Several postdoctoral positions in computational materials physics are available as part of the QMC-HAMM collaboration at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, with PIs David Ceperley, Elif Ertekin, Harley Johnson, and Lucas Wagner. QMC-HAMM is a DOE-sponsored multidisciplinary collaboration to use quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) calculations to derive high accuracy multiscale models for materials. Primary target materials are hydrogen and twisted bilayer graphene. Because the models are based on high accuracy QMC calculations, they serve as highly impactful references for studies of the target materials. Example multiscale models produced by our collaboration are available at https://qmc-hamm.github.io/papers/.

Candidates should be interested in software and data development, as well as a relevant scientific skill to our collaboration. These skills include first principles electronic structure, effective models for electronic systems, continuum models for elasticity, uncertainty quantification, and machine learning methods for interatomic potentials.

The positions are expected to start in Fall of 2024; although the start date is negotiable. Please apply at https://my.physics.illinois.edu/submit/go.asp?id=1821, and contact [email protected] for more details.