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From: Elizabeth Yuriev <Elizabeth.Yuriev@monash.edu> Subject: AMMA: POSTDOCTORAL POSITIONS (3 at CSIRO and 1 at the University of Orléans, France) Date: October 9, 2012 7:56:11 PM PDT To: Undisclosed recipients: ;

OCE POSTDOCTORAL POSITIONS in the VNLab at CSIRO

1. OCE Postdoctoral Fellow - Modelling of Graphene Oxide Nanostructures Closing Date: Open until Filled Reference: VIC12/03679, Salary: AU$78K - $85K per annum plus up to 15.4% Superannuation Duration: 36 months

CSIRO Materials Science and Engineering is seeking to appoint a highly motivated graduate who will take a substantive role in developing a theoretical and computational framework for modelling the formation, structure, porosity, and properties of graphene oxide nanosheets and membranes. The Fellow will play an important role in the graphene capabilities in the Virtual Nanoscience Laboratory (VNLab), under the direction of Dr. Amanda Barnard, and in the collaboration with Dr Dan Li at Monash University.

Specifically you will: • Use an electronic structure simulation to determine the structure of graphene oxide nanosheets, and different types of sheet/sheet interactions; • Use CSIRO’s in-house package for dynamical modelling of aggregation behaviour, to explore the self-assembly of ensembles of exemplary nanosheets as a function of time, temperature, solvation conditions and concentration; • Develop a rigorous classification system or different types of graphene oxide nanostructure, based on their conditions of formation, and ultimate properties; • Produce high quality scientific and technical outputs including journal articles, conference papers and presentations, patents and technical reports. You will be mentored by senior scientists as part of CSIRO’s Postdoctoral Fellows Program which aims to train early career scientists for a research role.

LINK: http://csiro.nga.net.au/?jati=215fcf62-0176-9bfe-d1a4-6e0cc642b3de

2. OCE Postdoctoral Fellow - Zinc Oxide Nanostructures Closing Date: 31 October 2012 Reference: VIC12/03140, Salary: AU$78K - $85K per annum plus up to 15.4% Superannuation Duration: 36 months

CSIRO Materials Science and Engineering is seeking to appoint a highly motivated PhD graduate who will take a substantive role in developing a theoretical and computational framework for modelling the nanomorphology, environmental stability, and surface properties of zinc oxide (ZnO) nanoparticles. The Fellow will play an important role in the oxide nanomaterials capabilities in the Virtual Nanoscience Laboratory (VNLab), under the direction of Dr. Amanda Barnard, and become an important advisor and partner to the experimental effort under the direction of Dr. Phil Casey (CSIRO). This project is part of a collaboration with Dr Michelle Spencer at La Trobe University, and the Fellow will be encouraged to engage in the University research activities and interact with graduate students.

Specifically you will: •Using electronic structure simulations to determine the equilibrium structure and chemical terminations of ZnO surfaces, based on crystallographic orientations and chemical configurations; •Predict the relative stability of each configuration as a function of temperature and partial pressure (or chemical species) using ab initio thermodynamics to generated a sets of surface phase diagrams under environmentally and industrially relevant; •Establish the equilibrium morphology of ZnO as a function size and thermochemical conditions, and the relative stability of non-equilibrium morphologies (based on observations of the research team); •Develop a range of different structure/property maps predicting efficiency of different ZnO nanostructures, under different conditions •Work collaboratively with scientists in different domains, including computational members of the Virtual Nanoscience laboratory, computational and experimental scientists within CSIRO, and computational colleagues at La Trobe University.

LINK: http://csiro.nga.net.au/publicfiles/csiro/jobs/B852DE11-66E2-B439-7321-6DE4F...

3. OCE Postdoctoral Fellow - Modelling of Inhibitor/Surface Interactions Closing Date: 31 October 2012 Reference: VIC12/03140, Salary: AU$78K - $85K per annum plus up to 15.4% Superannuation Duration: 36 months

CSIRO Materials Science and Engineering is seeking to appoint a highly motivated graduate who will take a substantive role in developing a fundamental understanding of the interaction of inhibitors ( both organic and inorganic) with metal surfaces.

You will combine both modelling of inhibitor/surface interactions with a targeted experimental program to investigate specific elements of binding of inhibitors to the surface and their role in controlling the electrochemistry of the metal/oxide/liquid interface. You will benefit from the established molecular modelling techniques in Dr Barnard’s Virtual Nano-Science laboratory and from both the experimental techniques and extensive data base on inhibiting performance within Dr Cole’s Environmental Surface Design team.

Specifically you will: •Predict the interaction of inhibitor molecules with metal and metal oxide surfaces using density functional methodologies; •Determine the effect of interfaces and features within the metal/metal oxide surface on the interaction with inhibitors ; •Determine the effect of surface charge and potential variation and the associated double layer effects on surface/inhibitor effects; •Carry out experimental studies (incl. Electrochemical and analytical approaches) to verify the nature of surface/inhibitor interactions; •Produce high quality scientific and technical outputs including journal articles, conference papers and presentations; •Work collaboratively with scientists in different domains, including both computational members of the, computational and experimental scientists within Environmental surface design and Virtual Nanoscience.

LINK: http://csiro.nga.net.au/?jati=639BF3DD-1BC5-9B3D-7185-6DFB1675D727

-Amanda

Post-Doctoral position at the University of Orléans in Structural Bioinformatics & Chemoinformatics group – please see attached

Cheers, Elizabeth

************ Dr Elizabeth Yuriev Secretary, Association of Molecular Modellers of Australasia (AMMA)

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