The School of Physics at Zhejiang University is actively seeking to appoint a diverse group of candidates for nearly 60 faculty positions over the next decade. These positions range from group leaders to tenured and tenure-track roles. The School is looking for experts in a broad array of subfields including:

• Condensed Matter Physics
• Particle Physics
• Nuclear Physics
• Plasma Physics
• Optics
• Atomic and Molecular Physics
• Electron and Radio Physics
• Astrophysics
• Biophysics
• Quantum Matter
• Quantum Computing
• Quantum Information

Why Join Us?

Zhejiang University offers a highly competitive remuneration and benefits package, along with a robust research infrastructure. Successful candidates will have the opportunity to further their academic careers in Hangzhou, a city renowned for its rich history and stunning natural beauty. This provides an exceptional environment both for living and for scientific research.

Global Opportunity

These opportunities are available to candidates regardless of nationality, reflecting the School's commitment to international diversity and inclusion.

For more detailed descriptions of the positions, benefits packages, and applicant requirements, please visit our recruitment page at

https://physics.zju.edu.cn/2024zp/list.htm.

About School of Physics Zhejiang University, P. R. China

Established in 1928, the Department of Physics of Zhejiang University has been the cradle of many key breakthroughs in the physical sciences. In the 1940s, Kan-Chang Wang the department chair at the time, proposed studying the recoil of K-captured Be nuclei, which later led to the first indirect evidence for the existence of neutrinos. Tsung-Dao Lee from the class of 1943, together with Chen-Ning Yang, proposed parity violation in the weak interaction in 1957. Later that year, Chien-Shiung Wu, who was a teaching staff member in the 1930s, led the experiments examining the decay of polarized Co-60 nuclei, which confirmed this theoretical proposal. Between the 1950s and 1980s, many physicists from the Department directly took part in the Chinese nuclear program, including most notably, the two key leaders Kan-Chang Wang and Kai-Jia Cheng. The Department shrank considerably between 1952 and 1980, but then gradually rejuvenated once China embarked on economic reforms. To date, twenty physics alumni have been elected as members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and several have been elected as APS and OSA fellows. It hosts the Zhejiang Province Key Laboratory of Quantum Technology and ...Device, and part of the National Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials as well as the National Key Laboratory of Optical Engineering.Since 2022, the university has embarked on a program to greatly strengthen fundamental research in the physical sciences and related interdisciplinary fields, as well as to cultivate high-achieving graduate and undergraduate students, and develop advanced research platforms together with an international environment for academic research and exchange. The department was reconstructed into the School of Physics, consisting of seven research institutes:— Zhejiang Institute of Modern Physics— Institute of Condensed Matter Physics— Institute of Optics and Quantum Information— Institute for Fusion Theory and Simulation— Center for Correlated Matter— Institute of Optoelectronic Physics— Institute of AstronomyThis is together with the newly established Institute of Advanced Studies in Physics, which the university aims to transform into a prestigious international platform over the next ten years, in analogy to the Kavli-Institute of Theoretical Physics, so as to continue to explore the frontiers of physics and related interdisciplinary fields, and to strengthen international academic exchange and cooperation in Hangzhou.The number of full-time faculty will be expanded to 180 members, from 116 presently. Over the next ten years, the school will recruit about 75 outstanding candidates from world-wide research institutes and universities to fill these vacancies, which may be either tenure-track or tenured faculty positions, in research disciplines such as theoretical physics, high energy physics, condensed matter physics, optics & atomic physics, quantum information, plasma physics, nuclear physics, applied physics and biological physics. Moreover, the School welcomes candidates of all nationalities, and at present, there are already ten faculty members with foreign nationality.In 2022, eight tenure-track and four tenured faculty members were recruited by the School, in the fields of strongly correlated matter, low-dimensional quantum matter, computational condensed matter physics, soft condensed matter physics, nuclear physics, and astrophysics.Detailed information about faculty members, the cultivation of undergraduate and graduate students, research facilities and platforms, and cutting-edge research in the School is available on the websites of the institutes/centers linked above (also accessible via http://physics.zju.edu.cn/phy/).

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