{"id":2799,"date":"2021-02-15T16:07:48","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T16:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/eda-news\/?p=2799"},"modified":"2021-02-15T16:07:48","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T16:07:48","slug":"academic-vacancy-research-associate-in-photonic-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/2021\/02\/15\/academic-vacancy-research-associate-in-photonic-engineering\/","title":{"rendered":"Academic vacancy: Research Associate in Photonic Engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are seeking a talented and motivated postdoctoral Research Associate to join the <a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/communications\/\">Communications Group<\/a> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-digital-arts\">School of Engineering and Digital Arts<\/a> at the University of Kent. The application deadline is Sunday 28 February 2021.<\/p>\n<p>As Research Associate you will apply state-of-the-art microwave photonics techniques to develop highly efficient optical fibre true time delay unit for ultrawideband array antennas. This project is funded by an EPSRC research programme and titled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/gow.epsrc.ukri.org\/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP\/S005625\/1\">Low-Profile Ultra-Wideband Wide-Scanning Multi-Function Beam-Steerable Array Antennas<\/a>&#8220;. The project&#8217;s main supervisor is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-digital-arts\/people\/735\/wang-chao\">Dr Chao Wang<\/a>, Senior Lecturer in Electronic Systems, and the Co-supervisor is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-digital-arts\/people\/670\/gao-steven\">Professor Steven Gao<\/a>, Professor of RF\/Microwave Engineering.<\/p>\n<p>The appointee will:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>meet the objectives of the relevant project work packages according to the direction of the investigators<\/li>\n<li>support the research of other team members under the direction of the principal investigator<\/li>\n<li>contribute to internal research progress meetings with other investigators and researchers<\/li>\n<li>read literature and share appropriate articles with the investigator team, regular literature reviews will be undertaken<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The role is full time and fixed term (18 months).<\/p>\n<p>Further information, including full job description and application link, can be found on Kent&#8217;s job website, here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/jobs.kent.ac.uk\/Vacancy.aspx?ref=CEMS-037-21\">https:\/\/jobs.kent.ac.uk\/Vacancy.aspx?ref=CEMS-037-21<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are seeking a talented and motivated postdoctoral Research Associate to join the Communications Group in the School of Engineering and Digital Arts at the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/2021\/02\/15\/academic-vacancy-research-associate-in-photonic-engineering\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55813,"featured_media":2800,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[99385,842,124,70],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2799"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55813"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2801,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2799\/revisions\/2801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}