PhD Position in Integrated Photonic-Spintronic Devices, EPFL
Job Description
EPFL’s Hybrid Photonics Laboratory is taking applications for a PhD position on integrated photonic-spintronic devices, generating high-quality electronic signals above 100 GHz. The call is open until filled.
At a glance
- Post: PhD Position in Integrated Photonic-Spintronic Devices
- Where: Hybrid Photonics Laboratory, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Pay: on the EPFL scale for this grade; the advert gives no figure
- Closing date: none given. EPFL reviews applications as they arrive, so the post is open until filled. We re-check these listings about every 30 days
Read the official EPFL advertisement before you apply.
The project
The laboratory is growing its team in integrated photonics for the generation of high-quality electronic signals at frequencies beyond 100 GHz. The project is a Swiss-French collaboration with IEMN Lille.
High-end microwave instrumentation sits at the core of communications, computing, metrology and sensing. Generating clean signals above 100 GHz is hard with electronics alone, which is why photonic approaches matter: an optical source with very low noise can be converted down to a microwave tone that electronics cannot match. Adding spintronics to that gives another route to conversion and control.
What you need
- A master’s degree in physics, electrical engineering, materials science or a related field
- Interest in photonics, microwave engineering or spintronics, and a willingness to work across all three
- Read the official advertisement for the full requirements
Pay and conditions
EPFL pays doctoral assistants and postdoctoral researchers on published Swiss federal scales, which are among the higher ones in Europe. This advertisement states no figure, so check the scale for your grade and the cost of living in Lausanne before you decide.
How to apply
Apply through the EPFL careers page for this post. The advertisement gives no closing date. EPFL reviews applications as they come in, so apply early.
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Hiring institution: École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Official advertisement: careers.epfl.ch
How to prepare for this application
- This sits between three fields. Say which of photonics, microwave engineering and spintronics you bring, and which you want to learn.
- Above 100 GHz is the point. Any millimetre-wave or terahertz measurement experience is worth naming.
- EPFL works in English. Research and teaching at this level run in English, so French is useful but rarely required.
- Doctoral candidates apply twice. A lab offer at EPFL is normally followed by admission to a doctoral programme, so check the programme's own requirements too.
About EPFL
The École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne is one of Switzerland's two federal institutes of technology. It has more than 6,500 staff and over 18,500 people on campus, including more than 14,000 students and 4,000 researchers from over 120 countries, with sites at Lausanne, Neuchâtel, Fribourg, Sion, Geneva and Villigen.
