Job opportunities

Job opportunities

Please contact us for possible master or doctoral stays. Contact: Dr. R. Stoian, Email: razvan.stoian@univ-st-etienne.fr



Ph.D. openings

    • PhD - Unravelling ultrafast heat transfer in glasses by direct mid-infrared probing of anharmonic vibrations

      Duration: 36 months

      Expected start date: February/March 2025

      Location: Laboratoire Hubert Curien (Université Jean Monnet - UJM, St-Etienne)

      Interested candidates should send:

      • A complete CV;
      • A cover letter;
      • A copy of a valid ID document (ID card, passport…)

      to:

      • Vincenzo De Michele  vincenzo.demichele @ univ-st-etienene.fr 

      The objective is to reveal a competition between electronically-induced and collisional activation of vibration modes. The purpose is to observe energy transfer to the matrix under conditions of strong coupling by directly interrogating the material matrix, i.e. by time-resolved monitoring of individual vibrational signatures on ultrafast scales using dynamic mid-IR ultrafast spectroscopy. 

      Dowload the PDF file here (172.4 Ko)

      Published on October 2, 2024



    • PhD - Vanadium Dioxide-Based Films for Randomizing Photonic Emission and Absorption of Integrated Circuits

      Start: October 2024

      Duration: 3 years

      Application deadline: 30th April 2024

      Location: Laboratoire Hubert Curien (Université Jean Monnet - UJM, St-Etienne)

      Interested candidates should send a CV to both:

      • Florent Bourquard, Associate Professor   florent.bourquard @ univ-st-etienne.fr 
      • Florence Garrelie, Professor  florence.garrelie @ univ-st-etienne.fr 

      The goal is to develop a smart coating that will prevent exploiting the photonic emission and absorption from integrated circuits, effectively limiting the use of optical techniques to reverse-engineer microchips or access the stored secret data.

      Dowload the file here «PhDOfferVO2Random_V2.pdf» (172.4 Ko)

      Published on February 23, 2024



    • PhD - Ultrafast laser interaction for chemical and topological functionalization of surfaces

      Start: January 2024

      Application deadline: 30th September 2023

      Location: Split time between the Laboratoire Hubert Curien (Université Jean Monnet - UJM, St-Etienne), and the Laboratoire Georges Friedel (École des Mines de Saint-Étienne), with regular mobilities at the University of Ottawa's Photonics Research Centre.

      Interested candidates should send a CV and a cover letter to both:

      • Florent Bourquard, Associate Professor   florent.bourquard @ univ-st-etienne.fr 
      • Florence Garrelie, Full Professor  florence.garrelie @ univ-st-etienne.fr 

      The goal of this work is to exploit ultrafast laser-matter interaction to generate new surface functionalization by not only creating topographical texturation but also by modifying and controlling the chemical state of the irradiated substrate, in particular oxidation processes and stoichiometry modifications in the case of alloys.

      Download the file here: «PhDOfferUltraChem_September 2023.pdf» (164.9 Ko)

      Published on September 11, 2023



    • PhD - Vanadium Dioxide-Based Films for Randomizing Photonic Emission and Absorption of Integrated Circuits

      Start: October 2023

      Application deadline: 30th April 2023

      Location: Laboratoire Hubert Curien, Université Jean Monnet (UJM), St-Etienne, France. (Both Laser-Matter Interaction + SESAM teams)

      Interested candidates should send a CV to both:

      • Florent Bourquard, Associate Professor   florent.bourquard @ univ-st-etienne.fr 
      • Lilian Bossuet, Professor  lilian.bossuet @ univ-st-etienne.fr 

      The goal is to develop a smart coating that will prevent exploiting the photonic emission and absorption from integrated circuits, effectively limiting the use of optical techniques to reverse-engineer microchips or access the stored secret data.

      Download the file here: «PhDOfferVO2.pdf» (137.7 Ko)

      Published on March 27, 2023



Postdoc openings

    • Post-doc - Quantum-mechanical modeling of ultrafast photoexcitation inside semiconductors

      Start: April-May 2025

      Duration: up to 24 months

      Location: Laboratoire Hubert Curien, Université Jean Monnet (UJM), St-Etienne, France

      Application deadline: April 1st, 2025

      Interested candidates should send a CV + short cover letter to:

      • Dr. Elena Kachan elena.kachan @ univ-st-etienne.fr 

      The project seeks to develop a computationally efficient quantum-mechanical model of a femtosecond laser pulse propagation inside semiconductors such as Si and GaAs.

