Employment Opportunities at NCU

Offer No.: 4722

Institution: Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Informatics

City: Toruń

Position: assistant professor (adjunkt) - research staff

Discipline: The Field of Exact and Natural Sciences - Physical Sciences

Posted: 2025-06-12

Expires: 2025-09-19

Keywords: spectroscopy, 2D spectroscopy, molecular spectroscopy, optical frequency combs, optical cavities, ultrafast spectroscopy

Description (field, expectations, comments): The competition is open to persons who meet the conditions set out in Article 113 of the Act of 20 July 2018 - Law on higher education and science (Journal of Laws of 2018, item 1668) and the following qualification criteria:
-Doctorate in physics, chemistry or a closely related field obtained no more than seven years ago or statement about planned finalization of doctorate (it's required to receive a PhD degree before starting the work),
-Significant publication record in at least one of: molecular spectroscopy, laser physics, nonlinear optics, fiber optics or a similar field,
-Significant experience in at least one of: molecular spectroscopy, laser physics, nonlinear optics, fiber optics,
-Strong command of spoken and written English language,
-Teamwork ability and strong motivation for research,
-Programming experience, preferably in Python,
-Excellent problem-solving and communication skills,
-Written and verbal communication skills and presentation skills.

We offer employment at a postdoc position in a research grant financed by the National Science Center, Poland within Sonata 19 competition. The candidate must meet requirements of the Center, in particular have a doctoral degree obtained not earlier than 7 years before the year of employment in the project (this period may be extended in the event of breaks in the scientific career as defined by the Center). A person employed at the postdoc position cannot be employed under another employment contract at the same time. The project is led by dr inż. Grzegorz Kowzan, whom can be contacted for further details about the project and the appointment (gkowzan@umk.pl).

The goal of this project is to acquire fundamentally new experimental data leading to the elucidation of the problem of optical coherence diffusion in molecules in the gas phase.

In this project, we will try to answer this question by developing a new experimental technique that combinesultrafast measurements of correlations between different excitations in a molecule with very high sensitivity and resolution.

Key responsibilities include:
1.Building a novel cavity-enhanced two-dimensional infrared spectrometer (CE-2DIR) for detection of gas-phase samples.
2.Development of high-power mid-IR infrared frequency combs and nonlinear interferometers, development of new detection schemes and data analysis, including programming data acquisition and data reduction algorithms.
3.Writing scientific articles and presenting the results at scientific conferences.
4.Mentoring junior colleagues.


We offer:
- position in professional, dynamically developing team, recognizable in its field of research,
- possibility of conference trips,
- collaboration with the best molecular spectroscopy teams,
- no teaching duties.

Remuneration amount:
140.000,00 PLN / year gross (full remuneration cost, including full social security and health insurance), approximate amount of net salary 7 300,00 PLN/month.

Full time employment

Period of contract: 12 months with possibility of extension to 31 months in total

Position starts in: November / December 2025

Type of contract: Temporary

Project title: "Cavity-enhanced two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy of gas-phase molecules: solution to the problem of optical coherence diffusion"

Required documents:

• Personal questionnaire for the person applying for employment (download here)
• Professional curriculum vitae
• Copy of higher education diploma
• Declaration of consent to the processing of personal data contained in the job offer for the needs of the recruitment process, in accordance with the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of The Council od 27 April 2016 (L119/1) (download here)
• Declaration under art. 113 ust. 1 ustawy Prawo o szkolnictwie wyższym (o niekaralności) (Art. Paragraph 113 (1) of the Higher Education Act (of no criminal record)) (download here)
• Declaration that Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń will be my primary employer once I have won the contest (download here)
• At least one (max three) reference letter(s)
• Copy of doctorate certificate or statement about planned finalization of PhD (it’s required to receive a PhD degree before starting the work)
• A cover letter including a description of scientific motivation, a description of research interests, and a publication list (addressed to Professor Andrzej Tretyn, Rector of the Nicolaus Copernicus University)

Additional information: Please submit the aforementioned documents to karolina.kitkowska@umk.pl with annotation "Post-doc Sonata 19.02" (offer no. 4722) in the subject field. We reserve the right not to select any candidates. The project leader reserves the right to interview selected candidates. For more details, please contact us by email: karolina.kitkowska@umk.pl Application deadline: 19.09.2025. The contest will be adjudicated no later than 31.10.2025. The university does not provide accommodation. NCU declares the right not to choose any candidate.

Please be informed that the person selected through the competition will be obliged to submit a certificate from the National Criminal Register with regard to offences specified in Chapters 19 and 25 of the Penal Code (including offences against sexual freedom and morality), in Article 189a and Article 207 of the Penal Code and in the Act on Counteracting Drug Addiction of 29 July 2005 (Journal of Laws of 2023, item 1939 and of 2022, item 2600), or for the corresponding offences defined in foreign law. The obligation to verify applies to a person whose tasks will be related to the protected activity referred to in Article 21. of the Act of 13 May 2016 on counteracting the threat of sexual offences and the protection of minors (Journal of Laws of 2024, item 560).

Pursuant to art. 24 paragraph 6 of the Act of June 14, 2024 on the protection of whistleblowers (Journal of Laws of 2024, item 928), information on the internal reporting procedure at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń is available at: https://www.umk.pl/en/contact/internal-reporting/

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