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Are you a highly motivated physicist with a strong interest in merging photonics and mechanics? We are seeking an excellent and ambitious PhD candidate to carry out interdisciplinary research on mechano-optical metasurfaces.A long-standing challenge for both fundamental and applied sciences is to devise new tools to actively manipulate physical signals – such as light, sound, or motion. During the past 20 years, metamaterials have become a particularly fruitful paradigm to control light or motion in unprecedented ways. By patterning materials at a length scale much smaller than the typical interaction length in the material, metamaterials can be designed that have man-made properties that cannot be found in nature. For instance, optical metasurfaces can now redirect and pattern light beams with nm-thick layers, and mechanical metamaterials can exhibit extreme and programmable shape-changes. Yet, despite these impressive advances, metamaterials research has so far been focused on restricted sets of properties: metamaterials allow the control of either light or motion, yet rarely simultaneously.

This position offers the opportunity to contribute to innovative teaching at the intersection of archives, media, and data-driven methods. Through interdisciplinary collaboration, you will engage with questions of information organization and knowledge production to shape sustainable and decolonial approaches to data, evidence, and cultural memory. Teaching a diverse international cohort, from seasoned professionals to recent graduates, offers a uniquely enriching experience.

Shape the future of sustainable materials from waste! The University of Amsterdam invites applications for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the newly funded national research programme Ab-initio Biowaste Loop (ABEL), led by Delft University of Technology and funded by the Netherlands National Research – (NWA-ORC) programme.