Postdoc / Innovative materials for 3D printing applied to microwave telecommunications

Keywords: Additive technology, 3D printing, polymer composites, microwave, extrusion, fused deposition modeling, dielectric and magnetic characterization
Owing to its high flexibility and its capacity to easily realize complex geometries, 3D printing appears today as an exciting shaping technique in different fields. Applications in the medical industry and design are now well developed, and other industrial fields, including the automotive industry and electronics, have recently become interested in this technology. Numerous commercial printable materials are now available but their limited range of dynamic properties (i.e. low permittivity and moderate dielectric losses) do not correspond to the needs of microwave designers. Thus, the aim of this post-doctoral position will be to develop new innovative printable materials for microwave applications (lossy materials, magnetic composites, low-loss dielectrics) in order to enlarge the potential applications of 3D printing technologies in the field of microwave telecommunications.
We are thus looking for highly motivated postdoctoral researchers for building together an innovative project to apply for a Marie-Sklodowska Curie European Fellowships to the next call (September 2017). If funded by the European Program, the project will start in May 2018.
Full description of the project and team : ENG#1
Detailed information about the welcoming and application procedures : UBO-DEI

MSCA-EF are prestigious fellowships funded by the European Commission.
They offer a rare opportunity to talented scientists: the chance to set
up research programmes of their own. They provide an attractive grant
for 1 to 2 years including salaries and allowances for mobility, family
and research.

Applicants must be «Experienced Researchers» (i.e. by the time of the MSCA deadline, be in possession of a doctoral degree or have at least four years of full-time equivalent research experience).
Applicants can be of any nationality but must not have spent more than 12 months in France in the 3 years immediately prior to MSCA deadline.

To apply, please e-mail your expression of interest to anne-sophie.refloch@u-bretagneloire.fr (object of the email : MSCA application), joining the following documents (in pdf format):
-a CV (including a list of publications and the exact date of your stay in each position and/or country)
- a research outline document (up to 2 pages) describing the possible research activities you want to pursue at UBO and identifying the research synergies with the UBO faculty members / pre-identified topics.

Following the reception of your application, the eligibility of your profile for a MSCA-EF application will be checked and the identified supervisor will be contacted.