The High Field Magnet Laboratory (HFML) has a number of 4-year PhD studentships available from October 2014 onwards and are looking for talented and suitably qualified Masters students from the Netherlands and elsewhere.

The HFML is an international facility jointly run by Radboud University Nijmegen and the Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM). Its mission is to use and develop high magnetic fields to carry out pioneering research by both in-house and external users. Its own research programme is based around three major research themes:

• Strongly Correlated Electron Systems
• Semiconductors & Nanostructures
• Soft Condensed Matter & Nanomaterials.

The HFML currently houses five magnets, including the world’s strongest Bitter magnet (37.5 T) with a 45 T hybrid magnet scheduled to become operational in 2017. The infrastructure also includes an array of state-of-the-art instrumentation for low-temperature transport, down to 50 mK, thermodynamic experiments (magnetization and thermal properties) and spectroscopic measurements (FTIR and optical, fs pump-probe and STM) in high magnetic fields. The HFML is also the only dc field facility worldwide with access to a THz free electron laser (FELIX/FLARE).

The PhD studentships are available in the following areas (if the PhD position is filled, the link will not be available anymore at the FOM website):

• Magnetic manipulation of Organic Nanostructures
• Terahertz spectroscopy in high magnetic fields
• Transport and thermodynamic properties of strongly correlated electron systems
• Quantum phase transitions in high magnetic fields and high pressures
• Transport measurements on mesoscopic single crystals of exotic metals
• Fractional quantum Hall effect in novel two-dimensional systems
• Optical studies of nanostructures in High Magnetic Fields
• Thermoelectric properties of novel electronic materials at the quantum limit
• High-field electronic properties of graphene-based mesoscopic systems

As a candidate, you are expected to have a strong scientific background, an excellent Bachelors and Masters performance coupled with the aptitude and motivation to perform cutting-edge experiments in challenging physical environments.

In return, we offer you a PhD position at the FOM Foundation, where you will get the status of junior scientist as well as an excellent postgraduate training in a dynamic international facility as well as funding to cover your travel expenses to national and international conferences.
At FOM you will have an employee status and can participate in all the employee benefits FOM offers. You will get a contract for four years. Your salary will be up to a maximum of 2.636 euro gross per month. The salary is supplemented with a holiday allowance of 8 percent and an end-of-year bonus of 8,33 percent.  You are supposed to have a thesis finished at the end of your four year term with FOM.  You and your supervisor will make up a plan for the additional education and supervising that you specifically need. This plan also defines which teaching activities you will be responsible for (up to a maximum of 10 percent of your time). The conditions of employment of the FOM Foundation are laid down in the Collective Labour Agreement for Research Centres (Cao-Onderzoekinstellingen), more exclusive information is available at www.fom.nl under Personeelsinformatie (in Dutch) or underPersonnel (in English). General information about working at FOM can be found in the English part of this website under Personnel. The ‘FOM job interview code’ applies to this position

In order to apply, click on the link of the research title or go the webpagehttp://www.fom.nl/live/english/positions/overview.pag, select the vacancy you are interested in. Upload your curriculum vitae and a cover letter using the ‘Apply online’ button. Please include in your CV the names of 2 academic referees. Short-listed candidates will be invited for an interview.

For general questions related to the HFML, please visit our website http://www.ru.nl/hfml/.