Post-doctoral Position in Spain, ICFO – The Institute of Photonic Sciences
Designation/Position- Post-doctoral Position in Spain
ICFO – The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Spain invites applications for Post-doctoral Position in Spain from eligible and interested candidates
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ICFO POST-DOCTORAL POSITIONS
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 Horizon Europe project fastMOT – Fast gated superconducting nanowire camera for multi-functional optical tomography
Link to apply: https://jobs.icfo.eu/?detail=725
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 led by ICREA Prof. Turgut Durduran is a partner in “Fast gated superconducting nanowire camera for multi-functional optical tomograph” (fastMOT) project. fastMOT is a Horizon Europe project in collaboration of academia and industry around Europe to scale time-resolved nearinfrared spectroscopy (NIRS) And speckle contrast optical spectroscopy (SCOS) to more than 10,000 pixels to achieve a 100x improvement of SNR compared to using existing light sensors. With our proposed multifunctional optical tomograph we will be able to image deep organ and optical structures and monitor functions including oxygenation, haemodynamics, perfusion and metabolism. The group will participate in all main tasks of the project and the fellow will be responsible for:
- Designing the specifications for time-resolved speckle contrast optical tomography SCOT) equipment.
- Testing on tissue simulating phantoms.
- Collaboration with industry and academia.
- In vivo testing on healthy subjects for functional activation studies.
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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 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 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.
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Post-doctoral positions in functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) and diffuse optical tomography
Link to apply: https://jobs.icfo.eu/?detail=652
ICFO is offering two postdoctoral positions to well-qualified, highly motivated and dynamic young scientists who wishes to enhance their scientific career in a friendly and stimulating environment.
The successful candidates will be joining the Medical Optics group led by Prof. Dr. Turgut Durduran to be part of an international consortium working on the development and use of high-density, nearinfrared diffuse optical tomography using diffuse correlation/speckle contrast optical tomography along side traditional diffuse optical tomography for applications in pediatrics and neurology.
The successful candidates will be part of the collaboration and work with collaborators in France, Ireland, USA and in Spain.
Overall, the project will provide the candidates with a unique, fast-paced, high application oriented experience with plenty of opportunities for publications, public presentations and even IP protection.
This position will be supported by both Horizon 2020 Programme project “tinyBrains” (http://tinybrains.eu) and NINDS of the National Institutes of Health under grant number R01NS090874.
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Post-doctoral position in quantum emitters and quantum technologies with two-dimensional materials
Link to apply: https://jobs.icfo.eu/?detail=673
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.
This project is a step forward in the realization of on-chip quantum devices for quantum integrated photonic circuits to facilitate the development of secure quantum communication protocols, the scaling up of quantum computers and simulators, and the invention of novel quantum sensing applications.
Very exciting quantum optical properties of materials that are only one atom thick have been discovered only during the last few years. These so-called two-dimensional materials showed, surprisingly, emission of light photon-by-photon, instead of a continuous photon stream. This project aims to generate single photon sources in 2D materials in a controllable manner. Several approaches will be investigated, including the shaping and patterning of the materials.
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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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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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 organic and perovskite photovoltaic cell development
Link to apply: https://jobs.icfo.eu/?detail=753
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 Organic Nanostructured Photovoltaics group led by Prof. Dr. Jordi Martorell to undertake/lead research in the study of light management in energy conversion systems and in the design and fabrication of organic photovoltaic cells and/or perovskite solar cells. Such energy transformation systems are expected to be integrated into photoelectrochemical cells for hydrogen production or the CO2 reduction into solar fuels.
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Post-doctoral position in organic photovoltaic cell development applied to agrivoltaics
Link to apply: https://jobs.icfo.eu/?detail=754
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 Organic Nanostructured Photovoltaics group led by Prof. Dr. Jordi Martorell to lead research in the study of light management in photovoltaic systems and in the fabrication of organic photovoltaic cells. Such organic cells are expected to be integrated into agrivoltaic systems that combine energy transformation with an optimal plant growth.
Funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and by the “European Union NextGenerationEU/PRTR”.
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NFL (NanoFabrication Laboratory) Operations Manager
Link to apply: https://jobs.icfo.eu/?detail=742
ICFO is a research center located in the Mediterranean Technology Park in the metropolitan area of
Barcelona, and currently hosts 400+ people, including researchers, PhD students and staff personnel. Today, in its area of specialization and category, the institute is consistently ranked among the highestquality research institutions worldwide.
ICFO’s NFL Team is responsible for managing and running operations of the Nanofabrication Laboratory (NFL), a clean room ISO 6/7 research core facility open to all ICFO research groups.
We are currently looking for a NFL Operations Manager who will join the NFL team to manage and coordinate the laboratory facilities and resources, to train users and to guarantee effective and safe operation, reporting to the NFL Head.
The main responsibilities for this position include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Oversee the technical and technological infrastructure to ensure the optimal performance, competitiveness and efficiency of the facility.
- Develop and implement the NFL policies and best practice guidelines, to ensure the proper and safe operation of the facility.
- Ensure a quick and efficient response when facing an incident or a tool break down.
- Manage the access and training of the facility users.
- Supervise and train the NFL support technicians.
- Coordinate multidisciplinary teams of people.
- Plan the renewal of older tools, the purchase of new technological equipment and the growth of the facility in coordination with the NFL scientific committee.
- Communicate and establish partnership with external suppliers and vendors.
The NFL facility is ready to move to the new ICFO- MPB building; as such, responsibilities also include:
- Pro-active role on the move of tools and the start-up of the new NFL facility, ensuring a smooth transition and keeping down times to a minimum.
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Scientific Support Technician Nanofabrication Laboratory (NFL)
Link to apply: https://jobs.icfo.eu/?detail=641
ICFO is a research center located in the Mediterranean Technology Park in the metropolitan area of Barcelona, and currently hosts 400+ people, including researchers, PhD students and staff personnel. Today, in its area of specialization and category, the institute is consistently ranked among the highestquality research institutions worldwide.
ICFO’s NFL Team is responsible for managing and running the Nanofabrication Laboratory (NFL), a clean room ISO 6/7 research core facility, and the Nano-Characterization Laboratory (NCL) an advanced sample characterization facility. These labs are open to all ICFO research groups.
We are currently looking for an NFL Scientific Support Technician, who will join the team to provide scientific support to the laboratory users, following the directions of the NFL Scientific Officer and under the supervision of the NFL Operations Head.
The main responsibilities for this position include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Provide nanofabrication support and assistance.
- Perform basic materials and structures characterization, such as profilometry, optical microscopy, SEM and AFM.
- Perform micro- and nano-fabrication activities, including thin film deposition, spin coating, reactive ion etching, photolithography, electron beam lithography, etc, to develop and fine tune recipes and to fabricate proof of concept samples.
- Perform scheduled and unscheduled maintenance works on some laboratory tools and support equipment.
- Train users in the use of laboratory tools.
- Contact with tool suppliers and vendors regarding materials and process development, doubts and troubleshooting.
- Write and update standard operating procedures (SOPs) and fabrication recipes, and report results and changes.
- Close collaboration with the other unit members.
The NFL facility is in the process to move to the new ICFO Mir-Puig building in 2022; as such, responsibilities also include:
- Support in preparing, moving and installing tools in the new NFL facility, ensuring a smooth transition and keeping down times to a minimum.
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