Are you looking to take your education and career to the next level? Do you have a passion for research and a desire to make meaningful contributions to your field of study? If so, a Postdoctoral Fellowships may be the perfect choice for you.
Attention all aspiring scholars and researchers! The Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, United States has multiple postdoctoral fellowships. Apply to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s postdoctoral fellowships today and take the first step towards a rewarding and fulfilling academic career.
1. Postdoctoral Fellowship
About Postdoctoral Position
We are seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate who will support the Quantum Communications and Networking Group with the Computational Science and Engineering Division (CSED), Computing and Computational Sciences Directorate (CCSD) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).
Application Deadline: Open until filled
2. Postdoctoral Fellowship
About Postdoctoral Position
The Plant Systems Biology Group seeks to explore and understand the network of genes, proteins, metabolites, and environmental signals that lead to improved plant characteristics and performance. The selected candidate will be based in the plant systems biology group, which is undertaking broad, integrated approaches to enhance fundamental understanding of genetic controls of plant productivity, biomass quality and sustainability, and carbon sequestration using bioenergy-relevant plants.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
3. Postdoctoral Fellowship
About Postdoctoral Position
Oak Ridge National Laboratory is the largest US Department of Energy science and energy laboratory, conducting basic and applied research to deliver transformative solutions to compelling problems in energy and security. The Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) and the High-Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR) are world-leading facilities and the scientific center of a diverse, international, and inclusive neutron scattering community. As a Postdoctoral Research Associate you will be a member of a team of neutron scattering scientists, computational scientists, engineers, enterprise software developers, and machine learning experts at both neutron research facilities.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
4. Postdoctoral Fellowship
About Postdoctoral Position
We are seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate who will support the Superconducting RF Group in the Research Accelerator Division (RAD), Neutron Sciences Directorate (NScD) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). The Neutron Sciences Directorate (NScD) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) operates the High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR), the United States’ highest flux reactor-based neutron source, and the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS), the world’s most intense pulsed accelerator-based neutron source. Together these facilities operate 30 instruments for neutron scattering research, each year carrying out more than 1,000 experiments in the physical, chemical, materials, biological and medical sciences for more than 3,000 visiting scientists. HFIR also provides unique facilities for isotope production and neutron irradiation.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
5. Postdoctoral Fellowship
About Postdoctoral Position
We are seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate who will support the Correlated Electron Materials Group within the Materials Science and Technology Division (MSTD), Physical Sciences Directorate (PSD). The Postdoctoral Research Associate will help advance our understanding of quantum materials (particularly in quantum magnetism) by using materials synthesis and characterization coupled with neutron scattering techniques. The core scientific aim of the project is to understand how frustration and competing interactions influence collective quantum and topological states of matter.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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6. Postdoctoral Fellowship
About Postdoctoral Position
We are seeking up to four Postdoctoral Research Associates who will support the Bioresource Science & Engineering Group in the Environmental Sciences Division (ESD) of the Biological and Environmental Systems Science Directorate at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). You would join a highly qualified team of economists, engineers, and natural scientists in the Bioresource Science & Engineering Group (BSE) who develop strategies for using agricultural and forest resources to advance decarbonization and sustainability goals.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
7. Postdoctoral Fellowship
About Postdoctoral Position
Oak Ridge National Laboratory is the largest US Department of Energy science and energy laboratory, conducting basic and applied research to deliver transformative solutions to compelling problems in energy and security. The work will explore how single cell mass spectrometry of metabolites can be used to provide insights into cell heterogeneity, drug activity, and cellular mechanisms. Efforts will focus on using atmospheric pressure liquid extraction mass spectrometry techniques to probe chemical localization, activity and heterogeneity in single cells. This work includes technique development, method development, and validation on model and real-world systems.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
8. Postdoctoral Fellowship
About Postdoctoral Position
We are seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate who will support the Cybersecurity Research Group, AI Systems Section, in the Cyber Resilience and Intelligence Division (CRID), National Security Sciences Directorate (NSSD) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). The Postdoctoral Research Associate will work in Robust Machine Learning.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
9. Postdoctoral Fellowship
About Postdoctoral Position
This position resides in the Materials Theory Group within the Materials Science and Technology Division (MSTD) of the Physical Sciences Directorate (PSD) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and is supported by the Department of Energy Quantum Science Center, a National Quantum Information Science Research Center. Postdoctoral researchers associated with the Quantum Science Center will engage with a network of universities, national laboratories, and industry to overcome key roadblocks in the scalability of quantum technologies.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
10. Postdoctoral Fellowship
About Postdoctoral Position
We are seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate who will support the Earth Systems Modeling Group in the Environmental Sciences Division (ESD), Biological and Environmental Systems Science Directorate (BESSD) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). The postdoctoral researcher has expertise in remote sensing of terrestrial ecosystems, machine learning and computational science.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
