PhD Opportunities in Nanoscience

The research group of Shourya Dutta Gupta in the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad is seeking a Ph.D. candidate for research in advanced materials science and characterization. The project focuses on thin film science , particularly the design, synthesis, and fundamental understanding of functional metallic and alloy thin-film architectures. Students will investigate how materials behave at microstructural and atomic sca...

Aalborg University is offering a three-year PhD stipend in experimental quantum materials physics within the Physics Group at the Department of Materials and Production in Aalborg, Denmark. The project investigates how molecular complexes can be used to engineer quantum properties in materials. It addresses fundamental questions in quantum science while exploring knowledge relevant to future applications in electronics, sensing, and energy harvesting. The PhD researcher will prepare and investig...

This PhD position is part of the NTNU interdisciplinary research project “Preparedness and Response to AMR, the silent pandemic” , linking clinical and molecular medicine with social science perspectives across several closely coordinated doctoral projects. The successful candidate will work at the Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine (IKOM) at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, within a broad, international research environment. The project focuses on rapi...

Aalto University in Espoo, Finland, is hiring 1–2 doctoral researchers for a PhD project combining gated two-dimensional device structures with low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy (STM). The research focuses on condensed matter physics, two-dimensional quantum devices, correlated quantum materials, atomic-scale phenomena, nanotechnology, and quantum technology. The project is particularly relevant to students interested in studying quantum materials and device behavior using advanced l...

The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) is recruiting a full-time PhD Candidate in molecular medical microbiology at the Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine (IKOM) in Trondheim, Norway. The project, "Emerging technologies enabling rapid precision diagnostics of severe infection," is part of the interdisciplinary initiative Preparedness and Response to AMR, the silent pandemic . It addresses bloodstream infection and sepsis, where delayed diagnosis can lead to inadequa...

The University of Birmingham is offering a PhD studentship in polymer chemistry, supramolecular chemistry and dynamic materials. Based in the Fielden group, the project investigates how osmotic pressure can initiate polymer breakdown and enable the controlled exchange of monomers between polymers. The researcher will design reaction systems in which monomers diffuse away from parent polymers, study reversible depolymerisation under different conditions, and work with reaction media and catalysts...

Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in Villigen, Switzerland, is offering a PhD position in Real-Space Quantum Geometry within the Laboratory for Multiscale Materials Experiments. The project focuses on magnetic thin films and their nanoscale behavior. The successful candidate will grow and pattern magnetic thin films using nanolithography, perform micromagnetic simulations, and investigate patterned films through electron and X-ray imaging techniques and electronic transport measurements. Responsibil...

PhD opportunity at the Technical University of Munich in the Complex Soft Matter team at TUM School of Life Sciences. This opening is part of the new ERC project EngToTarget , focused on how molecular organisation on nanoparticles controls selective recognition of biological targets. The research combines synthesis , surface chemistry , automated experimentation , and data-driven materials design . The position is a PhD opening with four years of funding at TV-L E13 , subject to a positive progr...

🚀 2 fully funded PhD positions are available within the MSCA Doctoral Network IDEAS-MSCA at the Group of Characterization of Materials (GCM), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain. The openings are for Doctoral Candidates in Drug Delivery , Pharmaceutical Formulation , Nanotechnology , Materials Science , Chemistry , Physics , and Machine Learning . Project 1: Hybrid Nanoparticles for Biopharmaceutical Delivery — synthesize and characterize hybrid silica–polymer micro/nanopartic...