At the Niels Bohr Insti­tute at Uni­ver­si­ty of Copen­hagen we cur­rent­ly have a post­doc open­ing with­in exper­i­men­tal quan­tum pho­ton­ics. Employ­ment date is 1 Octo­ber 2018 or as soon as pos­si­ble there­after. Employ­ment peri­od is 2 years with the pos­si­bil­i­ty of exten­sion.

The posi­tion is embed­ded in the Quan­tum Pho­ton­ics Group with­in the new­ly estab­lished Cen­ter of Excel­lence “Hybrid Quan­tum Net­works Hy‑Q” and the Euro­pean Quan­tum Inter­net Alliance. We car­ry out fun­da­men­tal and applied research on sol­id-state quan­­tum-infor­­ma­­tion pro­cess­ing with sol­id-state quan­tum emit­ters embed­ded in pho­ton­ic nanos­truc­tures. The quest of the cur­rent research pro­gramme is to scale the basic quan­tum func­tion­al­i­ties to obtain large and com­plex quan­tum net­works.

Fur­ther infor­ma­tion on the Depart­ment is linked at https://www.science.ku.dk/english/about-the-faculty/organisation/.

Project descrip­tion

With­in Hy‑Q we pur­sue a hybrid approach to sol­id-state quan­­tum-infor­­ma­­tion pro­cess­ing by com­bin­ing spin physics, quan­tum dots, quan­tum opto­me­chan­ics, and quan­tum mem­o­ries. Cur­rent­ly we are launch­ing new projects with­in the fol­low­ing areas:

• Pho­ton­ic quan­tum gates based on quan­tum dots strong­ly cou­pled to a nanopho­ton­ic wave­guide
• Gen­er­a­tion of pho­ton­ic clus­ter states towards pho­ton­ic quan­tum repeaters
• Hybrid quan­tum mem­o­ry for quan­tum dot pho­ton sources

For­mal require­ments

Appli­cants should have a PhD degree in physics or engi­neer­ing with good results and good Eng­lish skills. As cri­te­ria for the assess­ment of your qual­i­fi­ca­tions empha­sis will also be laid on pre­vi­ous pub­li­ca­tions (if any) and rel­e­vant work expe­ri­ence.

Terms of employ­ment

The posi­tion is cov­ered by the Mem­o­ran­dum on Job Struc­ture for Aca­d­e­m­ic Staff.

Terms of appoint­ment and pay­ment accord to the agree­ment between the Min­istry of Finance and The Dan­ish Con­fed­er­a­tion of Pro­fes­sion­al Asso­ci­a­tions on Aca­d­e­mics in the State.

The start­ing salary is cur­rent­ly up to DKK 419.772 includ­ing annu­al sup­ple­ment (+ pen­sion up to DKK 71.781). Nego­ti­a­tion for salary sup­ple­ment is pos­si­ble.

Appli­ca­tion Pro­ce­dure

The appli­ca­tion, in Eng­lish, must be sub­mit­ted elec­tron­i­cal­ly by fol­low­ing this link.

Please include

• Cov­er Let­ter, detail­ing your moti­va­tion and back­ground for apply­ing for the spe­cif­ic post doc posi­tion
• CV
• Diplo­ma and tran­scripts of records (Mas­ter and PhD or equiv­a­lent)
• Research plan — descrip­tion of cur­rent and future research plans
• Com­plete pub­li­ca­tion list
• Sep­a­rate reprints of 3 par­tic­u­lar­ly rel­e­vant papers
• Full con­tact details (Name, address, tele­phone & email) of 1–3 pro­fes­sion­al ref­er­ees

The Uni­ver­si­ty wish­es our staff to reflect the diver­si­ty of soci­ety and thus wel­comes appli­ca­tions from all qual­i­fied can­di­dates regard­less of per­son­al back­ground.

The dead­line for appli­ca­tions is 1 Sep­tem­ber 2018, 23:59 GMT +2. Appli­ca­tions received lat­er than this date will not be con­sid­ered.

After the expiry of the dead­line for appli­ca­tions, the autho­rized recruit­ment man­ag­er selects appli­cants for assess­ment on the advice of the Inter­view Com­mit­tee.

You can read about the recruit­ment process at https://employment.ku.dk/faculty/recruitment-process/.

Ques­tions

For fur­ther infor­ma­tion please con­tact Prof. Peter Lodahl, Niels Bohr Insti­tute, lodahl@nbi.ku.dk, phone: +45 35325303.