Recruitment Announcement for Postdoctoral Researchers in Professor Wang Jinlan's Team at Southeast University

The Research Group for Multi-Scale Simulation and Design of Functional Materials at Southeast University is a young team led by Professor Wang Jinlan, a recipient of the National Outstanding Youth Fund, consisting of several young backbone teachers, postdoctoral researchers, and graduate students. The team includes 4 full professors, 5 associate professors, and 1 engineer; among them, there is 1 recipient of the National Outstanding Youth Fund and Jiangsu "Double Innovation Talent" (Ma Liang), 1 National Young Top Talent and Zhongying Young Scholar (Ju Minggang), and 3 Zhishan Young Scholars of Southeast University. Currently, focusing on the major strategic needs of the country in the layout of materials science, the research team focuses on tackling key issues in frontier functional materials such as two-dimensional semiconductor materials and energy conversion materials, emphasizing the development of original innovation capabilities and platform system construction, and leading the transformation of material research and development paradigms driven by data and artificial intelligence.

### Supported Platforms

1. **School of Physics, Southeast University**

It has a first-level discipline master's program, doctoral program, and postdoctoral research station in "Physics". "Physics" at Southeast University is a key discipline of Jiangsu Province during the 14th Five-Year Plan period, and has been ranked in the top 1% of ESI for many consecutive years, with the latest ranking among the 15th place among mainland universities.

2. **Suzhou Laboratory**

As a new type of scientific research institution approved by the Central Government, the laboratory follows the fundamental principle of "four orientations" (oriented towards world science and technology frontiers, oriented towards the main economic battlefield, oriented towards the major needs of the country, and oriented towards the life and health of the people). Focusing on major materials science and key technical issues in the development of "strategic products, strategic industries, and future technologies", it strengthens breakthroughs in strategic structural materials, functional materials, and frontier materials, builds large scientific devices in the field of materials and AI computing design platforms, conducts strategic, forward-looking, and basic research, and strives to become a world-class laboratory.

### Profile of Professor Wang Jinlan

She is a Distinguished Professor at the School of Physics, Southeast University, a recipient of the National Outstanding Youth Fund, a recipient of the Special Allowance of the State Council, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. She also serves as the Director of the Key Laboratory of Quantum Materials and Information Devices of the Ministry of Education and an Associate Researcher of Suzhou Laboratory (a national laboratory). She has published more than 300 papers as the first author or corresponding author in journals such as *Nature*, *Nature Nanotechnology*, and *Nature Communications*, with a total of more than 20,000 citations and an H-index of 77. She has been selected as an Elsevier China Highly Cited Scholar for nine consecutive years. She serves as an associate editor of *Nanoscale*, a scientific editor of *Nanoscale Horizons*, and an editorial board member of several journals including *Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters*. We sincerely invite young talents in the field of materials from home and abroad to join us, move forward courageously, tackle difficulties together, and climb the peak hand in hand!

### I. Research Directions and Job Qualifications

The research group mainly carries out research on the structure and properties of strategic frontier materials such as two-dimensional semiconductor materials and energy conversion materials, including:

1. Data-driven design of new materials: Using artificial intelligence technologies such as active learning, transfer learning, and inverse design to achieve efficient design of functional materials;

2. Research on the growth and surface/interface of two-dimensional semiconductor materials, including theoretical simulation and experimental research on materials such as graphene and molybdenum disulfide;

3. Mechanism of electrocatalytic reactions and structure-activity relationship: Focusing on the dynamic structural changes of complex electrochemical interfaces under near-operating conditions and their relationship with macroscopic electrochemical performance;

4. Design and synthesis of force-electric-optical materials, including material synthesizability, microphysics, response mechanisms under external field stimulation, nucleation and growth mechanisms, etc.

Requirements for applicants:

- Hold a doctoral degree in related majors such as computational materials and chemistry, physics, and artificial intelligence;

- Master relevant professional skills such as first-principles calculation, molecular dynamics simulation, and artificial intelligence-assisted material design;

- Have published 2 or more academic papers as the first author or corresponding author in related fields, and have the ability to independently carry out scientific research and write academic papers;

- Be proficient in at least one programming language (Python, C, Fortran, etc.), and those with machine learning and computing method development capabilities are preferred;

- Have good academic ethics, a cooperative spirit, and a strong sense of teamwork.