Applications are invited for the post of Post-doctoral Fellow (Project Scientist) under a joint Indo-French project entitled "Plasmonic properties of checkerboard metallic structures and films" funded by the Indo-French Centre for Promotion of Advanced Research. The position is tenable for one year, and extendable until 31 July 2011 only, upon satisfactory performance. The Post-doctoral fellow will conduct experimental work on developing and making metallic nanostructures with focussed ion beam technology at the Ion Beam facility and measuring the optical properties of the nanostructures. (S)He will need to interface with the French group at the Institut Fresnel, Marseilles, and may be required to work there for short durations.

Essential qualifications: Ph.D. in experimental physics with a reasonable publication record. Candidates whose Ph.D. work was on Optics / Lasers / Thin films will be preferred. Basic computer skills are essential. NET /GATE scores are desirable. Salary will be in the scale 15000-1500-30000 with medical facilities as permissible. Minimum emoluments will be Rs. 20,000/- per month.

Applications on plain paper, with the curriculum vitae and at least two references, should be sent to the undersigned by 26th March. 2010. Applications sent by Email / FAX are also acceptable.

Dr. S.A. Ramakrishna
Department of Physics
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur – 208 016
email: sar@iitk.ac.in; vnk@iitk.ac.in
Tel: 0512-259 7985; FAX: 0512-259 0914