We are continuously looking for highly innovative Postdoctoral Research Scientists, PhD and MS Students, and Research Assistants with advanced skills in laser-based materials characterization, optical instrumentation development, materials property measurements, characterization and experiment automation, theory and numerical modeling for the following R&D projects targeting advanced energy, electronics & biomedical applications:

 

(1) Nano- and micro-scale thermal conduction and acoustics across materials          and interfaces: 

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     - Femtosecond laser-based time- and frequency- domain thermoreflectance
     - Picosecond acoustics and time-domain Brillouin interferometry
     - Continuous laser-based spatial-domain thermoreflectance, Raman,                                         photoluminescence and absorption techniques
    - Thermal conduction and acoustic wave phenomena in ion implanted and swift heavy          ion irradiated solids, in nano-engineered thin films and interfaces, super-lattices and           soft matter
    - Optical design & construction, measurements, signal processing, data analysis &                automation
   - Theory and numerical modeling of nano- and micro-scale thermal conduction and              ultrasonics

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(2) High Temperature Thermophysics of Refractory Materials:

     

      -  Nanosecond laser pulse-driven melting, ablation, acoustic wave  generation, 
      -  Time- and spatially- resolved laser vibrometry, spectral radiometry, reflectometry,              Raman scattering, photo-luminescence and optical absorption
      -  Optical design & construction, measurements, signal processing, data analysis &                automation
      - Theory and numerical modeling of laser-matter interaction including laser pulse-                driven fast heating, strain and thermal radiation phenomena, elastic wave                         generation 

 

(3) GHz Visco-Elastometry of Complex Soft Matter:

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    - Spontaneous and stimulated Brillouin light scattering micro-spectroscopies

    - Molecular hydrodynamics, nonlinear and linear opto-acoustics & high frequency       

      rheometry of complex soft matter

    - Optical design & construction, measurements & automation

    - Theory and numerical modeling of high-frequency rheological phenomena

 

Interested candidates should send their CV to Prof. Zhandos Utegulov:

 

Email: zhutegulov@nu.edu.kz​

Tel: +7 (7172) 70 65 54,

       +7 (705) 706 4455