Organisation/Company CIC nanoGUNE Department Theory Research Field Physics Chemistry Researcher Profile First Stage Researcher (R1) Positions PhD Positions Application Deadline 15 Nov 2026 - 23:59 (Europe/Madrid) Country Spain Type of Contract Temporary Job Status Full-time Hours Per Week 40 Offer Starting Date 1 Jan 2027 Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? Not funded by a EU programme Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No
Offer Description
NanoGUNE is a research center devoted to conducting world-class nanoscience research for a competitive growth of the Basque Country. NanoGUNEis recognized by the Spanish Research Agency as a María de Maeztu Unit of Excellence. It is located in the university campus in San Sebastián, close to ther excellent institutions such as the Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC) and the Materials Physics Center, constituting a vibrant international research community.
The position is offered in the Theory Group, led by Emilio Artacho ( [email protected] ).




The candidate will join a research linein computational and theoretical condensed matter physics applied to various scientific problems in materials and nanoscience.More information can be found at https://www.nanogune.eu/theory .
The aim of the project is to contribute to the method development for the calculations invoking SIESTA and IBM's QISKIT for the use of quantum computing to solve on the correlated electrons described in an active space while embedded in a larger system described with density-functional theory. It involves setting up embedding techniques and coding them in a framework in which SIESTA is called for the non-correlated part and various quantum solvers coded in QISKIT are called for the highly-correlated electrons. IBM's quantum computers will be used in conjunction with conventional high-performance supercomputers to solve selected problems in condensed matter physics, nano and biophysics.
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📌 Pre-doctoral Researcher in Quantum computing joining density-functional theory (España)
🏢 CIC nanoGUNE
📍 España