Publicerad: 2025-04-25
Postdoc in Nanofluics-Integrated Microcavities for Photochemistry
Are you interested in cutting edge research combining nanofluidics, nanophotonics and photochemistry? Join the Langhammer group at Chalmers University of Technology to develop the next generation of nanofluidic devices for steering chemical reactions using light.
Information about the Research Project
Photochemical and photocatalytic reactions play a crucial role in contemporary science and technology, e.g., for organic synthesis, therapeutic photosensitizers, wastewater treatment, CO2 fixation, and sustainable solar fuel production. Spatial confinement of molecules in cavities and pores, typically around 1 – 10 nm in diameter, can dramatically alter these reactions. At the same time, optical resonators and microcavities that are formed by, e.g., two reflecting surfaces only 50 – 150 nm apart, enable light confinement to tiny volumes by resonant recirculation, which significantly enhances light-matter interactions inside the cavity. Such microcavities have been in the spotlight of nanophotonics for over a decade due to fascinating phenomena like strong light-matter coupling, enhanced energy transfer, and modification of (photo)chemical reaction rates.
Information about the research group
The Langhammer group at the Chemical Physics Divison at the Department of Physics operates at the interface between nanomaterial science, catalysis, nanoplasmonics and nanofluidics, with a particular focus on sustainable energy-related nanomaterials, single-molecule label free nanofluidic optical microscopy and spectroscopy, single particle catalysis and plasmonic hydrogen nanosensors. For that purpose, we continuously develop and evolve our own methodologies for state-of-the-art nanofabrication, as well as build our own customized research instrumentation.
Now we open up a new research direction towards the development of tunable optomechanical microcavities with nanofluidic access for photochemistry, for which we are seeking a Postdoc to join our dynamic, cross-diciplinary team.
This recruitment is connected to a cross-diciplinary research project funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation and a collaboration with Prof. Timur Shegai and Asst. Prof Angela Grommet at Chalmers.
For more information about the Langhammer Group, please visit our group home page: www.langhammerlab.se
The home page of the Chemical Physics Division that hosts the Langhammer Group provides further relevant information.
Who we are looking for
We seek candidates with the following qualifications:
• A PhD degree in physics.
• An experimental PhD thesis in applied physics.
• Excellent collaboration skills.
• Excellent documented written and oral English skills.
To qualify for the position of postdoc, you must hold a doctoral degree awarded no more than three years prior to the application deadline.
You are expected to be somewhat accustomed to teaching, and to demonstrate good potential within research and education.
* The date shown in your doctoral degree certificate is the date we use, as this is the date you have met all requirements for the doctoral degree. Exceptions from the 3-year limit can be made for longer periods resulting from parental leave, sick leave or military service.
The following experience will strengthen your application:
• Documented experience with micro- and nanofabrication
• Documented experience with nanophotonics
• Documented experience with nanofluidics
• Documented experience with advanced optical microscopy/spectroscopy
• Documented experience with catalysis/photochemistry
• Documented computer programming skills using Python and MATLAB
• Documented experience with analysis of complex scientific data e.g. through machine learning
What you will do
• execute experimental tasks, such as planning of experiments alone or together with other members of the Langhammer group and the project team with members of the Grommet and Shegai groups, advanced nanofabrication of nanofluidic structures with integrated optical cavities, executing measurements of such cavities to characterize their optical properties and to study photocatalytic reactions happening inside them, characterize your samples using electron microcopy and other techniques.
• evaluate and summarize your large amount of complex data, possibily involving state-of-the-art machine learning methods developed in the group by other team members, and share them with our cross-diciplinary research team and at international research conferences.
Your major responsibility as postdoc is to perform your own research in a research group, as well as co-supervising master- and/or PhD students to a certain extent. Another important aspect involves collaboration within academia and with society at large. The position is meritorious for future research duties within academia as well as industry/the public sector.
What we offer
Chalmers provides a cultivating and inspiring working environment in the coastal city of Gothenburg.
Read more about working at Chalmers and our benefits for employees.
Chalmers aims to actively improve our gender balance. We work broadly with equality projects, for example the GENIE Initiative on gender equality for excellence. Equality and diversity are substantial foundations in all activities at Chalmers.
If Swedish is not your native language, Chalmers offers Swedish courses to help you settle in.
Contract terms
This postdoc position is a full-time temporary employment for two years.
Read more and apply here
Application deadline: May 25, 2025
For questions please contact:
Christoph Langhammer, Chemical Physics, Physics,
Email: clangham@chalmers.se
Tel: +46736528980
We look forward to your application!
