IDP at the Center for Strategy and Organization
📌 Key facts
- When: Start anytime. Applications are open!
- How to apply: Send us an e-mail (at the end of this page) with your CV, grade report, tentative start date, and research interest.
- 📌 Key facts
- 💡 Background
- 🦾Who We Are
- 🎯 Goals and Topics
- 🎓 Profile
- ➕ Additional Information
- 📝 How to Apply
- 📬 Contact
💡 Background
Second generation quantum technologies, including computing, communication and sensing, are advancing rapidly. With the introduction of IBM’s Qiskit and other cloud-based software technologies, requirements for the quantum technology workforce have been shifting rapidly. Moreover, with newer computing modalities winning in relevance, the skills and backgrounds required to continue to advance research progress is uncertain. By comprehensively scraping job postings over multiple months, we would like to understand what profile types are currently in demand and how this differs from the currently existing workforce.
🦾Who We Are
I am a PhD student at the Chair focusing on deep tech entrepreneurship. My educational background is in physics, focusing on particle physics and quantum information theory. I am pursuing my PhD during an educational leave from my work as a consultant for the Boston Consulting Group.
The Chair for Strategy and Organization is focused on research with impact. This means we do not want to repeat old ideas and base our research solely on the research people did 10 years ago. Instead, we are currently researching topics that will shape the future. Topics such as Agile Organizations and Digital Disruption, Blockchain Technology, Creativity and Innovation, Digital Transformation and Business Model Innovation, Diversity, Education: Education Technology and Performance Management, HRTech, Leadership, and Teams. We are always early in noticing trends, technologies, strategies, and organizations that shape the future, which has its ups and downs.
🎯 Goals and Topics
Our goal is to build a robust web scraping application that can extract job postings in the quantum technology industry, across corporates, startups, and research institutions. Through common job platforms, such as Stepstone and LinkedIn, quantum-specific job portals, such as Qugeeks and Aqora, and posts on company websites, we want to get a comprehensive overview of all profiles that are currently being looked for. With this data, we will analyze current trends and needs in the quantum technology workforce.
🎓 Profile
Students should have a strong academic background and, as usual for an IDP, strong hands-experience with coding and ideally web scraping in Python (e.g., using Selenium). Passion for (deep-tech) entrepreneurship is a bonus but not required.
➕ Additional Information
We have a strong base set of high-quality deep-tech startup data available for students to work with, although additional quantitative data gathering and validation will be expected to enrich the existing dataset.
In some cases, multiple students may be jointly developing the same dataset. Collaboration will be encouraged where feasible.
📝 How to Apply
If you are interested, please contact Philipp Sonnenschein via email (Subject: IDP Application Quantum Technology Job Postings - [Name]) by submitting your CV, grade report, and tentative start date.
We're greatly looking forward to hearing more about you!
📬 Contact
Philipp Sonnenschein (Chair for Strategy and Organisation)