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| Field | Link | Description | Deadline | Short list | Offer made | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Materials Science (AI / self-driving laboratories / computational methods / quantum tech.) | Auburn University | Open Rank | August 10, 2026 | |||
| Next-Generation Electrical and Optical Devices | ETH Zurich | Open Rank | May 31, 2026 | |||
| Experimental Condensed Matter Physics | ETH Zurich | Open Rank | May 28, 2026 | |||
| Biophysics | Amherst College, Assistant Professor of Physics (Biophysics) | Amherst College, Assistant Professor of Physics (Biophysics) | November 1, 2025 | |||
| Materials for quantum computing and sensing | Berkeley Lab, Molecular Foundry | Staff Scientist (Career-track and career) | December 15, 2025 | Interviews scheduled | ||
| Assistant Professor of Experimental Quantum Materials and Nanofabrication | Binghamton University | Assistant Professor (Tenure track) | November 16, 2025 and will continue until filled | Zoom interview scheduled | ||
| Assistant Professor of Experimental Quantum Light-Matter Interactions and Nonlinear Optics/Photonics | Binghamton University | Assistant Professor (Tenure track) | November 16, 2025 and will continue until filled | Zoom interview scheduled | ||
| Assistant Professor of Computational Soft Materials Science and Engineering | Brandeis University | Assistant Professor | November 30, 2025 | Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro, Mehrana Nejad | ||
| Data-intensive Methods in Physics or Astronomy (Theory or Experiment) | California State University Long Beach | Assistant Professor Of Physics And Astronomy | December 2, 2025 (review begins) | |||
| Biological Physics (cellular/subcellular) | Carnegie Mellon University | Assistant Professor | November 30, 2025 | Carlos Floyd, Christopher Bohrer, Caitlin Cornell, Evelyn Tang, Linnea Lemma | ||
| Theoretical Physics for Visiting Assistant Professor Position | Case Western Reserve University | Visiting Assistant Professor | October 18, 2025 | |||
| Team Leader - Research Group Leader (Tenure track) - EUCENTRAL Center for Quantum Technologies Modelling | Center for Theoretical Physics PAS, Warsaw, Poland | Assistant/Associate Professor (Tenure track) | January 31, 2026 | |||
| Experimental Quantum Physics | Colorado School of Mines | Assistant Professor | December 1, 2025 | Zihuai Zhang, … | Zihuai Zhang, … | |
| Experimental Physics | Creighton University | Assistant Professor | October 1, 2025 (open until filled) | Zoom interviews done | ||
| Experimental Condensed Matter Physics | CUNY City College of New York | Assistant Professor | December 21, 2025 | David Spierings, Taketo Handa | David Spierings (declined) | |
| Quantum Physics | CUNY Graduate Center & Flatiron | Assistant Professor | January 15, 2026 | |||
| MEIE Chair in Quantum Computing | École de technologie supérieure ÉTS | Open Rank | September 21, 2025 | Shayan Majidy, … | Shayan Majidy (declined) | |
| Condensed Matter Physics | Ecole Polytechnique, France | Assistant Professor | March 27, 2026 | |||
| Spintronic Devices for Non-Conventional Computing, Memory and Sensing | Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) | Assistant or Associate Professor | November 9, 2025 | Interviews scheduled | ||
| Experimental Physical or Analytical Chemistry (incl. quantum sensing and information processing) | EPFL | Assistant Professor (Tenure track) | October 15, 2025 | Daniel Laorenza, Mohamed Abobeih, Tianlin Liu, Angela Wittmann, Giovanni Scuri, Jeongheon Choe | ||
| Theory of Condensed Matter and Interacting Quantum Matter | EPFL | Assistant Professor (Tenure track) | November 15, 2025 | |||
| Preferred experimental biophysics, condensed matter, atomic, molecular, and optical physics (AMO) | Fairfield University | Assistant Professor (Tenure track) | October 31, 2025 | |||
| Open-Rank Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Quantum Optics | Florida International University | Open Rank | January 8, 2026 | |||
| Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Theoretical/Experimental Quantum Science | Indiana University | Assistant Professor (Tenure track) | April 1, 2026 | |||
| Theoretical Foundations and Physics Applications of AI | Institut de Physique Théorique, Université Paris-Saclay, France | Junior Permanent Researcher (Tenured Assistant Professor Equivalent) | March 21, 2026 | |||
