MaNEP e-Newsletter for members - Published monthly             Issue Nr. 12 - December 2006 / page 2

MaNEP News
Jobs / 2 open positions at PSI and UniGE
We currently have two news open positions available :

1 - PhD Position
on “Nanocrystalline ceramic film coating without sintering (NANCER)” at PSI. 		Starting from January 1st, 2007. Duration : 3 years.

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2 - Technical assistant (assistant technique 2)
 at the DMPC-MaNEP at UniGE. Starting : to be discussed.

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New mobile post-doc / Meet Dr Azzedine Bendounan
Since December 2006 Dr Azzedine Bendounan benefits from the MaNEP mobile post-doc programme. His role will be to stimulate collaborations between various MaNEP groups in Geneva, EPFL, Neuchâtel, Zurich and the Paul Scherrer Institute. The research focus will be on the electronic structure investigation of high-temperature superconductors by means of various probes available within MaNEP.

Dr Bendounan was born in 1977, in Algeria. After a physics studies at the University of Oran, he received master and PhD degrees in physics from the University Henri-Poincaré in Nantes (France). During his PhD thesis he studied the behaviour of Shockley-type surface states in ultra-thin films of Ag on Cu(111) by

means of high resolution angle resolved ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy (ARUPS).
He investigated as well by ARUPS the interfacial electronic structure of organic films on metallic surfaces, e.g. PTCDA/Ag(111) and NTCDA/Ag(111).
In 2004, and for a period of two years, he joined as a Post-doc the photoemission group of Prof. Reinert at the University of Würzburg (Germany).
French TV Science show / C'est pas sorcier pays a visit to MaNEP
For twelve years now, the weekly French Science show (by France 3) C'est pas sorcier has introduced many scientific topics to children. It was thus a honour to be recently asked by the famous team to visit one of our Geneva STM set-ups. The filming team then went on to see the LHC at the CERN.

The shootings will be part of a 2007 show dedicated to a "Voyage au coeur de la matière" (A journey into the heart of matter).
Broadcasting dates are still unspecified but of course we shall let you know as soon as we find out !


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In the center, Fred, one of the three presenters.

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