11. Postdoctoral Fellowship
About Postdoctoral Position
We are seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate who will support the Technology Integration Group in the National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCSD), Computing and Computational Sciences Directorate (CCSD) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). The Postdoctoral Research Associate will work in applied AI/ML technologies for large-scale high-performance computing (HPC) and quantum computing (QC) systems. The candidate will be able to contribute to one or more of the following areas: AI/ML, large-scale applications, and optimization solutions for both QC and HPC systems.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
12. Postdoctoral Fellowship
About Postdoctoral Position
The Postdoctoral Research Associate will conduct research related to hydriding, oxidation, ductility evaluation, and characterizations of non-irradiated and irradiated Cr-coated Zr materials. The successful candidate will be expected to perform the gas hydriding and steam oxidation tests at high temperatures, neutron scattering and radiography experiments at the High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR) or Spallation Neutron Source, process data from the 3D neutron images, perform ring compression testing of the steam oxidized specimens. It is also anticipated that a successful candidate will perform neutron imaging and scattering study of neutron irradiated materials.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
13. Postdoctoral Fellowship
About Postdoctoral Position
We are seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate who will support the Technology and Integration Group in the National Center for Computational Sciences Division (NCCSD), Computing and Computational Sciences Directorate (CCSD) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). The Postdoctoral Research Associate will work in Operating Systems and Runtimes (OS/Rs) for large-scale HPC systems. The candidate will be able to contribute to one or more of the following areas: Operating System/Runtime architectures, confidential computing, and cybersecurity. We are a leader in computational and computer science, with signature strengths in high-performance computing and data analytics with applications in a large variety of science domains. NCCS is home to some of the fastest supercomputers and storage systems in the world.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
14. Postdoctoral Fellowship
About Postdoctoral Position
We are seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate who will contribute to the development of computational framework for electrochemical energy storage applications. The candidate will be expected to contribute to the large-scale simulations for energy storage and the development of AI/ML algorithms for datasets specific to Electrochemical Systems. Specifically, the candidate will contribute to the scientific activities of the team to enable machine learning based on large data sets collected across multiple scales. CSED focuses on transdisciplinary computational science and analytics at scale to enable scientific discovery across the physical sciences, engineered systems, and biomedicine and health.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
15. Postdoctoral Fellowship
About Postdoctoral Position
We are seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate to work on computational and theoretical underpinnings for quantum magnetism research. One specific formalism is using semi-classical approaches for spin systems. While not a strict constraint, the emphasis is on observables for neutron scattering. This individual will collaborate on Sun(n)y code development with Dr. Kipton Barros of Los Alamos National Laboratory and on theoretical underpinnings with Dr. Cristian Batista of the University of Tennessee.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
16. Postdoctoral Fellowship
About Postdoctoral Position
We are seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate who will contribute to the development of modeling framework and support process development for various additive manufacturing (AM) processes. Thus, the candidate will closely work with groups at manufacturing demonstration facility (MDF). This position resides in the Computational Sciences and Engineering Division (CSED) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). CSED focuses on transdisciplinary computational science and analytics at scale to enable scientific discovery across the physical sciences, engineered systems, and biomedicine and health. It provides foundations and advances in quantum information sciences to enable quantum computers, devices, and networked systems. It develops community applications, data assets, and technologies and provides assurance to build knowledge and impact in novel, crosscut-science outcomes.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
17. Postdoctoral Fellowship
About Postdoctoral Position
We are seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate who will support the Deposition Science and Technology Group in the Manufacturing Science Division (MSD), Energy Science and Technology Directorate (ESTD) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). The Postdoctoral Research Associate will contribute to the development of modeling frameworks and support process development for advanced manufacturing of near net shape parts from powder feedstock (e.g., binder jet additive manufacturing (AM), powder metallurgy hot isostatic pressing (PM-HIP), etc.). A strong background in mechanical behavior of materials is required. Demonstrated experience in the implementation of nonlinear constitutive models in commercial finite element (FE) codes is required. You will be expected to collaborate with research staff and industry partners focused on experimental materials processing via binder jet AM and PM-HIP, and to assist with process optimization through computational modeling.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
18. Postdoctoral Fellowship
About Postdoctoral Position
We are seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate who will support the Nanomaterials Theory Institute, Theory and Computation Section in the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences Division (CNMS), Physical Sciences Directorate (PSD) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). The Postdoctoral Research Associate will support research directed toward developing a computational approach to perform AI/ML accelerated predictive theoretical simulations that can guide nanoscale experiments to fabricate nanostructures with desired functionalities, in a directed manner, thereby enabling autonomous experimental synthesis/manipulation of functional nanomaterials.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
19. Postdoctoral Fellowship
About Postdoctoral Position
We are seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate who will support the Biostatistics and Multiscale Systems in the Computational Sciences & Engineering Division (CSED), Computing & Computational Sciences Directorate (CCSD) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Advanced Computing.
