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| Field | Location | Position | Deadline | Short List | Offer made |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Experimental quantum technology | University of Hamburg, Germany | Tenured Professor | Apr. 14, 2022 | ||
| Quantum computing theory/algorithms | | Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg, Germany | Tenured Professor | Mar. 24. 2023 | ||
| AMO (experiment and theory) | University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK | Research Scientist | March 31, 2022 (until filled) | ||
| Quantum Algorithms | Michigan State University, East Lansing | Assistant Professor | Open Until Filled | ||
| Quantum information processing | University of Arizona. Tucson, AZ | Assistant and Associate Professor | Open Until Filled | ||
| Experimental Condense Matter Physics | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC | Assistant Professor | Dec 20, 2021 | Laura Kim, Yonglong Xie, Evegeny Mikheev, Na-Hyun Jo, Yinyu Liu, Wei Zhang | Wei Zhang (accepted) |
| Theoretical Condensed Matter | Purdue University. West Lafayette, IN | Assistant Professor | Nov 15, 2021 | ||
| Condensed Matter Theory, Quantum Materials | University of Kentucky. Lexington, KY | Assistant Professor | Dec 15, 2021 | ||
| Condensed Matter Theory (quantum) | University of California, Irvine | Assistant Professor | Dec 20, 2021 | ||
| Applied physics and Quantum Information | Princeton University, ECE Department | Assistant Professor | Dec 31, 2021 | Annabelle Bohrdt, Ramyad Hadidi, Narayanan Rengaswamy, Giulia Semeghini, Valentin Kasper, Sarang Gopalakrishnan, Matteo Ippoliti | Sarang Gopalakrishnan (accepted) |
| Condensed matter theory/experiment | IST Austria | Assistant/Full Professor | Oct. 29, 2021 | Giulia Semeghini | |
| Theoretical Physics | Princeton University, Physics Department | Assistant Professor | Nov. 15, 2021 | ||
| AMO experiment | University of Oklahoma | Open Rank | Nov. 12, 2021 | ||
| Quantum Engineering Th or Expt (two positions) | Rice University Electrical Engineering | Assistant Professor | Jan. 15, 2022 | Kevin Slagle, Matteo Ippoliti (declined) | |
| Quantum Physics Experiment (two positions) | Rice University Physics & Astronomy | Assistant Professor | Jan. 1, 2022 | Christie Chiu, Fangyuan Yang, Nathan Schine, Yonglong Xie, Giulia Semeghini, Joonhee Choi, Evgeny Mikheev | Yonglong Xie |
| Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics | Stanford University | Assistant Professor | Dec. 1, 2021 | Trithep Devakul | |
| Quantum, Topological, and Nano Materials | EPFL | Assistant Professor | Dec. 1, 2021 | Marta De Luca, Gregor Jotzu, Hannah Stern, Hendrik Utztat | |
| Condensed Matter Theory | University of Texas at Austin | Assistant Professor | Dec. 6, 2021 | Matteo Ippoliti (accepted) | |
| Solid State / Condensed Matter / Materials Science | University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) | Assistant / Associate / Full Professor | Nov. 1, 2021 | Andrew O'Hara, Gregory Guisbiers, Jens Neu, Rui He, Xuan Zhou | Xuan Zhou (accepted) |
| Open (including AMO, CM, QIS) | Cal Tech | Assistant Professor (tenure-track) | Nov. 15, 2021 | Nathan Schine, Linda Ye, Yonglong Xie, Max Hirschberger | Linda Ye (accepted) |
| A.I. for Quant. Materials/Quant. Information Theory | University of Florida | Assistant Professor | Nov. 1, 2021 | ||
| Condensed matter theory | Florida State University and National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Tallahassee | Assistant Professor | Nov 29, 2021 | Jie Wang, Xueda Wen, Pavel Volkov, Louk Rademaker, Mengxing Ye, Chunjing Jia, Zhiyuan Sun, Cyprian Lewandowski | Cyprian Lewandowski (accepted) |
| AMO / Quantum Theory / General | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | Assistant Professor | Nov 1, 2021 | Na-Hyun Jo, Felix Ringer, Valentin Walther | Na-Hyun Jo (accepted) |
| Theoretical materials science / superconductors | University of Rochester | Assistant Professor | Oct 15, 2021 (until filled) | ||
| Quantum theory | University of Rochester | Open rank | Oct. 1, 2021 | ||
| AMO experiment | University of California, Berkeley | Assistant Professor | Nov 8th, 2021 | Nancy Aggarwal (Northwestern), Ciprian Gal (Stony Brook), Elise Novitski (U. Washington), Jonathan Ouellet (MIT), Shimon Kolkowitz (Wisconsin ), Giulia Semeghini (Harvard), Luke Caldwell (JILA, Colorado ), Christie Chiu (Princeton) | |
