter Physics
- Country
- Spain
- State/Province
- Barcelona
- City
- Barcelona
- Postal Code
- 08028
- Street
- Martí i Franqueses, 1
Contact
- State/Province
- Barcelona
- City
- Barcelona
- Website
- Street
- Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 585.
- Postal Code
- 08007
- ipagonabarraga@ub.edu