You are a highly motivated researcher with a Master’s degree in Physical Chemistry or Physics, with skills in optics and spectroscopies. You have strong communication skills and enjoy collaborating with partners across different disciplines of physics, chemistry, materials, and computer science. Join us in developing optical sensing techniques to reveal how charge, structure, and chemistry evolve in conductive and functional polymer materials during operation, with the goal of enabling energy-efficient organic-based optoelectronics. Polymers are emerging materials for optoelectronics, molecular memory, neuromorphic devices, and chemical sensing, but many of the key chemical and physical processes that control their stability and performance remain difficult to observe during operation, hindering their high-value high-tech applications. Join a cutting-edge research project at the University of Twente and help revolutionize polymers for multifunctional optoelectronics!

As a PhD student, you will work on the project focused on developing in-situ optical sensing for polymer-based electronics: using light to non-invasively inspect, understand, and improve their stability and performance, with the aim to develop energy-efficient optoelectronic devices. You’ll select and design conductive polymers, fabricate electronics devices, then build in-situ UV-Vis/Raman/surface enhanced Raman spectroscopies platform to reveal hidden processes such as interfacial charge transfer, redox switching, doping and dedoping, morphology dynamics, and local electric field effects. You’ll model electrical and optical inputs and responses for energy-efficient computing as a proof of concept.

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