Project Introduction
Life and health are a major issue concerning people’s well-being. Among various human body fluids, tear fluid contains a variety of inorganic salts, proteins, metabolites, and biomarkers, which can provide abundant and critical information for health monitoring and clinical disease diagnosis. However, there is still a lack of real-time, continuous, in-situ, and non-invasive analytical and testing methods for tear fluid, which creates challenges in the diagnosis and treatment of many ocular and systemic diseases.
Professor Wei Ma’s group at the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, has achieved a series of influential research achievements in multimodal physiological signal detection based on organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs) (Nat. Electron. 2023, 6, 281; npj Flex. Electron. 2022, 6, 77). The team led by Chief Physician Li Li at the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University has long been engaged in clinical and applied basic research on ocular surface diseases and corneal diseases.
Against the background of Xi’an’s construction as a National Medical Center and Regional Medical Center, and Xi’an Jiaotong University’s development of interdisciplinary medical postdoctoral researchers, the two teams are now jointly recruiting
2 interdisciplinary postdoctoral researchers for the project entitled
“Contact Lenses Integrated with Smart Molecular Optoelectronic Devices”. This project aims to leverage the team’s strengths in OECT-based physiological signal detection to develop smart contact lenses that meet the practical needs of clinical diagnosis and treatment.
Recruitment Requirements
Applicants must hold a doctoral degree (generally awarded within the past 3 years), be under 32 years of age, and be in good physical and mental health.
Research background in one of the following fields: organic semiconductors, polymer physics, polymer chemistry, polymer processing, or ophthalmology.
Candidates should have demonstrated outstanding achievements in related fields and strong academic potential.
Interested applicants should visit the Xi’an Jiaotong University recruitment website (
careers.xjtu.edu.cn), click
“Position Categories” → “Postdoctoral”, and select
“Postdoctoral Position in the Research Team of Contact Lenses Integrated with Smart Molecular Optoelectronic Devices” to submit an online application.
Application deadline: June 25, 2023.
Preliminary contact with the team leaders before application is welcome.
Salary and Promotion
The appointment period for interdisciplinary medical postdocs is generally
4 years, divided into
Type A and
Type B, both with annual salary.
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Type A:
Annual salary of
200,000 RMB for the first two years.
For those who pass the mid-term assessment with a grade of “Qualified” or higher, the annual salary will be increased to
250,000 RMB for the next two years, with a lump-sum back-payment of
100,000 RMB for the first two years.
Those who fail the assessment will be transferred to Type B.
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Type B:
Annual salary of
160,000 RMB.
Those with an “Excellent” mid-term assessment may apply for promotion to Type A. Upon approval by the School of Medicine expert review, the Faculty Appointment Committee, and the special panel, the annual salary will be adjusted to
250,000 RMB.
Additional benefits:
Social insurance and housing fund are provided in accordance with national regulations, at a standard no less than that for similar personnel at the university.
Additional awards from the school/department and research team are available, not included in the contractual salary.
Postdocs are eligible for the university’s policies for children’s education and may rent talent apartments.
The university reserves
special promotion quotas for senior academic positions for interdisciplinary medical postdocs, with priority support for applications to various talent programs.
Those who complete the appointment with a qualified evaluation and meet the university’s talent program criteria or senior professional title promotion requirements may apply for corresponding positions at the university. Those who meet the promotion requirements of the affiliated hospital may also apply for promotion at the hospital, with personnel relations transferred to the hospital upon appointment. Postdocs may also apply for the qualification of associate senior professional title upon completion of the postdoc appointment.
Those who fulfill the contractual tasks ahead of schedule and meet the relevant promotion conditions may apply for corresponding positions at any time during the appointment period.
Contact Information
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Professor Wei Ma
Email: msewma@xjtu.edu.cn
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Professor & Chief Physician Li Li
Email: eyelili2010@mail.xjtu.edu.cn
Brief Introduction of Team Leaders
Professor Wei Ma
Professor Wei Ma was awarded the
National Leading Talent Program (2020), the
National Outstanding Youth Talent Program (2015), and serves as the Principal Investigator of the Shaanxi Provincial Scientific and Technological Innovation Team (2019).
His research focuses on organic optoelectronic materials and devices. In recent years, he has published more than
100 research papers as first or corresponding author in prestigious journals including
Nature Materials,
Nature Electronics,
Nature Energy,
Advanced Materials, and other journals with impact factor > 15. His publications have received over
50,000 SCI citations, with an
H-index of 109. He has been listed as a
Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher for 8 consecutive years (2018–2025).
He currently serves as a Council Member of the Youth Working Committee of the Chinese Materials Research Society, a Youth Editorial Board Member of
Chinese Journal of Chemistry, and an Editorial Board Member of
InfoMat.
His team’s research has been recognized by Sandia National Laboratories and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory as
“highly valuable for the development of multifunctional analog circuits that emulate the perception and learning of biological neural networks”
and
“promising for applications in brain–computer interfaces.”
Professor Li Li
Li Li, MD, PhD, Chief Physician, and PhD Supervisor, is the Deputy Director of the Department of Ophthalmology at the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University.
She is a member of the Ocular Infection Group of the Ophthalmologist Branch of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association, the Corneal Disease Group of the Ophthalmology Branch of the Chinese Women Medical Doctor Association, and the Ocular Surface and Tear Disease Group of the Cross-Straits Medical Exchange Association.
Her research focuses on clinical and applied basic studies of ocular surface diseases and corneal diseases, with publications in
American Journal of Ophthalmology (AJO),
CORNEA,
Acta Ophthalmologica, and other professional journals.
She has hosted
2 National Natural Science Foundation projects and
3 Shaanxi Provincial Science and Technology projects (including 1 key industrial chain project). She has published
16 SCI papers and more than
20 Chinese core journal papers as first or corresponding author. She has participated in the formulation of several national clinical guidelines and expert consensuses, including the
Chinese Expert Consensus on the Clinical Application of Therapeutic Bandage Contact Lenses,
Consensus on Viral Endothelitis, and
Clinical Consensus on Acanthamoeba Keratitis.
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