About the role
As a core member of our vibrant, multidisciplinary team consisting of electronic engineers, physicists, materials scientists, computer scientists, chemists, mechanical and system engineers you will:
We understand that no candidate will tick every box, and we don't expect them to. What matters most to us is exceptional talent, intellectual curiosity, and the drive to push boundaries. If this opportunity excites you, we encourage you to apply.
The post is available for 24 months in the first instance. Further funding to support the post may be available.
About you
Applicants should have a PhD (awarded or imminent) in a relevant area of photonics, optics, or applied physics/engineering. Relevant areas include (but not limited to) metasurfaces/metamaterials, thermophotonics, radiative cooling, photonic crystals, plasmonics, disordered photonics, light scattering in turbid media, multilayer thin-films, topological photonics, vectorial optics, quantum photonics, or similar.
You should have a deep understanding of electromagnetic theory and light–matter interactions, as well as experience with forward and inverse photonic design optimisation, ideally incorporating machine learning. The successful candidate will be proficienct in one or more photonic computational methods: FDTD, FEM, BEM, RCWA, T-matrix, Monte Carlo, or equivalent. They will have strong optical experimental characterisation skills ( FTIR, spectroscopic ellipsometry, angularly/spatially/temporal resolved measurements).
Knowledge of heat transport and non-equilibrium radiative transfer phenomena is desirable, as well as cleanroom nanofabrication and nanostructure chracterisation experience (e-beam lithography, FIB, RIE, nanoimprint, two-photon polymerisation, SEM/TEM/AFM).
If the successful candidate has not yet been awarded their PhD, appointment will be made as a Research Assistant (Grade 6B). Payment at Grade 7 will be backdated to the date of final submission of the PhD thesis including corrections, once the PhD has been awarded.
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What we offer
As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:
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