Independent Research Institute

Advancing scientific discovery through human-AI collaboration

An independent research institute building open-source tools and frameworks for AI-augmented theoretical physics and mathematics research.

About JZIS

Building the infrastructure for frontier science in the age of AI.

Mission

Provide practical AI-assisted research tools for independent researchers and small teams — lowering the technical barriers to doing serious science. In superconductivity, we are building an open, free database to support superconductivity research.

Approach

We combine AI agent orchestration with rigorous scientific methodology — experiment pre-registration, independent cross-validation, and complete audit trails.

Open Science

All our tools, frameworks, and research are open source. We believe science advances fastest when knowledge is shared freely.

ASRP — Our Core Platform

Agent Science Research Platform — an open-source framework for AI-agent collaborative scientific research.

Developed by JZIS

A 3-agent research team that catches errors before they ship

ASRP encodes the scientific method into AI workflows: pre-register hypotheses with falsification criteria, cross-validate every result independently, and maintain an immutable audit trail from first question to published paper. Each agent runs as a live Discord bot — @mention Theorist and the team takes it from there.

  • 3 Agents — Theorist (Opus), Engineer (Sonnet), Reviewer (Haiku)
  • SRW-v3 — 7-phase Standard Research Workflow (Intake → Active Loop)
  • Challenge Center — 396 curated open problems across 4 disciplines
  • Embedded OpenClaw — 3 live Discord bots, one-click setup (~10 min)
  • Papers Pipeline — 6-stage workflow from draft to journal submission
  • Immutable Audit Log + i18n EN / 中文 / DE · macOS · Windows · Linux

SCLib — Superconductivity Research Library

Semantic search and grounded Q&A across the arXiv cond-mat.supr-con corpus. Free for everyone.

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Ask questions about superconducting materials, critical temperatures, and mechanisms. Backed by real arXiv papers with cited sources. 3 guest queries per day without an account.

Explore SCLib → Ask a Question

Research Directions

Exploring fundamental questions in theoretical physics and mathematics.

Superconductivity

What sets the critical temperature ceiling in unconventional superconductors, and can it be raised to room temperature? We combine first-principles theory, large-scale materials data, and algebraic methods to map the Tc landscape across cuprates, nickelates, and hydrides — and are building SCLib as an open database to accelerate this work.

Fine-Structure Constant α

Can α ≈ 1/137.036 admit an exact mathematical expression rooted in number theory? Current work uses the Bost-Connes C*-dynamical system over ℚ(√5) and spectral invariants of the associated Dedekind zeta function to derive arithmetic expansions of α⁻¹. Active research; papers under review.

Join Our Team

Shape the future of AI-augmented scientific research.

Research Associate (Part-time, Remote)

Part-time Remote Stipend: $400–600 / month

Requirements

  • Currently enrolled in a Physics graduate program (MSc or PhD)
  • Graduate or PhD students in condensed matter physics or related fields are preferred
  • Fluent in both Chinese and English
  • Experience with computational physics or theoretical physics research
  • Comfortable with AI tools and open-source collaboration

Responsibilities

  • Conduct AI-assisted theoretical physics research
  • Design and validate computational experiments
  • Contribute to paper writing and peer review
  • Assist in improving SCLib website functionality and data accuracy

Benefits

  • Flexible hours and remote work
  • Co-authorship on publications
  • Cutting-edge AI research experience
  • Work with leading-edge open-source research tools

Apply: Send your CV and a brief research statement to info@jzis.org