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jobpostings2025

Job Postings for 2025

Welcome to the 2025 rumor mill. It is once again time to start keeping track of this year's openings.

Please help to keep this list updated with all 2025 job postings that are relevant to:

  • Condensed matter experiment and theory,
  • Atomic, molecular and optical experiment and theory,
  • Materials science,
  • Nanoscience,
  • Quantum information science,
  • Quantum materials,
  • And other fields.

Importantly: we welcome all faculty positions as well as technical research staff positions at established research institutes. And don't forget to include a link to the job posting!

Please help update the Faculty Shuffle if you have any info!

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And finally, to all of those who are looking for either a position or the right candidate: Good luck!

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Field Link Description Deadline Short list Offer made
Theoretical Biological Physics Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems Research Group Leader April 3, 2026
Theoretical Foundations and Physics Applications of AI Institut de Physique Théorique, Université Paris-Saclay, France Junior Permanent Researcher (Tenured Assistant Professor Equivalent) March 21, 2026
Condensed Matter Physics Ecole Polytechnique, France Assistant Professor March 27, 2026
Female tenure track assistant professorship in experimental solid-state physics TU Graz, Austria Assistant Professor February 28, 2026
Associate Professor or Professor in Biological Physics University of Oxford Associate Professor or Professor March 02, 2026
Condensed Matter Theory Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems Research Group Leader February 15, 2026
Soft Matter/Statistical Physics Theory University of Massachusetts Amherst Assistant professor (other ranks considered) January 20, 2026 Edmond Zhou, Cody Schimming, Sarah Kostinski, Martin Falk, Helen Ansell, Xinyu Wang
Assistant Professor of Computational Soft Materials Science and Engineering Brandeis University Assistant Professor November 30, 2025 Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro, Mehrana Nejad
Tenure-track faculty in Soft Condensed Matter University of California Berkeley Assistant Professor November 14, 2025
Computational Biological Physics University of Miami Assistant professor December 15, 2025 Mehrana Nejad, Weishun Zhong, Richard Gast, Carlos Flloyd
Assistant Professor AI for Physics Rochester Institute of Technology Assistant Professor December 05, 2025 campus interviews
Quantum Science and Engineering (Experiment and Theory) University of California, Los Angeles Open Rank February 1, 2026
Associate Professor of Quantum Condensed Matter Theory University of Oxford Associate Professor December 3, 2026 Rahul Trivedi, Natalia Chepiga, Sam Garratt, Ethan Lake
Assistant Professor in Experimental Quantum Matter University of Alberta Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) January 30, 2026
Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in Theoretical Quantum Physics - Quantum Horizons Alberta (2 positions) University of Alberta Assistant/Associate/Full Professor (Tenure track) January 5, 2026 (review begins December 8, 2025)
Assistant/Associate in Quantum Engineering University of Alberta Assistant/Associate (Tenure track) Early January Zoom interviews scheduled
Team Leader - Research Group Leader (Tenure track) - EUCENTRAL Center for Quantum Technologies Modelling Center for Theoretical Physics PAS, Warsaw, Poland Assistant/Associate Professor (Tenure track) January 31, 2026
Assistant/Associate Professor - Experimental AMO Physics University of Oklahoma Assistant/Associate Professor (Tenure Track/Tenured) Review begins November 24, 2025 and will continue until filled
Biological Physics (cellular/subcellular) Carnegie Mellon University Assistant Professor November 30, 2025 Carlos Floyd, Christopher Bohrer, Caitlin Cornell, Evelyn Tang, Linnea Lemma
Experimental Quantum Science/AMO Physics (broadly defined) Johns Hopkins University Assistant Professor December 15, 2025 Leon Zaporski, Shaun Burd, David Spierings, Zeyang Li
Theoretical quantum materials/quantum information science William & Mary Assistant Professor December 27, 2025 Fang Xie, Nishchhal Verma, Nemin Wei, Daniele Guerci
Experimental Condensed Matter Physics University of Cincinnati Assistant Professor December 15, 2025 Zoom interview scheduled
