Professor in Photonics

**Who are we?**

Télécom Paris, a school of the IMT (Institut Mines-Télécom) and a founding member of the Institut Polytechnique de Paris, is one of France's top 5 general engineering schools.
The raison d'être of Télécom Paris is to train, imagine and undertake to design digital models, technologies and solutions for a society and economy that respect people and their environment.
Télécom Paris is positioned as an open-air laboratory for all the major technological and societal challenges: artificial intelligence, quantum computing, IOT, cybersecurity, major digital facilities (Cloud), 5G/6G, Green IT.

We are looking for a professor in photonics and optical communications to join the Optical Telecommunications Group (GTO) in the Communications and Electronics Department (COMELEC).
The GTO group conducts research into short
- and long-distance communications, optical network architectures, semiconductor optical components and integrated photonics for communications, and recently into quantum communications and technologies. The group is also well positioned in the field of fibre sensors.

**Your main tasks will be to**:

- Design and implement teaching in your scientific field
- Conduct research in your scientific field
- Develop and maintain partnerships, collaborations and contractual relations in your scientific field.
- Technologies / Photonic components / Silicon optics
- Optoelectronics / Semiconductor lasers
- Optical communications systems
- Digital signal processing for future generations of optical systems
- Quantum information processing
- Integration of electronics and photonics
- Innovative use of AI for optical devices, systems and networks
- Photonic technologies for AI

To be successful in this role, you will need to have a habilitation to direct research or an equivalent level, you will need to have in-depth knowledge, both theoretical and applied, in the field but also a knowledge of the academic and industrial ecosystem at international level (fluency in English is therefore necessary).

**Why join us?**

You'll be working in a fast-growing, pleasant, green and accessible environment (particularly for people with disabilities) just 20 km from Paris (at 45min from Paris by public transport). You will benefit from:

- 49 days' annual leave (CA + RTT)
- Flexible working hours (depending on the department's activity)
- Teleworking 1 to 3 days/week possible
- 75% reimbursement of public transport season ticket
- Proximity to numerous sports facilities, concierge service, underground car park, in-house catering, etc.
- Staff association at school and department level
- Good to know: our social security contributions are lower than in the private sector

Selection: The selection process takes place in 4 stages:

- Pre-interview with Human Resources
- Final interview with the Director of Télécom Paris

**Additional information**:
Application deadline**:3**1 march 2025**
Type of contract: Permanent
Contact:
Full job description here
- Telecom Paris is an equal-opportunity employer. _
- All our positions are open to individuals with disabilities._