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Postdoctoral Fellow; Physics and Optical Science

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General Information


Position Number POST40
Working Title Postdoctoral Fellow; Physics and Optical Science
Division Academic Affairs
Department Col Liberal Arts & Science (Col)
Work Unit Physics and Optical Science
Work Location Grigg Building
Vacancy Open To All Candidates
Position Designation Post Doc
Employment Type Temporary - Part-time
Hours per week 40
Work Schedule
Varies
Pay Rate Pay Rate varies
Minimum Experience/Education
The Postdoctoral appointee must have recently (within the last eight years) been awarded a Ph.D. or equivalent doctorate (e.g., Sc.D., M.D.)
Required qualifications/experience
  • Experience with programming, controlling, and automatizing optical experiments
  • Record of publications in optics/photonics related journals

Required Skills/Knowledge
  • Excellent interpersonal, networking and communication skills
  • Experience of writing to publication standard or independently producing other research outputs
Departmental Preferred Experience, Skills, Training/Education:
  • The Postdoctoral appointee must have recently (within the last five years) been awarded a Ph.D. or equivalent doctorate (e.g., Sc.D., M.D.)
  • Ph.D. in Optics or related field with interest in applied optics, physics, electromagnetics and material science.
  • Experience working with nanofabrication.
  • Excellent skills for designing and conducting highly specialized and advanced optical experiments
  • Programming skills, including MATLAB, and Python, Zemax. Experience with topology optimization,
  • Research experience in metasurfaces, optical computing, microscopy or general topics of nanophotonics
Duties and Responsibilities
A Postdoctoral Fellow (""postdoc"") is a professional apprenticeship designed to provide recent Ph.D. recipients with an opportunity to develop further the research skills acquired in their doctoral programs or to learn new research techniques, in preparation for an academic or research career. In the process of further developing their own research skills, it is expected that Postdoctoral Fellows will also play a significant role in the performance of research at the University and augment the role of graduate faculty in providing research instruction to graduate students. A Postdoctoral Fellow works under the supervision of a regular faculty member, who serves as a mentor to the Fellow, and it is expected that the faculty mentor will impart the realities, and variety, of scientific careers, and will encourage experiences outside the laboratory to broaden postdocs’ aspirations. Within the confines of the particular research focus assigned by that faculty member, the Postdoctoral Fellow functions with a considerable degree of independence and has the freedom (and is expected) to publish the results of his or her research or scholarship during the period of appointment. Thus, the role of Postdoctoral Fellows is clearly differentiated from full-time technical employees.
Postdoc appointments are characterized by all of the following conditions:
* the appointee was recently (within the last eight years) awarded a Ph.D. or equivalent doctorate (e.g., Sc.D., M.D.);
* the appointment is temporary;
* the appointment involves substantially full-time research or scholarship;
* the appointment is viewed as preparatory for a full-time academic and/or research career;
* the appointee works under the supervision of a faculty member; and
* the appointee has the freedom and is expected to publish the results of his or her research or scholarship during the period of appointment.
As an EOE/AA employer and an ADVANCE Institution that strives to create an academic climate in which the dignity of all individuals is respected and maintained, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte encourages applications from all underrepresented groups. Applicants subject to criminal background check.
Job purpose/description
  • To undertake research under the guidance of the Principal Investigator and support the supervision of any students who may be assisting with the research.
  • The Postdoctoral Researcher will design, organize and conduct highly specialized and advanced optical experiments in the metasurface and nanophotonics
Other Work/Responsibilities
Necessary Licenses or Certifications
Proposed Hire Date 01/15/2024
Expected Length of Assignment 12 months (1 Year)
Posting Open Date 09/20/2023
Posting Close Date 10/11/2023
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