Professor in Quantum Technologies

Job title:

Professor in Quantum Applied sciences

Firm

King’s Faculty London

Job description

We’re recruiting a Professor in Quantum Applied sciences as a part of a serious growth in Quantum Applied sciences analysis and schooling at King’s Faculty London.

These positions kind a part of a serious at King’s, targeted on boundary-breaking science analysis, schooling and innovation that advantages society. This funding is accelerating progress throughout and stimulating new initiatives on the interfaces between conventional areas.

We’re searching for gifted lecturers with robust observe information in analysis and schooling. Particular areas of curiosity embody, however are usually not restricted to:

• Quantum sensors and units throughout a spread of platforms, together with photonics, nanotechnology, and atomic / molecular physics, in addition to quantum info processing applied sciences.
• Quantum imaging applied sciences, together with to assist life sciences analysis and the research of quantum results in organic environments.
• Theoretical foundations for quantum applied sciences, together with quantum measurement idea, entanglement idea, and decoherence fashions. Exploring theoretical fashions and their utility in quantum computing and quantum communication.
• Quantum computing together with improvement and/or utility and improvement of quantum algorithms (each for dependable fault-tolerant and NISQ architectures), quantum emulation, improvement of units, programming languages, and software program engineering or programming languages for quantum computing applied sciences. Mathematical elements of quantum info idea, equivalent to quantum error correction and topological quantum computing.
• Theoretical and mathematical instruments for quantum simulations, together with Hamiltonian dynamics, quantum part transitions, and the applying of tensor community strategies.
• Quantum and post-quantum safety. Foundational elements of quantum cryptography, together with safety proofs and the event of quantum-resistant cryptographic protocols.
• Quantum communication and knowledge idea, together with distributed quantum computing and quantum key distribution.
• Quantum machine studying and optimisation.

Profitable candidates will play a key position in growing and executing internationally main analysis, working collaboratively throughout King’s. You’ll have a robust analysis observe report, demonstrating interdisciplinary engagement, and be prepared to ascertain and develop a analysis programme that pulls exterior funding. Additionally, you will be dedicated to educating scientists of the longer term by means of a spread of undergraduate and postgraduate diploma programmes, together with progressive new programmes in Pure Sciences.

This is a chance to contribute to the strategic progress of world-class analysis, working synergistically throughout disciplines, and figuring out and rising promising early profession researchers. We additionally want to maximise the relevance of our work to society by means of engaged analysis that engages various audiences, particularly in our native communities in London and past.

It’s important that King’s displays the variety of the inhabitants we serve, and we strongly encourage purposes from candidates of all backgrounds.

Shortlisted candidates can be consulted on acceptable self-discipline areas and host departments as a part of the choice and interview course of.

This submit can be supplied on an indefinite contract.

This can be a full-time submit.

Key obligations

• Present educational management in an acceptable space of analysis
• Set up, develop and maintain an internationally aggressive, externally-funded analysis programme in step with, or complementary to departmental / college / college analysis methods at King’s.
• Preserve a constant, excellent observe report of publication (sometimes 2-4 analysis publications (relying on appointment stage) over a rolling five-year interval that features world main or internationally wonderful work, as first, final and/or corresponding creator).
• Contribute to instructing of undergraduate and postgraduate college students and curriculum improvement.
• Plan, organise and ship a spread of instructing and evaluation actions (e.g. lecturing, mission supervision and tutorials) and main on a minimum of one substantive module/programme.
• Supervise and practice postgraduate and undergraduate college students to make sure their efficient improvement.
• Supervise and practice analysis and technical employees employed on the submit holder’s analysis tasks to make sure their efficient improvement.
• Have interaction within the dissemination of analysis by means of data switch, outreach, persevering with skilled improvement, public engagement and so on.
• Contribute absolutely to educational life and strategic planning inside a Division/Faculty and, the place required/acceptable to the broader strategic planning processes in School and College at an acceptable stage.
• Determine strategic improvement alternatives in instructing and analysis and contribute to the event of those concepts.
• Contribute to driving and making certain a optimistic and inclusive analysis tradition.

The above listing of obligations might not be exhaustive, and the submit holder can be required to undertake such duties and obligations as could fairly be anticipated throughout the scope and grading of the submit.

