07 Postdoctoral Fellowship at Aalto University, Finland

As a postdoctoral researcher, you will contribute to advancing the science necessary to enable next-generation communication systems based on metasurfaces and revolutionizing communication networks and IoT. You will work on new physical mechanisms in electromagnetic wave control and design application-oriented metasurface geometries supporting human-machine interaction. You will collaborate with the multidisciplinary project team and possible industrial partners. The research methodology will have both theoretical, simulation, fabrication, and experimental components.

There are possibilities for research collaboration and extended visits to the following project partners: A. Alù (City University of New York), H. Krishnaswamy (Columbia University), M. Rinaldi (Northeastern University), and S. Shakkottai (University of Texas at Austin), Z. Sun (Aalto University), and N. Ravaja (University of Helsinki).

Active Matter group at the Department of Applied Physics in Aalto University, Finland, is looking for an outstanding Postdoctoral Researcher to guide doctoral students, to develop experimental setups and to carry out research activities. You may be a fresh doctoral graduate, a rising star with an excellent doctoral thesis, or a seasoned postdoctoral researcher already experienced in guiding doctoral students and leading research projects. Your previous research activities may have been related to, for example, electrohydrodynamics, electrokinetics, colloids, bacterial turbulence, bioconvection patterns or microswimmers. You are simply excellent in physics and have superb technical skills. You can operate almost any piece of equipment fluently after a short training. You are passionate about physics, have strong attention to detail, and value clarity in all communication. You may be already now considering an academic career or a leading position in technical research and development in a company.

As a postdoctoral researcher, you will contribute to pioneering research in time-varying systems, including metasurfaces and photonic time crystals. The research will have both fundamental and applied science components. The research methodology will have both theoretical, simulation, fabrication, and experimental parts.

There are possibilities for research collaboration and extended visits to the following project partners: A. Alù (City University of New York), H. Krishnaswamy (Columbia University), M. Rinaldi (Northeastern University), and S. Shakkottai (University of Texas at Austin), Z. Sun (Aalto University), and N. Ravaja (University of Helsinki).

Electronics Integration and Reliability (EILB) is a research group at Aalto University School of Electrical Engineering focused on exploring innovative materials and design concepts for advanced electronics. We are developing high-efficiency, sustainable semiconductor substrates and devices for power electronics, RF, and smart sensor applications. Our mission is to achieve transformative device innovations by leveraging high crystal quality and single crystal aluminum nitride (AlN) thin film-based technologies.

We are seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher with strong expertise in the epitaxial growth and characterization of III-nitrides. In this role, you will contribute to various ongoing projects in the group, covering topics such as thermally conductive Silicon on Insulator (SOI), AlN polarization-doped field effect transistors, AlN on Si for single photon emitters and RF filters, and vertical wall-grown AlN for 3D-MEMS applications.

We are looking for an experienced and motivated candidate who is expected to have a strong background – in biophysics, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, or a related specific field such as microrobotics, rheology, and soft matter physics – that is applicable to techniques development in cancer biomechanics. We appreciate previous experience in related live-cell imaging, biophysical instrumentation, and computational science. Excellence in publication record is a key criteria in our evaluation. Candidates are expected to have strong scientific writing ability, and a fluent spoken English. 

This position’s focus is on developing systems and methods for quantification of the physical interactions between tumor cells and extracellular matrix, and taking them toward biomedical applications. The successful candidate will join our lab’s efforts in microscale studies on cell–tumor tissue interactions, as well as chemoresistance. In this position, there is an expectation to be innovation-oriented, to allow gradual development of techniques toward the applications. In this part of the work, the researcher is also expected to work on optimization of experimental processes and automation. We invite the applicants to get acquintanced with our existing publications. Our group’s research areas involve further increasing the spatial and temporal resolution of perfomed measurements, a simultaneous data acquisition with fluorescence live-cell microscopy, hardware development for cell culturing work flows, and  testing of commercial cancer pharmaceuticals and drug candidates for chemotherapy.

The Nuclear Materials and Engineering (NuME) group at Aalto University employs computational methods to study radiation induced processes and damage formation in materials, including effects ranging from electron excitation to large scale collision cascades involving millions of atoms. We are now looking for two exceptional and motivated postdoctoral researchers to strengthen our team. You would be joining a young and dynamic group pursuing a range of research topics with extensive national and international collaboration. In these positions, you will have a chance to make an impact on the development of materials for high radiation environments, and contribute to the increased understanding of the fundamental processes involved when energetic particles interact with condensed matter. We utilize extensive computational resources for advanced calculations at the forefront of our field.