Graduate Student Recruitment
We recruit approximately two master’s students each year.
To join our laboratory, you must take the entrance examination for the Master’s Program in the Department of Informatics, Graduate School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University.
Before applying, please make sure to contact Prof. Tajima at:
Kyushu University offers a special admission system: applicants with excellent academic records at the undergraduate level may be admitted through an oral examination only. This option is also available for students coming from other universities, so please feel free to consult with us.
If you are currently an undergraduate student at Kyushu University, you can join the Tajima Laboratory starting from your graduation research stage.
In addition, depending on circumstances, we have occasionally accepted supervision requests from students at other universities. If you are interested, please contact us (whether we can accept depends on the current situation of the laboratory).
Please make sure to check the official application guidelines:
Regarding graduate research, our basic supervision style is to propose a broad direction based on the student’s interests and then narrow it down together to decide on a specific theme. During the master’s program, students conduct research within the scope that Prof. Tajima can fully oversee—that is, within a range where he can understand the value and correctness of the content. Even so, we do not simply hand over a fixed theme; instead, we work together to find a topic within the proposed broad direction. (This approach may change in the future as the number of students increases.)
In the doctoral program, we gradually reduce Prof. Tajima’s direct supervision. By the time students obtain their Ph.D., the goal is for them to have their own independent research trajectory and be capable of proposing and supervising themes aligned with that trajectory for others if they wish.
As for research topics, I am generally open to anything along the lines of “challenging fundamental physics through quantum information and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics” or “applying these techniques to dramatically improve the performance of certain devices.”
Since this is academic work, I will always be honest if I think something is unlikely to succeed for specific reasons—but please feel free to reach out and discuss your ideas anytime.
Recruitment of Postdoctoral Researchers and Specially Appointed Faculty
If you specialize in quantum information theory or nonequilibrium statistical physics and are interested in conducting research in the Tajima Laboratory, please contact Prof. Tajima at:
Depending on the availability of funding, there may be opportunities to hire research fellows. In addition, we may announce open calls for Specially Appointed Faculty positions when the budget allows. If such a call is posted, we encourage you to apply.
We also accept researchers who secure their own funding, such as through the JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship (PD) program. In some cases, this has led to promotion to a Specially Appointed Faculty position. If you are interested, please feel free to contact us.