Post-doctoral Position in ICFO – The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Spain
Designation/Position- Post-doctoral Position in ICFO
ICFO – The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Spain invites applications for Post-doctoral Position in ICFO from eligible and interested candidates
About- ICFO-The Institute of Photonic Sciences is offering a postdoctoral position to a well-qualified, highly motivated and dynamic young scientist who wishes to enhance his/her scientific career in a friendly and stimulating environment.
Post-doctoral position in the theory of quantum cryptography
Link to apply: https://jobs.icfo.eu/?detail=787
ICFO is offering a postdoctoral position to a well-qualified, highly motivated and dynamic young scientist who wishes to enhance his/her scientific career in a friendly and stimulating environment.
The successful candidate will be joining the Quantum Information Theory group led by Prof. Dr. Antonio Acín and will be working within the project QSNP. It consists of a consortium of research institutes, industry, small to medium-sized enterprises and start-ups from six EU member states, and the main goal is to develop quantum cryptography applications. The researcher will propose new or improve existing quantum key distribution protocols, study their security and possible photonic implementation.
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Post-doctoral position in the theory of quantum simulation
Link to apply: https://jobs.icfo.eu/?detail=788
ICFO is offering a postdoctoral position to a well-qualified, highly motivated and dynamic young scientist who wishes to enhance his/her scientific career in a friendly and stimulating environment.
The successful candidate will be joining the Quantum Information Theory group led by Prof. Dr. Antonio Acín and will be working within the project PASQUANS2. It consists of a consortium of research institutes, industry, small to medium-sized enterprises and start-ups from six EU member states, and the main goal is to develop programmable quantum simulation in Europe. The researcher will investigate the use of special-purpose quantum computing devices, such as simulators, to solve relevant problems in science and optimisation, as well as provide methods for their certification.
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Post-doctoral position in design and testing of thz detectors
Link to apply: https://jobs.icfo.eu/?detail=745
ICFO is offering a postdoctoral position to a well-qualified, highly motivated and dynamic young scientist who wishes to enhance his/her scientific career in a friendly and stimulating environment.
The successful candidate will be joining the Quantum Nano-Optoelectronics group led by Prof. Dr. Frank Koppens and will design graphene-based terahertz receivers and evaluate speed and bit transfer rate.
Funded by MCIN/AEI/ 10.13039/501100011033 and by the “European Union NextGenerationEU/PRTR”
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Post-doctoral positions in theoretical many-body physics with quantum optical systems
Link to apply: https://jobs.icfo.eu/?detail=716
ICFO is offering postdoctoral positions to well-qualified, highly motivated and dynamic young scientists who wish to enhance their scientific career in a friendly and stimulating environment.
The successful candidates will be joining the Theoretical Quantum-Nano Photonics group led by Prof. Dr. Darrick Chang as part of the ERC Grant NEWSPIN. This grant offers a wide variety of flexible theoretical projects. Broadly, the aims of the project are to: uncover exotic new physics and powerful new applications by exploiting strongly correlated dissipation in atom-light interactions, to develop new techniques to solve for driven dissipative many-body systems, and to collaborate with experimental groups who are developing novel platforms (such as subwavelength atom arrays) to explore this physics.
Before formally applying, candidates are encouraged to contact Prof. Dr. Darrick Chang (Darrick.Chang@icfo.eu) to gauge potential suitability and discuss potential projects.
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Post-doctoral position on thermal sensors and microbolometers
Link to apply: https://jobs.icfo.eu/?detail=724
ICFO is offering a postdoctoral position to a well-qualified, highly motivated and dynamic young scientist who wishes to enhance his/her scientific career in a friendly and stimulating environment.
The successful candidate will be joining the Functional Optoelectronic Nanomaterials group led by Prof. Dr. Gerasimos Konstantatos which is looking for outstanding, creative and highly motivated researchers to develop highly performant, CMOS compatible, thermal sensor and microbolometer technology. The project aims to revolutionize thermal imaging technologies for automotive, safety and surveillance by developing a new microbolometer technology.
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Post-doctoral position in neuromonitoring of premature born infants within the Horizon Europe project Prometeus
Link to apply: https://jobs.icfo.eu/?detail=726
ICFO is offering a postdoctoral position to a well-qualified, highly motivated and dynamic young scientist who wishes to enhance his/her scientific career in a friendly and stimulating environment.
