Thin Film Laboratory

Open positions

• Postdoc positions.
  Positions will be open soon.
  Please contact us if you are interested.
  

• PhD positions.
  There is currently one open position.
  Contact us for more details (martin.setvin@matfyz.cuni.cz).
  Details about the new position will be updated soon.

• Master/bachelor/project students.
  Undergraduate students are always welcome.
  Possibility to get financial support from our projects.
  We can negotiate an Erasmus stay in one of our friendly groups abroad (see "Collaborations").

• Ferroelectric perovskites for energy conversion (M. Setvin, P. Kocan, J. Myslivecek).
  GACR EXPRO - excellence in fundamental research.
  1.3 M EUR for 5 years (1.1.2020-31.12.2024).
  The use of perovskites for renewable energy applications - catalysis, photocatalysis, pyroelectric effects.
  Strong emphasis on the role of ferroelectricity and incipient ferroelectricity.
  Stability and evolution of the surface termination under various conditions and during bulk phase transitions.

• Polaron Tracking (M. Setvin, P. Kocan).
  ERC CZ - project funded by MSMT.
  0.6 M EUR for 2 years (2023-2024).
  MSMT partially funds projects that passesd to the second round of evaluation in ERC, but did not receive the funding.
  The task of this project is to prove that noncontact AFM is capable of imaging polarons in real space.
  

• Quantum Materials for Sustainable Technologies, QM4ST (M. Setvin, P. Sobotik).
  Provided by MSMT under the programme OP JAK, Excellent Research.
  20M EUR for 5 years provided to 4 research institutes in Pilsen, Prague and Brno.
  5 research groups from Charles University are involved, the total funding for CU is 4M EUR.
  The project is focused on designing new materials with tailored properties.

• POLAR_PEC (Jesus Redondo).
  GACR postdoc project.
  240 k EUR for 3 years (1.1.2022-31.12.2024).
  2 years abroad (San Sebastian, Spain) and 1 year in Prague.
  Focused on hematite Fe2O3 and alumina Al2O3.