Postdoctoral Research Associate

Full time: 35 hours per week

Fixed term: for 6 months

Where curiosity becomes impact

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The Opportunity

The Research Associate position will contribute to the project ‘Beyond Line-of-Sight Diffuse Optical Wireless Communication (BOLD) within the Institute for Imaging, Data and Communications (IDCOM) at the University of Edinburgh.

The role is UE07 and is available on a 6 months fixed term contract.

A full list of main responsibilities and the knowledge, skills and experience required for the role can be found in the full job description below.

Your skills and attributes for success: 

• A PhD and first degree in Communications Engineering, Electronic Engineering or a closely related subject
• Experience of electronic systems design including PCB layout/prototyping.
• Knowledge and experience of Optical Communications
• Knowledge and experience of experimental optical wireless communications system design and modelling.
• Knowledge and experience physical layer design for digital communication systems.
• Experience of carrying out experiments in optical communication systems.