PhD Opportunities in Physics

Research opportunity in quantum control and quantum algorithms at the Department of Electronic Systems, Aalborg University. The project sits within the Learning and Decisions Lab and is led by Professor Rafal Wisniewski, in an international environment with weekly meetings, close day-to-day supervision, and collaboration with senior researchers, PhD students, postdoctoral fellows, and international partners. The PhD is part of the QUANTA project, which studies how to view quantum programs as ope...

CarbonLab at Aalborg University is seeking one or more PhD candidates to help advance Direct Air Capture (DAC) technologies. The project addresses the scientific and engineering challenges that remain before DAC can be deployed at very large scale, with a focus on developing energy-efficient, economically viable systems built on a deeper understanding of how materials, processes and system integration interact. The PhD work is linked to two research directions: developing process-aware methods f...

The Quantum Error Correction team at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Quantum Computing Programme (NQCP) is offering up to three PhD fellowships at the University of Copenhagen’s Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark. The programme is building a large, international, mission-driven research environment focused on advancing the full stack of quantum computing, from quantum processor development and the quantum-classical interface to quantum algorithms and applications. The advertised PhD project...

This PhD project at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) focuses on RNA-based plant protection, with an emphasis on spray-induced gene silencing (SIGS) as a strategy to combat crop diseases. The work explores how externally applied double-stranded RNA can reduce pathogen gene expression and how RNA reaches target organisms, is taken up, and remains biologically active. The doctoral student will develop and evaluate SIGS approaches against wheat leaf blotch caused by Zymoseptoria...

This PhD position is based at RWTH Aachen University within the Chair of Thermodynamics of Mobile Energy Conversion Systems (TME) and the Institute of Thermodynamics , in the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. The research environment is embedded in the chair’s broader work at the Center for Mobile Propulsion (CMP) , where the focus lies on mobile propulsion systems, including internal combustion engines with synthetic fuels, fuel cells, and battery-electric drives. The advertised project is cen...

This PhD project at AMOLF investigates how phase transitions can be harnessed for optical information processing . The research asks how proximity to a continuous phase transition can amplify weak optical signals, while also accounting for the trade-off with speed, accuracy, critical slowing down, and enhanced fluctuations. The work builds on recent observations of phase-transition signatures in the nonlinear response of a laser-driven optical cavity containing a perovskite crystal. You will stu...

This PhD project focuses on spatiotemporal integrated metamaterials for nonreciprocal photonics . The successful candidate will design dynamically modulated, chip-scale metamaterials that enable nonreciprocal light control, with applications in photonic circuits for optical communication and quantum technologies. The work combines theoretical and numerical design of time-varying structures, on-chip fabrication using advanced nanolithography, and experimental demonstration of nonreciprocal light ...

The Numerical Analysis group within the Delft Institute of Applied Mathematics at TU Delft is offering a full-time PhD position focused on efficient structure-preserving finite element methods for time-dependent PDEs . The project asks how numerical simulations can be designed so that they do not merely approximate physical laws, but preserve important mathematical and physical structure exactly. You will work on the construction of structure-preserving discretizations for time-dependent partial...

This PhD project at Eindhoven University of Technology focuses on entanglement routing in quantum optical fiber networks , combining theory, simulation, and experimentation to build telecom-grade quantum networking technologies. You will develop an entanglement-based routing architecture and protocol and set up an experimental multi-node testbed for routing entangled photons alongside classical telecom traffic. The project investigates how quantum-classical packets can be generated, detected, fr...