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| Field | Link | Title | Deadline | Short list | Offer made |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ultrafast Condensed Matter Theory | University of Central Florida | Assistant or Associate or Professor (tenure track) | May 01, 2025 | ||
| Materials Engineering | University of Dayton | Associate or Professor (Tenured) | April 06, 2025 | ||
| Applied Quantum Information | Indiana Universiy, Bloomington | Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) | November 1, 2024 | Feng Pan, Souvik Biswas, Nick Mayhall, Yuchen Wang, Oleg Prezhdo, Pengfei Huo, Artur Izmaylov | |
| Quantum Science and Engineering | Harvard University | Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) | December 20, 2024 | Dolev Bluvstein, Dahlia Klein, Ilan Rosen, Jared Rovny, Haoxin Zhou, Taketo Handa | still interviewing candidates |
| Material Science and Engineering | Harvard University | Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) | December 8, 2024 | Ewin Tang | |
| Electrical Engineering | Harvard University | Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) | December 15, 2024 | ||
| 2 positions in Theoretical Quantum Physics (broadly defined) | University of Innsbruck | Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) | March 19, 2025 | ||
| Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Experimental Quantum Materials Physics | University of Ottawa | Assistant or Associate Professor | March 31, 2025 | ||
| ECE (Broad Call) | Tufts University, MA | Open Rank | December 1, 2024 | Zexue He, Juan Cervino, Peter Lu, Brian Plancher, Songrui Zhao, Corey White, Laixi Shi, Souvik Biswas, Eduardo Baena | |
| Quantum Science & Engineering (experiments) | Técnico Lisboa | Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) | February 10, 2025 | ||
| Quantum Optics | University of North Carolina at Charlotte | Tenure Track Assistant Professor | Open until filled | Zoom interview done | |
| Quantum Materials (experiments) | Vanderbilt University | Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) | December 1, 2024 | Haoning Tang, Matthew Day, Souvik Biswas, Mengke Liu, Leah Weiss | |
| Applied AI / Machine Learning (with Physics as a possible home department) | Case Western Reserve University | Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) | January 13, 2025, until filled | ||
| Experimental Condensed Matter | Case Western Reserve University | Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) | December 31, 2024, until filled | ||
| Experimental Condensed Matter / Quantum | Montana State University | Assistant or Associate Professor | January 15, 2025, until filled | ||
| Experimental Quantum Research Scientists | University of Georgia | Assistant Research Scientists | January 1, 2025 | ||
| Experimental Quantum Condensed Matter Physics | Colorado State University | Tenure-track Assistant or Associate Professor | December 2, 2024 | Nikola Maksimovic, Zheng Ren, Jiarui Li, … | |
| 2 positions in Computational Quantum Sciences/Quantum Info at NYU Physics and/or Computer Science (Courant) | NYU | Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) | January 1, 2025 | Tomohiro Soejima, Samuel Garratt, Tony Metger | |
| Theoretical/Simulational Quantum Material | University of Georgia | Assistant or Associate Professor in Quantum Materials | November 22, 2024 | Adarsh Patri, Manuel Weber, Andre Erpenbeck, Sangeeta Rajpurohit, Abhinav Prem | |
| Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics | San Diego State University | December 31, 2024 | In person interviews scheduled | ||
| Quantum Information Science & Engineering (theory/experiment) | University of New Mexico | Tenure-track Open Rank | November 30, 2024 | In person interviews scheduled | |
| Theoretical Materials Research (Physics or Chemistry) | UC Irvine | Tenure-track Assistant Professor | December 1, 2024 | Yves Kwan, Valentin Crepel, Matt Coley-O'Rourke | |
| Experimental Nuclear/Atomic Physics – Fundamental Symmetries | Argonne | Assistant Physicist (equivalent to tenure-track Assistant Professor) | November 22, 2024 | ||
