Associate Professor at the Institute of Metallurgy and Materials Science Polish Academy of Sciences

About the position

Associate Professor at the Institute of Metallurgy and Materials Science Polish Academy of Sciences

Research Field: Technology » Materials technology

Researcher Profile: Established Researcher (R3)

Job Status: Full-time

Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme?: Not funded by a EU programme

Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?: No

Carrying out research and scientific work in the Department of Multilayer Materials (DN-7)

The candidate will carry out the tasks set out in the research plan 2024-2027 (contract until 31 December 2027).

Specific Requirements

1) Internships/research fellowships completed at recognised research centres, experience in organising scientific work, obtaining research funding and organising international cooperation,

4) The ability to lead research projects carried out in collaboration with overseas centres as part of international cooperation (including, amongst other things: planning research topics for research teams, leading a team and conducting research in the field of materials engineering);

Years of Research Experience: More than 10

6) list of grants obtained and projects implemented with EU funds, indicating the role performed in the project,

Krupkowski Institute of Metallurgy and Materials Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Krakow, ul.

Krupkowski Institute of Metallurgy and Materials Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences of 15 December 2023, hereinafter referred to as the ‘remuneration regulations’.

In accordance with the provision, the minimum monthly basic remuneration in a scientific unit of the Academy for a researcher may not be lower than 50% of the remuneration specified in the provisions issued on the basis of Article 137(2) of the Act of 20 July 2018 – Law on Higher Education and Science, except that for:

In accordance with Appendix 1 to the remuneration regulations, ‘monthly remuneration rates for academic staff’, the remuneration range for the position of assistant is from the rate specified in Article 91a of the Act on the Polish Academy of Sciences to thirteen times that amount.

a) pursuant to Article 98(1)(1) of the Act on the Polish Academy of Sciences, research staff of the Polish Academy of Sciences are entitled to a length-of-service allowance amounting to 3% of their monthly basic salary after 3 years of service, increasing by 1% in each subsequent year, up to 20% after 20 years of service,

Krupkowski Institute of Metallurgy andMaterials Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences, with its registered office at 25 Reymonta St.,30-059 Krakow, NIP: 675-000-18-57, Regon: 000326374;

Additional funding details:
In accordance with Appendix 1 to the remuneration regulations, ‘monthly remuneration rates for academic staff’, the remuneration range for the position of assistant is from the rate specified in Article 91a of the Act on the Polish Academy of Sciences to thirteen times that amount.
In addition, the Employer pays the following allowances on top of the basic salary:
a) pursuant to Article 98(1)(1) of the Act on the Polish Academy of Sciences, research staff of the Polish Academy of Sciences are entitled to a length-of-service allowance amounting to 3% of their monthly basic salary after 3 years of service, increasing by 1% in each subsequent year, up to 20% after 20 years of service,
c) other allowances to the basic salary, in the amount specified in the remuneration regulations.

What you’ll bring

• Skills/Qualifications
• 2) Experience in conducting structural studies and optoelectronic properties of multilayer semiconductor epitaxial structures and semiconductor materials with modified near-surface regions (laser processing and ion implantation);
• 4) Experience in analyzing diffraction images obtained using transmission electron microscopy and working with supporting software such as CaRine and GATAN.
• 5) Knowledge and practical skills in the field of: modeling the structure of multi-component alloys and determining their properties within the framework of density functional theory (ab-initio calculations); experience in using one of the Materials Studio, VASP, CASTEP or Quantum Espresso software is recommended, as well as in planning and running calculations on supercomputers at the High Efficiency Computing Centre “ACK Cyfronet AGH”;
• atomistic modeling of materials using the classical molecular dynamics method using the LAMMPS software and graphical analysis of results using the OVITO program; modeling of physical phenomena using the finite element method; knowledge of one of the following programs: COMSOL Multiphysics, Ansys or OpenFOAM is recommended;
• 1) Internships/research fellowships completed at recognised research centres, experience in organising scientific work, obtaining research funding and organising international cooperation,
• Eligibility criteria
• 5) Your personal data will not be transferred to a third country/organisation; 5) Your personal datawill be stored until the end of the recruitment process for the job position to which you have appliedor/and until your consent is withdrawn, and only to the extent to which consent has been grantedand for no longer than 6 months for future recruitment purposes
• 6) Your personal data will be stored until the end of the recruitment process for the job position towhich you have applied or/and until you withdraw your consent and only to the extent to which youhave given your consent and no longer than 6 months for future recruitment purposes
• 7) You have the right of access to the content of your data (about the processed data and toreceive a copy of them), the right of rectification, modification, restriction of the processing by dataunnecessary for the purpose of the processing referred to in paragraph 3), the right of dataportability, deletion of data unnecessary for the purpose of the processing referred to in paragraph3), the right to object to data processed for direct marketing.
• 8) You have the right to lodge a complaint with the President of the Office for the Protection ofPersonal Data (formerly GIODO) if you consider that the processing of personal data concerningyou violates the provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation of 27 April 2016;
• Research Field: Technology » Materials technology
• Education Level: PhD or equivalent

At a glance

Position type

Associate Professor

Institution

Instytut Metalurgii i Inżynierii Materiałowej im. A Krupkowskiego Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Department

Department of Multilayer Materials

Research group

Not stated

Location

Poland, PL
Instytut Metalurgii i Inżynierii Materiałowej im. A Krupkowskiego Polskiej Akademii Na, United Kingdom, GB

Supervisor / contact person

Not stated

Funding

Salaried
Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme?: Not funded by a EU programme
1) Internships/research fellowships completed at recognised research centres, experience in organising scientific work, obtaining research funding and organising international cooperation,
The basic remuneration provided for the Employee is PLN 8010 (eight thousand and ten).
The rate is specified in the remuneration regulations of the A.
Krupkowski Institute of Metallurgy and Materials Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences of 15 December 2023, hereinafter referred to as the ‘remuneration regulations’.
In accordance with the provision, the minimum monthly basic remuneration in a scientific unit of the Academy for a researcher may not be lower than 50% of the remuneration specified in the provisions issued on the basis of Article 137(2) of the Act of 20 July 2018 – Law on Higher Education and Science, except that for:
– of this remuneration.

Duration

Not stated

Expected start

Not stated

Vacancy reference

EURAXESS-463439

Research focus

Discipline

Materials Science

Research area

Semiconductors, Metallurgy

Methods

DFT, Molecular dynamics (MD), Finite element method, Microscopy

Software

Quantum ESPRESSO, VASP, LAMMPS, CASTEP, COMSOL, ANSYS, MATLAB

Dates to know

Listed on FOSS Positions

17 Sep 2026

Original advertisement date

Not stated in the source

Application deadline

18 Sep 2026 · 14:00 UTC

Priority review date

Not stated

Last checked

17 Sep 2026

Last updated

17 Sep 2026

2026-09-18T14:00:00+00:00

How to apply

Application Deadline: 18 Sep 2026 - 16:00 (Europe/Warsaw)
Where to apply
Internal Application form(s) needed
Where to submit documents: A. Krupkowski Institute of Metallurgy and Materials Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Krakow, ul. Reymonta 25, 30-059 Krakow, Institute Secretariat in person or electronically to office@imim.pl. The offer/subject line of the message should include the note ‘offer for the position of (position name) in the laboratory (laboratory name)’. Please use the form attached to the offer. The editable version of the form can be downloaded from www.imim.pl. The offer/subject line of the message should include the note ‘offer for the position of (position name) in the laboratory (laboratory name)’.The editable version of the form can be downloaded from www.imim.pl
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https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/463439

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