Theoretical Materials Science - Quantum Materials or Quantum Chemistry (Depts of Physics or Chemistry) University of California, Irvine Open Rank Dec 1st, 2025 (review begins) Tim Hsieh, Shizeng Lin, Ankit Mahajan, Sohag Kundu, Daniel Kaplan, Dumitru Calugaru, Zhi-Hao Cui
Physics of Materials under Extreme Conditions University of Alabama at Birmingham Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) Rolling review until position is filled. In-person interviews scheduled
Theoretical Quantum Physics Temple University Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) December 30, 2025 Swati Chaudhary, Jonathan Curtis
Quantum Materials University of Waterloo Assistant Professor (Tenure track) January 3, 2026
Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics (AMO), Photonics or Biophysics University of Waterloo Assistant Professor (Tenure track) January 3, 2026
Applied Physics (including condensed matter, biophysics, quantum science and technology, photonics and device physics) University of Missouri Assistant Professor (Tenure track) December 1, 2025 (review begins)
Data-intensive Methods in Physics or Astronomy (Theory or Experiment) California State University Long Beach Assistant Professor Of Physics And Astronomy December 2, 2025 (review begins)
Quantum Information Science and Engineering Purdue University Assistant/Associate Professor November 24, 2025 (review begins)
Theoretical Quantum Matter and Quantum Information Purdue University Assistant or Associate Professor (Tenure track) December 5, 2025 Zoom interview scheduled
Assistant Professors in Experimental & Theoretical Quantum and Information Science Syracuse University Assistant Professor November 15, 2025 Zeyang Li, David Spierings, Demid Sychev, Wonjae Lee, Laurel Anderson
Quantum condensed matter theory Yale University Assistant Professor (Tenure track) November 15, 2025 Ethan Lake, Sam Garratt, Dumiutru Calugaru, Yongxin Zeng
Materials Science Yale University Assistant Professor (Tenure track) November 10, 2025 Bernardine Rinkel, Laurel Anderson
Quantum materials (experiment or theory) Université de Sherbrooke, Institut Quantique Assistant or associate professor (tenure track), 2 positions November 14, 2025 Felix Desrochers, Jennifer Coulter, Julian May-Mann
Quantum information (experiment or theory) Université de Sherbrooke, Institut Quantique Assistant or associate professor (tenure track) November 21, 2025 Shayan Majidy and Linnea Grans-Samuelsson.
Theoretical Physics - Quantum Information Science and/or Physics of Complex Systems University of Rochester Assistant Professor (Tenure track) November 10, 2025 Samuel Garratt, Yuxin Wang, Christopher Waechtler, Carlos Floyd, Ricardo Martinez Garcia
Theoretical Quantum Information Science University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Department of Physics Assistant Professor (Tenure track) December 23, 2025 Hong-Ye Hu, Sam Garratt, Qian Xu, Ethan Lake
Experimental Physical or Analytical Chemistry (incl. quantum sensing and information processing) EPFL Assistant Professor (Tenure track) October 15, 2025 Daniel Laorenza, Mohamed Abobeih, Tianlin Liu, Angela Wittmann, Giovanni Scuri, Jeongheon Choe
Theory of Condensed Matter and Interacting Quantum Matter EPFL Assistant Professor (Tenure track) November 15, 2025 (new deadline!)
Theoretical Quantum Computing University of Basel Tenure-track assistant professor October 30, 2025 Libor Caha, Giorgios Styliaris, Sam Garratt, Linnea Grans-Samuelsson, Kishor Bharti, Christophe Piveteau
Theoretical Quantum Physics IQOQI Innsbruck Junior group leader October 15, 2025
Theoretical Quantum Optics University of Toronto, assistant professor in theoretical quantum optics Assistant Professor, full-time tenure stream position, University of Toronto October 30, 2025 Alexander McDonald, Rhine Samajdar, Rahul Trivedi, Yidan Wang, Yuxin Wang,
Materials Science and Engineering The Pennsylvania State University, PA Assistant or Associate Professor (tenure-line) September 1, 2025
Quantum Computer Science/Quantum Information University of Innsbruck Full Professor (Tenured) September 15, 2025
Theoretical Physics for Visiting Assistant Professor Position https://apply.interfolio.com/171745 Visiting Assistant Professor in Theoretical Physics at Case Western Reserve University October 18, 2025
Condensed Matter Physics and Quantum Materials (broadly defined) Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Faculty positions at all levels (Tenure track or tenured) September 1, 2025
Condensed Matter/Quantum Theory University of Queensland, Australia Lecturer/Senior Lecturer (Tenure Track) August 11, 2025