| Photonics | UCSB | Open Rank | December 2, 2024 | David Lake, Richard Mirin, Xu Yi | hiring freeze? |
| Electronic, Optoelectronic, Photonic, or Quantum Materials | UCSB | Tenure-track Assistant Professor | January 6, 2025, until filled | Zoom interview invitations sent out | hiring freeze? |
| Experimental Quantum Science | Johns Hopkins University | Tenure-track Open Rank | December 15, 2024 | Kia Boon Ng, Chi Zhang, Tom Manovitz, Haocun Yu, Haim Beidenkopf | |
| Experimental AMO | Columbia University | Tenure-track Assistant Professor | December 1, 2024 | Josiah Sinclair, Silviu Udrescu, Tom Manovitz, Toby Boothwell, Zhenjie Yan, Taketo Handa | |
| Quantum Science and Technology (theory/experiment) | Columbia University, Engineering | Ternure-track Open Rank | December 1, 2024 | Hengyun Zhou, Kyungjoo Noh, Ilan Rosen, Haocun Yu, Yunchao Liu, Zhaoyou Wang, Souvik Biswas, Francisco Machado, Kin Chung Fong | |
| Theoretical and Experimental Positions in Quantum and Information Sciences | Syracuse University | Tenure-track Assistant Professor | November 30, 2024 | Ho Tat Lam, Sridip Pal, Mengke Liu, Caleb Fink, Cora Fujiwara, Ying Zhao, Scott Collier … | |
| Assistant Professor in Quantum Physics Experiment | University of Pittsburgh | Tenure-track Assistant Professor | November 15, 2024 | Grace Pan, Ilan Rosen, Zhenjie Yan, Haocun Yu, Josiah Sinclair, David Lake | |
| Faculty position in Quantum Information and Quantum Materials | University of Massachusetts Amherst | Tenure-track Assistant Professor | December 2, 2024 | Minhao He, Mengke Liu, Haoxin Zhou, Nikola Maksimovic, Alexander von Hoegen, ZhenJie Yan | |
| Faculty position in Soft Matter/Statistical Physics Theory | University of Massachusetts Amherst | Tenure-track Assistant Professor | November 15, 2024 | Trevor GrandPre, Ella King, David Hathcock,… | |
| Experimental Quantum Information Science | New York University | Tenure-track Assistant Professor | November 15, 2024 | David Lake, Leah Weiss, Souvik Biswas, Joel Wang | |
| Electrical Engineering | New York University | Tenure-track Assistant Professor Open Rank | December 15, 2024 | Souvik Biswas, Aziza Almanakly, Haoning Tang, Joel Wang, Jovan Stojkovic | |
| Quantum Materials | University of Illinois Urbana Champaign | Tenure Track Open Rank | November 25, 2024 | ||
| Physics / Condensed Matter Physics, Atomic/Molecular Physics, Quantum Information Science | Lehigh University | Tenure-track Assistant Professor | December 15, 2024 | Cora Fujiwara, Sylvia Lewin, Josiah Sinclair, Hikaru Tamura, Elliott Rosenberg, … | |
| Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics | University of Southern California | Tenure-track Assistant Professor | November 18, 2024 | Ho Tat Lam, Pablo Sala, Abhinav Prem, Yaodong Li | Ho Tat Lam |
| Group Leader : Materials For Quantum | QuTech (TU Delft) | Tenure-track Group Leader | October 28, 2024 | ||
| Cluster hire in Theory, Computation, and Data Science | Washington University in St. Louis | Tenure-track Assistant Professor | October 18, 2024 | ||
| Faculty Position in Experimental Physics | Caltech | Tenure-track Assistant Professor | October 6th, 2024 | Dolev Bluvstein, … | Dolev Bluvstein |
| Applied Physics and Materials Science | Caltech EAS | Tenure-track Assistant Professor | December 1, 2024 | Zakaria Y Al Balushi, Joseph Checkelsky, Jared Rovny, Tony Metger, James Analytis | |
| Experimental Quantum Information Science | UMBC | Open Rank | November 15th, 2024 | Josiah Sinclair, Zhenjie Yan, Haocun Yu, Liudmila Zhukas, | |
| Quantum Computing | QuSoft (Amsterdam) | Tenure-track or Tenured Professor | September 30th, 2024 | 15 applicants shortlist made, rejection letters sent | |
| Experimental Condensed Matter Physics | University of Colorado Colorado Springs | Tenure-track Assistant Professor | October 20th, 2024 | ||
| Optical Quantum Physics | Colorado School of Mines | Tenure-Track Assistant Professor | December 15, 2024, until filled | Zoom interview invitations sent out | |
