13 Mar 2024
Job Information
- Organisation/Company
University of Amsterdam (UvA)- Research Field
Physics- Researcher Profile
First Stage Researcher (R1)- Country
Netherlands- Application Deadline
30 Apr 2024 - 21:59 (UTC)- Type of Contract
Temporary- Job Status
Not Applicable- Hours Per Week
38.0- Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme?
Not funded by an EU programme- Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?
No
Offer Description
Do you have a passion for computational chemistry and are eager to employ quantum computing methods to study complex chemical systems?
The Computational Science Lab within in the Informatics Institute is offering a PhD position focusing on the design, implementation, and validation of electronic structure calculations on current and forthcoming quantum computing hardware. You will not only design quantum software for such applications, but also test these on quantum emulators and actual quantum computers. For the latter you will collaborate with supercomputer centers in Germany that are currently deploying such systems as accelerators for current (petascale) and future (exascale) supercomputing systems.
The research will be carried out in collaboration with the Computational Chemistry group, embedded in the Van ‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS), of the University of Amsterdam and with the Centre for Computational Science at the University College London.
The offered position will also be linked to QuSoft , the Dutch research center for quantum software & technology.
What are you going to do?
The aims of your project are to:
The software implementation will build on existing packages such as Qiskit Nature and Symmer for quantum computing of high-precision electronic structure models and the CP2K code for molecular dynamics/Monte Carlo sampling of DFT-based models.
References:
Relevant URLs
https://uva.computationalscience.nl
https://hims.uva.nl
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/computational-science/
https://qusoft.org
Requirements
Specific Requirements
Your experience and profile:
- a first masters degree or equivalent in computational science, computer science, chemistry, physics, applied mathematics, materials science or an allied field
- research experience in any one or more of quantum computing, computational physics and chemistry or high performance computing
- proven programming expertise and experience
- motivation and ambition to work in a challenging, interdisciplinary and international research field.
- a good command of English
Additional Information
Benefits
A temporary contract for 38 hours per week for the duration of 4 years (the initial contract will be for a period of 18 months and after satisfactory evaluation it will be extended for a total duration of 4 years). The preferred starting date is as soon as possible. This should lead to a dissertation (PhD thesis). We will draft an educational plan that includes attendance of courses and (international) meetings. We also expect you to assist in teaching undergraduates and master students.
The gross monthly salary, based on 38 hours per week and dependent on relevant experience, ranges between € 2,770 in the first year to € 3,539 in the last year (scale P). UvA additionally offers an extensive package of secondary benefits, including 8% holiday allowance and a year-end bonus of 8.3%. The UFO profile PhD Candidate is applicable. The Collective Labour Agreement of Universities of the Netherlands is applicable.
Besides the salary and a vibrant and challenging environment at Science Park, we offer you multiple fringe benefits:
- 232 holiday hours per year (based on fulltime) and extra holidays between Christmas and 1 January;
- Multiple courses to follow from our Teaching and Learning Centre;
- A complete educational program for PhD students;
- Multiple courses on topics such as leadership for academic staff;
- Multiple courses on topics such as time management, handling stress and an online learning platform with 100+ different courses;
- 7 weeks birth leave (partner leave) with 100% salary;
- Partly paid parental leave;
- The possibility to set up a workplace at home;
- A pension at ABP for which UvA pays two third part of the contribution;
- The possibility to follow courses to learn Dutch;
- Help with housing for a studio or small apartment when you’re moving from abroad.
Are you curious to read more about our extensive package of secondary employment benefits, take a look here .
Selection process
If you feel the profile fits you, and you are interested in the job, we look forward to receiving your application. You can apply online via the button below. We accept applications until and including 30 April 2024.
Applications should include the following information (all files apart from your CV should be submitted in one single pdf file):
- a detailed CV including the months (not just years) when referring to your education and work experience;
- a letter of motivation;
- the names and email addresses of two references who can provide letters of recommendation
Please make sure to provide ALL requested documents mentioned above.
You can use the CV field to upload your resume as a separate pdf document. Use the Cover Letter field to upload the other requested documents, including the motivation letter, as one single pdf file.
A knowledge security check may be part of the selection procedure.
(for details: National knowledge security guidelines ).
Only complete applications received within the response period via the link below will be considered. Please don’t send any applications by email.
We will invite potential candidates for interviews soon after the expiration of the vacancy.
Additional comments
Do you have any questions, or do you require additional information? Please contact:
- Website for additional job details
https://www.academictransfer.com/338966/
Work Location(s)
- Number of offers available
- 1
- Company/Institute
- Faculty of Science
- Country
- Netherlands
- City
- Amsterdam
- Postal Code
- 1098XH
- Street
- Science Park 904
- Geofield
Where to apply
- Website
https://www.academictransfer.com/en/338966/phd-in-quantum-simulations-for-elect…
Contact
- City
Amsterdam- Website
http://www.uva.nl/- Street
Spui 21- Postal Code
1012 WX
STATUS: EXPIRED
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