There is a continuous exploratory quest for novel materials with unique properties including superconductivity, exotic magnetic order, exceptionally long spin lifetime. The projects carried out by the candidate focus on novel quantum materials, which might find applications in the fields of novel computing architectures (spintronics, quantum computing), energy storage and harvesting, and data storage. The research is going to focus on the fundamental properties of these materials including materials discovery and modification. Characterization is going to be carried out in the laboratory using spectroscopic techniques (e.g., Raman-spectroscopy, UV-Vis spectroscopy, Infrared spectroscopy, Electron Spin Resonance spectroscopy) and transport methods (microwave impedance measurements).

Materials-wise the project is going to be around the following topics:

• Superconducting properties of low-dimensional, exfoliated, and intercalated transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs).
• Magnetic properties of transition metal MXenes (mainly V₂C and Nb₂C, but not restricted to these).
• Studying altermagnetism in metal fluorides
• Low-dimensional, layered magnetic structures, such as the MPX₃ family.
• Possible realization of optically active defect qubits in hBN.

This doctoral program is to be performed with close cooperation with the group of Prof. László Forró (Stavropoulos Center for Complex Quantum Matter, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Notre Dame).