| Theoretical Physics | Johns Hopkins University | Tenure-Track Assistant Professor | December 15, 2024 | Ho Tat Lam, Tessa Cookmeyer, Ying Zhao, Aidan Herderschee,… | |
| Theoretical Quantum Information and Related fields | University of Tsukuba | Tenure-track Assistant Professor | August 26th, 2024 | ||
| Quantum technology theory + experiment (broad search) | Imperial College London | Lecturer / Assistant Professor (permanent) | September 2nd, 2024 | interview shortlist made, rejections sent | |
| Theoretical Physics | the United States Naval Academy | Tenure-track Assistant Professor | November 12th, 2024 | In person interviews scheduled | |
| Theoretical Physics | Bard College | Tenure-track Assistant Professor | October 3rd, 2024 | In person interviews scheduled | |
| Experimental quantum science | University of Chicago Physics/JFI | Tenure-track Assistant Professor | November 1th, 2024 | Hongyuan Li, Dahlia Klein, Nikola Maksimovic, Dolev Bluvstein | |
| Experimental quantum science | University of Chicago Physics/JFI | Associate Professor | November 1th, 2024 | ||
| Experimental, Applied Physics and Materials Science | Boston College | Tenure-track Assistant Professor | November 1th, 2024 | Dhritiman Bhattacharya, Hope Bretscher, Mehrdad Kiani, Souvik Biswas | Souvik Biswas |
| Experimental AMO | University of Washington | Tenure-track Assistant Professor | October 25th, 2024 | Max Parsons, Ian Stevenson, Josiah Sinclair, Coraline Fujiwara, Zhenjie Yan, Tobias Bothwell | |
| Quantum information science and technology | University of Washington, Mechanical Engineering | Assistant/Associate Professor | January 8, 2025 | Yulong Dong, Yaodong Li | Yaodong Li |
| Electrical Engineering all rank | University of Washington, Electrical Engineering | Assistant/Associate Professor | January 8, 2025 | Asir Intisar Khan, Rachel Yang, Aya Mouallem, Haoning Tang, Max Parsons | |
| Experimental AMO | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Tenure-track Assistant Professor | December 5, 2024 | Zhenjie Yan, Tobias Bothwell, Josiah Sinclair, Ian Stevenson, Haocun Yu | |
| Faculty position in experimental physics | Colgate University | Tenure-track Assistant Professor | |||
| Faculty position (preference for biophysics, AMO, and quantum computing) | Fairfield University | Tenure-track Assistant Professor | October 20th, 2024 | ||
| Computational Quantum Materials | UT Austin | Tenured or tenure-track | Nov 1, 2024 | Antonios Alvertis, Jonah Haber, Tessa Cookmeyer, … | |
| Electrical Engineering Multiple Positions | UT Austin | Tenured or tenure-track | Nov 30, 2024 | Haoning Tang, Can Wu, Cheng Guo, Emanuele Galiffi, Asir Khan … | |
| Quantum Computing and Simulation | University of Miami | Open Rank | Open until filled | ||
| Quantum Sensing | University of Miami | Open Rank | Open until filled | Haocun Yu, Cheng-Ju Lin, Tsung-Cheng (Peter) Lu, Jinzhao Wang | |
| Theoretical quantum science & quantum information | University of Chicago PME | All ranks | Open until filled | Hengyun Zhou, Kyungjoo Noh, Francisco Machado | |
| Experimental quantum science & engineering | University of Chicago PME | All ranks | Open until filled | Dolev Bluvstein | |
| Experimental AMO physics | University of Nevada, Las Vegas | Tenure-track Assistant Professor | Open until filled | ||
| Experimental quantum science | Princeton University | Tenure-track Assistant Professor | Nov 15, 2024 | Dolev Bluvstein, Dahlia Klein, Haocun Yu, Tobias Bothwell … | |
| Theoretical Quantum Science and Engineering | Princeton University | Open Rank | Nov 15, 2024 | Hengyun Zhou, Ewin Tang, Tony Metger, Arijeet Pal | |
| Electrical Engineering quantum device | Princeton University | Tenure-track Assistant Professor | Dec 1, 2024 | Asir Intisar Khan, Haoning Tang, Dane deQuilettes, Geun Ho Ahn, Hossein Taghinejad | |
| Quantum Information Science | Purdue University | Assistant/Associate Professor | Review will begin on 10/13/2024 until the position is filled | Tom Manovitz, Josiah Sinclair, Haoning Tang, David Lake, Zhenjie Yan, Vahagn Mkhitaryan | |