| Condensed Matter Physics and Quantum Materials (broadly defined) | Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan | Faculty positions at all levels (Tenure track or tenured) | September 1, 2025 | |||
| Theoretical Quantum Physics | IQOQI Innsbruck | Junior group leader | October 15, 2025 | |||
| Experimental Quantum Science/AMO Physics (broadly defined) | Johns Hopkins University | Assistant Professor | December 15, 2025 | Leon Zaporski, Shaun Burd, David Spierings, Zeyang Li | Leon Zaporski (accepted) | |
| Assistant Professor in Condensed Matter Physics | KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden) | Assistant Professor | November 14, 2025 | |||
| Assistant professor in Integrated semiconductor device and chip technologies | KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden) | Assistant Professor | November 10, 2025 | |||
| Assistant professor in experimental quantum physics | Leiden University, The Netherlands | Assistant or Associate Professor | October 5, 2025 | Interviews scheduled | ||
| Assistant Professor in Experimental Low Temperature Quantum Device Physics | Louisiana State University | Assistant Professor | March 31, 2026 | Himadri Chakraborti, … | Himadri Chakraborti | |
| Theoretical Biological Physics | Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems | Research Group Leader | April 3, 2026 | |||
| Condensed Matter Theory | Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems | Research Group Leader | February 15, 2026 | |||
| Assistant professor, DMSE & SCC | MIT | Assistant Professor | December 1, 2025 | Charles Musgrave, Jennifer Coulter, Benjamin Miller, Manasa Kaniselvan | Manasa Kaniselvan (accepted) | |
| Assistant professor, EECS | MIT | Assistant Professor | December 1, 2025 | |||
| AI & Physics; Soft Condensed Matter & Biophysics; Theoretical Quantum Condensed Matter Physics; Experimental Particle and Nuclear Physics | MIT | Assistant Professor | December 1, 2025 | Cond-mat theory: Bowen Shi, Patrick Ledwith, Carolyn Zhang, Ethan Lake. Soft-mat theory: Francesco Cagnetta, Francesca Mignacco, Francesco Mori, Jacob Zavatone-Veth | Ethan Lake; Yasaman Bahri | |
| Theoretical Quantum Physics | Monash University | Level B/C (Equiv. tenure-track Assistant Professor) | January 26, 2026 | |||
| Materials Physics | Nagoya University, Japan | Associate or Professor (Tenured) | August 18, 2025 | |||
| Quantum Materials and Quantum Information Science and Engineering | Northeastern University | Assistant/Associate Professor | December 1, 2025 and will continue until filled | Hong-Ye Hu, … Zoom Interviews scheduled. | ||
| Theoretical Quantum Condensed Matter, Quantum Optics, and Quantum Information Physics | NYU | Assistant Professor | November 30,2025 | Thomas Schuster, Lei Gioia, Ethan Lake, Samuel Garratt, Patrick Ledwith | Thomas Schuster, Sam Garratt (accepted) | |
| Physics and Quantum Science (including related fields in material science and nanotechnology) | Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology | tenure-track or tenured faculty | October 15, 2025 | Zoom interview scheduled | ||
| Experimental AMO Physics | Old Dominion University | Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) | January 2, 2026 (review begins) | Yichao Yu, Gloria Jia, Junyi Lee, Qiming Wu, Liudmila Zhukas | Junyi Lee | |
| Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics | Oregon State University | Assistant Professor (Tenure track) | November 5, 2025 and will continue until filled | In person interviews scheduled | ||
| Ray Laflamme Early Career Chair in Quantum Computing and Quantum Information | Perimeter Institute | Faculty | Feb 19, 2026 | Anthony Chen, Thomas Schuster | ||
| Material Science and Engineering | Princeton Materials Institute | Assistant Professor | October 24, 2025 | Mark Carrington, John Holoubek, Yanjie Shao | ||
| Experimental Quantum Science | Princeton University | Assistant Professor | December 1, 2025 | Zeyang Li, Leon Zaproski, Silviu-Marian Udrescu | Silviu-Marian Udrescu (accepted) | |
| Quantum Information Science and Engineering | Purdue University | Assistant/Associate Professor | November 24, 2025 (review begins) | David Spierings, Ryota Katsumi | David Spierings (accepted) | |
