PhD Research Projects

PhD Research Projects

 

At IMPRS-CPQM, we offer a variety of research projects which cover the entire scope of research performed at MPI-CPfS. Every PhD project will have at least one supervisor based at MPI-CPfS and one at one of the partner universities. For all projects, we envision an active involvement of both supervisors in the actual research and students may spend time at either institution to work on their project.

At the bottom of the page, we also advertise a few projects which are supervised by our PIs and close collaborators of our IMPRS, respectively, but which don’t fall completely within the framework of IMPRS-CPQM.

As several of our projects are close to the boundaries between chemistry and physics or even cross them, the categories specified in the tags are mostly an indicator on which aspects of our research topics the project will focus. You can filter the list for a specifc category by clicking on the relevant tag at one of the projects.

Currently, we can offer the following projects:

Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy of delafossites
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Phil King, Prof. Dr. Andrew Mackenzie
Atomic-scale visualization of strain effects
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Peter Wahl, Prof. Dr. Andrew Mackenzie
Charge carrier control in 2D Quantum Materials
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Phil King, Dr. Haijing Zhang
Chemical properties of quantum materials
Supervisors: Dr. Iryna Antonyshyn, Prof. Dr. Thomas Strassner, Prof. J. Grin
Chemistry with covalent intermetallic compounds
Supervisors: Prof. Juri Grin, Prof. Dr. Michael Ruck, Dr. Frank R. Wagner
Correlated Electron Physics of Delafossite Oxide Metals
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Phil King, Prof. Dr. Andrew Mackenzie
Discovery of new misfit compounds for twistronic applications
Supervisors: Dr. Chandra Shekhar, Prof. Dr. Thomas Doert, Prof. Dr. Claudia Felser
Electrochemical catalysis and asymmetric synthesis on the surface of topological crystals
Supervisors: Dr. Guowei Li, Prof. Dr. Claudia Felser, Prof. Dr. Xinliang Feng
Electronic Structure of Delafossite Oxides
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Phil King, Dr. Helge Rosner
Mesoscopic correlated electron and topological physics
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Andrew Mackenzie, Prof. Dr. Phil King. Dr. Andreas Rost, Dr. Haijing Zhang
New metals and superconductors from ionic liquid gating
Supervisors: Dr. Haijing Zhang, Prof. Dr. Andrew Mackenzie, Dr. Andreas Rost
Non-oxy delafossites: unconventional spin orbit entangled magnetism and electron transport
Supervisors: Dr. Michael Baenitz, Dr. Marcus Schmidt, Prof. Dr. Jochen Wosnitza
Photoemission and Strain Tuning of Correlated Electron Systems
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Phil King, Prof. Dr. Andrew Mackenzie
Planckian dissipation
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Andrew Mackenzie, Dr. Chris Hooley
Pressure-tuning of topological materials
Supervisors: Dr. Michael Nicklas, Dr. Michael Baenitz, Prof. Dr. Jochen Wosnitza
Resolving multipolar ordering, superconductivity and Rashba effect in the newly discovered quantum critical system CeRh2As2
Supervisors: Dr. Seunghyun Khim, Dr. Manuel Brando, Dr. Christoph Geibel, Prof. Dr. Jochen Wosnitza
Scanned Josephson Spectroscopy
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Andrew Mackenzie, Prof. Dr. James C. Davis
Searching materials for three-dimensional quantum Hall effect
Supervisors: Dr. Chandra Shekhar, Prof. Dr. Jochen Wosnitza, Prof. Dr. Claudia Felser
Solid-state synthesis of correlated electron materials
Supervisors: Dr. Eteri Svanidze, Prof. Juri Grin
Synthesis, transport and thermodynamics of strongly correlated micro-crystals
Supervisors: Dr. Alexandra Gibbs, Dr. Andreas Rost, Prof. Dr. Andrew Mackenzie
The elastocaloric effect in correlated electron systems
Supervisors: Dr. Michael Nicklas, Prof. Dr. Andrew Mackenzie, Dr. Andreas Rost
Theory of spin liquids: Instabilities and defects
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Matthias Vojta, Prof. Dr. Andrew Mackenzie
Thermodynamic study of novel strongly correlated electron systems
Supervisors: Dr. Manuel Brando, Prof. Dr. Jochen Wosnitza, Dr. Eteri Svanidze
Thermodynamics of designer quantum materials
Supervisors: Dr. Andreas Rost, Prof. Dr. Andrew Mackenzie
Tuning frustration of magnetic moments in a metal by pressure
Supervisors: Dr. Michael Nicklas, Prof. Dr. Hans-Henning Klauß

Non-IMPRS projects

The projects below are offered by PIs of IMPRS-CPQM or close collaborators of our program. At the same time, these projects are not part of IMPRS-CPQM in a strict sense. The latter could mean, for example, that you would be registered at a university which does not formally participate in IMPRS-CPQM or that some other aspect of IMPRS-CPQM would not apply in your case.

You can apply for these projects in the same way as it is described for the IMPRS-projects, i.e. just include them in the list of projects for which you’d like us to consider your application.

All in situ/ultra-high vacuum ionic liquid gating study
Supervisors: Dr. Simone Altendorf, Prof. Dr. Liu Hao Tjeng
In situ growth and characterization of topological insulator thin films and heterostructures

In situ growth and characterization of topological insulator thin films and heterostructures

Supervisors: Dr. Simone Altendorf, Prof. Dr. Liu Hao Tjeng
Probing electronic liquid crystals with vector magnetic fields
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Andrew Mackenzie, Prof. Dr. Santiago A. Grigera
Three-dimensional interconnected magnetic nanocircuits
Supervisors: Dr. Claire Donnelly, Dr. Amalio Fernández-Pacheco (University of Glasgow)

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