The group of Antennas, Radar and Optical Communications at the Universidade de Vigo (Spain) is looking for an ambitious and passionate candidate with an interest in pursuing a PhD in theoretical photonics under the supervision of Dr. Diego Martínez Solís (Ramón y Cajal Fellow), within the research topic “STUDY OF NOVEL WAVE PHENOMENA IN PHOTONIC SPACETIME METAMATERIALS”, the “hot” topic of light/matter interactions in the presence of time modulations and discontinuities (“temporal metamaterials” in the jargon of the community). This is a theoretical basic research on light-matter interactions in the presence of temporal inhomogeneities, so the approach of the foreseen research activities will be fundamental Science: unveiling new mechanisms of wave interactions in out-of-the-box toy models that harness space-time symmetries and dualities (or the lack thereof). Besides, no commercial software (e.g. COMSOL Multiphysics) will be used in principle, since the research group uses their own in-house solvers and also relies on (semi-)analytic solutions whenever possible.

What we offer?




We offer a 3-year PhD contract within a monthly gross salary of 1.750 €

The doctoral candidate will be enrolled in a Doctoral Programme at the Universidade de Vigo throughout the entire duration of the project.

Requirements:
- Degree in Physics or Electrical/Photonics Engineering
- Master’s degree (or equivalent qualification) in Electrical/Electromagnetic/Photonic Engineering or Physics/Quantum

Desired qualifications and attributes:
- Technically sound in Physics and Mathematics
- Experience in electromagnetics/photonics and/or programming of numerical models
- Intermediate/advanced user of one of the following: MATLAB, Wolfram Mathematica, C/C++, Python, Julia, etc.
- Scientific publications on the topic of electromagnetics/photonics

Important remark: This is a Call for expressions of interest

The Universidade de Vigo has its own official application process, hiring on the basis of me

📌 Expressions of Interest for a PhD position in Theoretical Photonics (Principado de Asturias)
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