| Theoretical Quantum Matter and Quantum Information | Purdue University | Assistant or Associate Professor (Tenure track) | December 5, 2025 | Zoom interview scheduled | ||
| Experimental Quantum Optics, Quantum Entanglement & Quantum Information | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | Assistant Professor | December 1, 2025 | Zoom interview done | ||
| Assistant Professor in Experimental AMO Physics | Rice University | Assistant Professor (Tenure track) | December 15, 2025 | Shai Tsesses, Leon Zaporski, Bichen Zhang, Shaun Burd, Yichao Yu | Shaun Burd | |
| Assistant Professor AI for Physics | Rochester Institute of Technology | Assistant Professor | December 05, 2025 | campus interviews | ||
| Health Physics, Condensed Matter Physics, and/or Particle Physics | South Dakota State University | Assistant Professor | January 15, 2026 | Zoom interviews done | ||
| Assistant Professor in Experimental Condensed Matter Physics | Stony Brook University, The State University of New York (SUNY) | Assistant Professor (Tenure track) | November 17, 2025 | Jacob Pettine, Richard (Yu) Liu, Yiping Wang, et al. | Jacob Pettine (accepted) | |
| Quantum Information Science and Technology (QIST) | University at Buffalo (UB), The State University of New York (SUNY) | Assistant Professor (Tenure track), Simons Empire Faculty Fellow | Early January | Saroj Chand, … | Saroj Chand (accepted) | |
| Assistant Professors in Experimental & Theoretical Quantum and Information Science | Syracuse University | Assistant Professor | November 15, 2025 | Zeyang Li, David Spierings, Demid Sychev, Wonjae Lee, Laurel Anderson | Wonjae Lee (accepted) | |
| Theoretical Quantum Physics | Temple University | Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) | December 30, 2025 | Swati Chaudhary, Jonathan Curtis | ||
| Experimental AMO quantum information science | Texas A&M University | Assistant Professor | December 15, 2025 and will continue until filled | Mohamed Abobeih, Shai Tsesses, Bichen Zhang, Zeyang Li, Zihuai Zhang, Yichao Yu | Mohamed Abobeih | |
| Assistant Professor (Quantum), Electrical & Computer Engineering | Texas A&M University | Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) | November 15, 2025 | Mikhail Shalaev, Mohamed Abobeih, Hanwen Yao, Jiarui Li | ||
| Materials Science & Engineering | Texas A&M University | Assistant Professor or Associate Professor | December 8, 2025 | |||
| Theoretical or Experimental Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics (AMOP) | The Ohio State University | Assistant or Associate Professor (Tenure track) | November 15, 2025 | Leon Zaporski, Meng Han, Silviu-Marian Udrescu, Zeyang Li | Leon Zaporski (declined), Zeyang Li | |
| Experimental Photonics Physics | The Ohio State University | Assistant or Associate Professor (Tenure track) | November 1, 2025 | Maxim Shcherbakov, Yiping Wang, Ryota Katsumi | Yiping Wang (accepted) | |
| Materials Science and Engineering | The Pennsylvania State University, PA | Assistant or Associate Professor (tenure-line) | September 1, 2025 | |||
| Experimental Quantum Nanoscience | TU Delft | Assistant Professor | November 24, 2025 | Interviews scheduled | ||
| Female tenure track assistant professorship in experimental solid-state physics | TU Graz, Austria | Assistant Professor | February 28, 2026 | |||
| Theoretical Quantum Computing/Quantum Information | Tufts University | Open Rank | January 5, 2026 | Samuel Garratt, Lei Gioia, Rhine Samajdar, Christian Kokail | Christian Kokail (declined), Lei Gioia (accepted) | |
| Computer Engineering (Quantum Computing) | UBC Okanagan | Assistant or Associate Professor | December 16, 2025 | Shayan Majidy, … | Shayan Majidy (declined) | |
| Soft condensed matter exp/th | UC Berkeley | Assistant Professor | November 14, 2025 | Deepak Krishnamurthy, Colin Scheibner, Yuanzhao Zhang, Albert Lin, Ethan Lake | Ethan Lake (accepted), … | |
| Theory (open) | UC Berkeley | Assistant Professor | November 14, 2025 | Anthony Chen, … | Anthony Chen, … | |
| Atomic physics theory | UC Berkeley | Assistant Professor | November 14, 2025 | Yuxin Wang, Anjun Chu, Bingtian Ye, Nishad Maskara, … | ||
| Quantum computing theory and systems, and broad search (multiple positions) | UC Berkeley EECS | Assistant Professor | December 1, 2025 | Qian Xu, Jonas Frey, Zhengqi Gao, Carmen Amo Alonso, Timothy Brumfiel | Qian Xu, … | |