      Download the detailed offer here

      Published on December 19, 2024



    • Post-doc in advanced ultrafast laser beam engineering and processing

      Start: October 2023 at the earliest

      Duration: 24 months

      Location: Laboratoire Hubert Curien, Université Jean Monnet (UJM), St-Etienne, France

      Interested candidates should send a CV + cover letter + recommendation letters by e-mail to both:

      • Dr. Sedao   xxx.sedao @ univ-st-etienne.fr 
      • Dr. Razvan Stoian  razvan.stoian @ univ-st-etienne.fr 

      The project seeks to investigate the possibilities of femtosecond (fs) laser processing to enable a new methodology for optical substrates dicing.

      Dowload the file here: «Hiring announcement post-doc_labo Hubert Curien.pdf» (146.2 Ko)

      Published on August 23, 2023



    • Post-doc offer: Study of the biological behaviour of PVD thin film metallic glasses: effect of an ultrashort laser treatment

      Start: October 2022
      Duration: 1 year

      Location: Laboratoire MATEIS, Villeurbanne https://mateis.insa-lyon.fr/

      Gross salary: approx. 2750 €/month (depending on past experience)

      Interested candidates should send a short CV (including list of papers/communications) + cover letter by e-mail at:

      • Philippe Steyer  philippe.steyer @ insa-lyon.fr

      Download the job offer

      Download the PDF file here (232.9 Ko)

      Published on August 23, 2022



    • Surface machining using temporally and spatially shaped pulses

      Download the job offer

      Published on July 12, 2021



Master internship openings

    • Internship - Ultrafast laser interaction for chemical and topological functionalization of surfaces

      Period: March to August 2024

      Application deadline: 15th December 2023

      Locations: Laboratoire Hubert Curien (Université Jean Monnet - UJM, St-Etienne) / Laboratoire Georges Friedel (École des Mines de Saint Étienne) / Center for Research in Photonics CRPuO (University of Ottawa, Canada)

      The goal of this work is to exploit ultrafast laser-matter interaction to generate new surface functionalization by not only creating topographical texturation but also by modifying and controlling the chemical state of the irradiated substrate, in particular oxidation processes and stoichiometry modifications in the case of alloys.

      Interested candidates should send a CV to both:

      • Florence Garrelie, Professor florence.garrelie @ univ-st-etienne.fr 
      • Florent Bourquard, Associate Professor florent.bourquard @ univ-st-etienne.fr 

      Download the file «Internship offer Ultrachem.pdf» (163.4 Ko)

      Published on December 4, 2023



    • Internship - Vanadium Dioxide-Based Films for Randomizing Photonic Emission and Absorption of Integrated Circuits

      Period: March to August 2024

      Application deadline: 15th December 2023

      Location: Laboratoire Hubert Curien (Université Jean Monnet - UJM, St-Etienne)

      The goal is to develop a smart coating that will prevent exploiting the photonic emission and absorption from integrated circuits, effectively limiting the use of optical techniques to reverse-engineer microchips or access the stored secret data.

      Interested candidates should send a CV to both:

      • Florent Bourquard, Associate Professor florent.bourquard @ univ-st-etienne.fr 
      • Lilian Bossuet, Professor lilian.bossuet @ univ-st-etienne.fr 

      Download the file «Internship Offer VO2.pdf» (139.4 Ko)

      Published on December 4, 2023



    • Master 2 Internship - Advanced Laser Patterning for Engineering Standardized Bio-chips

      Duration: 6 months, starting 2025

      Location: Laboratoire Hubert Curien (Université Jean Monnet - UJM, St-Etienne)

      A bio-chip with a vast variety of nanostructures on the chip would enable fast screening and inspire advanced designs of functional surfaces for many biological/biomedical applications (screening human cells, bacteria and smaller sub-cell units, etc). This internship is to design and fabricate such bio-chips using state-of-the-art ultrafast laser micro-/nano-processing technology.

      Interested candidates should send a CV, cover letter, letter of recommendation/contacts to both:

      • Dr Sedao  xxx.sedao @ univ-st-etienne.fr 
      • Nicolas Faure nicolas.faure @ univ-st-etienne.fr 

      Download the file «Master 2 Internship - Advanced Laser Patterning for Engineering Standardized Bio-chips.pdf» (159 Ko)

      Published on August 27, 2024