Postdoctoral Research Associate (M/F)

id="offer-description" class="ecl-u-type-heading-2 ecl-u-mt-none ecl-u-mb-l">Offer Description Tunable Plasmonic Colloidal Liquid Crystals. The project aims to advance the development of dynamic plasmonic chiral liquid crystals, with a particular focus on their formation, phase behavior, dynamics, and collective optical properties. Specifically, we will investigate how nanoparticle geometry (including shape, aspect ratio, chirality, and chemical environment) influences liquid-crystalline ordering and self-assembly. These systems offer potential for reconfigurable optical materials, with potential applications in tunable linear dichroism and other dynamically controlled optical responses, as their optical properties can be modulated through external stimuli, such as electric or magnetic fields, light, and temperature. The project bridges soft matter physico-chemistry with the design of materials exhibiting novel physical and optical properties. We are seeking a postdoctoral fellow to work on the phase behavior, self-assembly and dynamics of these anisotropic plasmonic systems, using single particle tracking and differential dynamic microscopy, to gain a deeper understanding of these reconfigurable liquid crystalline metamaterials. - Study the dynamics of plasmonic liquid crystals using single-particle tracking and differential dynamic microscopy, with quantitative image analysis. - Prepare samples and characterize their phase behavior using various techniques including small-a