| Theoretical AMO | Purdue University | Tenure-track Assistant Professor | January 5, 2025, until filled | Matthew Eiles, Imran Mirza, Francisco Machado, Qi Zhong, Aviv Karnieli | Aviv Karnieli |
| Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics | University of Texas at Dallas | Open Rank | December 1, 2024 | Yu-Ping Lin, Ming Xie, Yves Kwan | Yves Kwan |
| Experimental Condensed Matter Physics | University of Texas at Dallas | Open Rank | December 1, 2024 | Trevor Arp, Mengke Liu, Alexander von Hoegen, … | |
| Experimental AMO physics | University of Virginia | Tenure-track Assistant Professor | December 1, 2024 | Josiah Sinclair, Zack Lasner, Ian Stevenson, Tobias Bothwell, Haocun Yu, David Lake | |
| Experimental Condensed Matter Physics | University of Notre Dame | Tenure-track Assistant Professor | Review of applications begins on 11/1 and will continue until position is filled | Hari Padma, Laura Herz + Michael Johnston (joint), Thomas Allison, Yijing Huang, Alexander von Hoegen | |
| Theoretical physics (overlap with quantum science preferred) | Penn State University | Associate or Full Professor | December 6, 2024 | Junwei Liu, Ian Low, Jedediah Pixley, Ivan Agulló, Thomas Iadecola | Thomas Iadecola |
| Theoretical Quantum Condensed Matter | University of Toronto | Tenure-track Assistant Professor | October 31, 2024 | ||
| Theoretical Quantum Optics | University of Toronto | Tenure-track Assistant Professor | December 12, 2024 | ||
| Theoretical Condensed Matter with experience in Scientific A.I | University of Tennessee | Tenure-track Assistant Professor | Open until filled | ||
| Quantum information | University of Tennessee | Tenure-track Assistant Professor | January 6, 2025, until filled | Zoom interview invitations sent out | |
| Quantum Computing/Information Science Theory/experiment | University of South Florida | Tenure-track Assistant Professor | December 1, 2024 | Bumho Kim, Mikhail Shalaev, | |
| Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Experimental or Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics | Cornell University, Department of Physics | Tenure-track Assistant Professor | Review will begin on 11/14 and will continue until position is filled | Dahlia Klein, Hope Bretscher, Qi Zhong, Tom Manovitz | |
| Quantum Information Science (multiple positions) | University of Michigan | Tenure-track Assistant Professor | Review will begin on 10/15 and will continue until positions are filled | Souvik Biswas, Haoxin Zhou, Hope Bretscher, Liang Wu | |
| Experimental Optics and Photonics for Science and Quantum Technology | Rochester Institute of Technology | Tenure-track Assistant Professor | November 15, 2024 | Raphael Abrahao, Li He, Veronica Policht | |
| Quantum Information Experiment | Yale | Tenure-track Assistant Professor | December 1, 2024, until filled | Dolev Bluvstein, Tom Manovitz, Zhenjie Yan, Josiah Sinclair, Leah Weiss, Silviu Udrescu | |
| Experimental AMO | Yale | Associate/Full Professor | November 1, 2024, until filled | Eric Hudson, Monika Aidelsburger, … | |
| Experimental Quantum devices and engineering | University of Pennsylvania ESE | Tenured or tenure-track | December 1, 2024 | David Lake, Ilan Rosen, Leah Weiss | |
| Materials Synthesis for Advanced Devices | University of Pennsylvania MSE | Tenured or tenure-track | November 22, 2024 | Suk Hyun Sung, Tomojit Chowdhury, Dmitri Leo Mesoza Cordova | |
| Experimental condensed matter physics and materials | Ohio State | Assistant or Associate Professor | November 1, 2024, until filled | Alexander von Hoegen, Trevor Arp, Dahlia Klein, Minhao He, … | Dahlia Klein |
| Optics and photonics | Boston University ECE | Tenure-track Assistant Professor | December 8, 2024 | Souvik Biswas, Haoning Tang, Cheng Guo, David Lake, Sangyeon Cho | |
| Quantum Science and Engineering | Boston University | 3 Tenure-track assistant professor positions | November 15, 2024 | Hope Bretscher, Aaron Sharpe, Samantha Harvey, Jared Rovny, Abhishek Banerjee, Nikola Maksimovic, Grace Pan, Wenshao Shao, Mengke Liu, Eylon Persky | |
| Theoretical Collective Quantum Phenomena | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich | Tenure-track Assistant Professor | October 3, 2024 | Annabelle Bohrdt, Marin Bukov, Jad Halimeh, Jannes Nys | Annabelle Bohrdt (accepted) |
