Research assistant (praedoc) (f/m/d) (DM-PHY-791)

The Bolotin research group in the Physics Department of Free University Berlin specializes in nanoscale electronics and optoelectronics of two-dimensional materials and heterostructures. Our focus is to find new ways to manipulate these materials to build systems with designer Hamiltonians – and enable new quantum technologies. Our main experimental tools include nanofabrication, electrical transport measurements, static and time-resolved optoelectronic measurements. Our unique strengths are platforms for nanomechanical manipulation, approaches to reach high carrier densities and electric fields, and techniques to control 2D moirés in situ.

Research assistant (praedoc) (f/m/d) (DM-PHY-791)

Department: Department of Physics contract duration: limited to 4 years Salary / pay grade: E 13 TV-L FU Working hours: 75 % Requisition ID: 791 Application deadline: 19.10.2026

Tasks

What You Can Expect in Your New Role

You will work within the recently founded Cluster of Excellence “Center for Chiral Electronics”. In that cluster, more than 25 research groups from physics, chemistry, and engineering collaborate to exploit materials’ chirality (the difference between a material and its mirror image) to store, manipulate, and transport quantum and classical information.

Your project within the Bolotin research group will be to develop a new class of 2D material heterostructures with on-demand tunable chirality. To accomplish this, you will develop a nanomanipulation setup to stack and twist 2D materials inside a cryostat, an optical “quantum twist microscope”. Using this technique, you will study emergent structural chirality in 2D magnetic, excitonic, and spin systems. You will also create hybrid 2D material/molecular systems and study the Chirality Induced Spin Selectivity (CISS) effect in them.

The main experimental tools will be a new 2D material nanomanipulation platform, static and time-resolved optical spectroscopies, and nanofabrication approaches. The third-party funded research project offers the opportunity to pursue a PhD.

Requirements

Key Requirements

Master’s degree in natural sciences (Physics or related fields)