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Astrophotonics post-doctoral fellowship

Paulo Garcia of Universidade do Porto, Portugal sent me a message on an Astrophotonics postdoctoral position. Please contact him if you are interested.

The INESC-Porto Optoelectronics Unit (a key Portuguese photonics research
unit, http://www2.inescporto.pt/uose-en) is seeking post-doctoral fellows
to strengthen the team astrophotonics research. The team has developed in
the past integrated optics recombiners for astronomical interferometry
(http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?uri=oe-17-3-1970) and is
currently extending its instrumentation research programme to active
integrated optics devices, dichroics and spectrographs. We follow closely
the application of integrated optics to future ELT instrumentation and
current/future interferometers.
We seek applicants with an astronomy/instrumentation background
(interferometry, adaptive optics or spectroscopy) willing to strongly
interact in a photonics R&D lab. The fellows are encouraged to continue its
astronomical research (the unit has strong ties the top Portuguese
astronomical center CAUP located 500 m away). Start of work is January
2010, negotiable.

Applicants should send to jlsantos@inescporto.pt and pgarcia@fe.up.pt:
* short CV
* complete publication list
* description of research experience and plans (up to 3 pages).

The deadline for applications is the 30th June 2009.

The selected applicant will be supported by the unit for a national
research foundation 3 year post-doc fellowship. The amount of the grant is
17,940 euros/year net, paid monthly, plus a 1,000 euros mobility allowance.
The grant income is comfortably above living costs at Porto.