PhD Opportunities in Spectroscopy in Japan

AAU Energy at Aalborg University is offering a PhD stipend in the Batteries research group for a project on rechargeable calcium batteries. The work is based at the Aalborg campus and is part of the section for Power Electronics Systems Integration and Materials . The project focuses on non-aqueous liquid electrolytes for calcium batteries, with the aim of understanding how Ca2+ solvation , ion pairing , and interphase formation influence electrochemical reversibility. The PhD researcher will sy...

The project is based in the Brussels Photonics Team (B-PHOT) at the Faculty of Engineering , Department Applied Physics and Photonics , at Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Brussels. The PhD candidate will work on developing an integrated sensor and analytical workflow for studying applied glass technologies in historic stained-glass windows, with a focus on uncorroded materials. The research combines non-destructive spectroscopic techniques to support the characterization of bulk glass , glass stai...

[Fully funded PhD studentship; funding amount not specified.] This PhD project explores radicals and reactive intermediates in heavy main-group chemistry , with a particular focus on accessing and understanding open-shell species based on heavy pnictogens and related elements. The research aims to develop new routes to authentic main-group radicals and to open-shell fragments such as carbenes, nitrenes, and higher homologues in the vicinity of heavy elements. The project is centred on inorganic ...

[Competition-funded dual award PhD under the UoM-Peking University scheme; funding information is referenced on the dedicated dual-award page.] This PhD studentship is part of the Manchester–Peking dual award scheme and focuses on the synthesis and characterisation of new actinide–ligand multiple bonds, with uranium and thorium chemistry at the centre of the project. Building on preliminary results with a new ligand class in f-element chemistry, the student will work toward unprecedented bonding...

This PhD project explores single-molecule nanophotonics and plasmonics through the use of metallic nanocavities, metasurfaces and two-dimensional materials to confine light and enhance light–matter coupling at the nanoscale. The research focuses on detecting and spectroscopically analysing mid-infrared signatures of individual molecules. Molecular vibrations provide chemical fingerprints, while molecular frequency upconversion converts absorbed mid-infrared photons into visible photons that can ...

The Research School of Advanced Photon Science (RS-APS) is the doctoral research school of the Helmholtz Institute Jena at Friedrich Schiller University Jena. It is set within the physics campus of the university and connected to the GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion Research, bringing together university expertise and access to large-scale research facilities. The programme is designed to train doctoral researchers at the forefront of modern photon science. Students join a research environment...

This PhD project at the Department of Physics, Chemistry and Pharmacy at the University of Southern Denmark explores how electrically controlled molecular motion can be translated into mechanical force and, ultimately, covalent bond cleavage. The research focuses on the design and synthesis of electroactive molecular machines built around [2]rotaxanes that combine a redox-active monopyrrolotetrathiafulvalene (MPTTF) unit with a cyclobis(paraquat-p-phenylene) (CBPQT4+) macrocycle and a furan-base...

The Karlsruhe School of Optics & Photonics (KSOP) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology offers a structured PhD programme focused on optics and photonics , two technologies at the centre of modern optical communications, sensing, biomedical diagnostics, lighting, and solar energy applications. The school is positioned at the interface of the natural sciences and engineering disciplines and brings together research across several closely linked areas. Doctoral researchers in KSOP can work acro...

This doctoral position is based at Uppsala University’s Department of Physics and Astronomy, in the Ångström laboratory, within the research program for Chemical and Bio-Molecular Physics. The program works on the fundamental properties and ultrafast processes of matter at atomic length and time scales, and develops novel X-ray methods and instrumentation for studying atoms, molecules, and chemical and biomolecular systems. The PhD student will join the division of X-ray Photon Science and work ...