Recruitment Notice on Research Fellow and Postdoc
Overview:
Institute of Photonic Chips (IPC) is a research institute established in the service of the national innovation-driven strategy and the development of the Shanghai Science and Technology Innovation Center in 2021. Led by Prof. Min Gu, it aims at the cutting-edge and frontier research of the world and focuses on optical intelligence to achieve the disruptive technological breakthrough. With a group of top scientists from different research backgrounds, the institute aspires to be a world-class multi-disciplinary research powerhouse for optically-driven artificial intelligence, developing science and technology in on-chip photonic artificial-intelligence devices for faster, greener and safer future. The institute consists of six research platforms: all optical machine Learning platform, bio-imaging platform, research innovation and translation platform, etc.
Professor Min Gu is the Executive Chancellor of the University Council and Distinguished Professor of University of Shanghai for Science and Technology. He was Distinguished Professor and Associate Deputy Vice-Chancellor at RMIT University, and a Laureate Fellow of the Australian Research Council, Pro Vice-Chancellor, and a University Distinguished Professor at Swinburne University of Technology. He is an author of four standard reference books and has over 550 publications in nano/biophotonics. He is an elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering as well as Foreign Fellow of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. He is also an elected fellow of the AIP, the Optica, formerly OSA, the SPIE, the InstP, the IEEE and the COS. He was President of the International Society of Optics within Life Sciences, Vice President of the Board of the International Commission for Optics (ICO) (Chair of the ICO Prize Committee) and a Director of the Board of the Optical Society of America (Chair of the International Council). He was awarded the Einstein Professorship, the W. H. (Beattie) Steel Medal, the Ian Wark Medal, the Boas Medal and the Victoria Prize for Science and Innovation. Professor Gu is a winner of the 2019 Dennis Gabor Award of SPIE and a winner of the 2022 Emmett Norman Leith Medal of OPTICA.
Research Directions:
1. Memory resistors and silicon-based photon chips
2. Neuromorphic photon chips
3. Holographic optics and optical neural networks
4. Ultrafast laser nanofabrication
5. Nano-bioimaging and neurobiology
6. Energy photonics
7. Quantum and topological photonics
8. Metamaterials and metasurfaces
Job Responsibilities:
1. Independently undertake, execute, and complete research projects related to photonics chips under the leadership of the PI of the research institute; or h**e the ability to organize and lead a research team.
2. Actively apply for national and provincial-level scientific research projects and publish high-level journal papers.
3. Actively participate in and complete tasks such as writing research project proposals and project summaries assigned by the research institute.
4. Actively participate in laboratory construction, equipment management, personnel training, and instructing graduate students in the research group.
Desired Qualifications:
1. Hold or will soon obtain a Ph.D. degree in physics, optical engineering, materials science, biology, or related fields.
2. H**e published high-level peer-reviewed journal papers in related research fields such as memory resistors, silicon-based photonics, holographic optics, neural networks, optical orbital angular momentum, nonlinear optics, laser direct writing, neuromorphic, neurobiology, super-resolution imaging, optical storage, metamaterials and metasurfaces, radiative cooling and supercapacitors, quantum and topological photonics.
3. H**e a high level of enthusiasm for scientific research, as well as the ability to think independently and critically.
4. H**e excellent English writing and oral communication skills.
5. H**e good teamwork spirit.
How to apply:
Please submit an e-mail application that includes a cover letter and a CV with a full list of publications, to Prof. Yinan Zhang at zhangyinan@usst.edu.cn, with the email subject “Name + Position Applied for”.
