We do have openings in our group for a Ph.D. in our group for Fall 2008/ Fall/Spring 2009. If the work in our group interests you, you should send an email to me (keep it short and relevant), describing your interest. You can attach a short vita if you like, but please focus on relevant information only (ie, courses taken, research experience if any, grades or GPA, etc -- please do not pad your resume with information about athletic meets or debate societies).

A typical Ph.D. should take about 4-5 years. In this time, you will work with me and possibly a few other collaborators within our group, as well as from other groups within UVA and elsewhere. Although it is hard to guarantee funding for the whole duration, we try our best to provide students with research assistantships for the duration of the graduate work. The department also has teaching assistantships that may be available when RA positions are not.

Working in our group will involve a mix of physics, electrical engineering and materials science. We do collaborate with experimentalists closely; however, our work is mainly theoretical and computational. There is a lot of fun to be derived out of developing mathematical and computational descriptions of materials and processes at the nanoscale that could form the basis of future devices. It also gives you the opportunity to create a broad overview of many interdisciplinary issues in science and technology, as well as develop a wide variety of numerical and computational skills that will be useful for both academia and industry. Given that theory, modeling and simulation is what you will be relying heavily on for the next few years, it is important that you are comfortable with this line of work and actually enjoy it. Go through our website (http://www.ece.virginia.edu /vino/) and if this sounds compelling, write to us and we can talk.