The research group of Professors Edwin Constable and Catherine Housecroft has
two PhD positions open
with immediate start dates from October 2014.
For both projects, applicants must have completed a Masters degree in Chemistry or Nanosciences, and should be competent in organic and coordination compound synthesis as well having an interest in physical/inorganic methods.
Project 1
SNF funded project entitled ‘Harvesting light at a p-type semiconductor interface’. This project involves synthetic work (organic ligands and coordination chemistry), compound characterization, testing complexes as dyes in dye-sensitized solar cells, and optimization of dye performance. The project is to be run in close collaboration with Dr Thilo Glatzel and Professor Ernst Meyer in the Department of Physics in Basel.
Project 2
NCCR funded project focusing on energy input, transport and conversion, specifically light-to-chemical energy conversion that culminates in water splitting to generate H2and O2. This project falls under the umbrella of the newly initiated NCCR ‘Molecular Systems Engineering’ (http://nccr-mse.ch).
Please apply by email enclosing a CV to:
Professor Catherine E. Housecroft
Department of Chemistry
University of Basel
Spitalstrasse 51
CH-4056 Basel
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