One postdoc and two PhD student positions are open in the NMR Research Unit (https://cc.oulu.fi/~nmrwww/) at the University of Oulu (Finland), in the Kvantum Institute Spearhead Project ”Sensitive NMR for Sustainable Development”, which focuses on the development and application of new experimental and computational NMR methods in multidisciplinary research targeted at green transition and human well-being.
The postdoctoral position (PI: prof. Ville-Veikko Telkki) concentrates on the development of hyperpolarized ultrafast Laplace NMR experiments, including single-scan multidimensional relaxation and diffusion experiments, as well as their applications in research topics supporting sustainable development. The applications may include, e.g., battery materials, biomaterials, biosensors and sustainable cements as well as investigating the role of aerosols in climate change.
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The first PhD student position (PI: Adjunct Prof. Anu Kantola) focuses on hyperpolarization and optical NMR. The aim of the project is to study SABRE (Signal Amplification By Reversible Exchange) hyperpolarization technique, commonly used to increase the NMR signal, and, eventually, utilize this knowledge and enhanced polarization to develop s.c. nuclear magneto-optic spectroscopy, i.e., methods to study nuclear magnetism by optical means. The project involves instrument and methods development, experimental NMR, and spin dynamics simulations. Depending on the applicant’s interest and skills they will work in one or more of these areas. The second PhD student position (PI: Adjunct Prof. Perttu Lantto) concentrates on machine learning modelling of NMR in complex materials. In the project, we combine first principles quantum chemistry (QC) calculations of NMR parameters with molecular dynamics (MD) modelling at semi-empirical (SEMD) /ab initio (AIMD) levels for short time scales and small model systems. Results are used to build machine-learning (ML) interaction potential (MLIP) models of both energy and spectroscopic parameters that can be used efficiently in MLMD simulations. They provide high-quality results for the final realistic models of larger systems that, in addition to thermal averaging, enable relaxation modelling at time scales needed to describe, for instance, chemical reactions and probe the mechanical pathway that guest atoms or molecules assume in materials studied in collaboration with the experimental NMR groups.
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Ph.D. Ville-Veikko Telkki
Professor
Chair of EUROMAR2025 in Oulu (www.euromar2025.org)
Head of NMR Research Unit
NMR Research Unit
Faculty of Science
P.O. Box 3000
90014 University of Oulu
Finland
Office: KE331B
Tel: +358-294-48-1309
E-mail: ville-veikko.telkki@oulu.fi
Website: http://cc.oulu.fi/~nmrwww/