Materials Physics Nagoya University, Japan Associate or Professor (Tenured) August 18, 2025
Theoretical Quantum Computing and Quantum Materials Vanderbilt University Assistant/Associate/Full Professor Open until the position filled Rhine Samajdar, Hong-Ye Hu, Zhi-Hao Cui, Eric Anschuetz, Zane Rossi
Assistant professor in experimental quantum physics Leiden University, The Netherlands Assistant or Associate Professor October 5, 2025 Interviews scheduled
Spintronic Devices for Non-Conventional Computing, Memory and Sensing Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) Assistant or Associate Professor November 9, 2025 Interviews scheduled
Experimental Quantum Science Princeton University Assistant Professor December 1, 2025 Zeyang Li, Leon Zaproski, Silviu-Marian Udrescu
Material Science and Engineering Princeton Materials Institute Assistant Professor October 24, 2025 Mark Carrington, John Holoubek, Yanjie Shao
Biophysics Amherst College, Assistant Professor of Physics (Biophysics) Amherst College, Assistant Professor of Physics (Biophysics) November 1, 2025
Preferred experimental biophysics, condensed matter, atomic, molecular, and optical physics (AMO) Fairfield University Assistant Professor (Tenure track) October 31, 2025
Experimental Quantum Condensed Matter University of Florida Assistant Professor (Tenure track) November 10, 2025 Himadri Chakraborti, Sudi Chen, Sheikh Rubaiat Ul Haque, Jiarui Li, Ayelet Uzan-Narovlansky
Open area (astrophysics, condensed matter, materials physics) Villanova University Assistant Professor (Tenure track) November 1, 2025 Zoom interviews done
Theoretical or Experimental Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics (AMOP) The Ohio State University Assistant or Associate Professor (Tenure track) November 15, 2025 Leon Zaporski, Meng Han, Silviu-Marian Udrescu, Zeyang Li
Experimental Photonics Physics The Ohio State University Assistant or Associate Professor (Tenure track) November 1, 2025 Maxim Shcherbakov, Yiping Wang, Ryota Katsumi
Assistant Professor in Experimental AMO Physics Rice University Assistant Professor (Tenure track) December 15, 2025 Shai Tsesses, Leon Zaporski, Bichen Zhang, Shaun Christopher Burd
Assistant Professor in Experimental Condensed Matter Physics Stony Brook University Assistant Professor (Tenure track) November 17, 2025 Jacob Pettine, Richard (Yu) Liu, Yiping Wang, et al.
Assistant Professor of Experimental Quantum Materials and Nanofabrication Binghamton University Assistant Professor (Tenure track) November 16, 2025 and will continue until filled Zoom interview scheduled
Assistant Professor of Experimental Quantum Light-Matter Interactions and Nonlinear Optics/Photonics Binghamton University Assistant Professor (Tenure track) November 16, 2025 and will continue until filled Zoom interview scheduled
Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics Oregon State University Assistant Professor (Tenure track) November 5, 2025 and will continue until filled In person interviews scheduled
Physics and Quantum Science (including related fields in material science and nanotechnology) Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology tenure-track or tenured faculty October 15, 2025 Zoom interview scheduled
Assistant Professor in Condensed Matter Physics KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden) Assistant Professor November 14, 2025
Assistant professor in Integrated semiconductor device and chip technologies KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden) Assistant Professor November 10, 2025
Quantum computing theory and systems, and broad search (multiple positions) UC Berkeley EECS Assistant Professor December 1, 2025 Qian Xu, Jonas Frey, Zhengqi Gao, Carmen Amo Alonso, Timothy Brumfiel
Soft condensed matter exp/th UC Berkeley Assistant Professor November 14, 2025 Deepak Krishnamurthy, Colin Scheibner, Yuanzhao Zhang, Albert Lin, Ethan Lake
Theory (open) UC Berkeley Assistant Professor November 14, 2025
Atomic physics theory UC Berkeley Assistant Professor November 14, 2025 Yuxin Wang, Anjun Chu, Bingtian Ye, Nishad Maskara, …
Assistant professor, Quantum Information Experiment Yale University Assistant Professor December 1, 2025 Zhubing Jia, Bichen Zhang, Leah Weiss, David Spierings, Yutian Wen
Assistant Professor in Experimental Low Temperature Quantum Device Physics Louisiana State University Assistant Professor
Theoretical Quantum Condensed Matter, Quantum Optics, and Quantum Information Physics NYU Assistant Professor November 30,2025 Thomas Schuster, Lei Gioia, Ethan Lake, Samuel Garratt, Patrick Ledwith
