PhD

The QuanG2 doctoral programme is launching its 2026 PhD call, offering 14 fully funded fellowships in quantum sciences, quantum technologies, and related interdisciplinary topics. Candidates holding a master’s degree can apply to up to 5 topics among 34 available projects. Each fellowship lasts 3 years and includes a research budget of up to €10,000 for secondments, conferences, or equipment. Coordinated in Grenoble and supported by the European Commission under MSCA COFUND, QuanG2 provides an interdisciplinary and international research environment to kickstart your research career. Applications are open from 26 January to 16 March 2026 at phdquantumgrenoble.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr
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The Vigo Quantum Communication Center at the University of Vigo (Spain) invites applications for PhD students and postdoctoral researchers in experimental quantum optics. You will work in the new quantum computing lab under the supervision of Professor Alexander Lvovsky (research group web page). The project is aimed at constructing a quantum optical neural network for combinatorial optimization.

Available to home and outstanding international applicants.

Quantum technologies are advancing rapidly, raising a central question for the field: Can quantum computers solve physically relevant problems better than classical computers? Understanding this requires overcoming theoretical challenges at the intersection of quantum information, many-body physics, and complexity theory.

This PhD project aims to explore the capabilities and limitations of quantum computation and develop quantum algorithms for tackling quantum problems.

The Department of Physics at Maynooth University in Co. Kildare, Ireland is pleased to announce a Ph.D. Scholarship available for a suitably qualified and successful Applicant in the subject of condensed matter theory and quantum information science. This is a 4 year position funded by Taighde Éireann–Research Ireland, with an expected start date of September 1st, 2026. The successful candidate will be supervised by Dr. Joshuah Heath.

The aim of the research project “Practical measurement-based quantum computing” is to explore project explores the feasibility and practicality of Measurement-Based Quantum Computing (MBQC), a paradigm distinct from the traditional circuit-based quantum computing model. We will identify its strengths for various applications whilst addressing MBQC's practical limitations .

The aim of the BMFTR research project “Q-Cyber” is to explore new approaches to networked multi-party quantum communication applications and to evaluate their practical feasibility and security. We will implement and investigate a range of advanced multipartite quantum communication protocols. We will develop suitable hardware solutions for the use of multipartite entangled quantum states as a fundamental resource in future quantum networks.

Each position is for an interdisciplinary project at the intersection of quantum communication, data analysis, and artificial intelligence. It aims to determine both the current capacity to preserve the quantum features of the transferred states and to investigate strategies, supported by machine learning techniques, to minimize the detrimental effects of the optical fiber transmission on entangled states. The principal investigator of the project is Prof.

Opportunity: CIRTA – Quantum Computing (PhD & Postdoc) 🇨🇦

The Canada Impact+ Research Training Awards (CIRTA) are a new Tri-Agency initiative to recruit outstanding international PhD students and postdoctoral researchers to Canada.

Funding
• PhD: $40,000/year for 3 years
• Postdoc: $70,000/year for 2 years

We are inviting Expressions of Interest for potential internal nomination to CIRTA in the following research areas:
• Quantum algorithms
• Quantum learning
• Quantum complexity
• Quantum error correction

Dr. Wenyuan Wang, Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Calgary, is recruiting MSc and PhD students incoming Fall 2026, to be working on theoretical quantum communication or optical quantum information processing.

Potential topics:

A funded 4-year joint PhD between King’s College London and the National Physical Laboratory (London, UK) is available for methodological developments into quantum algorithms for realistic electronic structure.