ICFO Medical Optics group led by ICREA professor Turgut Durduran is a partner in Horizon Europe project “Preterm Brain-Oxygenation and Metabolic EU-Sensing: Feed the Brain” (Prometeus). Prometeus will develop a metabolic model of the interaction between the three key brain fuels and their effect on regional cerebral blood flow (CBF), oxygen saturation (StO2) and metabolism (CMRO2). The model will serve to individualize brain nutrition targeting “brain health” according to the inputs derived from novel minimally invasive metabolic sensing systems. ICFO will participate in all core tasks related to neuromonitoring of cerebral oxygen metabolism such as technology development, data acquisition, analysis and interpretation.
The postdoctoral fellow will be responsible for developing SCOS modules, their integration with other modules, data acquisition, analysis and interpretation. They will also represent ICFO in the consortium and participate in secondments with academia and industry.
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Post-doctoral position in personalized cancer therapy in preclinical models guided by diffuse optics
Link to apply: https://jobs.icfo.eu/?detail=727
ICFO is offering a postdoctoral position to a well-qualified, highly motivated and dynamic young scientist who wishes to enhance his/her scientific career in a friendly and stimulating environment.
The successful candidate will join the Medical Optics group led by Prof. Dr. Turgut Durduran to work in a multi-disciplinary project that merges physics, biology and nanotechnology. The project aims to validate and demonstrate the theranostic utility of using diffuse optical monitoring combined with plasmonic photothermal therapy (PPTT) for the treatment of solid tumors, and provide a tool for personalised oncological treatments.
Research duties will include the validation in a preclinical mouse model of a comprehensive lightbased theranostic platform, and obtain the physical and statistical models to develop the data-driven algorithms that will allow for dosimetry and therapy planning. Diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (DRS) and diffuse correlation spectroscopy (DCS) techniques will be used to monitor in vivo tumor physiology, nanoparticle accumulation and hemodynamics.
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Post-doctoral position in microfluidic cell sorting and process automation
Link to apply: https://jobs.icfo.eu/?detail=811
ICFO is offering a postdoctoral position to a well-qualified, highly motivated and dynamic young scientist who wishes to enhance his/her scientific career in a friendly and stimulating environment.
The successful candidate will be joining the Neurophotonics and Mechanical Systems Biology group led by Prof. Dr. Michael Krieg in the framework of an international collaboration between ICFO, LMU Munich and UC Santa Barbara. The main task of the advertised position is to build multilayer optofluidic device for single cell sorting followed by DNA extraction and on chip amplification. The device shall combine optical sorting of cells expressing fluorescent biomarkers for on chip lifespan determination and DNA extraction. The ultimate goal is to decipher the role of replicative lifespan of yeast cells in mitochondrial health and DNA damage.
The Krieg lab has extensive experience in mechanobiology in C. elegans and zebrafish using advanced microscopy techniques, microfluidics and optical tweezers to interrogate fundamental mechanical processes in neurons and during development. We primarily use C. elegans due to its many advantages as a genetic model system and its wealth of mutant and cell biological tools. Also, we combine experiments with theory and simulations to obtain a systems view of cellular processes.
The project is highly interdisciplinary and collaborative and the successful applicant is expected to work in a team of engineers, phycisists and biologists to build an automated devices for tracking healthspan of individual cells across multiple generations. The candidate has the opportunity to travel internationally to the participating labs in Munich (Osman lab) and Santa Barbara (Shraiman lab).
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Post-doctoral position in RoHS compliant colloidal quantum dot photodetectors and image sensors Link to apply: https://jobs.icfo.eu/?detail=812
ICFO is offering a postdoctoral position to a well-qualified, highly motivated and dynamic young scientist who wishes to enhance his/her scientific career in a friendly and stimulating environment.
The successful candidate will be joining the Functional Optoelectronic Nanomaterials group led by Prof. Dr. Gerasimos Konstantatos who is looking for outstanding, creative and highly motivated researchers to develop infrared colloidal quantum dot photodetectors and image sensors based on heavy metal free and RoHS compliant nanomaterials.
The project is focused on the development of materials and devices thereof based on Pb/Hg – free colloidal quantum dots with a focus on III-V CQDs The aim of the project is to optimize the material properties as well as the device stack on a die level followed by integration of the optimum QD stack on a full image sensor in collaboration with industrial partners.
