Professor Luis Manuel Díaz Angulo, from the Department of Electromagnetism and Matter Physics at the University of Granada, welcomes postdoctoral candidates interested in applying for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (MSCA-PF) in 2023 at this University. Please note that applicants must comply with the Mobility Rule (for more information about the 2023 call, please consult:(http://sl.ugr.es/0d7F).

Brief description of the institution:

The University of Granada (UGR) was founded in 1531 and is one of the largest and most important universities in Spain. With over 51,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students and almost 3,000 members of staff, the UGR offers over 90 undergraduate degrees, 160 master’s degrees (8 of which are international double degrees) and 28 doctoral programmes via its 124 departments and nearly 50 centers. Accordingly, the UGR offers one of the most extensive and diverse ranges of higher education programmes in Spain.

The UGR has been awarded with the "Human Resources Excellence in Research (HRS4R)", which reflects the institution’s commitment to continuously improving its human resource policies in line with the European Charter for Researchers and the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers. The UGR is also internationally renowned for its excellence in diverse research fields and ranked among the top Spanish universities in a variety of ranking criteria, such as national R&D projects, fellowships awarded, publications, and international funding.

The UGR is one of the few Spanish Universities listed in the Shanghai Top 500 ranking - Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU). The 2022 edition of the ARWU places the UGR in 201-300th position in the world and as the 2-5 highest ranked universities in Spain (http://sl.ugr.es/0d7D), reaffirming its position as an institution at the forefront of national and international research. The UGR stands out in the specialties of Library & Information Science (position 38); Food Science & Technology (30) and Hospitality & Tourism Management (51-75), according to the latest edition of this prestigious ranking by specialties (http://sl.ugr.es/0bSp). A little lower in the ranking, the UGR also stands out in Mathematics (76-100).

Additionally, the UGR has 9 researchers who are at the top of the Highly Cited Researchers (HCR) list (http://sl.ugr.es/0d7E), most of these related to the area of Computer Science. It is also well recognized for its web presence (http://sl.ugr.es/0a6i), being positioned at 42th place in the top 200 Universities in Europe.

Internationally, the University of Granada is firmly committed to its participation in the calls of the Framework Programme of the European Union. For the duration of the last Framework Programme, Horizon 2020, the UGR obtained a total 120 projects with a total funding of around 29,4 million euros.  For the current Framework Programme, Horizon Europe, the UGR has obtained 38 projects, so far, with total funding around 11 € million.

Brief description of the Centre/Research Group:

The UGR Group has a solid trajectory in Computational Electromagnetics with EU and Spanish R&D public financing and private contracts (see supervisor CV under https://cvn.fecyt.es/editor/cvnOnline/0000-0001-7317-1423).

The UGR group has the necessary elements to accommodate properly novel postdoc students, and the facilities to carry out the research of this proposal. In particular there are

1.         Computing media

2.         Own electromagnetic simulation and heuristic optimization software developed by the group: SEMBA-UGRFDTD, SEMBA-DGTD.

3.         Commercial software: Altair FEKO, ANSYS HFSS…

Project description:

The project aims to implement discontinuous Galerkin time domain (DGTD) based methods that combine the geometric adaptivity of finite element methods (FEM) with the fully explicit marching-on-in-time algorithm of traditional methods, such as the finite differences in time domain (FDTD), with higher order accuracies. Our team has prior experience in developing capabilities for DGTD methods and is currently working on an open-source code (https://github.com/opensemba) that can handle multiple types of elements and basis types. The project focuses on improving the accuracy of multiscale problems which are typically present in the context of electromagnetic compatibility (EMC). This includes the modeling of cables and cable bundles, surface impedance boundary conditions necessary for modeling carbon fiber composite panels, metallic meshes, etc. Additionally, the project aims to model materials that have complex responses such as dispersive and non-linear magnetic materials.

To support the simulation, our team will replicate the simulations with experimental setups and EMC measurement scenarios. This will be carried out with the help of INTA (Instituto Nacional de Téncica Aerosapcial), which has been a partner in several projects in the past.

Research Area:

       ☒ Information Science and Engineering (ENG)

       ☒ Mathematics (MAT)

       ☒ Physics (PHY)

For a correct evaluation of your candidature, please send the documents below to Professor Luis Manuel Díaz Angulo, email: lmdiazangulo@ugr.es

• CV
• Letter of recommendation (optional)