PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Computational Science in Japan

The Advanced Institute for Science and Technology (AIST) is recruiting a fixed-term researcher or postdoctoral-equivalent staff member for its Department of Computational Science and Technology in Tokyo, Japan. The successful candidate will work at the intersection of physics, chemistry, biology, computational science, artificial intelligence, and advanced computer simulation. The research focuses on elucidating phenomena and developing technologies in materials science and biotechnology through...

The University of Tokyo’s Tsunoda Lab, affiliated with the Graduate School of Science and the Faculty of Science/Frontier Sciences, is recruiting a Project Research Fellow at the postdoctoral/researcher level and a Project Assistant Professor. The laboratory conducts biomedical research that combines molecular observation, mathematical science, and computational science to address diseases such as cancer. The project uses biomedical data from numerous clinical samples, including spatial transcri...

RIKEN’s Center for Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences (iTHEMS) is recruiting a few researchers for its Division of Fundamental Mathematical Science, with appointments available at the levels of Senior Research Scientist, Research Scientist, and Postdoctoral Researcher. The division is led by Division Director Satoshi Iso , and the roles are based at the RIKEN Wako Campus in Saitama, Japan. The center is an international research environment built to connect theoretical, math...

Osaka University's Center for Quantum Information and Quantum Life Science (QIQB) invites applications for a full-time Project Assistant Professor or Project Research Fellow to contribute to the project Human Resource Development through Quantum Algorithm Implementation Research , part of the NEDO initiative on next-generation quantum computers for solving social issues. The research focuses on connecting quantum algorithm development with practical industrial applications. The successful resear...

Kobe University invites applications for one full-time Project Assistant Professor, also listed as a researcher/postdoctoral-equivalent position, in the Fluid Geophysics Field of the Graduate School of Science's Department of Planetary Science in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan. The successful candidate will contribute to one or both of two projects: the JST Emergent Research Support Program project “From Earth Fluid Dynamics to Planetary Fluid Dynamics” and the MEXT Next Generation Computational Science pro...

RIKEN’s Center for Computational Science is recruiting one fixed-term Researcher/Postdoctoral-equivalent staff member for the Large-Scale Parallel Numerical Computation Technology Research Team in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan. The successful candidate will contribute to next-generation high-performance computing and computational science research associated with Fugaku, Fugaku NEXT, and future domestic and international supercomputers. The research focuses on high-performance numerical linear algebra, mix...

JAMSTEC invites applications for one specially appointed researcher, equivalent to a postdoctoral researcher, in the Cloud-Resolving Model Development and Application Group and Data Science Research Program in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan. The researcher will contribute to global cloud-resolving climate model development and application and AI Earth system modeling under projects on extreme meteorology and global water-cycle predictability. Research includes evaluating extreme phenomena and backgro...

RIKEN’s Research Center for Computational Science is recruiting a Special Research Fellow (postdoctoral equivalent) in the AI for Science / TRIP-AGIS project. The position is based in the Life Science and Medical Science Application Interface Platform Development Unit and focuses on building next-generation biomolecular analysis platforms that integrate molecular simulation and artificial intelligence. The research themes include: (1) AI agents that support the full molecular simulation workflow...

RIKEN’s Research Center for Computational Science (R-CCS) in Japan is recruiting a Researcher/Postdoctoral Fellow for the Complex Climate Science Research Team . The position focuses on weather and climate modeling , computational science , high-performance computing (HPC) , GPU computing , and generative AI for scientific software development. The project aims to build a new specification-driven research and development platform for scientific and technical computing. The work includes designin...