Postdoctoral Researcher: Advanced Wireless & Quantum Systems

The University of Luxembourg is an international research university with a distinctly multilingual and interdisciplinary character.

The Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust ( SnT ) at the University of Luxembourg is a leading international research and innovation centre in secure, reliable and trustworthy ICT systems and services. We play an instrumental role in Europe by fueling innovation through research partnerships with industry, boosting R&D investments leading to economic growth, and attracting highly qualified talent.

Welook for researchers from diverse academic backgrounds to contribute to our projects in areas such as:
Network Security, Information Assurance, Model-driven Security, Cloud Computing, Cryptography, Satellite Systems, Vehicular Networks, and ICT Services & Applications.

The Signal Processing and Communications (SIGCOM) research group of SnT conducts research aimed at designing, emulating and testing new high-performance systems for the future of mobile and satellite communications. Fields of applications range from 5G/6G telecommunications to satellite-based internet connectivity. For details, you may refer to the following: https://(Use the "Apply for this Job" box below). .

In addition, SIGCOM hosts the following experimental facilities:

• 6GSpace
  
  Lab:
  Real-world testing and validation of advanced communication algorithms
• Comm Lab:
  Real-time wireless testbeds for DSP in satellite and terrestrial systems
• Hybrid Net Lab:
  In-lab validation of large-scale autonomous and heterogeneous network orchestration
• QCI Lab:
  Quantum communication and QKD research across software to optics
• Telecom
  
  AI Lab: AI-driven solutions for 5G/6G and satellite communications
• CSAT Lab:
  Design, fabrication, and measurement of advanced antenna technologies

Welook for Postdoctoral Researchers from diverse academic backgrounds to contribute to our projects in the 4 strategic research areas of SIGCOM, namely: i) Radio frequency transceiver design; ii) Optical communications; iii) Quantum communications; iv) System-level design and optimization. The related domains and topics for each of these research areas that we would like to attract excellent researchers to work on are the following:

• Hardware & waveform design:
  Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, flexible antennas, power amplifiers, 6G waveform design including Orthogonal-Time Frequency Space modulation and Discrete Fourier Transform-Spread-Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing - DFT-s-OFDM
• Resource allocation and security design:
  Simultaneous wireless information and power transfer, physical layer design, joint source and channel coding, secure communications, jamming resilience techniques

Optical communications

• Photonics and free-space optics:
  Photonics, free-space optics arrays, PAT - pointing, acquisition, and tracking for ISL
• Next-generation optical communications: SLIPT - Simultaneous light information and power transfer, AO - Adaptive optics, underwater optical communications, Li-Fi, OCC

Quantum communications

• Computing & Networking:
  QuMIMO, Quantum Error Correction, Multi-partite systems, Q Network Coding, HQCNN - Hybrid Quantum-Classical Neural Networks

System-level design and optimization

• AI & Intelligence:
  Agentic AI, Edge AI, information semantics, e.g. for earth Observation and Internet of Things, Telecom GPT, Open RAN/AI-RAN integration
• Infrastructure:
  Multi-functional structures, Integrated sensing and communications, Satellite swarms, unified terrestrial-non terrestrial networks, non-terrestrial network entanglement distribution.

• PhD degree in wireless communications, signal processing, machine/deep learning or a closely related field in Electrical and Computer Engineering
• The candidate should have published at least 3 journal papers in top 10% international journals of the field, and/or multilateral project experience and/or relevant industry experience
• The candidate should have some knowledge and experience in some of the following topics/tools:
• 5G wireless communications technologies
• Wireless Internet of Things technologies
• Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
• Resource…