About Us

We are a novel junior team within the Peter Grünberg Institute at Forschungszentrum Jülich, a member of the Helmholtz Association. We offer world-class nanofabrication facilities through the Helmholtz Nanofabrication Facility at the Jülich Research Center, and state-of-the-art measurement solutions in our laboratory on the RWTH Aachen campus. Our local quantum ecosystem is rapidly expanding through large funding efforts by the state of NRW and the German federal government.

Open Positions

We have several open positions at the MSc, PhD and post-doctoral level. We are a young and diverse team and welcome applications from all backgrounds and demographics. Beyond conducting excellent scientific research, our goal is to provide a safe and sociable working environment where everyone can grow and develop according to their own goals and expectations while contributing to our team.

PhD students in our team will be employed by FZ Jülich, and will get their degree through RWTH Aachen, one of the most renowned technical institutions in Germany and Europe. We look for strong candidates with a background in quantum physics / quantum engineering / nano electronics, capable of carrying out research independently. At the same time, we seek candidates that complement our team and that are willing to work collaboratively in our team and with our external partners.

Post-doctoral researchers will be employed by FZ Jülich and will be offered highly competitive working conditions. On a longer timescale, FZ Jülich offers the perspective of employment as a permanent research scientist embedded in one of the many existing institutes, or as a junior team leader according to a tenure track model.

Master's Projects

Nitride Superconductors for Microwave Resonators

In this project you will be fabricating coplanar waveguide and lumped element superconducting resonators to study novel Josephson junctions made of planar strained Germanium quantum wells. You will be responsible for optimising and characterising NbTiN thin films to be used for this purpose. We will be using the resonators to study interesting phenomena in the Andreev Bound State spectra arising from the high and anisotropic spin orbit coupling in the semiconductor weak link of the junction.
16 Apr 2023
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Characterization of Customized Shielding for Spin and Superconducting Qubits

You will characterize state-of-the-art superconducting and semiconducting devices in a customized magnetic demagnetization refrigerator. With these measurements we will investigate the cryostats performance while having the ideal environment to measure quantum effects.
16 Apr 2023
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Bachelor's Projects

Planar Josephson Junctions in Strained Germanium

You will be measuring and analysing planar Josephson junctions made from strained Germanium. The project gives you experience with quantum transport measurements at mK
06 Oct 2023
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