| Quantum materials (experiment or theory) | Université de Sherbrooke, Institut Quantique | Assistant or associate professor (tenure track), 2 positions | November 14, 2025 | Felix Desrochers, Jennifer Coulter, Julian May-Mann | ||
| Quantum information (experiment or theory) | Université de Sherbrooke, Institut Quantique | Assistant or associate professor (tenure track) | November 21, 2025 | Shayan Majidy and Linnea Grans-Samuelsson. | ||
| Physics of Materials under Extreme Conditions | University of Alabama at Birmingham | Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) | Rolling review until position is filled. | In-person interviews scheduled | Tyler Perez (accepted) | |
| Assistant Professor in Experimental Quantum Matter | University of Alberta | Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) | January 30, 2026 | Mohamed Abobeih, Graham Baker, Ruoming Peng | ||
| Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in Theoretical Quantum Physics - Quantum Horizons Alberta (2 positions) | University of Alberta | Assistant/Associate/Full Professor (Tenure track) | January 5, 2026 (review begins December 8, 2025) | |||
| Assistant/Associate in Quantum Engineering | University of Alberta | Assistant/Associate (Tenure track) | Early January | Shayan Majidy, … | Shayan Majidy (declined) | |
| Theoretical Quantum Computing | University of Basel | Tenure-track assistant professor | October 30, 2025 | Libor Caha, Giorgios Styliaris, Sam Garratt, Linnea Grans-Samuelsson, Kishor Bharti, Christophe Piveteau | Sam Garratt (declined), … | |
| Tenure-track faculty in Soft Condensed Matter | University of California Berkeley | Assistant Professor | November 14, 2025 | |||
| Theoretical Materials Science - Quantum Materials or Quantum Chemistry (Depts of Physics or Chemistry) | University of California, Irvine | Open Rank | Dec 1st, 2025 (review begins) | Tim Hsieh, Shizeng Lin, Ankit Mahajan, Sohag Kundu, Daniel Kaplan, Dumiutru Calugaru, Zhi-Hao Cui | Zhi-Hao Cui (Accepted) | |
| Quantum Science and Engineering (Experiment and Theory) | University of California, Los Angeles | Open Rank | February 1, 2026 | Mohamed Abobeih, Giovanni Scuri, Chi-Hsin Huang | ||
| NanoScience Technology Center & Materials Science and Engineering | University of Central Florida | Assistant Professor | September 15, 2025 | Zoom interviews done | ||
| Theoretical Quantum Science and Engineering | University of Chicago | Assistant Professor | December 1, 2025 | Jennifer Coulter, Ethan Lake, Rahul Trivedi, Thomas Schuster | ||
| Experimental Quantum Science and Engineering | University of Chicago | Assistant Professor | December 1, 2025 | Leon Zaporski, Guanhao Huang | Searching fail | |
| Experimental Condensed Matter Physics | University of Cincinnati | Assistant Professor | December 15, 2025 | Zoom interview scheduled | ||
| Experimental Quantum Condensed Matter | University of Florida | Assistant Professor (Tenure track) | November 10, 2025 | Himadri Chakraborti, Sudi Chen, Sheikh Rubaiat Ul Haque, Jiarui Li, Ayelet Uzan-Narovlansky | Sudi Chen (accepted) | |
| AI for Quantum Physics | University of Florida | Open Rank | January 5, 2026 | Clotilde Cucinotta, Benjamin Geisler, Christopher Roth, Yi Jiang, Haining Pan | Haining Pan (accepted) | |
| Quantum Materials and Devices | University of Houston | Assistant or Associate Professor | Open until filled | Interviews scheduled | ||
| Theoretical Quantum Information Science | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Department of Physics | Assistant Professor (Tenure track) | December 23, 2025 | Hong-Ye Hu, Sam Garratt, Qian Xu, Ethan Lake | ||
| Quantum Computing and Systems | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | Open Rank | January 8, 2026 | Hezi Zhang, Faranak Bahrami, … | ||
| Quantum Computer Science/Quantum Information | University of Innsbruck | Full Professor (Tenured) | September 15, 2025 | |||
| Soft Matter/Statistical Physics Theory | University of Massachusetts Amherst | Assistant professor (other ranks considered) | January 20, 2026 | Edmond Zhou, Cody Schimming, Martin Falk, Helen Ansell, Xinyu Wang | ||
| Computational Biological Physics | University of Miami | Assistant professor | December 15, 2025 | Mehrana Nejad, Weishun Zhong, Richard Gast, Carlos Flloyd | ||
