PhD Position: Spaceborne quantum communication, at TESAT in Stuttgart, Germany
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PhD Position: Spaceborne quantum communication, at TESAT in Stuttgart, Germany
Application deadline: apply soonest
Tesat-Spacecom (TESAT) is offering a fully-funded PhD position in the field of free-space optical quantum communication, focusing on multi-user space/aerial QKD network architecture design based on trusted nodes. This position is part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Doctoral Network “FOCAL”. The selected candidate will receive academic supervision from Dr Christian Deppe and will be enrolled in the PhD programme at the Technical University Braunschweig (TUBS).
Applicants must hold a Master’s Degree in physics, mathematics, photonics engineering, communications engineering or other related STEM fields. They must understand the concepts of quantum physics, in particular, quantum optics. Applicants must be in the first four years (full-time equivalent research experience) of their research careers, and must not have been awarded a PhD degree. Applicants of any nationality are eligible, but they must not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in Germany for more than one year in the past three years.