Candidates will join a highly diverse group of people from across the world and across several disciplines (chemistry, physics, material science and electrical engineering) with the aim to develop truly interdisciplinary high impact research typically published in high-impact journal publications. For more information, please see here: https://www.icfo.eu/research–group/17/sp–nanophotonicdevices/home.
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Post-doctoral and Research Engineer positions in quantum technologies
Link to apply: https://jobs.icfo.eu/?detail=691
ICFO is offering postdoctoral and research engineer positions to a well-qualified, highly motivated and dynamic young scientists who wish to enhance their scientific career in a friendly and stimulating environment.
The successful candidate will be joining the Optoelectronics group led by Prof. Dr. Valerio Pruneri.
The group has experience in the study and developing of new advanced materials, devices and systems for information and communication technologies, in particular displays, image sensors and cybersecurity. The main driving is to carry out research which bridges academia and industry, by developing fundamental ideas with great potential for revolutionizing future photonic products.
The candidates will work on projects aimed at building the next generation of quantum cryptography, entanglement distribution systems, quantum imaging and processing. The hosting group has developed technology for continuous variable quantum key distribution and quantum random number generation, now being commercialized by two ICFO’s spin-offs, Luxquanta and Quside, respectively. The next step is to develop entanglement and decoy state based systems for secure communication and quantum connections for both ground and space segments, and quantum processing and imaging devices. The group is currently involved in several European projects.
This study was supported by MCIN with funding from European Union NextGenerationEU (PRTR-C17).
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Post-doctoral position in dark matter search with ultracold atoms
Link to apply: https://jobs.icfo.eu/?detail=728
ICFO is offering a postdoctoral position to a well-qualified, highly motivated and dynamic young scientist who wishes to enhance his/her scientific career in a friendly and stimulating environment.
The successful candidate will be joining the Atomic Quantum Optics group led by Prof. Dr. Morgan Mitchell.
Searches for new particles and forces using table-top experiments is an expanding frontier of fundamental physics, which traditionally has relied upon powerful particle colliders, e.g. the LHC at CERN. Axions and axion-like particles (ALPs) are well-motivated dark matter candidates that could solve multiple open problems, including the strong-CP problem in nuclear physics, and anomalous galaxy rotation rates. If they exist, axions and ALPs would mediate a distinctive monopole-dipole force, detectable in principle with atomic magnetometer technologies. Spinor Bose-Einstein condensates (SBECs) are ideal candidates to search for such forces, as they are 1) extraordinarily coherent (coherence times of many seconds), 2) very compact, allowing a SBEC magnetometer to search for short-range monopole-dipole forces that are out of reach of other sensor technologies and 3) very clean, well-understood systems, essential for understanding systematic effects. The successful candidate for this position will join a small team of PhD and post-doctoral researchers working to develop SBECs as detectors of these hypothesized new forces.
“Financed by the European Union-NextGenerationEU-MICIIN (PRTR-C17. I1) and by the Generalitat de Catalunya”
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Post-doctoral position in development of low-cost CMOS compatible intersubband optoelectronics (photodetectors and light emitters) in the MWIR and LWIR leveraging colloidal quantum dot technology
Link to apply: https://jobs.icfo.eu/?detail=556
ICFO is offering up to two postdoctoral positions to well-qualified, highly motivated and dynamic young scientists who wish to enhance their scientific career in a friendly and stimulating environment.
The Functional Optoelectronic NanoMaterials group at ICFO, led by ICREA Prof. Gerasimos Konstantatos, is looking for outstanding, creative and highly motivated researchers to develop highly performant, CMOS compatible, infrared colloidal quantum dot photodetectors and light emitters exploiting intersubband transitions.
The project is focused in the mid and long wave infrared employing colloidal quantum dot films engineered at the atomic as well as at the supra-nanocrystalline level to address applications related to safety and security, remote sensing, environmental monitoring, thermal imaging etc.
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Post-doctoral positions in quantum light emitters based on colloidal quantum dots
Link to apply: https://jobs.icfo.eu/?detail=627
ICFO is offering a postdoctoral position to a well-qualified, highly motivated and dynamic young scientist who wishes to enhance his/her scientific career in a friendly and stimulating environment.
The Functional Optoelectronic NanoMaterials group at ICFO, led by ICREA Prof. Gerasimos Konstantatos, is looking for outstanding, creative and highly motivated researchers to develop novel scalable technologies for quantum optical communications. The project is on developing quantum materials and photonic structures to operate in the telecom wavelength as quantum light sources for single and entangled photon generation.
