Research Assistant in Integrated Photonics

Official occupation: Researcher. Employment conditions: Almindelige vilkår. Employer CVR: 31119103.

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Professional Services & Consulting (broad employer-services fallback). The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Aarhus University invites applications for a full-time, nine-month Research Assistant position in its Group of Integrated Photonics. Based in Aarhus, Denmark, the position is expected to start on 1 November 2026 or as soon as the recruitment process permits.

You will help design, model, and experimentally investigate photonic integrated devices, including work on wavelength conversion and chip-scale light sources. Expected start date and duration of employment This is a full-time position (37 hours per week) for nine months. The preferred start date is 1 December 2026, or as soon as possible thereafter. The end date will be set accordingly.

Job description You will connect the design and modelling of photonic integrated circuits with their experimental characterisation.

Your work will include

• - Designing and modelling integrated optical components and circuits.
• - Setting up and carrying out optical experiments to characterise photonic devices.
• - Analysing experimental results and comparing them with simulations.
• - Documenting methods and results and contributing to research publications1 …