Postdoctoral Fellow

The Postdoctoral appointee must have recently (within the last eight years) been awarded a Ph.D. or equivalent doctorate (e.g., Sc.D., M.D.)

Required Qualifications/Experience

Required Skills & Knowledge

Required Personal Qualities

Ph.D. in Optics and Photonics or related majors.

Preferred Qualifications/Experience

Preferred Skills & Knowledge

Job Purpose: To undertake research under the guidance of the Principal Investigator and support the supervision of any students who may be assisting with the research.

The Postdoctoral Researcher will design, organize and conduct highly specialized and advanced optical experiments in the Active Optics Lab at the Department of Physics and Optical Sciences.

BASIC FUNCTION

Performing experiments in the laboratory to support research projects in the Active Optics Lab, which includes but is not limited to setting up and characterizing experimental optical systems, managing the laboratory supplies and equipment, collecting/analyzing data, supervision of undergraduate and graduate students.

A Postdoctoral Fellow ("postdoc") is a professional apprenticeship designed to provide recent Ph.D. recipients with an opportunity to develop further the research skills acquired in their doctoral programs or to learn new research techniques, in preparation for an academic or research career. In the process of further developing their own research skills, it is expected that Postdoctoral Fellows will also play a significant role in the performance of research at the University and augment the role of graduate faculty in providing research instruction to graduate students. A Postdoctoral Fellow works under the supervision of a regular faculty member, who serves as a mentor to the Fellow, and it is expected that the faculty mentor will impart the realities, and variety, of scientific careers, and will encourage experiences outside the laboratory to broaden postdocs' aspirations. Within the confines of the particular research focus assigned by that faculty member, the Postdoctoral Fellow functions with a considerable degree of independence and has the freedom (and is expected) to publish the results of his or her research or scholarship during the period of appointment. Thus, the role of Postdoctoral Fellows is clearly differentiated from full-time technical employees.

Postdoc appointments are characterized by all of the following conditions:

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