Postdoctoral
positions
available:
We are currently offering several postdoctoral positions to highly
motivated and well-qualified young researchers who intend to enhance
their career in the field of quantum information science. The
successful
candidates will work in the research group for quantum information
theory led by Prof. Jens Eisert at the University of Potsdam in the
Berlin-Potsdam metropolitan area.
The positions will be funded either by the EU project COMPAS (Computing
with Mesoscopic
Photonic and Atomic States) or by the European
Young Research Investigator Award of the group leader.
For work in the former
context, a strong background in quantum information over continuous
variables and quantum optics would be required.
For the latter,
research will be devoted to several aspects of quantum information
science, specifically to the interface between quantum information
science and quantum many-body theory or to quantum channels and their
capacities.
A good knowledge of
mathematical
methods of physics is desirable. Applicants must also have demonstrated
an excellent research accomplishment in the past.
Candidates must hold a PhD 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, but would be expected to join the group not later
than autumn of 2008.
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.
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. The area is quite certainly among the
regions offering
the highest quality of life in the country. On the one hand, there is
the capital Berlin, with its international
flavour and cultural vitality, on the other hand the quiet and
significantly smaller
adjacent
Potsdam, enjoying a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Status.
The call will be open until
suitable candidates are identified.
