One Postdoc position is available immediately in the School of Physics at Trinity College Dublin and the Center for Research on Adaptive Nanostructures and Nanodevices, CRANN (www.crann.tcd.ie), Ireland flagship research center for nanoscience and nanotechnology. The position will be in the Computational Spintronics Group headed by Prof. Stefano Sanvito and aims at investigating transport across DNA molecules with the goal of exploring future protocols for DNA sequencing. The position is sponsored by the European Union under the 7th framework and it is part of a network including partners from Serbia, Germany, Israel and Switzerland.

The research project will involve the use and the development of density functional theory combined with quantum transport and possibly molecular dynamics. In particular the successful candidate will work together with the development team of the smeagol package (www.smeagol.tcd.ie). The ideal candidate should have experience with electronic structure and/or quantum chemistry methods. Willingness to work together with experimental groups and previous experience with molecular dynamics, biological systems and/or quantum transport will be considered as an advantage.

The starting salary will be around 42,000 Euro/year with an initial contract of 2 years eventually renewable for a third one. Large computational infrastructures are available both at the Trinity Center for High Performance Computing (www.tchpc.tcd.ie) and at the Irish Center for High End Computing (www.ichec.ie). For further information contact Prof. Sanvito at sanvitos@tcd.ie. Applications including cover letter, CV, the names of two potential referees and a short statement of research interests should be sent (preferably by e-mail) to:
Prof. Stefano Sanvito, School of Physics, Trinity College Dublin, IRELAND