Research Associate in Nanophotonic Sensors

Role Description

Department

The School of Physics, Engineering and Technology brings physicists and engineers together to push the frontiers of knowledge, foster innovation and meet the grand challenges facing society. Our aim is to deliver world-leading research in both fundamental and applied areas whilst developing new technologies that work for the public good, in an environment where everyone can thrive.

As a School, equality, diversity, and inclusion are central to our culture and we strive to provide a working environment which allows all staff and students to contribute fully, to flourish, and to excel. We aim to ensure that there is a supportive and egalitarian culture at all levels and across all staff groups and offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, staff engagement forums, campus facilities and services to support staff from different backgrounds. We are proud to hold Juno Champion and Athena Swan bronze awards, which recognise our commitment to creating an equitable and fully inclusive environment in which staff and students can thrive. We aim to inspire young people to engage with science and engineering through our outreach work.

Role

The project is collaborative between the School of Physics, Engineering and Technology and the Department of Biology and is funded by the Wellcome Trust. The aim of the research is to develop a novel sensing and imaging technology based on dielectric metasurfaces to monitor the secretion of proteins used in cell signalling, e.g. for the development of vaccines. Specifically, the role holder will design and fabricate the metasurface sensors and related microfluidic structures and will work with other members of the team to develop robust chemistries on the photonic sensor surface and investigate approaches to detect multiple proteins in parallel.

The post is expected to start as soon as possible, and due to funding constraints, will terminate on April 30th, 2025.

Skills, Experience & Qualification needed

You will have:

• Details of the main qualifications, knowledge, skills, experience and qualifications essential to the post (as stated in the ‘person specification’ in the job template)
• To be able to offer Tier 2 Sponsorship you must include all criteria you will be using to make shortlisting/appointing decisions.  These same criteria must be included in your shortlisting and interview records.

Interview date: TBC

For informal enquiries: please contact Thomas Krauss on thomas.krauss@york.ac.uk or Lucy Parnaby on pet-hr@york.ac.uk

The University strives to be diverse and inclusive  – a place where we can ALL be ourselves.

We particularly encourage applications from people who identify as Black, Asian or from a Minority Ethnic background, who are underrepresented at the University. 

We offer family friendly, flexible working arrangements, with forums and inclusive facilities to support our staff. #EqualityatYork