| Condensed matter experiment | Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh | Assistant Professor | Nov. 12, 2021 | Jonah Waissman, Kayla Nguyen, Sufei Shi, Shouvik Chatterjee, Brian Kim, Yonglong Xie | Yonglong Xie |
| Condensed matter theory | Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh | Assistant Professor | Nov. 12, 2021 | Cyprian Lewandowski, Shubhayu Chatterjee, Jong Yeon Lee, Mengxing Ye | Shubhayu Chatterjee (accepted) |
| Theoretical and Computational Condensed Matter Physics | University of Alabama at Birmingham | Assistant Professor | Nov. 30, 2021 | ||
| Theoretical Atomic, Molecular, and Optical (AMO) Physics | Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK | Assistant Professor | Dec. 1, 2021 | ||
| Condensed matter experiment | Baylor University, Waco, TX | Assistant Professor | Oct. 30, 2021 | ||
| Condensed matter and AMO experiment | New York University | Assistant Professor | Nov. 8, 2021 | Laura Kim, Hongchao Xie, Shannon Harvey, Yinyu Liu, Evgeny Mikheev, Sergio de la Barrera, Yonglong Xie, Nathan Schine, Roman Kuzmin | Yonglong Xie |
| Condensed Matter / AMO / Quantum Information experiment | University of Southern California | Assistant Professor | Nov. 1, 2021 | Nathan Schine, Yunqiu Kelly Luo, Xinwei Li, Dafei Jin | Yunqiu Kelly Luo (accepted) |
| Formal theory / Condensed Matter | University of Washington | Assistant Professor | Oct. 1, 2021 | Justin Kaidi (accepted), Isabel Garcia Garcia (accepted), Gustavo Turiaci (accepted), Matteo Ippoliti (declined) | |
| Quantum Science: Condensed Matter/AMO/QIS | Georgia Tech | Open Rank (Assistant Prof. Preferred) | Nov. 8, 2021 | Yinyu Liu, Joonhee Choi, Emine Altuntas, Hailong Wang | offer made |
| Condensed Matter/Materials | California State University San Bernardino | Assistant Professor | Nov. 1, 2021 | ||
| Condensed Matter/Theory | University of Connecticut | Assistant Professor | Dec. 1, 2021 | ||
| Experimental physics (incl. CM/AMO) | Santa Clara University | Assistant Professor | Oct. 25, 2021 | Akshay Pattabi, Daniel Tennant, Toshi Shimasaki, Matthias Ikeda | |
| Physics (emph Quantum) | University of Chicago | Assistant Professor | Nov. 5, 2021 | Eyal Karzbrun, Annabelle Bohrdt, Elizabeth Jerison, Luca Delacretaz, Xiaomeng Liu, Yonglong Xie, Karri DiPetrillo, Alexandra Tayar | Karri DiPetrillo (accepted), Luca Delacretaz (accepted), Elizabeth Jerison (accepted), Keisuke Harigaya (offered last year, accepted) |
| Theoretical Condensed Matter and High Energy Physics (three positions) | University of Utah | Assistant Professor | Nov. 15, 2021 | ||
| Quantum Materials Experiment | Yale University | Assistant Professor | Nov. 19 2021 | ||
| Experimental Optics and Photonics | Yale University | Assistant Professor | open until filled | Laura Kim, Logan Wright, Xu Yi, Kai Wang | Logan Wright (accepted) |
| Theoretical Quantum Information Science and/or Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Open Rank | Dec. 1, 2021 | Matteo Ippoliti, Valentin Walther, Trithep Devakul, Shubhayu Chatterjee | Matteo Ippoliti (declined) |
| Experimental Condensed Matter | University of Cincinnati | Open Rank | Dec. 6, 2021 | ||
| Experimental 2D quantum materials | Montana State University, MonArk Quantum Foundry | Staff scientist | open until filled | ||
| Nanodevices and nanosystems | University of Pennsylvania | Open Rank | Dec. 15, 2021 | ||
| Quantum Information Science and Engineering | University of Washington | Assistant Professor | Dec. 1, 2021 | ||
| Theoretical/computational Materials Chemistry | University of California Santa Cruz | Assistant Professor | Nov 15 2021 for full consideration | ||
| Experimental Soft Condensed Matter and Biological Physics | Brown University | Assistant Professor | Dec 31, 2021 | ||
| AMO/QIS/CM/Bio (open) | Penn State | Open | Nov. 15, 2021 | Yunqiu (Kelly) Luo, Giulia Semeghini, Carsten Robens, Shubhayu Chatterjee, Matteo Ippoliti | Matteo Ippoliti (declined), Shubhayu Chatterjee (declined) |
| Experimental CM/Quantum Materials and Information | University of Denver | Assistant Professor | reviewing now, Jan. 15, 2022 for full consideration | Pankaj Jha, Mojammel Khan, Yishu Wang, Pavel Salev | |
