MSCA Fellowship

The newly formed Materials Analysis and Device Design (MADD) research group with the School of Engineering at London South Bank University (LSBU) focuses on creative Materials Science and Modelling to address challenges associated with sustainability and climate change. To further support our ambitions making an impact both locally and internationally we are looking for creative post-doctoral fellows wishing to develop the next step of their careers under Marie-Sklodowska Curie Actions 2024 (MSCA).

LSBU is based in a vibrant, fun, and exciting part of South London a few minutes away from most of London's famous sites. The Energy Materials laboratory, clean room and Nano-2D (https://www.nano2d.co.uk/) laboratory has seen over £2m of investment over the past 5 years. Collectively we have a team consisting of 5 academic staff and over 15 students working across a variety of projects such as next generation photovoltaics, novel catalysts for sustainable energy production, high through put manufacturing of nanomaterials, underlying fundamentals of materials properties through modelling and developing next generation materials systems. The team have a track record of delivering research at the UK’s top Russel Group Universities and are now bringing that expertise to enliven materials research at LSBU.

For applications closing this September we are hoping to support Marie Curie Fellows in joining the MADD team. LSBU has an enviable reputation for its vibrant multi-cultural setting. More importantly LSBU has been ranked 3rd globally for reducing inequality https://lnkd.in/eFqxcxEm which demonstrates a university level commitment to nurturing and developing the broadest possible groups of people to succeed. MADD is currently made up of a diverse range of people who are focused on success while enjoying their personal development in a fun and vibrant atmosphere.

We are particularly interested in hearing from people who have an interest in:

• - Functional ceramics for catalysis, particularly piezocatalysis for sustainable energy production
• - Manufacturing of novel morphologies of ceramic materials
• - Transparent electrodes for emerging tandem perovskite solar cells
• - Next generation photovoltaic devices
• - P-type transparent electrodes
• - Thin film electrocatalysts and photo-electrocatalysts
• - Developing methods to compute accurate vibrational signatures of defects and impurities in energy materials
• - Modelling heterogeneous photocatalytic processes involving composite semiconductor materials
• - High throughput manufacturing of 2D nanomaterials
• - Accurate computational signatures of defects in wide-gap materials for energy and optoelectronic applications
• - Utilising machine learning methods to optimise interface structures between layers in state-of-the-art photovoltaic materials
• - Applying quantum computational approaches to optimisation problems in materials modelling
• - Photo-batteries based on photoactive anodes for improved energy storage

If you are interested in applying for a MSCA Fellowship within MADD which is a well-funded and highly prestigious route to career development, then please contact Professor Steve Dunn for an initial conversation ~ dunns4@lsbu.ac.uk

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