Open Position — Assistant Professor (adiunkt)
We are recruiting an Assistant Professor (adiunkt) in quantum information and computing at AMU Poznan, starting 1 October 2026 (full-time, 2-year contract, extendable after a positive evaluation). Application deadline: 21 August 2026. See the full announcement (ref. konkurs_11_WFiA_adiunkt_1_2026); applications to fizyka@amu.edu.pl. Strong early-career candidates are warmly encouraged to apply.
Scientific Interests
The scope of my scientific interests includes quantum physics and optics, more specifically:
- Quantum machine learning
- Quantum cloning
- Quantum teleportation
- Quantum cryptography
- Quantum correlations
- Entanglement and nonlocality detection
- Temporal quantum correlations
- Non-Hermitian systems and exceptional points
- Quantum memristors and neuromorphic quantum computing
- Optical quantum information
- Mathematical and computational methods of physics
- Foundations of physics
- Photonics and quantum optics
Contact
Department of Quantum Information
Institute of Spintronics and Quantum Information
Faculty of Physics and Astronomy
Adam Mickiewicz University
ul. Uniwersytetu Poznanskiego 2
61-614 Poznan, Poland
Room: G288
E-mail:
Office hours: Monday 12:00-13:00, Wednesday 12:00-13:00
Also available via MS Teams.
Education
- 2019 — Habilitation in physics, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland.
Achievement: Nonlinear temporal and spatial properties of quantum states: sequential and interferometric measurement methods in optics - 2012 — Ph.D. in physics, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland.
Thesis: Secure quantum teleportation and optimal quantum cloning (supervisor: prof. dr hab. Adam Miranowicz) - 2008 — M.Sc. in physics (Effect of damping of entanglement on teleportation of qubits and coherent states), Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland
Employment & Visits
- 2021–present — Head, Department of Quantum Information, AMU Poznan
- 2013–present — Faculty member, AMU Poznan (Assistant Prof., since 2019 Prof. UAM)
- 2013–2021 — Researcher, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic
- 2024, 2026 — Research stays at RIKEN, Wako, Japan
- 2014 — FNP scholarship, RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science, Japan
- 2012–2013 — Postdoc, RCPTM, Joint Laboratory of Optics, Olomouc
- 2011–2012 — Research visits: Joint Laboratory of Optics, Olomouc; Sapienza University, Rome
- 2010–2011 — Technical Director/Researcher, Voxel Sp. z o.o. (R&D for Integra Inc., Japan)
- 2008 — Trainee, Quantop/Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen (BEC dipole trap)
Academic Reviews
Habilitation reviews
- P. Kolenderski (UMK Torun)
- M. Markiewicz (UG Gdansk)
- K. Korzekwa (UG Gdansk)
Doctoral reviews
- P. Pandya (UG Gdansk)
- E. Panwar (UG Gdansk)
- J. Jayakumar (UW Warsaw)
Doctoral committee member
- K. Sobucki (UAM Poznan)
- S. Shekhar (UAM Poznan)
Awards & Scholarships
- 2024 — Award of the Minister of Science for creating the Quantum Informatics programme
- 2016, 2017 — Rector's Award, Adam Mickiewicz University
- 2015 — Scholarship for Outstanding Young Scientists (MNiSW)
- 2014 — START Scholarship (Foundation for Polish Science / FNP)
- 2014 — Scientific Scholarship of the City of Poznan
Roles
- Head of the Department of Quantum Information (since 2021)
- Programme Director: Quantum Informatics (BSc & MSc)
- Member of the Scientific Discipline Council and Programme Council, Faculty of Physics and Astronomy
- UAM representative in the Q Cluster
- Ph.D. supervisor and evaluator in GenQ (Marie Skłodowska-Curie COFUND doctoral programme)
Reviewer
- Communications Physics
- European Physical Journal D
- IEEE Trans. Quantum Eng.
- International Journal of Optics
- JOSA A
- JOSA B
- J. Phys. B
- Modern Physics Letters B
- Nature Communications
- npj Quantum Information
- Optics Express
- Optics Letters
- Physical Review A
- Physical Review Letters
- Physics Letters A
- Physica Scripta
- Proc. R. Soc. A
- Quantum Inf. Processing
- Reports on Math. Phys.
- Scientific Reports
- Z. Naturforschung