We are seeking

a motivated and Talented experimentalist for a full-time Research Assistant in Quantum Thermodynamics within Professor Ares’ research group at the Department of Engineering Science (Central Oxford). The post is externally funded and is fixed-term appointment for 1 year. Little is known about the thermodynamics of quantum devices evolving, fluctuating, and coupling to each other and to the environment. Classical thermodynamics has been established since the 19th century, while quantum thermodynamics is now a blossoming new field which could advance energy harvesting, the design of efficient on-chip nanomachines and refrigerators, as well as sensing techniques or innovative means of storing energy. Harnessing nanoscale circuits in the solid-state, my group is building platforms to study the efficiency and power of quantum engines and clocks, and the thermodynamic cost of quantum information processing, in an analogous way to how Landauer’s bound was fo...