"Tenure Track Researcher in Mid-IR Supercontinuum-based OCT with Intelligent Software"

Technical University of Denmark - DTU Electro

Location:	Lyngby - Denmark
Salary:	Based on the collective agreement with the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations
Hours:	Full Time
Contract Type:	Permanent, Fixed-Term/Contract

Placed On: 9th February 2026

Closes: 23rd February 2026

If you aim at scientific excellence and want to establish a career as a scientist within supercontinuum fiber lasers and their high-level application within optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging, then we have the ideal opportunity for you - come and be a part of one of the world’s strongest groups in this field.

Responsibilities and qualifications

Your specific research area will the design, development, and characterization of supercontinuum fiber lasers and OCT systems that use these lasers. You will use the OCT scanners to perform a wide variety of OCT scans with particular emphasis on mid-IR OCT and industrial applications. In parallel with the hardware development, you will work on developing associated intelligent OCT software to improve scanner performance and image quality.

In addition to the research mentioned above you will be expected to supervise both experimental and theoretical postdocs and PhD students working in the field. We therefore require you to have strong experimental qualifications within fiber optics, fiber lasers and measurements of fiber loss, dispersion, and laser intensity noise, as well as in supercontinuum-based OCT. You must document a drive to build things yourself and finish projects with high-profile publications.

You must contribute to the teaching of courses. DTU employs two working languages: Danish and English. You are expected to be fluent in at least one of these languages, and in time are expected to master both.

As formal qualification you must hold a PhD degree (or equivalent).

You will be assessed against the responsibilities and qualifications stated above and the following general criteria:

• Research experience
• Experience and quality of teaching
• Research vision and potential
• International impact and experience
• Societal impact
• Innovativeness, including commercialization and collaboration with industry
• Leadership, collaboration, and interdisciplinary skills
• Communication skills

Salary and terms of employment

The appointment will be based on the collective agreement with the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations. The allowance will be agreed upon with the relevant union.

The position is part of DTU’s Tenure Track program. Read more about the program and the recruitment process here.

Application procedure

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DTU Electro has 200+ employees with competences in Electronics, optics & photonics and is one of the largest photonics centers in the world based solely on research in photonics. Research in Photonics is performed within optical sensors, lasers, LEDs, photovoltaics, ultra-high speed optical transmission systems, bio-photonics, nano-optics and quantum photonics.