PhD and Postdoc Positions in Physics in China

Central China Normal University’s Central China Center for Nuclear Theory (C3NT) and Institute of Particle Physics (IOPP) are recruiting postdoctoral researchers in nuclear theory in Wuhan, China. The positions sit within a broad and active research environment spanning high-energy and nuclear theory topics, with faculty working across AdS/CFT and its applications, effective field theory for nuclear structure, gluon saturation and small-x QCD, hard probes of the quark-gluon plasma, hot and cold ...

The Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics (KIAA) at Peking University is offering the PKU Planet Formation Fellowship , a two-year research fellowship with the possibility of renewal for up to two additional years subject to satisfactory performance and funding availability. The fellowship is centered on planet formation and protoplanetary disks , with opportunities to work across theory, simulations, machine learning, and observations. The successful fellow is expected to pursue indepe...

The Shing-Tung Yau Center of Southeast University is inviting applications for postdoctoral positions in its Theoretical Physics Group, with appointments starting in 2027. The role is based in central Nanjing, China, within a research institute focused on mathematics and physics. The position is embedded in a broad and active theoretical physics environment. The current faculty members include Jie Gu, Yunfeng Jiang, Zhijin Li, Hai Lin, Zhengwen Liu, Tadashi Okazaki, Ryo Suzuki, Qiang Wen, Jianfe...

Center for High Energy Physics and the Institute for Theoretical Physics at Peking University invite applications for postdoctoral positions in theoretical physics at their Beijing-based research environment. The opening spans a wide set of research directions in high-energy and related theory areas, including perturbative and non-perturbative quantum chromodynamics, electroweak physics and physics beyond the Standard Model, string theory, quantum field theory, holography, mathematical physics, ...

The Theoretical High Energy Group at the Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing invites applications for one or more postdoctoral positions in high energy theory. The postdoctoral researcher will join the New Physics and Effective Field Theory Group , an environment within ITP-CAS that works across quantum field theory, particle physics, cosmology, and gravity. The advertised research programme centers on scattering amplitudes, effective field theory, precision ...

Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications (BIMSA) is inviting applications for several postdoctoral positions across a broad range of research areas. The opportunity spans mathematics , theoretical physics , computer science , and their applications, making it suitable for researchers working at the interface of theory and computation. The positions are based at BIMSA in Beijing and are described as two-year appointments, with the possibility of a one-year extension following s...

The School of Quantum at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing is inviting applications for postdoctoral fellow positions in its high energy theory group. The group brings together faculty working across a broad range of theoretical physics topics, including AdS/CFT correspondence, quantum gravity, quantum entanglement and quantum chaos, quantum field theory, mathematical physics, conformal bootstrap, and generalized symmetries. Successful candidates will be able to work with ...

Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications (BIMSA) is inviting applications for several postdoctoral positions spanning mathematics, theoretical physics, computer science, and related applications. The opportunities sit within BIMSA’s research environment in Beijing and are open across a broad range of fields represented at the institute. The positions are designed for postdoctoral researchers who want to work in a multidisciplinary mathematical sciences setting. Successful appl...

This postdoctoral position is based at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics Asia-Pacific (ICTP-AP) , operating in affiliation with the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences and in cooperation with international scientific partners. The project sits in theoretical particle physics and focuses on applications of non-equilibrium quantum field theory to the early Universe . The successful researcher will work on the (non-)thermal effects of particle physics in the early Universe , ai...