Post Doctoral Researcher

at  Universiteit Gent

• Apply before 10/05/2024 (DD/MM/YYYY) 23:59 (Brussels Time)
• Faculty of Sciences
• Department: WE06 - Chemie
• Occupancy rate:100%
• Number of positions: 1
• Type of employment: Contract of limited duration
• Term of assignment: 12 months
• Wage scale: PD1 to PD4 (doctoral degree)
• Required diploma: PhD

Organic crystals are essential in modern technology like optoelectronics, solar cells, etc., but are generally considered as brittle and inelastic. Polymers, hydrogels, etc. on the other hand are already used in smart materials due to their mechanical flexibility but suffer from long-range structural order. Therefore, organic molecular crystals equipped with flexible deformation capabilities can bridge hard (in)organic and soft polymeric materials. In this regard, photoluminescent organic crystalline crystals, which alter their emission properties by adopting different crystal shapes under external mechanical stress, are of extreme relevance in developing of all-organic mechanosensors, optical waveguides etc.

You will be involved

• in research and devellopment to fabricate/enhance mechanical flexibility (elastic/plastic) and photoluminescence properties of pure organic crystalline materials through cocrystal engineering and rationalize the underlying mechanisms at the supramolecular level.
• in training and teaching graduate and PhD students in synthesis, crystallization and structure determination by X-ray diffraction analysis, as well as photoluminescence of the developed organic cocrystals
• in project writing and application regarding related research topics and follow-up research
• in setting up international synchrotron campaigns
• in publication writing, submission, and dissemination (oral and poster presentations) of obtained results in highly ranked international scientific journals and at (inter)national conferences