Job Title: Student – NCN Scholarship
Job Summary: The winning candidate will work as a scholarship recipient at the Institute of Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, CoolPhon Group in frame of the NCN Sonata Bis 9 project (UMO-2019/34/E/ST3/00432).
Job Description: In our group we are building and testing pioneering low temperature functional nanostructures with a special emphasis on superconducting devices. Our expertise involves fast time-resolved thermometry of nanostructures based on the probing of Josephson junctions with short current pulses, which we call the switching thermometry [1, 2]. It allows us to trace the thermal transients with a temporal resolution of a single
nanosecond, which appear in the response to a local dissipation. We can directly investigate the dynamics of various energy relaxation channels at the nanoscale. Our second field of interest is vortex electronics. It involves building nanodevices for controlling and manipulating of superconducting vortices to present new functionalities e.g. memory cells and logical elements for application in quantum computing [3, 4].
[1] M. Zgirski, et al., Phys. Rev. Applied 10, 044068 (2018).
[2] M. Zgirski, et al., Phys. Rev. Applied 14, 044024 (2020).
[3] M. Foltyn, et al., Phys. Rev. Applied 19, 044073 (2023).
[4] M. Foltyn, et al., Science Advances 10, eado4032 (2024).
The main objective of the scholarship is to conduct experimental research on the dynamics of single vortex in superconducting nanostructures including the design and fabrication of samples using electron-beam nanolithography. The scholarship is expected to be paid until 30 March 2027.
Requirements:
Main research field: Physics
Sub Research Field: Solid State Physics, Nanotechnology, Superconductivity
Career Stage: Physics student
Research Profile (details): First Stage Researchers (R1)
Type of Contract: NCN Scholarship
Status: Scholarship holder
Salary: 5000 PLN per month (project costs), untaxed NCN scholarship.
More information can be obtained from dr hab. Maciej Zgirski, prof. IFPAN (e-mail: zgirski@MagTop.ifpan.edu.pl).
Application deadline: 27.08.2026 Later applications will be not considered.
Final decision announcement: 31.08.2026.
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• Curriculum Vitae
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