Employment Opportunities at NCU

Offer No.: 4896

Institution: Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Informatics

City: Toruń

Position: assistant professor (adjunkt) - research staff

Discipline: The Field of Exact and Natural Sciences - Physical Sciences

Posted: 2026-05-11

Expires: 2026-06-10

Keywords: quantum physics and chemistry, density functional theory, exchange-correlation functionals

Description (field, expectations, comments): The competition is open to persons who meet the conditions set out in Article 113 of the Act of 20 July 2018 - Law on higher education and science (Journal of Laws of 2018, item 1668) and the following qualification criteria:
1. Required: a doctorate in physics, chemistry or related field
2. Required: significant publications record in the field of development of computational methods for quantum chemistry calculations
3. Required: very good knowledge of density functional theory
4. Required: skills and experience in programming and numerical methods
5. Required: good English (both spoken and written)
6. Preferred: knowledge of many body perturbation theory and the coupled cluster method
7. Teamwork ability and high motivation for research work


We offer employment at a postdoc position in a research grant financed by the National Science Center, Poland within Sonata Bis 11 competition. The candidate must meet requirements of the Center, in particular have a doctoral degree obtained not earlier than 7 years before the year of employment in the project (this period may be extended in the event of breaks in the scientific career as defined by the Center). A person employed at the postdoc position cannot be employed under another employment contract at the same time.

Project leader: Dr Szymon Śmiga

Project title: Quantum chemistry under spatial confinement.


The employee will be responsible for theory and code development development of new semi-local and nonlocal exchange-correlation functionals and their integration PySCF software packages.

We offer:
- full-time employment
- salary 120000 PLN/year gross gross (full remuneration cost, including full social security and health insurance)
- period of contract: up to 12 months
- no teaching duties
- position in professional, dynamically developing team, recognizable in its field of research
- possibility to present research results at international conferences
- collaboration with the best research groups in theoretical chemistry all over the world

Position starts in: July – September 2026

Required documents:

• Personal questionnaire for the person applying for employment (download here)
• Professional curriculum vitae
• Copy of higher education diploma
• Copy of doctorate certificate
• List of publications (including the publishing house/journal, year of publication, and page number)
• Declaration of consent to the processing of personal data contained in the job offer for the needs of the recruitment process, in accordance with the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of The Council od 27 April 2016 (L119/1) (download here)
• Declaration under art. 113 ust. 1 ustawy Prawo o szkolnictwie wyższym (o niekaralności) (Art. Paragraph 113 (1) of the Higher Education Act (of no criminal record)) (download here)
• Declaration that Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń will be my primary employer once I have won the contest (download here)
• At least one (max three) reference letter(s)
• A cover letter (addressed to Professor Andrzej Tretyn, Rector of the Nicolaus Copernicus University)

Additional information: Please submit the aforementioned documents to szsmiga@fizyka.umk.pl with annotation "Postdoc Sonata Bis 11 2026.1" (nr oferty 4896) in the subject field. Application deadline: 10.06.2026. The project leader reserves the right to interview selected candidates. The university reserves the right to not choose any candidate. The university does not provide accommodation.

Please be informed that the person selected through the competition will be obliged to submit a certificate from the National Criminal Register with regard to offences specified in Chapters 19 and 25 of the Penal Code (including offences against sexual freedom and morality), in Article 189a and Article 207 of the Penal Code and in the Act on Counteracting Drug Addiction of 29 July 2005 (Journal of Laws of 2023, item 1939 and of 2022, item 2600), or for the corresponding offences defined in foreign law. The obligation to verify applies to a person whose tasks will be related to the protected activity referred to in Article 21. of the Act of 13 May 2016 on counteracting the threat of sexual offences and the protection of minors (Journal of Laws of 2024, item 560).

Pursuant to art. 24 paragraph 6 of the Act of June 14, 2024 on the protection of whistleblowers (Journal of Laws of 2024, item 928), information on the internal reporting procedure at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń is available at: https://www.umk.pl/en/contact/internal-reporting/

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