| Applied Physics (including condensed matter, biophysics, quantum science and technology, photonics and device physics) | University of Missouri | Assistant Professor (Tenure track) | December 1, 2025 (review begins) | |||
| Physics Semiconductor Microelectronics (experimental) | University of North Texas | Assistant Professor | Open until filled | Zoom interviews scheduled | ||
| Experimental condensed matter physics | University of Notre Dame | Assistant Professor (Tenure Track); Open rank | November 1, 2025 and will continue until filled | Yiping Wang, Sudi Chen, Honglie Ning, Dipanjan Chaudhuri | Dipanjan Chaudhuri (accepted) | |
| Assistant/Associate Professor - Experimental AMO Physics | University of Oklahoma | Assistant/Associate Professor (Tenure Track/Tenured) | Review begins November 24, 2025 and will continue until filled | Liudmila Zhukas, … | Liudmila Zhukas | |
| Assistant Professor - Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics | University of Oklahoma | Assistant Professor (Tenure Tack) | December 1, 2025 and will continue until filled | Xiaojuan Ni, Sayed Ghorashi, Harrison LaBollita, T.C. (Peter) Lu, Sunny Gupta | T.C. (Peter) Lu (accepted) | |
| Associate Professor or Professor in Biological Physics | University of Oxford | Associate Professor or Professor | March 02, 2026 | |||
| Associate Professor of Quantum Condensed Matter Theory | University of Oxford | Associate Professor | December 3, 2026 | Rahul Trivedi, Natalia Chepiga, Sam Garratt, Ethan Lake | ||
| Condensed Matter/Quantum Theory | University of Queensland, Australia | Lecturer/Senior Lecturer (Tenure Track) | August 11, 2025 | |||
| Theoretical Physics - Quantum Information Science and/or Physics of Complex Systems | University of Rochester | Assistant Professor (Tenure track) | November 10, 2025 | Samuel Garratt, Yuxin Wang, Christopher Waechtler, Carlos Floyd, Ricardo Martinez Garcia | ||
| Theoretical Quantum Optics | University of Toronto, assistant professor in theoretical quantum optics | Assistant Professor, full-time tenure stream position, University of Toronto | October 30, 2025 | Alexander McDonald, Rhine Samajdar, Rahul Trivedi, Yidan Wang, Yuxin Wang, | ||
| Quantum Materials | University of Waterloo | Assistant Professor (Tenure track) | January 3, 2026 | |||
| Intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Theoretical Physics | University of Waterloo/Perimeter | Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) | January 3, 2026 | Shayan Majidy, Jessica N. Howard, Francesco Cagnetta, Alex Meiburg | Alex Meiburg | |
| Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics (AMO), Photonics or Biophysics | University of Waterloo | Assistant Professor (Tenure track) | January 3, 2026 | |||
| Quantum engineering | University of Wisconsin - Madison ECE | Open rank (Assistant/Associate/Full Professor) | December 16, 2025 | Joshua Viszlai, Shai Tsesses, Hezi Zhang | Hezi Zhang | |
| Theoretical Quantum Computing and Quantum Materials | Vanderbilt University | Assistant/Associate/Full Professor | Open until the position filled | Rhine Samajdar, Hong-Ye Hu, Zhi-Hao Cui, Eric Anschuetz, Zane Rossi | Hong-Ye Hu (declined) | |
| Open area (astrophysics, condensed matter, materials physics) | Villanova University | Assistant Professor (Tenure track) | November 1, 2025 | Zoom interviews done | ||
| Theoretical quantum materials/quantum information science | William & Mary | Assistant Professor | December 27, 2025 | Fang Xie, Nishchhal Verma, Nemin Wei, Daniele Guerci | Daniele Guerci (accepted) | |
| Theoretical Physics | William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute (FTPI) U. Minnesota | Open Rank | January 16, 2026 and will continue until filled | |||
| Quantum condensed matter theory | Yale University | Assistant Professor (Tenure track) | November 15, 2025 | Ethan Lake, Sam Garratt, Dumiutru Calugaru, Yongxin Zeng | Sam Garratt (declined) | |
| Materials Science | Yale University | Assistant Professor (Tenure track) | November 10, 2025 | Bernardine Rinkel, Laurel Anderson | ||
| Assistant professor, Quantum Information Experiment | Yale University | Assistant Professor | December 1, 2025 | Zhubing Jia, Bichen Zhang, Leah Weiss, David Spierings, Yutian Wen | Bichen Zhang (accepted) |