求贤纳士 | 西班牙CIC nanoGUNE Dr. Pablo Piaggi课题组招收CSC博士生/博后
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2024-11-09 09:25
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Seeking Talented Individuals | Dr. Pablo Piaggi's Research Group at CIC nanoGUNE in Spain is Recruiting CSC PhD Students/Postdoc.Dr. Pablo Piaggi welcomes applications from prospective PhD students/postdocs planning to apply to, or already holding, a scholarship from the Chinese Scholarship Council (CSC). The prospective PhD student/postdoc will be able to choose a research project that aligns with his/her interests and background. The team working with Dr. Piaggi develops and applies molecular simulation tools such as 1) molecular dynamics, 2) electronic-structure calculations, and 3) machine learning potentials.Some experience in one or more of these techniques is highly desirable. The simulation tools described above are rooted in statistical mechanics, quantum mechanics and artificial intelligence, and thus a good understanding of these fields is important. Currently, the main focus of Dr. Piaggi's team is understanding the microscopic mechanisms of crystal nucleation and growth in materials, minerals and pharmaceuticals, and developing new simulation tools to study these processes more accurately and efficiently.Dr. Piaggi will provide mentorship and a vibrant research network to develop the career of young researchers. We also offer state-of-the-art facilities including access to excellent supercomputing resources. The prospective PhD student will be enrolled in the Physics or Chemistry PhD program at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) and will work at the nanoscience research center nanoGUNE (Theory group) in San Sebastian, Spain.If interested, please contact Dr. Piaggi at pm.piaggi@nanogune.eu with a short description of research interests and a CV.Dr. Pablo Piaggi is a Principal Investigator in the Theory Group at nanoGUNE and an IKERBASQUE Fellow. He earned his Ph.D. in 2019 under the supervision of Prof. Michele Parrinello at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. Following this, he spent four years as a postdoctoral researcher in Prof. Roberto Car's group at Princeton University in the United States, where he also collaborated with Prof. Pablo Debenedetti, Prof. Athanassios Panagiotopoulos, and Prof. Annabella Selloni.Dr. Piaggi is highly skilled in advanced methods for classical, ab initio, and DeePMD-driven molecular dynamics simulations, as well as in enhanced sampling techniques. He has extensive experience applying these methods to investigate crystallization processes across various systems and scenarios. His research has been published in leading international journals, including Physical Review Letters, Nature Communications, Nature Methods, Physical Review X, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA.2. Research Group IntroductionSan Sebastian is home to several world-class research centers for Chemistry, Physics, and Materials Science, including the Donostia International Physics Center, the Center for Materials Physics (CFM), and nanoGUNE. The environment in the campus is highly international and friendly, with frequent seminars by distinguished local and visiting speakers.nanoGUNE (http://www.nanogune.eu/en) is a non-profit research center performing world-class basic and applied nanoscience research, and is one of the leading centers in its field in Spain. nanoGUNE research is focused on nanostructures, nanomaterials, nanodevices and nanobiotechnology, and the research areas cover a broad spectrum of topics in physics, chemistry, biosciences, and engineering disciplines. nanoGUNE combines fundamental and applied research with technology transfer, implemented by 11 different research groups and 6 different start-ups. The center is located in a 6200 m2 building and hosts state of the art equipment in its 15 laboratories, proving itself as an international center, with about 128 employees from 25 different countries. nanoGUNE was awarded the “Human Resources Excellence in Research” (2021) by the EC, recognizing the center´s good practices in the recruitment and hosting of researchers. nanoGUNE also holds the “María de Maetzu” recognition by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, which is the highest recognition for outstanding scientific and technological track-record in Spain. Moreover, nanoGUNE is a founding member of the SOMMa Alliance, the alliance of Severo Ochoa Centres and María de Maeztu Units to promote Spanish Excellence in research and to enhance its social impact at national and international levels. nanoGUNE has been awarded the first STEAM Euskadi Prize and the Special Mention Award for Gender Perspective in the category of Most Innovative Initiative in STEM Education. nanoGUNE is also a founding member of the Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), which includes several technological and research centers from the Basque Country and has the aim to strengthen technological development and knowledge transfer within the region. The Theory group (https://www.nanogune.eu/en/research/groups/theory) works in the development of simulation techniques and in their application to different problems, as well as in theoretical models to understand the simulation and experimental results. Topics include computational and theoretical condensed matter physics, complex solids and liquids, first-principles molecular dynamics based on density-functional theory, and water/solid interfaces, and non-adiabatic processes related to radiation damage of materials.The leader of the Theory group is Prof. Emilio Artacho, an expert in condensed matter physics; theory and simulation of solids, liquids and nanostructures. The theory group at nanoGUNE enjoys permanent access to the Hyperion computer cluster managed by the Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC). This cluster counts with more than 10,000 CPU cores and 48 state-of-the-art NVIDIA A100 GPUs. The latter accelerators are essential to perform large-scale molecular simulations driven by MLPs. Furthermore, the team led by Dr. Piaggi has access to the Spanish computer cluster MareNostrum 5 ACC, which has 1120 nodes each with 4 NVIDIA H100 GPUs.![]()
View of the city of San Sebastián, Spain (above) and the main building of nanoGUNE (below).3. Links with more informationhttps://sites.google.com/site/pablompiaggi/homehttps://www.nanogune.eu/en/nanogune/people/pablo-m-piaggihttps://www.ikerbasque.net/es/pablo-piaggi
