Postdoc for the QC4ErUM Project

For our location in Hamburg we are seeking:

Limited: 31.10.2028 | Starting date: earliest possible | ID: FHPO001/2026 | Deadline: 26.03.2026 | Full-time/Part-time

DESY, with more than 2900 employees at its two locations in Hamburg and Zeuthen, is one of the world's leading research centres. Its research focuses on decoding the structure and function of matter, from the smallest particles of the universe to the building blocks of life. In this way, DESY contributes to solving the major questions and urgent challenges facing science, society and industry. With its ultramodern research infrastructure, its interdisciplinary research platforms and its international networks, DESY offers a highly attractive working environment in the fields of science, technology and administration as well as for the education of highly qualified young scientists.

The CMS Quantum Computing group develops generative machine learning models for detector simulations, specifically the simulation of showers in calorimeters: Proof-of-principle models were successfully developed with methods of Quantum Machine Learning. In cooperation with the University partners the aim of this project ls to translate classical analysis and simulation algorithms into hybrid or even full quantum algorithms. The physics to be addressed belongs to the ErUM Community. ErUM stands for research for the universe and matter and brings together around 20,000 scientists from various fields in Germany: astroparticle physics, elementary particle physics, accelerator physics, research with neutrons, research with synchrotron radiation, research with nuclear probes and ion beams; hadron and nuclear physics as well as the council of German observatories (https://erumdatahub.de/en/erum-communities/).