| Quantum Information Science, Theory or Experiment | University of Toronto | Assistant Professor | Jan. 10, 2022 | ||
| Quantum Information Science, Theory or Experiment | University of Toronto | Associate or Full Professor | Jan. 10, 2022 | ||
| Physics and Chemistry of Quantum Materials | University of Toronto | Assistant Professor | Dec. 15, 2021 | ||
| Experimental Quantum Condensed Matter | University of Toronto | Assistant Professor | Dec. 15, 2021 | Offer made | |
| Experimental Condensed Matter Physics - Quantum Information Science | University of Kansas | Assistant Professor | Dec. 13, 2021 | offer made | |
| Experiment or Theoretical Condensed Matter - Broad Search | University of Minnesota Duluth | Assistant Professor | Nov. 10, 2021 | ||
| Quantum Materials/Information (2 Experimental + 1 Theory) | University of Tennessee, Knoxville | Assistant Professor | Jan. 10, 2022 | Yishu Wang (accepted) Yang Zhang | |
| Data Science (2 positions) - computational physics, may include quantum AI | University of Massachusetts Boston | Assistant Professor | Dec 17, 2021 | ||
| Open (including CME, CMT, AMO, QIS) | Arizona State University | Assistant Professor | Dec 17, 2021 | ||
| Materials Physics (current interests include energy materials, 2D materials, and quantum materials) | Binghamton University | Assistant Professor | Review begins on Dec. 17, 2021 and continues until the position is filled | Zhong Lin (accepted) | |
| Quantum Science and Technology (exp. or theory) | McGill University | Assistant Professor | Review begins Jan. 4 2022 and continues until the position is filled | Danqing Wang, Christian Sanner, Frédéric Bouchard, Kai Wang, Nathan Schine, Nancy Aggarwal | Kai Wang (accepted) |
| Quantum Science and Technology (exp) | Tel Aviv University | Assistant Professor | Jan 1st, 2022 | ||
| Theoretical Quantum Information Science | Virginia Tech | Open Rank | Dec 3, 2021 | ||
| Theoretical Quantum Optics or Condensed Matter | Queen's University | Assistant Professor | Dec 31, 2021 | ||
| Quantum Information Science and Engineering (Experiment or Theory - multiple positions) | University of Pennsylvania | Open Rank | Jan 1, 2022 | Matteo Ippoliti, Gushu Li, Joonhee Choi, Luis Pedro Garcia Pintos, Giulia Semeghini, Davide Girolami | Gushu Li(accepted) |
| Quantum Information Science, Theory | Los Alamos National Laboratory | Staff Scientist | open until filled | ||
| Experimental Condensed Matter/Materials | Louisiana State University | Assistant or Associate Professor | open until filled | Álvaro Jiménez-Galán, Yishu Wang, Ludi Miao | |
| Experiment (open) | Cornell | Assistant Professor | Jan. 15, 2022 | Danqing Wang, Maria Mukhina, Giulia Semeghini, David Jacobson | Ankit Disa (accepted) |
| Condensed Matter | University of Wisconsin | Assistant Professor | Jan. 15, 2022 | Ilya Esterlis, Bin Yan, Jonah Waissman, Yunqiu Kelly Luo, Ben Wieder, Shubhayu Chatterjee | Roman Kuzmin (Accepted) |
| Quantum Science and Information | University of Maryland | Open rank | Feb. 1, 2022 | Nathan Schine (Accepted), Andrey Gromov (Accepted) | |
| Quantum Information Science and Technology (Experiment) | Stony Brook University | Assistant Professor | Jan 24, 2022 | ||
| Quantum science (theory) | University of Chicago | All ranks | open until filled | ||
| Experimental Condensed Matter | University of Notre Dame | Assistant Professor | Dec. 31, 2021 | Alberto de la Torre Duran, Xiang Li, Adrian Gozar, Hongchao Xie, Petr Stepanov | Petr Stepanov (accepted) |
| Quantum Information Science - Physics & Chemistry | Purdue University | Assistant Professor | Dec. 15, 2021 | ||
| Quantum Materials and Technologies | University of Nebraska-Lincoln | Assistant Professor | Dec. 01, 2021 | Dmitry Ovchinnikov, Yunqiu Kelly Luo, Zhong Lin, Hongchao Xie, Gang Qiu | Offer made |
| Quantum Condensed Matter Experiment | Northeastern University | Assistant Professor | Dec. 08, 2021 | Yonglong Xie, Yishu Wang, Sergio de la Barrera, Yunqiu Kelly Luo, Alberto de la Torre Duran, Xiang Li | Yishu Wang (declined), Alberto de la Torre Duran (accepted) |
| Theoretical Condensed Matter | KTH The Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm | Assistant Professor | Apr. 11, 2022 | ||