*** Chalmers declines to consider all offers of further announcement publishing or other types of support for the recruiting process in connection with this position. ***
Information about the Research Project
Photochemical and photocatalytic reactions play a crucial role in contemporary science and technology, e.g., for organic synthesis, therapeutic photosensitizers, wastewater treatment, CO2 fixation, and sustainable solar fuel production. Spatial confinement of molecules in cavities and pores, typically around 1 – 10 nm in diameter, can dramatically alter these reactions. At the same time, optical resonators and microcavities that are formed by, e.g., two reflecting surfaces only 50 – 150 nm apart, enable light confinement to tiny volumes by resonant recirculation, which significantly enhances light-matter interactions inside the cavity. Such microcavities have been in the spotlight of nanophotonics for over a decade due to fascinating phenomena like strong light-matter coupling, enhanced energy transfer, and modification of (photo)chemical reaction rates.
Information about the research group
The Langhammer group at the Chemical Physics Divison at the Department of Physics operates at the interface between nanomaterial science, catalysis, nanoplasmonics and nanofluidics, with a particular focus on sustainable energy-related nanomaterials, single-molecule label free nanofluidic optical microscopy and spectroscopy, single particle catalysis and plasmonic hydrogen nanosensors. For that purpose, we continuously develop and evolve our own methodologies for state-of-the-art nanofabrication, as well as build our own customized research instrumentation.
Now we open up a new research direction towards the development of tunable optomechanical microcavities with nanofluidic access for photochemistry, for which we are seeking a Postdoc to join our dynamic, cross-diciplinary team.
This recruitment is connected to a cross-diciplinary research project funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation and a collaboration with Prof. Timur Shegai and Asst. Prof Angela Grommet at Chalmers.
For more information about the Langhammer Group, please visit our group home page: www.langhammerlab.se
The home page of the Chemical Physics Division that hosts the Langhammer Group provides further relevant information.
Who we are looking for
We seek candidates with the following qualifications:
• A PhD degree in physics.
• An experimental PhD thesis in applied physics.
• Excellent collaboration skills.
• Excellent documented written and oral English skills.
To qualify for the position of postdoc, you must hold a doctoral degree awarded no more than three years prior to the application deadline.
You are expected to be somewhat accustomed to teaching, and to demonstrate good potential within research and education.
* The date shown in your doctoral degree certificate is the date we use, as this is the date you have met all requirements for the doctoral degree. Exceptions from the 3-year limit can be made for longer periods resulting from parental leave, sick leave or military service.
The following experience will strengthen your application:
• Documented experience with micro- and nanofabrication
• Documented experience with nanophotonics
• Documented experience with nanofluidics
• Documented experience with advanced optical microscopy/spectroscopy
• Documented experience with catalysis/photochemistry
• Documented computer programming skills using Python and MATLAB
• Documented experience with analysis of complex scientific data e.g. through machine learning
What you will do
• execute experimental tasks, such as planning of experiments alone or together with other members of the Langhammer group and the project team with members of the Grommet and Shegai groups, advanced nanofabrication of nanofluidic structures with integrated optical cavities, executing measurements of such cavities to characterize their optical properties and to study photocatalytic reactions happening inside them, characterize your samples using electron microcopy and other techniques.
• evaluate and summarize your large amount of complex data, possibily involving state-of-the-art machine learning methods developed in the group by other team members, and share them with our cross-diciplinary research team and at international research conferences.
Your major responsibility as postdoc is to perform your own research in a research group, as well as co-supervising master- and/or PhD students to a certain extent. Another important aspect involves collaboration within academia and with society at large. The position is meritorious for future research duties within academia as well as industry/the public sector.
What we offer
Chalmers provides a cultivating and inspiring working environment in the coastal city of Gothenburg.
Read more about working at Chalmers and our benefits for employees.
Chalmers aims to actively improve our gender balance. We work broadly with equality projects, for example the GENIE Initiative on gender equality for excellence. Equality and diversity are substantial foundations in all activities at Chalmers.
If Swedish is not your native language, Chalmers offers Swedish courses to help you settle in.
Contract terms
This postdoc position is a full-time temporary employment for two years.
Read more and apply here
Application deadline: May 25, 2025
For questions please contact:
Christoph Langhammer, Chemical Physics, Physics,
Email: clangham@chalmers.se
Tel: +46736528980
We look forward to your application!
*** Chalmers declines to consider all offers of further announcement publishing or other types of support for the recruiting process in connection with this position. ***