A PhD fellowship is available in the context of the European Marie Curie
Training network SUPERIOR gathering nine academic and industrial partners
active in the field of organic electronics.

The work will be carried out in the Laboratory for Chemistry of Novel
Materials at the University of Mons which comprises about 40 researchers.
The group is part of the Center for Innovation and Research on Materials
and Polymers (CIRMAP) of the University of Mons, which comprises about
80 researchers and is active in the design, the modeling, the synthesis,
the characterization (structural and morphological as well as
physico-chemical properties and ultimate performances such as mechanical,
fire resistance) and use of molecular and polymer-based materials.
The activities of the CNM laboratory deal mainly with theoretical
investigations of the structural, electronic, and optical properties
of novel organic conjugated compounds with promising characteristics
for exploitation in electronics, optoelectronics, and photonic devices.
Available in-house is a computing facility fully dedicated to theoretical
calculations based on quantum-chemical, solid state physics, and molecular
modeling methods. In addition, the UMons group is a founding member of the
Interuniversity Scientific Computing Facility in Namur, a large-scale
computing center to which the researchers of Mons have full access.
Over the past decade, the UMons group has participated in more than ten
EU projects in the field of organic electronics. UMons was among the
partnership that was awarded the 2003 Descartes Prize of the European Union.

The main scope of the PhD thesis will be to perform quantum-chemical
calculations and molecular mechanics/dynamics simulations in order
to predict/rationalize the supramolecular packing of organic semiconductors
as well as key electronic properties such as charge transport, energy
transport or luminescence. The candidate will collaborate with the
synthetic groups involved in the project to design the best materials
and with the characterization groups to analyze the experimental data.
Visits and stays to all nodes of the project will be organized.

The candidate MUST NOT BE belgian. The PhD candidate should have good
basics with the modern techniques of quantum chemistry and classical
modeling (molecular mechanics/dynamics).

Ask for any further information or apply for this position by sending
your CV along with the names of three reference persons to:
Dr. Jrme Cornil, Dr. David Beljonne, and Prof. Roberto Lazzaroni
Laboratory for Chemistry of Novel Materials
University of Mons
Place du Parc, 20, B-7000 Mons, Belgium
E-mail : Jerome^averell.umh.ac.be /  David^averell.umh.ac.be / Roberto^averell.umh.ac.be