Postdoctoral
positions
available:
We are currently offering postdoctoral positions and a PhD position to
highly motivated and well-qualified young researchers who intend to
enhance their career in the field of quantum information science,
quantum many-body theory or quantum optics. The successful candidates
will work in the research group for quantum information theory led by
Prof. Jens Eisert at the University of Potsdam and the Institute for
Advanced Study Berlin in the Berlin-Potsdam metropolitan area.
The positions will be funded by the European Young Research
Investigator Award of the group leader. A good knowledge of
mathematical methods of physics is desirable. Focus areas will be the
description of quantum many-body systems with tensor networks, the
study of the mathematical foundations of quantum information theory,
and research on optomechanical systems. Applicants must also have
demonstrated an excellent research accomplishment in the past.
Candidates must hold a degree in physics, mathematics or computer
science, or provide evidence for the successful completion of the
requirements in the near future. The appointed candidate could start as
soon as possible.
The postdoctoral positions would first be available first for either
one or two years, and could be extended following a successful
development of the initial phase. Interested candidates are invited to
submit
a letter indicating the main research interests,
a detailed curriculum vitae,
a list of publications,
the electronic (email) contact details of three
potential referees.
All applications should be
sent in electronic form to jense[at]qipc.org and
bivoigt[at]rz.uni-potsdam.de.
The salary will be of the E13 type on the German payment scale.
For an overview over the research activities, see www.jense.qipc.org,
or consult the preprint server under www.arxiv.org.
The group is based in Potsdam, in the science park comprising the Max
Planck Institutes and the science departments of the university, at the
outskirts of the
Berlin metropolitan area, which is Germany's capital and one of
Europe's largest cities. The Berlin-Brandenburg area is one of the
country's two major research
centres, with four major universities and eight Max Planck institutes.
