Senior Postdoc - Quantum cryptography

Type de contrat : CDD

Niveau de diplôme exigé : Thèse ou équivalent

Fonction : Chercheur contractuel

The Inria research centre in Lyon is the 9th Inria research centre, formally created in January 2022. It brings together approximately 300 people in 19 research teams and research support services.

Its staff are distributed at this stage on 2 campuses: in Villeurbanne La Doua (Centre / INSA Lyon / UCBL) on the one hand, and Lyon Gerland (ENS de Lyon) on the other.

The Lyon centre is active in the fields of software, distributed and high-performance computing, embedded systems, quantum computing and privacy in the digital world, but also in digital health and computational biology.

The position is for a senior postdoc (“starting research position”) in the QINFO team, which is bi-localised in Lyon and Grenoble. This position will be based in Grenoble and the candidate will collaborate with Alastair Abbott (Grenoble), Omar Fawzi (Lyon), as well as other members of the team across both sites.

The position comes with sufficient funding to travel and participate in conferences.

The position is in the context of the European Quantum Secure Networks Partnernship (QSNP) and the French national initiative on device-independent QKD.

The candidate will conduct research in quantum cryptography, notably in the development of methods and tools to analyse quantum cryptographic protocols, and the investigation of device-independent and semi-device-independent tools and protocols for quantum cryptographic tasks.

The candidate is expected to have sufficient experience to develop their own original research in these directions, as well as collaborating with other members of the team and help with the supervision of masters and PhD students in the team.

The candidate will conduct research on topics such as:

• The development of entropy accumulation methods for the analysis of device independent protocols in quantum cryptography
• Improving finite size bounds on key rates in QKD protocols
• Development and improvement of QKD protocols with improved finite-size regime performance

• Subsidized meals
• Partial reimbursement of public transport costs
• Leave: 7 weeks of annual leave + 10 extra days off due to RTT (statutory reduction in working hours) + possibility of exceptional leave (sick children, moving home, etc.)
• Possibility of teleworking (after 6 months of employment) and flexible organization of working hours
• Professional equipment available (videoconferencing, loan of computer equipment, etc.)
• Social, cultural and sports events and activities
• Access to vocational training
• Social security coverage

2788 € gross salary / month

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