IIT Tirupati Invites Application for Postdoctoral Fellow Recruitment 2021

Vacancy Circular No:

Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati (IIT Tirupati)
invites applications for recruitment of Postdoctoral Fellow

Postdoctoral Fellow

Number of Vacancy: 1 Posts

Educational Qualification: M.Sc, M.E/M.Tech, M.Phil/Ph.D

Applications are invited from eligible Indian nationals for the post of Postdoctoral Fellow in the timebound research project under the Chanakya Post-Doctoral Fellowships in Quantum Technology Scheme of I-Hub Quantum Technology Foundation, Pune undertaken in the Department of Physics, IIT Tirupati.

No: Advt/ IITT/CSRC/2021-22/10

1. Temporary Position: Postdoctoral Fellow-01

2. Essential Qualification: Ph.D. in Physics or equivalent degree with minimum 75% marks or 7.5 CGPA during Ph.D. (graduate) and/or M.Sc./ M.Tech. coursework.

3. Project Title: Development of A Deterministic Single Photon Source for Quantum Networking Applications.

4. Consolidated monthly Salary: INR 80,000/- per month consolidated. The salary will be directly paid by I-Hub Quantum Technology Foundation, Pune to the selected Postdoctoral Fellow.

5. Tenure of Assignment: Initially 1 year with a possible extension of 2 more years subject to satisfactory appraisal, performance review and availability of funding from I-Hub Quantum Technology Foundation, Pune.

6. Desired Experience: 

a) Ph.D. in Physics / Electronics / Instrumentation / Optical engineering/ Optics/ Laser Spectroscopy/ Photonics/ other related areas. Candidates who have submitted/ defended their Ph.D. thesis and are waiting for a final degree can also apply. Preference shall be given to candidates with an experimental background and training in optics and/or atomic and molecular physics.

b) Experience in programming with any one of the following: Python/ Matlab/ Mathematica / VHDL/ Verilog/ LabVIEW/ SolidWorks / COMSOL/ ANSYS/ digital & analog electronics/ optics/ fabrication will be useful.

c) Prior demonstrated experience of working in experimental optics and/or experimental atomic and molecular physics.

d) Prior demonstrated experience with precision laser spectroscopy/ laser cooling/ ion trapping/ atom trapping and related areas.

e) Having at-least two original research papers in SCI and or a peerreviewed journal.

f) Must be willing to work efficiently in a team environment with other students, research and project staff and postdoctoral fellows, selfmotivated, and work under a variety of challenging research conditions.

g) Must have good oral and written communication skills.

h) Must demonstrate highest work ethics, commitment and dedication to the project.

7. Nature of the Work: 

a) The selected candidate will get an opportunity to work on interdisciplinary areas that are required for setting up the experiment. Some of these are (but not limited to) simulation; designing, fabrication, testing of indigenous instruments in the field of lasers & optics, developing low-noise analog & digital electronics, developing FPGA based systems, ultra-high vacuum, mechanical & software development, ion and atom trapping and so on.

b) Apart from the development of the experiment, they will have to work on physics problems that are necessary to meet the experimental goals.

c) Developing a complete experiment involves multiple work-packages and developing those requires expertise in interdisciplinary fields. Within a lab, this can be achieved by working in a collaborative manner. The work shall involve laser cooling and ion trapping techniques applied to Calcium (40Ca+ ) ions.

d) It will also involve precision laser spectroscopy, experimental quantum optics (cavity qed) and applications of quantum information processing protocols. The final objective is to develop a cavity-qed based deterministic single photon generator for quantum networking applications.