The University of Tennessee has an opening of a postdoctoral position for investigating defect properties in complex oxides and oxide superlattices. This position resides in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Tennessee (UT). The postdoctoral research associate will be supervised by Haixuan Xu at UT and will work closely with scientists at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The initial appointment is a full-time assignment of 12 months and can be extended up to three years.

Requirement 

• Extensive experience with density functional theory and atomistic simulations.
• Extensive experience of simulating defect properties and electronic properties in materials.
• Extensive experience with complex oxides and/or oxides superlattices.
• Experience with paralleling programming, such as MPI, and programming language Python and C++.
• Present and report research results and publish in peer-reviewed scientific journals in a timely manner.
• Work collaboratively in a team environment and interact effectively with a broad range of colleagues.

Qualifications: 

A Ph.D. in Materials Science, Physics, or a related discipline is required. The candidate is expected to have a record of productive research demonstrated by publications in peer-reviewed journals.

Please send your application package to [email protected]