Queen's University Belfast is one of the leadinguniversities in the UK and Ireland, with a distinguished heritage and history.With over 24,000 students, 4,200 staff and an annual turnover of some GBP 300m,Queen's University Belfast plays a unique leadership role in Northern Ireland.As a member of the Russell Group of UK research-intensive universities, Queen'sUniversity Belfast combines excellence in research and education with a studentcentred ethos.
This post is available for 12 months (full-time) in thefirst instance with possible extension, depending on available funds. Theprimary role is to perform research on conducting domain walls inferroelectrics, to probe the fundamental physics of transport. The post hasbeen funded as part of a large (GBP 2.2M) Engineering and Physical SciencesResearch Council (EPSRC) Critical Mass Grant, in which the nanoscale ferroelectricsresearch group in Queen's University Belfast are collaborating with equivalentteams in the universities of St Andrews, Cambridge and Warwick. The research isalso strongly aligned with an ongoing US-Ireland R&D programme (involvingQUB, the University of Limerick and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln) ondomain wall engineering for novel electronics.
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