PhD Position in Microcombs for Atomic Clocks, EPFL
Job Description
EPFL’s Hybrid Photonics Laboratory is taking applications for a PhD position on integrated microcombs for atomic clocks, within a European QUANTERA consortium. The call is open until filled.
At a glance
- Post: PhD Position in Microcombs for Atomic Clocks
- 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 Hybrid Photonics Laboratory works in integrated photonics, and this project builds fully integrated microcombs for atomic clocks. It is part of a European consortium with partners in the UK and Germany, funded through the QUANTERA network.
Atomic clocks give precise timing wherever absolute time has to be known accurately, and they work from ultraprecise transitions in atoms. An optical frequency comb is what connects those optical transitions to a countable microwave signal. Putting the comb on a chip is what turns a laboratory clock into something that could sit in an instrument, a satellite or a network node.
What you need
- A master’s degree in physics, electrical engineering, photonics or a related field
- Interest in integrated photonics, nonlinear optics and precision measurement
- 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
- Nonlinear optics is the core. Soliton microcombs, dispersion engineering and Kerr nonlinearity are the vocabulary to know.
- Cleanroom experience helps. Integrated photonics means fabrication as well as measurement.
- 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.
