Professor, Experimental Quantum Physics

Professor, Experimental Quantum Physics

Aalto University

Espoo, Finland

The position is open to talented individuals who hold a doctorate in physics or a closely related field and have an outstanding track record and potential for further extending a productive scientific career. The position is to be filled either at tenured Associate Professor, or Full Professor level of the Aalto University tenure track system. The level is chosen based on the selected candidate. The position is full-time and permanent.

We seek candidates who have demonstrated excellence and whose research plans are within experimental quantum physics at low temperatures. We consider candidates with research focus on solid-state quantum materials or transport, or on superconducting circuits. We seek a research profile that complements or extends the current efforts at the Department. The candidates should aim at finding novel fundamental phenomena as well as functionalities possibly leading to applications in quantum, information, or other technologies. The appointed professors will be closely connected with the OtaNano national infrastructure which includes: cleanroom facilities of Micronova, Nanomicroscopy Centre and Low Temperature Laboratory, and the equipment at the Department of Applied Physics. The professorships are supported by InstituteQ. For links to these facilities see “What we offer?” below. The successful candidates are expected to lead an outstanding independent research program at the Department of Applied Physics, as well as to take responsibility for education in this field at Aalto University. Preference will be given to candidates who can take advantage of the existing facilities. Within the Aalto University tenure track system, the minimum requirement for Associate Professors and Full Professors is excellence in research and high-quality in teaching, or excellence in teaching and high-quality in research.

Your experience

Throughout their career, those in the academic tenure track system are expected to exercise and guide scientific research, to provide related higher academic education, to follow advances in their field, to participate in service to the Aalto University community, and to take part in societal interaction and international collaboration in their field.

We seek applicants who have:

• A doctorate in a field closely related to this position;
• Strong expertise in carrying out research and attract research funding at the highest level;
• Skills to collaborate in an interdisciplinary environment;
• Experience in education and researcher training in physics;
• Ability to be an effective teacher in the undergraduate and graduate degree programmes of the School of Science.