The Theoretical Chemistry group led by Lucas Visscher of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam is looking for three talented and motivated PhD students to introduce artificial intelligence and quantum computers into quantum chemical models. In these projects you will work in a multidisciplinary team of chemists, physicists and software engineers to create, test and apply these new methods. Overarching theme is to adapt and extend successful methods from "classical" quantum chemistry like Coupled Cluster and Density Functional Theory to utilize quantum computers and machine learning. 

In the "Divide and quantum" project we aim to utilize multiple quantum coprocessors to model complex chemical systems. In the "Aquatis" project we develop quantum algorithms to describe vibrational circular dichroism, a spectroscopic technique to unravel the handedness of a chiral molecule. In the "Learning how electrons interact" project we apply machine learning techniques to obtain accurate electronic energies at a much reduced computational cost.

Details on job conditions and application form at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam jobs site.