A cover letter is required for consideration for this position and should be attached as the first page of your resume. The cover letter should address your specific interest in the position and outline skills and experience that directly relate to this position.Professor Herbert Winful at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor is seeking a postdoctoral fellow to conduct theoretical research in a number of areas including novel schemes for synchronizing semiconductor laser arrays, mode locking in multicore and multi-mode fiber lasers, spatiotemporal dynamics of degenerate-cavity lasers, and the general problem of controlling chaos in nonlinear optical systems. The research will be conducted as part of a Multi-University Research Initiative (MURI) led by Yale University. The ideal c