Assistant Professor (non-tenure track) for development of advanced DNP instrumentation and methods with optical excitation

Applications are invited for a non-tenure track assistant professor position for a period of 22 months in the research group of Professor Niels Chr. Nielsen. The position is available from September 1st, 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter.

Job description/research project/research area

The position is funded by a recently awarded grant from the Novo Nordic Foundation entitled Triplet-state DNP and EPR for Room-Temperature Quantum Sensing.

The project will involve building and integrating a laser-system into our home-build X-band pulsed DNP/EPR system to enable optical excitation of unpaired electron states to support high-sensitivity room-temperature quantum sensing. Besides the establishment of the experimental setup, this involves the design of pulsed DNP and EPR methods using advanced theoretical and numerical methods based on optimal control to optimize sensor selectivity and sensitivity. Using this setup, different sensor ...