Postdoctoral Appointee - Fundamental Nanophotonics, Onsite

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This postdoctoral position is a temporary position for up to one year, which may be renewed at Sandia's discretion up to five additional years. The PhD must have been conferred within five years prior to employment. Individuals in postdoctoral positions may bid on regular Sandia positions as internal candidates, and in some cases may be converted to regular career positions during their term if warranted by ongoing operational needs, continuing availability of funds, and satisfactory job performance.

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What Your Job Will Be Like:

What new optical phenomena become possible when we can engineer light matter interactions at the wavelength and subwavelength scales? Can concepts such as chirality, topology, non-Hermiticity, quantum coherence, and strong optical nonlinearities be harnessed to uncover qualitatively new regimes of photonic physics?

We are seeking a postdoctoral researcher to pursue fundamental scientific questions in nanophotonics to discover qualitatively new regimes in light-matter interactions through the consideration of concepts such as chirality, topology, non-Hermiticity, and quantum coherence. The scope of this position is purposefully broad and will be shaped in substantial part by the interests, expertise, and ideas of the successful candidate. The central goal is to identify and explore new physical phenomena in photonic systems, develop the theoretical frameworks needed to understand them, and, where appropriate, connect these ideas with experiments and emerging photonic platforms.

Possible research directions include chiral optical metasurfaces and their applications; quantum photonics in metasurfaces and nanophotonic structures; light-matter interactions involving two-dimensional and ultrathin materials; topological and non-Hermitian photonics; and nonlinear photonics. These topics are intended to illustrate the breadth of the opportunity rather than define its boundaries, and candidates interested in other emerging areas of fundamental photonics are…