Assistant Professor - Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics University of Oklahoma Assistant Professor (Tenure Tack) December 1, 2025 and will continue until filled Xiaojuan Ni, Sayed Ghorashi, Harrison LaBollita, T.C. (Peter) Lu, Sunny Gupta
Experimental AMO Physics Old Dominion University Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) January 2, 2026 (review begins) Yichao Yu, Gloria Jia, Junyi Lee, Qiming Wu, Liudmila Zhukas
Assistant professor, DMSE & SCC MIT Assistant Professor December 1, 2025 Charles Musgrave, Jennifer Coulter, Benjamin Miller, Manasa Kaniselvan
Assistant professor, EECS MIT Assistant Professor December 1, 2025
Theoretical Quantum Science and Engineering University of Chicago Assistant Professor December 1, 2025 Jennifer Coulter, Ethan Lake, Rahul Trivedi, Thomas Schuster
Experimental Quantum Science and Engineering University of Chicago Assistant Professor December 1, 2025 Leon Zaporski, Guanhao Huang
AI & Physics; Soft Condensed Matter & Biophysics; Theoretical Quantum Condensed Matter Physics; Experimental Particle and Nuclear Physics MIT Assistant Professor December 1, 2025 Cond-mat theory: Bowen Shi, Patrick Ledwith, Carolyn Zhang, Ethan Lake. Soft-mat theory: Francesco Cagnetta, Francesca Mignacco, Francesco Mori, Jacob Zavatone-Veth
Computer Engineering (Quantum Computing) UBC Okanagan Assistant or Associate Professor December 16, 2025 Shayan Majidy, …
Materials for quantum computing and sensing Berkeley Lab, Molecular Foundry Staff Scientist (Career-track and career) December 15, 2025 Interviews scheduled
Experimental condensed matter physics University of Notre Dame Assistant Professor (Tenure Track); Open rank November 1, 2025 and will continue until filled Yiping Wang, Sudi Chen, Honglie Ning, Dipanjan Chaudhuri Sudi Chen
Experimental AMO quantum information science Texas A&M University Assistant Professor December 15, 2025 and will continue until filled Mohamed Abobeih, Shai Tsesses, Bichen Zhang, Zeyang Li, Zihuai Zhang, Yichao Yu
Materials Science & Engineering Texas A&M University Assistant Professor or Associate Professor December 8, 2025
Quantum engineering University of Wisconsin - Madison ECE Open rank (Assistant/Associate/Full Professor) December 16, 2025 Joshua Viszlai, Shai Tsesses, Hezi Zhang
Quantum Materials and Quantum Information Science and Engineering Northeastern University Assistant/Associate Professor December 1, 2025 and will continue until filled Zoom Interviews scheduled
Quantum Materials and Devices University of Houston Assistant or Associate Professor Open until filled Interviews scheduled
Experimental Physics Creighton University Assistant Professor October 1, 2025 (open until filled) Zoom interviews done
NanoScience Technology Center & Materials Science and Engineering University of Central Florida Assistant Professor September 15, 2025 Zoom interviews done
AI for Quantum Physics University of Florida Open Rank January 5, 2026 Clotilde Cucinotta, Benjamin Geisler, Christopher Roth, Yi Jiang, Haining Pan
MEIE Chair in Quantum Computing École de technologie supérieure ÉTS Open Rank September 21, 2025 Zoom interviews done
Theoretical Quantum Physics Monash University Level B/C (Equiv. tenure-track Assistant Professor) January 26, 2026
Quantum Physics CUNY Graduate Center & Flatiron Assistant Professor January 15, 2026
Experimental Condensed Matter Physics CUNY City College of New York Assistant Professor December 21, 2025 David Spierings, Taketo Handa
Experimental Quantum Nanoscience TU Delft Assistant Professor November 24, 2025 Interviews scheduled
Theoretical Physics William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute (FTPI) U. Minnesota Open Rank January 16, 2026 and will continue until filled
Experimental Quantum Optics, Quantum Entanglement & Quantum Information Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Assistant Professor December 1, 2025 Zoom interview done
Theoretical Quantum Computing/Quantum Information Tufts University Open Rank January 5, 2026 Samuel Garratt, Lei Gioia, Rhine Samajdar, Christian Kokail
Health Physics, Condensed Matter Physics, and/or Particle Physics South Dakota State University Assistant Professor January 15, 2026 Zoom interviews done
Physics Semiconductor Microelectronics (experimental) University of North Texas Assistant Professor Open until filled Zoom interviews scheduled
jobpostings2025.txt · Last modified: 2026/03/06 03:32 by zaporski

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