Postdoctoral scholarship in dye development for fundamental photophysical studies
The Department of Chemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Gothenburg is offering a postdoctoral scholarship within the development of new excited state processes of organic compounds. The scholarship holder will get to study the design, synthesis, and photophysical analysis of organic dyes. Application deadline: 2025-03-26.
Project
The Börjesson group has several ongoing projects that rely on the development of new dyes. These include
1) Exciton diffusion of triplet states, which is of importance within the field of triplet-triplet annihilation photon upconversion.
2) Organic dyes with ultralow HOMO-LUMO energy gaps, which allows for larger relative coupling when performing strong exciton-photon coupling.
3) BODIPY dyes that form morphological homogenous neat films.
4) Intramolecular strong exciton-exciton coupling, which allows for a selective tuning of energy levels.
In the Börjesson group, you will study how to design and synthesize organic dyes. You will then learn to analyze the excited state dynamics of the dyes in solution (using steady state and time resolved optical spectroscopy), how the excited state dynamics is affected by a change of the surroundings, and what we can learn from such analysis. You take projects from the discussion stage, over all steps in the project cycle to finished manuscripts.
See the google scholar page of Professor Börjesson for a summary of previous works from the group: Karl Börjesson - Google Scholar
DNR/Reference
GU 2025/1358
Scholarship period
The scholarship covers a period of 24 months.
Preliminary start date: 2025-06-01
Supervisor/contact person
Karl Börjesson, +46766229099, karl.borjesson@gu.se
Qualifications
- To be eligible for a postdoctoral scholarship at the Department of Chemistry and Molecular Biology, the recipient must hold a PhD degree within a relevant field. The applicant must not have been employed at the University of Gothenburg in the past two years.
- Prior knowledge within organic chemistry is a requirement for being eligible to apply for this position. But also, please specify your other experiences, knowledge and/or interests that benefit this project.