Recruitment of a doctoral student within a Maestro 11 grant  of the Polish National Science Centre (NCN) (2020-2025) at the Department of Nonlinear Optics and the Department of Condensed Matter Theory of the Faculty of Physics of Adam Mickiewicz University (AMU) in Poznań, Poland.

News published on: 25-03-2021

Name of the unit: Adam Mickiewicz University, Faculty of Physics.

Name of the position: Ph.D. student scholarship.

Requirements:

1. Master's degree in physics or a declaration of obtaining such a degree.
2. Declaration of undertaking doctoral studies at the Faculty of Physics of Adam Mickiewicz University.
3. Knowledge of English to enable free communication and scientific work in that language (including dissemination of results).
4. Specialisation (or deep interest) in theoretical physics (specifically welcome in: open systems dynamics, quantum optics, and quantum information science).
5. Interest in the research topics specified at the grant website. 

Documents required:

1. Cover letter (in English).
2. Curriculum vitae (including non-scientific achievements).
3. Scan of the diploma confirming the award of the Master's degree or the declaration of obtaining such degree.
4. Extract of the grades from the studies.
5. Recommendation letter.
6. Research project proposal.
7. The statement of consent to the processing of the personal data provided for the purposes of the recruitment, required by the General Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR, in Polish: RODO), which reads as follows:

"I agree to the processing of my personal data for the purposes necessary for the process recruitment (in accordance with the Personal Data Protection Act of 10 May 2018 (Journal of Laws of 2018, item. 1000) and in accordance with Regulation 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the European Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data and the repeal of Directive 95/46/EC (EU GDPR)."

Description of tasks:

The scholarship holder will conduct theoretical research on multi-photon and multi-phonon blockade effects and photon-induced tunneling.

Type of the NCN project: MAESTRO 11 (DEC-2019/34/A/ST2/00081)

Deadline for submission: 23 April 2021, Friday, 23:59

Form of submission: e-mail

Duration of the scholarship: 12 months (sic!)

The amount of the scholarship: 5000 PLN gross per month

Additional information:

Please send the documents in PDF format by email to
Prof. Adam Miranowicz (miran@amu.edu.pl ) or Prof. Ravindra Chhajlany (ravi@amu.edu.pl ),
by 23 April 2021, Friday, 23:59 (please write in the subject line: "Recruitment, PhD in the Maestro 11 grant").

After collecting the applications, the selection board will interview the selected candidates on the MS Teams platform on the basis of the documents submitted.

The announcement of the results of the competition will be announced by 30 April (Friday) 2021 on the website zon8.physd.amu.edu.pl/~miran/grant-maestro.html