The Wits Innovation Centre invites applications for a prestigious postdoctoral fellowship which will advance interdisciplinary research innovation at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, one of the leading research universities in Africa.
Applications are encouraged by practicing artists with a PhD in any creative discipline who wish to engage in high level long term interdisciplinary artistic research in the Structured Light Laboratory in the Wits Department of Physics.
We are in the ‘century of the photon’, with the hope of harnessing light for a brighter future. To fully exploit light, it needs to be sculptured and moulded for purpose, tailored much like cloth, weaving an intricate pattern into the fabric of light itself: structured light. The team at the Structured Light Laboratory exercise this control digitally with common projector technology, customising bright light and quantum light in both space and time. The group uses these new forms of structured light for all-digital light-based processes, non-invasive nanoscale optical metrology, lab-on-a-chip chemistry for detecting water pollutants, designing our future communication networks for fast and quantum-enabled security, and imaging complex (living) structures with a quantum microscope. The vision is structured light as an enabling tool, the vehicle by which we tour the scientific landscape.
The fellowship will initially be for one year, renewable on an annual basis for up to three years. The value of the Fellowship package is R321,560 (~19,800 EUR) per annum, which includes relocation costs, medical aid, and research expenses.
