SOLEIL is the French national synchrotron radiation center, located on the Saclay plateau near Paris. As a unique tool for academic research and industrial applications, SOLEIL is used every year by several thousand French and foreign researchers. This TGIR, “Très Grande Infrastructure de Recherche (Very Large Research Infrastructure)”, a partner of the University of Paris-Saclay, is constituted as a “civil” company founded jointly by the CNRS and the CEA.
The job
We are looking for a highly talented and motivated experimental physicist to join our R&D team at Soleil synchrotron to define, design and integrate our detection systems.
The team
Our team, part of the science division, is responsible for the development of detection systems, primarily Xray detection systems, in use on the various beamlines at Soleil synchrotron facility.
The SOLEIL ecosystem
The detector group at Soleil synchrotron focuses on developing innovative solutions that will enable the most advanced experiments on the beamlines in various fields of science and technology.
We are responsible for structuring the various detection activities into R&D projects, equipping the facility with efficient detectors, and preparing for future needs by leading novel developments at the forefront of detection technologies.
This mission, performed in close collaboration with beamline scientists, is achieved by leveraging connections with partner synchrotron institutes, academic labs, and industrial partnerships, in France, Europe, and beyond.
We develop and use advanced simulations and perform experimental work in advanced in-house labs to perform basic research of novel ideas and materialize them to the level of a working technology. We leverage a comprehensive multidisciplinary R&D eco-system existing at our facility: software, algorithms, hardware…
Our group of engineers and physicists solves the most complicated detection challenges to enable each beamline to harvest top quality and reliable data. Creative thinking is our day-to-day practice. With about 30 beamlines at Soleil synchrotron facility, your curiosity will find matching challenges.
What you will be doing
- Development of Xray detection techniques and new detector technologies.
- Experimental laboratory work, light-matter interaction simulations, modeling of physical phenomena relevant to the detection aspects.
- Lead investigations of physical problems related to detection techniques
- Understand the physical limitations of todays’ detection systems (count rate, photon energies, pixel size…) and suggest new detection concepts based on physical principles, simulation and experimental works.
- Be ready to deep dive into fundamentals of semiconductor device physics
- Collaborate with different R&D disciplines in-house
- Lead partnerships with research institutes and industrial companies.
- Present the results obtained at international conferences and write scientific publications.
Your qualifications
- PhD in experimental or applied physics (post-doc is an advantage)
- Experience as an experimental physicist – lab work, interfacing lab instruments, low noise measurement techniques.
- Experience in fields of solid-state physics, physics of semiconductor devices, radiation detection – advantage
- Experience in numerical simulations (Python, MATLAB), firmware, machine learning and big data – advantage.