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School of Science
We are delighted to offer a post for a Research Fellow in Photonics funded by the United States ARMY. The post is part of the Project AMPERE – Active Metaspintronics (about £0.4M worth) and directly stems from the activities of the EU-ERC Project TIMING (about £1.5M worth) on Time-Resolved Nonlinear Ghost Imaging.
Background: This project is set to redefine the boundaries of how we understand, manipulate, and harness the unseen properties of materials at an ultrafast scale. The core idea is using light to unveil new phenomena and control the spin properties in magnetic material at ultrafast (sub-ps) timescale – a venture that could revolutionize the way we store, transfer, and manipulate information, making the electronics of tomorrow faster, more efficient, and more powerful. The specific work will exploit the way ultrafast spintronic effects are coupled with terahertz radiation, together with resonant terahertz metasurfaces.
AMPERE dive into a world where the intersection of photonics and spintronics opens up uncharted territories of research and technological innovation. Your work will help develop new materials and devices that could be the key to future technologies, from quantum computing to ultrafast electronics, impacting various sectors such as data storage, information processing, and even energy efficiency.. The research fellow will be part of large-concerted action towards the project goals and will be leader of a specific complex research task with the possibility to shape the project future development and also the creation of novel research action following the outcomes.
We believe the project goal to be very disruptive on the field and impossible to achieve with simple incremental action above the art. The research team will express a connected theoretical-experimental effort, connecting several disciplines e.g. terahertz, nonlinear ultrafast photonics, complexity, several advanced modelling approaches (machine learning and inverse problems).
The project will take place at the Emergent Photonics Research Centre of Loughborough University (https://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/emergent-photonics/), that is a ~500sqm infrastructure focused on photonics complexity for a total investment exceeding £1.2M in three years in capital equipment and staff. The centre is part of the Department of Physics of the School of Science which focuses of technological areas of interest for Terahertz research and embed a very extensive in complexity, quantum technology and material science for photonics applications. This tangible move towards the photonics subject area is counterpointed by the creation of specific academic curricula within the domain, progressively growing from the next academic year.
Excellent researchers with a qualification in STEM subjects that overlap with the subject fields of ultrafast photonics, terahertz photonics and nonlinear optics are welcome to apply. We welcome application from candidates with atypical research career and specific research experience beneficial to the project goals.
Eligible candidate should be proficient in the general requirement of experimental photonics with ultrafast lasers, but we welcome applications from individual with hybrid theoretical-experimental profile. Desirable qualities include specific theoretical, numerical and experimental experience in terahertz photonics, ultrafast imaging and nonlinear optics and, more in general, research background in the disciplines covered by the project.
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