A three year PDRA on the Crystallography of multiferroic materials is available within the group. The position is ideal for anyone with a passion for studying the structure-property relationship, and who has an interest in ferroics and orbitally ordered systems. Click here for more information.Read more
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The group has been awarded a three year, £380k EPSRC grant on ““Novel Multiferroics Perovskites through Systematic Design”. As part of this grant we will be recruiting a Postdoctoral research fellow for a three year post that will focus on the crystallography of multiferroic materials. What this space for more details!Read more
The Senn Group is growing – meet our new group members! Fernando joins us from Argentina on a 2 year fellowship funded by the Marie Skłodowska Curie Action and the Institute of Advanced Study of the University of Warwick, Anna is starting her PhD in the group on a studentship part funded by the ISIS Neutron and Muon SourceRead more
At least one fully funded Royal Society PhD studentship for 4 years (UK fees and stipend) is available within the senngroup. The project will be in the field of multiferroic materials within the broader area of research encompassed by materials chemistry, solid state science and physical crystallography. The start date of the PhD studentship will be October 2018, and the project will be conducted at the UniversityRead more
Chris has headed off this month for a 7 month long industrial placement at BOSCH in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He will be putting his PhD research on negative thermal expansion in layered Perovskites on hold during this period and applying his computational modeling skills to new challenges in an industrial lead R&D environment. Good luck Chris, and we lookRead more
A fully funded (3.5 years for EU/UK students) PhD studentship on understanding the microscopic mechanisms in functional materials is available within the Senn group. The broader area of research encompasses that of solid state science and physical crystallography. The start date of the PhD studentship will be October 2017, and the project will be conducted at the University of Warwick. Interested applicantsRead more
Ronghuan Zhang, Mark S. Senn, and Michael A. Hayward, Chem. Mater., DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.6b03931 The cooperative tilting distortions of n = 2 Ruddlesden–Popper oxides can be utilized to break the inversion symmetry of the host lattice and induce ferroelectric behavior. Unfortunately the desired a–a–c+/a–a–c+ structural deformation is only stabilized in phases with extremely small structuralRead more
M. S. Senn, D. A. Keen, T. C. A. Lucas, J. A. Hriljac, and A. L. Goodwin, Phys. Rev. Lett. 116 (2016), 207602. By using a symmetry motivated basis to evaluate local distortions against pair distribution function data (PDF), we show without prior bias, that the off-centre Ti displacements in the archetypal ferroelectric BaTiO3 are zone centred and rhombohedral-like in natureRead more