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Research Assistant / PhD Candidate – R1 researcher in open many-body quantum systems

The Center for Theoretical Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (CTP PAS) invites applications for two Research Assistant / PhD Candidate positions in the Modelling Center for Quantum Technologies group led by Dr. Federico Balducci in Warsaw, Poland.

We are currently seeking a PhD candidate to work in experimental quantum optics. The primary focus of this role is to contribute to an externally funded project on photonic quantum state generation and quantum sensing. The project involves coding, simulations, and experimental work in a quantum optics laboratory. Success in this role will require close collaboration with an immediate team consisting of Dr Sergei Slussareno, Dr Farzad Ghafari and Dr Nora Tischler, with further collaborations also likely across a broader network of physicists in Australia and internationally.

We look for outstanding and motivated candidates with a Master related to Physics and a background in Quantum Physics to pursue a PhD at IFISC (UIB-CSIC), Spain. The 3-year PhD position, supervised by Dr. Albert Cabot, will involve theoretical research on the dynamics of open quantum systems and their applications in sensing and reservoir computing.

Applications are invited from outstanding and highly motivated PhD students and postdoctoral researchers with a strong background in quantum computing, quantum algorithms, quantum complexity theory, quantum information theory, entanglement theory, or quantum many body theory.

The positions are partly related to the ERC Consolidator Grant funded research programme BeyondDFT. The Schilling group is expected to relocate permanently to the University of Geneva on 1 September 2026.

🔬 PhD Opportunity in Quantum Computing — Université de Sherbrooke

We're looking for a doctoral candidate to join the Quantum Quick Route (QQR) project, funded by NSERC in partnership with Pasqal, a world leader in neutral-atom quantum computing.

🎯 The mission: develop novel hybrid quantum/classical algorithms to tackle industrial combinatorial optimization problems (VRP, TSP) on real quantum hardware.

We invite applications for a PhD position on the theory of quantum computation, advised by Dominik Hangleiter and co-advised by Renato Renner. What awaits you in our group in Zuerich is a welcoming, open and interactive research environment. Our research is collaborative, interdisciplinary and embedded in the international quantum computing community.

The Director of the MAB QLAB Centre announces a recruitment process for a PhD student position in Group 1 - Quantum-secure communication of MAB QLAB, financed under International Research Agendas (MAB), Measure 2.1 of the European Funds for a Modern Economy 2021-2027 Programme (FENG), project FENG.02.01-IP.05-B013/25, Center for Hybrid Quantum-Classical Information Technologies – QLAB. The successful candidate will be offered an employment contract (umowa o pracę) at the University of Warsaw, on a non-academic-teacher research position.

The Department of Physics at Maynooth University in Co. Kildare, Ireland is pleased to announce that a Ph.D. Scholarship will be available for a suitably qualified and successful applicant intending to commence their PhD studies in September 2026. The student is expected to work in the subject of condensed matter theory and quantum information science. This is a 4 year position funded by Taighde Éireann–Research Ireland. The successful candidate will be supervised by Dr. Joshuah Heath.

We are recruiting one PhD and one Postdoc to begin around October 2026. The successful candidates will work under the joint supervision of Marco Fanizza and Cambyse Rouzé and will join the Inria team Quriosity, located at Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris. Quriosity specializes in the theory of quantum information with currently 7 permanent members whose research spans topics such as: quantum computing, quantum cryptography, quantum simulation, quantum foundations and quantum learning.

Interested in quantum optics experiments, hands-on lab work, and direct supervision from an active research group? Keep reading.

The Quantum Photonics Group at the Université de Moncton (the largest Francophone university in Canada outside Quebec), led by Dr. Lambert Giner, is looking for a motivated graduate student for an MSc in physics. The project focuses on developing new techniques to characterize quantum states without disturbing them — a fundamental and genuinely tricky problem that sits at the heart of modern quantum physics.