The French Research Programming Law has created a new type of pre-tenure contract called a ‘Junior Professorship’ (CPJ). These positions are offered on fixed-term contracts (CDD) under public law for a period of 3 to 6 years. After assessment of scientific merit and professional aptitude by a tenure commission, the CPJ will give access to a permanent post in the CNRS Research Directors’ corps.
The ‘Pushing back the frontiers in quantum materials’ profile is focused on 4 laboratories, including the ‘Laboratoire National des Champs Magnétiques Intenses’ in Grenoble and Toulouse.
The recruitment campaign will probably open at the end of February/beginning of March. The deadline for applications is 3 April 2023.
Profile: Quantum materials are the meeting point of several of the Institut de Physique’s strong communities, and their exploration is intended to pave the way for the future of quantum technologies. One of the challenges is to better understand, control and exploit electronic interactions and quantum fluctuations in order to design materials with new functionalities. The aim of this CPJ is to support this area of research, and in particular to explore the excitations and/or non-equilibrium properties of quantum materials by relying in particular on innovative experiments, or experiments carried out under extreme conditions, or exploiting external stimuli to probe the dynamics of the excited states of these materials at ultra-short times. Applicants should propose a research project on quantum materials that fits in with one of the four host laboratories: the Institut Néel in Grenoble, the Institut de Physique et de Chimie des Matériaux in Strasbourg, the Laboratoire National des Champs Magnétiques Intenses in Grenoble and Toulouse, and the Laboratoire de Physique des Solides in Orsay. Research projects associating one of these laboratories with the ‘Quantum Materials’ axis of the ‘Quantum Frontiers’ International Research Laboratory in Sherbrooke, Canada, are encouraged.
A teaching project related to the ‘quantum materials’ theme will be discussed with the university supervisory body of the CPJ host laboratory.
Keywords: Quantum materials, spectroscopies, light-matter interaction, extreme conditions, electronic and optoelectronic properties
Contact : Mr Charles Simon, Director LNCMI