Opening Positions for Research Fellows, Postdocs, Research Associates and Technicians

I.         Qualifications, opportunities and benefits for postdocs

1.      Ph.D. in physics or optics from renowned universities or institutions. Interested in quantum optics, quantum information or condensed matter physics. Applicants with experimental background are preferable.

2.      With publications in high impact peer-reviewed journals.

3.      Strong research independence, and good English writing.

4.      Opportunities for supervising Master and/or PhD students.

5.      Opportunities for overseas academic visit and exchange.

6.      Help in writing applications for grants.

7.      Annual salary between 180,000 and 300,000 RMB/year, providing a relaxed and comfortable research environment and applying for employee social security.

II.        Qualifications, opportunities and benefits for Research Fellow

1.      Ph.D. in Physics, Optics, etc. Interested in quantum optics, quantum information or condensed matter physics. Applicants with experimental background are preferable.

2.      With publications in high impact peer-reviewed journals.

3.      Strong research independence, and good English writing.

4.      Good in collaboration. Assist leader in management laboratory and grant application.

5.      Annual salary of 150,000-240,000 RMB/year, providing a relaxed and comfortable research environment and applying for employee social security.

III.      Qualifications, Opportunities and benefits for research associates

1.      Ph.D. in Physics, Optics, etc. Interested in quantum optics, quantum information or condensed matter physics. Applicants with experimental background are preferred.

2.      With publications in good journals.

3.      Showing some research independence. Good English writing.

4.      Good collaboration skills. Assist leader in management laboratory and project application.

5.      Annual salary of 150,000-210,000 RMB/year, providing a relaxed and comfortable research environment and applying for employee social security.

IV.      Qualifications, opportunities and benefits for full-time research assistant

1.      Master's or doctorate degree in physics, optics, etc. Good at numerical simulation of physical models, FDTD, electromagnetic simulation and Comsol simulation. Applicants with experience in FDTD numerical simulation, electromagnetic simulation and Comsol numerical simulation are preferable.

2.      Need to learn programing for numerical solving Maxwell-Bloch equations for simulating light-matter interaction (our group already has the program).

3.      Good English writing ability.

4.      Good collaboration skills. Assist in the construction of management laboratory and project application.

5.      Annual salary of 100,000-150,000 RMB/year, providing a relaxed and comfortable research environment and applying for employee social security.

V.       Qualifications and benefits for full-time technician

1.      Bachelor's degree in science and engineering. Proficient in computer office software.

2.      Willing to engage in optical numerical simulation analysis, such as using Comsol, Zemax, FDTD and other numerical analysis software to simulate optical device behavior. Applicants with relevant background is preferred.

3.      Help the group in 3D graphics, solidwork, Applicants with experience in C4D or Blender are preferred.

4.      Annual salary is 60,000-100,000 RMB/year, and the year-end bonus is awarded according to the workload. Provide a comfortable office environment and assist with social security.

How to apply：Send cover letter with contact information of 2-3 referrers, resume, 3-5 representative works to keyu.xia@nju.edu.cn. Research assistants and technicians only need cover letters and resumes.

Profile of Prof. Keyu Xia: Dr. Keyu Xia, a full professor in Department of Quantum Electronics and Optical Engineering, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing University. He won National Talent Project in 2017. He was awarded Ph.D. in Optics, Shanghai Institute of Optomechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2007. He has been working as a post-doctor Research Associate and Research Fellow at the Max-Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Germany, the Department of Physics at Texas A & M University, and the Quantum Engineering Center of the Australian Ministry of Science and Technology, Macquarie University. His research interests include cavity and waveguide quantum electrodynamics, superconducting quantum circuits, micro/nano photonics, and quantum networks. So far, he has published more than 40 SCI papers in world-leading peer-reviewed journals including Science, Nature Photonics, PRL, PRX etc. His works have been reviewed or reported by by Nature, and Science, Nature Photonics and media Phys.Org. He proposed a scheme based on the Rabi-type photon interaction for the single photon quantum non-destructive measurement, which has been a challenging problem in quantum optics and quantum information for decades. This theoretical work has been reviewed and reported by Science. He also proposed the first feasible schemes for single-photon isolators and circulators. The concepts are experimentally demonstrated by the renowned Vienna Quantum Technology Center (their experimental work was published on PRX and Science and was reported by the media). Recently Dr. Xia published a work of thermal-motion-enabled nonreciprocal quantum optics in Nature Photonics. This work is selected as the Top 10 progress of Optics in China (Basic Research) in 2018. He proposed a method to construct a chiral optical Kerr nonlinearity, which can bypass the limit of nonlinear optical dynamic reciprocity, paving the way for nonlinear optical isolation. The theoretical concept has been experimentally realized by Prof. Baosen Shi’and Prof. Guangcan Guo’s group in USTC. Prof. Xia’s group has developed the numerical program to solve the Maxwell-Bloch equation in 3D space for simulating the interaction between ultrashort laser and matter and the propagation of light in medium. In cooperation with the experimental group of Peking University, he proposed a kinetic model of stimulated fluorescence radiation cavity of gold nanoparticles, which revealed the mechanism of a series of unsolved physical phenomena and guided and correctly predicted the experimental observation. The research group has established solid cooperation with several renowned universities and research institutions in Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, Japan and Saudi Arabia. Based on these collaborative relationship, we can provide sufficient development space and sufficient funding for the group members.

The second revolution of quantum mechanics-quantum technology is emerging. The research group lead by Prof. Xia focuses on quantum information technology, in particular, quantum Internet, quantum nonlinear optics, chiral quantum optics, cavity and waveguide quantum electrodynamics, and quantum measurement.

We are looking for applicants interested in fundamental physics and exploring the beautiful but simple principles in physics.

The quota is limited. Please apply at any time, if you are interested