About the position
Doctoral Candidate position at INESC MN and Técnico Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
Objectives:
This PhD project develops topology-optimized metasurfaces to generate intense ultrashort vector pulses for applications in nonlinear optics and ultrafast nanomagnetism. The objectives are to create inverse-design algorithms for polarization optics under ultrafast excitation, fabricate large-area metasurfaces, and demonstrate the synthesis of intense ultrashort vector pulses. Secondments include 3 months at UNamur (M. Lobet) in Year 1 for benchmarking inverse-design methods, 3 months at INL in Year 2 for large-scale fabrication, and 3 months at JCMwave in Year 2 for GPU-accelerated optimization. By enabling the generation of new structured light fields from metasurfaces, the doctoral candidate establishes the technological foundation for spatiotemporal pulse shaping across the SPARK research programme.
Starting date: February 2027
Qualifications
- Master’s degree in physics, applied physics, optics or photonics, electrical engineering, materials science or engineering, or a closely related subject.
- You should not have a doctoral degree at the time of recruitment.
- You must not have resided or carried out your main activity (work, studies, etc.) in Portugal for more than 12 months in the 36 months immediately before recruitment (this is a requirement from the funding authority).
- Strong skills in the English language.
- Expertise in photonics, metasurfaces, ultrafast optics, inverse design, numerical methods, and/or scientific computing are strong assets but not a requirement.
- Team player spirit, willing to collaborate with external institution colleagues, autonomy in work as well as transparency are looked for.
How to apply
Apply through the host institution: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/465717
Position page (SPARK Doctoral Network): https://spark-doctoral.eu/vacancy/dc-6-ultrashort-vector-pulses-from-metasurfaces-for-nonlinear-optics-and-ultrafast-nanomagnetism/
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