PhD Scholarships in Photonics

Supported by the Graduate School Scholarship Program (GSSP) of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the Abbe School of Photonics of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena is offering 2 PhD Scholarships in Photonics
starting in 2023.

Each GSSP PhD scholarship includes:

• a scholarship installment of currently 1.200 EUR per month,
• an annual travel allowance,
• payments towards health, accident and personal liability insurance cover,
• a preliminary German language course at the start of the scholarship,
• 36 months duration, possible extension for another 12 months.

GSSP eligibility criteria

• GSSP PhD candidates must hold or be about to obtain a Master degree in Physics, Chemistry or a related field with sufficient exposure to photonics. The Master degree must be not older than 6 years.
• GSSP PhD candidates must be of non-German nationality and must not have resided in Germany for more than 15 months prior to the nomination.

Important note: Even if you do not fulfill one or several of these eligibility criteria, we strongly encourage you to apply! We are regularly offering a large pool of currently more than 5 PhD topics with different options to engage you – see www.acp.uni-jena.de/jobs.

Submission of applications

Please apply via the online application system of the Abbe School of Photonics: https://www.uni-jena.de/asp_online_application

The application deadline is January 31, 2023. The following documents will requested during the online application procedure:

• Transcripts of Records (ToRs) displaying the explicit marks of all completed courses within your Bachelor and Master studies. If available, a description with the explicit content of the courses will support your application.
• A comprehensive curriculum vitae (CV). Please list all stages of your education in chronological order. The CV must contain a clear statement about your current status and/or occupation including information on current employments, unemployment, or parental leave. Any prizes, scholarship, extraordinary social, cultural or sportive activities may also be part of your CV.
• A copy of your passport.
• A proof of English knowledge certifying suitable proficiency of the English language to perform a PhD in photonics in an internationalized environment.
• A letter of motivation (1 to 2 pages in length and to be typed). It should describe your personal background, interests and reasons for applying to this scholarship. In there, please include a clear statement on your preference(s) of up to four of the below offered PhD projects and/or your preferred supervisor(s).
• The supply of further documents, such as e.g. two support letters from referees of the home university are recommended, but not mandatory at this preliminary stage.

GSSP PhD projects 2023

• 1 - Optical computing with cavity solitons, supervised by Dr. Mario Chemnitz and Prof. Ulf Peschel
• 2 - Solid-state Quantum Systems, supervised by Dr. Tobias Vogl and Prof. Volker Deckert
• 3 - Metasurfaces meet multicore fibers: a platform for generating complex states of
light, supervised by Prof. Markus Schmidt and Prof. Carsten Ronning
• 4 - Time-resolved coincidence spectroscopy with high-flux XUV source, supervised by Dr. Matthias Kübel and Prof. Gerhard Paulus
• 5 - Ultrafast Carrier dynamics across porous Au nanoparticle-TiO2 Schottky interface, supervised by Dr. Nikita Vashishta and Prof. Benjamin Dietzek-Ivansic
• 6 - Light-controlled properties of bio-inspired membranes, supervised by Prof. Benjamin Dietzek-Ivansic and Prof. Michael Schmitt
• 7 - Ultra-high-resolution bio membrane imaging by topological plasmonic
superfocusing microscopy, supervised by Prof. Thomas Pertsch and Prof. Axel Brakhage
• 8 - Quantum light sources and processing in hybrid nanosystems, supervised by Dr. Frank Setzpfandt, Dr. Sina Saravi and Dr. Eilenberger

Application procedure and further timeline

• January 31, 2023: Abbe School of Photonics application deadline
• 03/2023: pre-selection announcement of the Abbe School of Photonics
• 04/2023: official candidate nomination by the DAAD
• 08/2023: approximate start of DAAD German language course in Germany
• 10/2023: approximate start of the PhD research work at the Abbe School of Photonics in Jena, Germany

For more information, please check our websites www.asp.uni-jena.de and www.asp.uni-jena.de/GSSP. Any questions concerning the PhD projects should be directed to the respective supervisor. Technical questions concerning the application procedure should be directed to [email protected].