| Quantum Information/Condensed Matter/High Energy Theory, University of Kentucky | University of Kentucky Assistant Professor | Tenure-track Assistant Professor | December 1, 2024 | Abhinav Prem, … | |
| Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Physics | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Tenure-track Assistant Professor | November 15, 2024 | Mengen Weng, Ayana Ghosh, Linding Yuan, Ling-Fang Lin, Zhenbang Dai | Mengen Wang (accepted) |
| Quantum Information | University of Colorado Boulder | Tenured or tenure-track | November 30, 2024 | ||
| EECS semiconductor and compute hardware | UC Berkeley | Assistant/Associate/Full Professor level | Dec 2, 2024 | Asir Intisar Khan, Hengyun Zhou, Can Wu, Ewin Tang… | |
| Quantum science and engineering | UCLA | Assistant Professor level | Nov 1, 2024 | ||
| MSE electronic materials | UCLA | Assistant Professor level | Dec 1, 2024 | Asir Intisar Khan | |
| Theoretical or experimental physics (broad search, Hispanic preference) | UCLA | Assistant Professor level | Reviews will begin on 03/02 and will continue until positions are filled | ||
| Mechanics, Engineering, Materials Science, Physics, and related disciplines, with a particular focus on micro/nano surfaces and superlubricity | Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School | Tenured or tenure-track | Review will begin on 12/01 and will continue until positions are filled | ||
| 2 positions in Semiconductor Devices | Texas State University | Tenure-track Assistant and Associate Professors | January 31, 2025 | ||
| quantum information technology | University of Southern California | Open rank | January 15, 2025 | Haocun Yu, … | |
| experimental physics (engineering e.g. soft condensed matter, biophysics, robophysics, …) | Claremont Colleges (Pitzer + Scripps) | Tenure-track Assistant Professor | Review will begin on 10/01 | Trung V. Phan, … | Trung V. Phan (accepted) |
| Theoretical Quantum Correlated Condensed and Synthetic Matter | ETH Zurich | Professor or Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) | December 31, 2024 | ||
| Quantum Computing or related areas | Virginia Tech | Tenure-Track or Tenured | December 10, 2024 | ||
| Experimental Quantum Computing | University of Southern California | Associate or Full Professor | |||
| Experimental condensed matter physics - spintronics | Oakland University, Rochester | Tenure-Track Assistant Professor | November 1, 2024 | Ling-Fang Lin, Dhritiman Bhattacharya, Myoung-Woo Yoo, Kyongmo An, Bumho Kim, Artem Litvinenko | |
| Experimental AMO/QIS | UC Riverside | Tenure-track Assistant Professor | February 15th, 2025 | ||
| Materials science and Engineering | Goergia Tech MSE | Open rank | November 8th, 2024 | Oleg Prezhdo, Yu Zheng, Dane deQuilettes, Rachel Huang, Zhiling Zheng, Haoning Tang, Jacob Beckham | |
| Electrical Engineering Open Rank | MIT | Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) | December 1, 2024 | Ewin Tang, | |
| Experimental Quantum Information Science | University of Massachusetts - Boston | Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) | January 10, 2025 | ||
| Quantum Information Theory | https://phas.ubc.ca/open-positions-physics-astronomy | Two Asssistant Professors (tenure track) | March 14, 2025 | ||
| Quantum Computing | University of Hawaii | Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) | Jan 2, 2025 | In person interviews scheduled | |
| Quantum physics, quantum information, condensed matter physics, etc, theory and experiment | National University of Singapore | tenure-track assistant and associate professors | open till filled | ||
| Theoretical Quantum Computation | https://jobs.ucf.edu/jobs/assistant-professor-theoretical-quantum-computation-orlando-florida-united-states | Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) | May 02, 2025 | ||
| All areas | University of Idaho | Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) | Feb 03, 2025 | Scheduling zoom interviews |