Professor, Chemistries and Processes for Sustainable Microelectronics

Professor, Chemistries and Processes for Sustainable Microelectronics

Aalto University

Espoo, Finland

We are looking for outstanding candidates having strong expertise in thin-film materials and processes for microelectronics. Applicants are expected to demonstrate consideration of sustainability in thin-film deposition in a broad sense. This could be addressed by considering, for example, sustainable use of chemicals, material and energy efficient processing as well as high-performance sustainable and reliable thin films.

We expect you to develop chemical thin-film deposition processes such as atomic layer deposition (ALD), chemical vapor deposition (CVD), metal-organic CVD, plasma-assisted ALD, area-selective ALD, or atomic layer etching (ALE). Applications include, for example, components in integrated circuits, optoelectronics, power electronics, or quantum technologies.

Your role and our expectations

As a professor, we expect you to establish a high-level research group in the field of thin-film materials and processes for microelectronics. We appreciate research directions that are linked to the Department’s strategic research areas mentioned above and commitment to close collaboration with research groups at Aalto University School of Electrical Engineering as well as with industry.

We value commitment to high-level teaching. You will be teaching at the B.Sc., M.Sc. and doctoral levels on topics related for example to thin films and functional inorganic materials. Typically, teaching accounts for 25–30% of working time.

A doctoral degree in chemistry, materials science, or in a related field is a prerequisite for the position. Track records of obtaining external funding, research supervision experience, and industrial collaborations are considered as merits.