The candidate will work in a collaborative research and development environment focusing on biostatistics, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). We are specifically seeking a candidate with solid experience with handling multimodal healthcare data. The position requires innovative thinking to design and implement statistical, AI and ML algorithmic solutions to real world problems in healthcare and biomedical research.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
20. Postdoctoral Fellowship
About Postdoctoral Position
This position is funded by an Energy Research Frontier Center (EFRC) – the Center for Understanding and controlling Accelerated and Gradual Evolution of Materials for Energy (UNCAGE-ME). The goal of this research project is to gain a fundamental understanding of how direct air capture (DAC) contaminants (including SOx, H2S, NOx etc.) impact electrochemical CO2 reduction over Cu-based catalysts. Specifically, how the structure of the electrocatalysts and the surface chemistry of CO2 reduction evolves as a function of the nature and concentration of the contaminants; and if one can take advantage of the rich chemistry of the contaminants to create new chemistry for CO2 reduction.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
21. Postdoctoral Fellowship
About Postdoctoral Position
We are seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate who will support the Biostatistics and Multiscale Systems (BMS) Group in the Advanced Computing in Health Science (ACHS) Section of the Computational Science and Engineering Division (CSED), Computing Sciences and Engineering Directorate (CCSD) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). The Postdoctoral Research Associate will work on Natural Language Processing (NLP) projects that leverage state-of-the-art deep learning models, high performance computing, and large datasets of unstructured clinical text. The ACH delivers scalable and computational solutions to biomedical and healthcare delivery challenges. The BSMS Group focuses on conducting research in computational, data, and engineering sciences in the context of biomedical, clinical, and public health disciplines and applying this knowledge to support the nation’s leading health initiatives.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
22. Postdoctoral Fellowship
About Postdoctoral Position
We are seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate who will support the Manufacturing Energy Efficiency Research & Analysis (MEERA) Group in the Manufacturing Science Division (MSD), Energy Science and Technology Directorate (ESTD) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). The Postdoctoral Research Associate will work in the areas of environmental life cycle assessment (LCA) and technoeconomic optimization in areas such as water-energy nexus, water-food-energy-land nexus, water efficiency and decarbonization in water and wastewater sector, and water use in industrial sector. MEERA Group supports Department of Energy’s Strategic Analysis Team that conducts independent, objective, and credible research analysis to inform decision-making. To gain insights on manufacturing supply chains, the team conducts techno-economics, value chain, trade, patent, and global manufacturing competitiveness analysis relevant to advanced manufacturing technologies.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
23. Postdoctoral Fellowship
About Postdoctoral Position
The postdoctoral position is available for an inorganic, organic, physical, polymer, or analytical chemist with expertise in electrolyte chemistry and/or electrode architectures (e.g., nanoporous carbon) to develop fundamental understanding of advanced energy storage processes. The primary focus will be on the synthesis, purification, and characterization of advanced electrolyte systems and novel carbon electrode materials and their correlation to performance. These materials will be utilized to probe fundamental processes in energy storage. The program will have a strong collaborative component with characterization (e.g., electron microscopy, electrochemical study, neutron scattering) and computational scientists working in the same project.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
24. Postdoctoral Fellowship
About Postdoctoral Position
This call is supported by the Plutonium-238 Supply Program which seeks to reestablish a domestic supply of heat source plutonium-238 oxide in support of NASA’s deep space and planetary exploration missions. This call will focus on advancing the understanding of liquid-liquid extraction and ion exchange techniques as applied to the chemical separations needed within the Plutonium-238 Supply Program. Research which considers the study of redox chemistry as applied to neptunium/plutonium nitrate solutions is of specific interest.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
