Postdoctoral Positions, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark (2017)

SDU Nano Optics, Mads Clausen Institute, (www.sdu.dk/nano-optics) at the University of Southern Denmark (Odense Campus) invites applications for several postdoctoral research fellowships within the research area of quantum plasmonics. The application deadline is August 1st 2017, and the prospective starting date is between September 2017 and February 2018.

SDU Center for Nano Optics is a center of excellence with cutting-edge fundamental research activities in plasmonics and metasurfaces. The activities of the center’s two PI’s (Prof. Bozhevolnyi & Prof. Mortensen) include the theoretical and experimental explorations of light-matter interactions at the interface of classical electrodynamics and quantum physics, with extreme spatial confinement of both light fields and matter. For more information, please consult our recent perspective paper in Nanophotonics (DOI: 10.1515/nanoph-2016-0179). The center has world-class nano optics and quantum optics labs, and access to state-of-the-art nanofabrication and novel electron spectroscopy. In addition to local support, the center is supported by prestigious grants from the European Research Council (ERC Advanced Grant) and VILLUM FONDEN (VILLUM Investigator grant).

The postdoc openings are for at least two years, with the possibility for extension given satisfactory performance. The total duration of a postdoctoral fellowship in Denmark cannot exceed four years.We seek candidates with strong qualifications in either theory or experiments, with strong backgrounds in condensed-matter physics, quantum optics, nanophotonics, and related areas. The successful candidates will contribute to frontier research in areas where potentially both light and matter exhibit quantum mechanics. Theory projects will benefit from techniques ranging from semiclassics to quantum-field theory, potentially also including time-dependent ab-initio approaches to account for material properties. Experimental explorations will harvest from the access to state-of-the-art scanning nearfield optical mictroscopy (SNOM/s-SNOM) and novel electron microscopy of plasmons (EELS & CL). Material platforms range from noble metals to 2D materials and quantum emitters brought about by e.g. quantum dots and defect centers in nanocrystals.

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