The PhD positions form the core of the "Ilmenau School of Green Electronics (ISGE)", which is funded by the Carl Zeiss Foundation with a total of around five million euros. Over the coming years, research will be conducted into the fundamentals of sustainable information technology at the interfaces between bio-inspired microelectronics, intelligent materials, devices and technologies as well as energy-efficient computing, i.e. IT that is largely climate-neutral along the entire value chain.
Successful candidates will receive full funding for up to four years from July 1, 2024.
For the doctoral fellowship holders, ISGE offers a creative and lively research environment with excellent laboratory equipment within the Center for Micro and Nanotechnologies , a comprehensive scientific supervision and study program as well as integration into a broad international scientific network.
The research scope of the projects includes:
- reservoir computing based on optical and micro-electromechanical principles
- neuromorphic computing, bio-inspired circuits, and neural networks
- low energy data analytics and stream processing, (optical) in-network computing
- efficient AI-based signal processing
- greener microtechnologies and materials
- computing based on organic components
The position of Scientific Group Leader (PostDoc, f/m/d), which will be part of the board of the of the Ilmenau School of Green Electronics, is also being advertised,