PRTR-Financiado por el MCIN con fondos de la Unión Europea-NextGenerationEU(PRTR-C17.I1) y por la Generalitat de Catalunya.
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Post-doctoral position in operando electrochemistry
Link to apply: https://jobs.icfo.eu/?detail=783
ICFO is offering a postdoctoral position to a well-qualified, highly motivated and dynamic young scientist who wishes to contribute advance technologies that drive the clean energy transition.
The successful candidate will be joining the CO2 Mitigation Accelerated by Photons group led by Prof. Dr. Pelayo García de Arquer to work develop operando spectroscopies for CO2 electrolysis within the framework of an ERC-funded project.
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Post-doctoral position in CO2 electrolysis
Link to apply: https://jobs.icfo.eu/?detail=785
ICFO is offering a postdoctoral position to a well-qualified, highly motivated and dynamic young scientist who wishes to contribute advance technologies that drive the clean energy transition.
The successful candidate will be joining the CO2 Mitigation Accelerated by Photons group led by Prof. Dr. Pelayo García de Arquer to develop efficient CO2 electrolyzer systems within the framework of an ERC-funded project.
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Post-doctoral position in ultrathin optical films and applications to display, bio and lithography
Link to apply: https://jobs.icfo.eu/?detail=801
ICFO is offering a postdoctoral position to a well-qualified, highly motivated and dynamic young scientist who wishes to enhance his/her scientific career in a friendly and stimulating environment.
The successful candidate will be joining the Optoelectronics group led by Prof. Dr. Valerio Pruneri.
The successful candidate will work on industrially oriented projects to created advanced surfaces for the industry. More specifically, optical and electrical properties will be tailored to achieve the required functionalities. The proposed work involves design, fabrication and testing of the surfaces with ultrathin materials.
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Post-doctoral position in atomic vapor quantum sensors
Link to apply: https://jobs.icfo.eu/?detail=775
ICFO is offering a postdoctoral position to a well-qualified, highly motivated and dynamic young scientist who wishes to enhance his/her scientific career in a friendly and stimulating environment.
The successful candidate will be joining the Atomic Quantum Optics group led by Prof. Dr. Morgan Mitchell.
The group has several active research topics focused on hot-vapor quantum sensors, including miniaturization of optically-pumped magnetometers for magnetoencephalography (MEG) and magnetocardiography, zero- and ultra-low-field nuclear magnetic resonance, and radio-frequency field detection using magnetometers. We work with a variety of international partners, including industrial leaders in biomagnetic instrumentation, in vapor cell miniaturization, and in laser development for atomic sensors. We also have a strong track record of exploring quantum effects such as entanglement and squeezing in atomic vapors.
The successful candidate will be expected to contribute to experimental progress in at least one of the above research areas.
The candidates will work on projects aimed at building the next generation of quantum cryptography, entanglement distribution systems, quantum imaging and processing. The hosting group has developed technology for continuous variable quantum key distribution and quantum random number generation, now being commercialized by two ICFO’s spin-offs, Luxquanta and Quside, respectively. The next step is to develop entanglement and decoy state based systems for secure communication and quantum connections for both ground and space segments, and quantum processing and imaging devices. The group is currently involved in several European projects.
Funded by the European Union.
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Technical Manager in Quantum Communication
Link to apply: https://jobs.icfo.eu/?detail=722
ICFO is offering a research engineer position to a well-qualified, highly motivated and dynamic young scientist who wishes to enhance his/her scientific career in a friendly and stimulating environment.
The Optoelectronics group led by Prof. Dr. Valerio Pruneri is searching for a technical manager to coordinate the deployment of a quantum communication and cryptography ring in the Barcelona metropolitan area. The group has been coordinating or participating in several projects in these areas of research, including European CIVIQ, QRANGE, QUANTAGENOMICS, QUANGO, OPENQKD, and more recently the quantum Flagship FPA QSNP. In this context, a major objective is to deploy the technologies in the field for end-user demonstration. The candidate should combine both technical and managerial skills and help execute the `plan within the recently awarded “SmartCAT” Regional project, “Planes Complementarios en Comunicaciones Cuánticas” National project and “EuroQCISpain” European project.
“Financed by the European Union-NextGenerationEU-MICIIN(PRTR-C17. I1) and by the Generalitat de Catalunya”
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