PhD in Chemistry - Theoretical and computational chemistry

Department

Department of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Main research activities/topics/projects

Research activities in the group are the development and application of time-dependent quantum methods to study light-driven processes in molecules and nanostructures.

Open projects relevant for the incoming student are:

1. study of plasmon enhancement of the electronic circular dichroism (ECD) in chiral molecules close to metal nanostructures;

2. study of the effect of plasmonic nanostructures on the high-harmonic generation (HHG) spectra of atoms;

3. study of  of the effect of plasmonic nanostructures on the optical response (linear absorption and ECD) on biomolecules playing a role in epigenetic;

4. study of HHG spectra with tailored fields, to select by symmetry specific molecular orbitals.

Working language

English

Special entry requirements

Familiarity with one of Fortran/Python is a plus.

Duration in months (min-max)

PhD sandwich: 3-12