 Paul Scherrer InstituteAcronym | PSI | Homepage | http://www.psi.ch/ | Country | Switzerland | ZIP, City | | Address | | Phone | | Type | Academy | Current organization | Paul Scherrer Institute | Child organizations | | Memberships | |
Open OpportunitiesWe are seeking two passionate PhD candidates to join our research team in a cutting-edge project focused on the theoretical investigation of altermagnetism - a recently discovered and rapidly growing field in condensed matter physics. Altermagnets are a novel class of magnetic materials that exhibit spin-compensated magnetism with non-relativistic spin-split bands, offering unprecedented potential for energy-efficient spin-based technologies such as spintronics, magnonics, and superconductivity. Chiral magnons in altermagnets, in particular, promise to revolutionize information processing by enabling dissipationless transport without relying on charge carriers. Join us in pushing the frontiers of this emerging field by developing novel computational tools and making impactful contributions to the next generation of low-power, high-efficiency technologies. - Theoretical and Condensed Matter Physics
- PhD Placement
| These two PASC projects focus on advancing electronic-structure simulations by implementing novel mixed-precision numerical algorithms in the DFTK.jl and SIRIUS libraries, enhancing their integration with Quantum ESPRESSO, and to incorporate advanced electronic-structure functionals based on frequency-dependent response functions (dynamical Hubbard functionals) to improve the accuracy and efficiency of first-principles calculations. - Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Theoretical and Condensed Matter Physics
- Post-Doc Position
| We are using retrieval augmented generation (RAG) to support a large language model (LLM) answering questions related to our accelerators. Source documents include scientific publications, as well as internal documents. Many of these documents include images, tables, and equations, which are not directly accessible to be indexed in a language-based embedding.
You will help address these issues by:
• Support the interpretation of scientific publications and internal notes by large language models
• Assess possibilities to index images, tables, and equations
• Store embeddings in a vector data base
• Use a large language model to search this data base, and answer user questions
• Build a user interface for this model
The vector data base and the large language model run locally on hardware located at PSI. - Computer Software, Data Format
- Internship
| The Center for Proton Therapy (CPT) at PSI is the world leader in the development and clinical implementation of pencil beam scanning proton therapy. We are looking for talented and motivated students with a background in physics, engineering and computer science to join our research program. - Engineering and Technology, Physics
- Bachelor Thesis, Master Thesis, Semester Project
| We are offering multiple projects in the cleanroom with focus on gratings for x-ray application, this includes lithography and etching.
If you would like to do a project in a cleanroom do not hesitate to contact us under: bryan.benz@psi.ch - Biomedical Engineering, Interdisciplinary Engineering, Medical Physics
- ETH Zurich (ETHZ), Master Thesis, Semester Project
| Global warming induces emissions changes in global ecosystems, for example changes to marine algal blooms, emerging terrestrial vegetation, increasing glacial dust or fires. At the same time human activities in the cryosphere cause emissions from traffic, domestic activities and animal herding. All these emissions change the composition of the atmosphere.
The main task of this project will be to analyse mass spectrometry data from Greenland or the Jungfraujoch, to understand the complex puzzle of atmospheric aerosol sources.
You will have the option to analyse aerosol filter samples in the lab, collected during different (ongoing) campaigns, like the GreenFjord project's atmospheric cluster in Greenland (https://greenfjord-project.ch/).
This work will be carried out at and with the team of the Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry at PSI, Switzerland. - Analytical Chemistry, Environmental Chemistry (incl. Atmospheric Chemistry)
- Internship, Lab Practice, Master Thesis
| Investigate how best to unite Koopmans and Perdew-Zunger self-interaction corrections for electronic structure calculations. - Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Theoretical and Condensed Matter Physics
- Master Thesis, Semester Project
| Investigate how best to unite Koopmans and Hubbard corrections for electronic structure calculations. - Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Theoretical and Condensed Matter Physics
- Master Thesis, Semester Project
| Develop a plugin for the Jupyter-based AiiDAlab Quantum ESPRESSO app focused on calculating the work function of material surfaces. Ideal for students aiming to apply their coding skills and scientific knowledge to contribute to scientific software in material science research. - Software Engineering, Theoretical and Condensed Matter Physics
- Master Thesis, Semester Project
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