Aipt Assoc. Professorial Research Fellow

4 months ago


Birmingham, United Kingdom Aston University Full time

We are now recruiting for a full-time, Associate Professorial Research Fellow to become a permanent member of Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies staff.

The Aston institute of Photonic Technologies (AiPT) is one of the largest photonics research centres in the UK. It was founded on the unique combination of advanced fibre grating based devices with state of the art optical communications research, and has a proud track record of exploiting non-linear effects, from solitons to the nonlinear Fourier transform and from nonlinear optical loop mirrors to optical phase conjugation and parametric amplification. Today the AiPT pursues a diverse range of device-and-system-level topics at the leading edge of technology, including high-speed optical transmission, signal processing, wide-band amplification, nonlinear photonics, fibre grating technology, fibre lasers, bio

The Associate Professorial Research Fellow will develop an independent research group and will be expected to conduct internationally leading research in the field of photonics and to collaborate with existing research groups at AIPT. You will already hold a major UK research fellowship (UKRI FL Fellowship, RAEng Research Fellowship, Royal Society University Fellowship, EPSRC Fellowship) or the ERC award. You should hold active research grants and demonstrate the ongoing potential to secure substantial funding as PI and project leader. You will make a significant contribution to the effective management and leadership of research staff and students.



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