The ab initio multiphysics research group led by Ravishankar Sundararaman at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) is looking to hire multiple postdoctoral fellows for the development of new first-principles techniques in a wide range of projects spanning electrochemistry to quantum spin dynamics. Available projects include solvation model development for electrochemistry, electrochemistry using beyond-DFT methods such as RPA, nanoscale electron transport in materials, first-principles density-matrix dynamics in quantum materials, and high-performance computing optimizations of all of these methods. These projects are supported by the Department of Energy Computational Chemical Sciences, National Science Foundation and industrial partners. See https://abinitiomp.org and https://beast-echem.org for details on recent work from this group.

Postdoctoral fellows will have the opportunity to work with one or more of these research areas according to their interest and expertise, with techniques implemented within the open-source JDFTx (https://jdftx.org) and related electronic structure codes. Experience in applying first-principles methods for condensed-matter and/or chemical problems is necessary, while experience in technique development is highly preferred. In particular, applicants with the interest and capability to develop massively-parallel computational implementations of new ab initio methods will be strongly preferred. Expertise in high-performance Python and C++ code leveraging GPU architectures would also be useful.

Please contact Ravishankar Sundararaman at [email protected] with a CV and brief cover letter to apply. Positions are available for two - three years, renewable yearly based on performance.