Assistant Professor (Adjunkt) ''Cavity-enhanced Two-dimensional Infrared Spectroscopy of Gas-phase Molecules: Solution to the Problem of Optical Coherence Diffusion''

Assistant Professor (Adjunkt) ''Cavity-enhanced Two-dimensional Infrared Spectroscopy of Gas-phase Molecules: Solution to the Problem of Optical Coherence Diffusion''

NCU - Nicolaus Copernicus University

Torun, Poland

Description (field, expectations, comments):

The competition is open to persons who meet the conditions set out in Article 113 of the Act of 20 July 2018 - Law on higher education and science (Journal of Laws of 2018, item 1668) and the following qualification criteria:

• Doctorate in physics, chemistry or a closely related field obtained no more than seven years ago or statement about planned finalization of doctorate (it's required to receive a PhD degree before starting the work);
• Significant publication record in at least one of: molecular spectroscopy, laser physics, nonlinear optics, fiber optics or a similar field;
• Significant experience in at least one of: molecular spectroscopy, laser physics, nonlinear optics, fiber optics;
• Strong command of spoken and written English language;
• Teamwork ability and strong motivation for research;
• Programming experience, preferably in Python;
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills;
• Written and verbal communication skills and presentation skills.

We offer employment at a postdoc position in a research grant financed by the National Science Center, Poland within Sonata 19 competition. The candidate must meet requirements of the Center, in particular have a doctoral degree obtained not earlier than 7 years before the year of employment in the project (this period may be extended in the event of breaks in the scientific career as defined by the Center). A person employed at the postdoc position cannot be employed under another employment contract at the same time. The project is led by dr inż. Grzegorz Kowzan, whom can be contacted for further details about the project and the appointment (gkowzan@umk.pl).

The goal of this project is to acquire fundamentally new experimental data leading to the elucidation of the problem of optical coherence diffusion in molecules in the gas phase.

In this project, we will try to answer this question by developing a new experimental technique that combinesultrafast measurements of correlations between different excitations in a molecule with very high sensitivity and resolution.

Key responsibilities include:

• Building a novel cavity-enhanced two-dimensional infrared spectrometer (CE-2DIR) for detection of gas-phase samples;
• Development of high-power mid-IR infrared frequency combs and nonlinear interferometers, development of new detection schemes and data analysis, including programming data acquisition and data reduction algorithms;
• Writing scientific articles and presenting the results at scientific conferences;
• Mentoring junior colleagues.

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