Stillingstittel:
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Optical Nanoscopy at the Department of Physics and Technology

Stillingsbeskrivelse:
Jobbnorge ID: 123250

Application deadline: 30^th of April 2016

Ref. number 2016/2721

 

UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Faculty of Science and Technology, has a Postdoctoral Research Fellow position vacant. The position is attached to the Department of Physics and Technology.

 

The position is a fixed term position for a period of three years. The main objective of the appointment as a postdoctoral research fellow is to qualify for work in a senior academic position. No one may be appointed to more than one fixed term period as a postdoctoral research fellow at the same institution.

 

Further information about the position is available by contacting:

• Associate Professor Balpreet Ahluwalia, phone: +47 776 45 816, email: balpreet.singh.ahluwalia (at) uit.no

The application must be submitted electronically via the application form available on www.jobbnorge.no. All necessary attachments must also be uploaded via this system.

 

The position's affiliation

The postdoctoral research fellow will work with Associate Professor Balpreet Ahluwalia in the area of optical nanoscopy of a living cell, affiliated to the Nanoscopy group at the Department of Physics and Technology. The group is lead by Associate Professor Balpreet Ahluwalia and presently consists of two postdocs, three PhD students and several MSc students working on a European Union funded ERC Starting Grant ("Nanoscopy"). This challenging project will have significant international and national collaboration. The project is at the forefront of photonic integrated circuits, optical nanoscopy, and bio-imaging, and will provide truly multi-disciplinary research environment to the candidate. The details of the activities of the group and the working environment can be found here: http://site.uit.no/nanoscopy/

 

The candidate will be associated with the Electrical Engineering Group at the Department of Physics and Technology, UiT. The group consists of five permanent academic staffs and several postdocs and PhD students.

 

The position's field of research/field of work

Description of the project

The candidate will work on the EU funded European Research Council (ERC) project "Nanoscopy. High-speed chip-based nanoscopy to discover real-time sub-cellular dynamics". The focus of the project is to establish new research frontiers towards high-speed, high-resolution photonic integrated circuits based on integrated-optical-nanoscopy. This is achieved by implementing super-resolution microscopy (nanoscopy) using photonics integrated circuits (optical waveguides). The project will investigate different super-resolution imaging methodologies to be implemented using planar waveguide technology. The aim is to generate and deliver complex laser illumination pattern using photonic integrated circuits to the sample and use standard optical microscopy to acquire super-resolved images. The cells residing on top of a chip will be illuminated either by the evanescent field from the waveguide surface or by the propagating light field from the end facet of the waveguide. A standard optical microscope will be used to collect the fluorescence signals. The waveguides will be made of high refractive index contrast material, and it likely to be silicon nitride. During the course of the project, multi-modality chip-based optical nanoscopy will be explored. Integration of other optical functions such as planar waveguide trapping, microfluidics and quantitative phase microscopy together

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Arbeidsgiver Navn: UiT Norges arktiske universitet

Arbeidsgiver adresse: 9037 TROMSØ

Job kort beskrivelse: University and higher education teachers

Land: Norge

Region: Troms

Kilde til jobbtilbud: NAV, Offentlige arbeidsformidlinger, Norge

Lønn valuta: NOK

Lønn periode: Pr. år