What are you going to do

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Your research will strengthen one or more of the subareas mentioned above. You will join the QuSoft faculty and take on an active role in shaping and developing the centre – building up towards a leading role within QuSoft. Your embedding in a particular department will be chosen according to your profile. Regarding teaching, you are expected to contribute to the new Quantum Computer Science Your profile

We are looking for excellent scientists with recognized expertise in quantum computing, with a focus on one or more of the above subareas. You find inspiration in collaborations within different fields of interest like computer science, mathematics, physics, chemistry. You have a successful scientific track record in quantum information, computation or simulation. Most importantly, you display the ability and capacity to develop an independent research program of funded research. This includes the acquisition of funding, and supervision of PhD students and postdocs.

Your experience and profile:

PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics or a related field;

a motivational lecturer with a passion for teaching;

committed researcher, demonstrated by publications in international refereed academic journals and conference proceedings;

experience in supporting tasks and the willingness to take the responsibility for administrative tasks, such as organisation and coordination of university education and research;

professional command of English and a willingness to learn Dutch.

In addition, we highly value (but do not require) the following:

experience in acquiring funding for research projects through government agencies or the private sector;

experience in supervising PhD research;

experience with scientific leadership and organisational tasks, such as conference/workshop organisation, committee leadership, etc.;

experience with outreach activities and science communication.

Our offer

Start dates are negotiable. Depending on qualifications and experience, the positions will be filled either as tenure-track (assistant professor) or permanent (associate professor; in exceptional cases full professorship can be considered). Based on your profile, your embedding will either be at the University of Amsterdam (in an appropriately chosen department) or at CWI. The selection committee will include this in their recommendation. Although governed by slightly different collective labor agreements (see here for UvA and here for CWI/NWO-I), both employers have similar employment conditions. Are you curious to read more about our extensive package of secondary employment benefits, then please take a look here (for UvA) and here (for CWI). For tenure-track candidates, the starting salary will be in scale 11 or 12 and will range from a minimum of € 4,,- gross per month up to a maximum of € 6,,- gross per month (depending slightly on the employer). An attractive startup package will be part of the offer.