Expertise, data, and expertise

Important standards * PhD/DPhil diploma

• Scientific synergy with present analysis at King’s
• Important, established experience in an space of elementary science analysis associated space to quantum applied sciences
• Expertise in main excessive impression interdisciplinary analysis
• Excellent impartial observe report of publication of worldwide stature
• Established and constant report of attracting peer reviewed analysis grant funding or fellowships
• Sturdy and constant observe report of main educational analysis groups
• Expertise of main multi-disciplinary groups and sharing and inspiring good apply
• Important expertise in management in educational administration
• Expertise in supervising and growing analysis college students and/or analysis employees
• Member of prestigious educational and/or industrial advisory boards
• Expertise of business/business funding alternatives to underpin utilized analysis

Fascinating standards * Important expertise of supply of undergraduate instructing

Additional info

Functions ought to embody:

• a 1 web page cowl letter highlighting your key scientific contributions, a short abstract of future plans and match with King’s. Please additionally point out which departments/colleges you’re feeling that you simply finest align with.
• a CV with a full publication listing
• a analysis assertion (as much as 2 pages)
• a instructing assertion (as much as 1 web page)
• particulars of three educational referees, together with one out of your present or most up-to-date employer. Must you be shortlisted, letters of advice can be sought forward of the interview from two of your references. The third reference, out of your present employer, will solely be requested together with your consent.

Candidates ought to element how they meet the important standards listed within the advert. If we obtain a robust discipline of candidates, we could use the fascinating standards to decide on our shortlist, so please embody your proof in opposition to these the place potential.

The shortlisting / interview course of will happen in two levels: a panel interview and, if shortlisted, an invite to current a seminar and meet colleagues. Preliminary interviews are as a consequence of happen in early Might.

We notably welcome purposes from feminine and minority ethnic candidates. We perceive that versatile working preparations or profession breaks could also be vital in sure circumstances and welcome the chance to debate this risk.

We additionally welcome and assist proleptic appointments for candidates with current private fellowships.

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King’s Faculty London is without doubt one of the prime 20 universities on the planet and among the many oldest in England. King’s has greater than 27,600 college students (of whom practically 10,500 are graduate college students) from some 150 international locations worldwide, and a few 6,800 employees.

King’s has an excellent status for world-class instructing and cutting-edge analysis. Within the 2014 Analysis Excellence Framework (REF) King’s was ranked sixth nationally within the ‘energy’ rating, which takes into consideration each the standard and amount of analysis exercise, and seventh for high quality in keeping with Instances Greater Training rankings. Eighty-four per cent of analysis at King’s was deemed ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally wonderful’ (3* and 4*). The college is within the prime seven UK universities for analysis earnings and has an total annual earnings of greater than £684 million.

King’s has a very distinguished status within the humanities, regulation, the sciences (together with a variety of well being areas equivalent to psychiatry, drugs, nursing and dentistry) and social sciences together with worldwide affairs. It has performed a serious position in lots of the advances which have formed fashionable life, equivalent to the invention of the construction of DNA and analysis that led to the event of radio, tv, cell phones and radar.

King’s Faculty London and Man’s and St Thomas’, King’s Faculty Hospital and South London and Maudsley NHS Basis Trusts are a part of King’s Well being Companions. King’s Well being Companions Educational Well being Sciences Centre (AHSC) is a pioneering world collaboration between one of many world’s main research-led universities and three of London’s most profitable NHS Basis Trusts, together with main instructing hospitals and complete psychological well being providers. For extra info, go to: .

King’s £600 million marketing campaign, World questions|KING’s solutions, has delivered enormous world impression in areas the place King’s has specific experience. Philanthropic assist has funded new analysis to save lots of younger lives at Evelina London Youngsters’s Hospital; established the King’s Dickson Poon Faculty of Legislation as a worldwide chief in transnational regulation; constructed a brand new Most cancers Centre at Man’s Hospital; allowed distinctive collaboration between main neuroscientists to fast-track new remedies for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, motor neurone illness, melancholy and schizophrenia on the new Maurice Wohl Scientific Neuroscience Institute; created the Cicely Saunders Institute: the primary educational establishment on the planet devoted to palliative care, and supported the King’s Sierra Leone Partnership within the Ebola disaster. Donations present over 300 of probably the most promising college students with scholarships and bursaries every year. Extra details about the marketing campaign is out there at .

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Anticipated wage

£80324 per 12 months

Location

Central London

Job date

Sat, 16 Mar 2024 08:04:19 GMT

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