The Berlin Quantum Initiative together with the Technische Universität Berlin, the Freie Universität Berlin, and the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin offer the following open positions:

If applying, please indicate the project (in total 17 projects) to which your application relates. Applications to more than one project are possible (up to three), and a prioritization (rank 1, 2, etc.) for the project request must be indicated in the application documents.

Please send your application with the reference number: II-160-24 and the required documents by email (in a single PDF file, max 5 MB) to:

[email protected]

See job posting at Technische Universität Berlin

Requirements:

Successful applicants will have a graduate degree in physics or related areas such as a doctorate (certificate of PhD Diploma, or equivalent is required at the starting date) and previous experience in the listed areas of work. Strong interest in innovative approaches and research questions in quantum photonics, quantum technology and nanotechnology; special scientific, technological or academic achievements evidenced by publications, or experience in the laboratory or experience in teaching, communication and teamwork skills, ability to communicate as well as to work in a team; experience in interdisciplinary cooperation in research projects and in project management is desired. For all positions, very good English language skills are required, and/or the willingness to learn the missing language skills. Please see further desired qualifications listed below each project.

Required Documents:

CV (accoring to our template) with publication list, conference papers, and awards; a letter of motivation; the bachelor’s degree certificate and transcript of records, the Master’s certificate and a transcript of records, PhD certificate if available, a letter of recommendation (not from one of the PIs mentioned in the project descriptions, directly to the administration: [email protected] ); a maximum of two names (and email addresses) of people who can be contacted directly by the BQ administration for another letter of recommendation; the doctoral thesis (as a link or pdf).

Projects:

Generating non-classical states with a quantum memory (P1)

Controlling quantum states of light via reservoir engineering (Theory) (P2)

Ultra-precisely verifying quantum devices (P3)

Quantum state engineering in van der Waals heterostructures (P4)

Exploiting High-Dimensional Entanglement for Quantum Networking (P5)

Taming quantum fluctuation-induced phenomena (P6)

Realizing holographic codes on quantum devices (P7)

Control of quantum reservoir engineering for robust state preparation (P8)

Efficient Tomography for Quantum Information Processing (P9)

Delegated Quantum Computation in realistic environment (P10)

Quantum Sensing with Many Undetected Photons (P11)

Narrowband photon pair source based on nonlinear photon transport (P12)

Scalable Quantum Photonic Circuits based on On-Demand Quantum Emitters (P13)

Digital and analog simulation of many-body dynamics (P 14)

Quantum Photonic Integrated Circuits for Information Processing (P 15)

Optimization-Driven Quantum Circuit Decomposition (OptQCD) (P 16)

Quantum-enhanced sensing using open quantum systems (P 17)