Graduate recruitment

Immediate and ongoing opportunities for interdisciplinary projects in surface science are available for students aiming to become creative and independent researchers, capable of addressing challenges in engineering, physics, chemistry, and advanced materials.

 

Students will acquire highly employable skills by designing and operating instruments in an academic setting, taking responsibility for fundamental research that is both observational- and hypothesis-driven. They will interpret data from multiplexed measurements and may communicate their implications through examinations, presentations, publications, and a thesis.

 

Students interested in pursuing a Ph.D. or M.Sc. degree are invited to submit a curriculum vitae, transcripts, list of one to two references, and motivation letter by e-mail for consideration.

 

Undergraduates are also invited to inquire about availability of short-term research projects.

 

Areas of research:

Projects may focus on identifying and predicting new mechanisms of:

• electron-hole extraction for solar cell applications;

• quantum confinement for quantum computing;

• catalysis and bottom-up assembly for energy storage;

• corrosion resistance in alloys for biocompatibility.

 

Experimental work can involve:

• ultra-high vacuum equipment;

• electron-, photon-, and scanning probe-based spectroscopies;

• spatially and temporally resolved techniques.

 

Research Director:

Christopher Leon (christopher.leon@chm.ulaval.ca)

 

Research environment:

Doctoral and Master’s theses will be supervised under the auspices of the Department of Chemistry at Université Laval.