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Postdoc/staff scientist opening in Univ. of Cali ... (No replies)
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A new postdoctoral or staff scientist position is available immediately in the computational chemistry/physics and materials science group of Prof. Bryan M. Wong at the University of California-Riverside.
We are an extremely productive and highly-published multidisciplinary group located in sunny California (close to Los Angeles). We are focused on both method development and application in the chemistry/physics and material science of quantum-mechanical systems. A website of our interests and publications can be found at:
http://www.bmwong-group.com
Job description: For this position, the postdoctoral associate/staff scientist will assist in carrying out research in either ab initio molecular dynamics and/or time-dependent density functional theory on periodic material systems or solvated environments.
Our group has additional funded projects in the following topics and the postdoc/staff scientist may also carry out research in the following areas (depending on the applicant's expertise):
electronic-excited states
quantum computing and quantum information
DFTB (density functional tight binding) and metadynamics
machine learning for chemical/material systems
Specific expertise in these areas is *not* an explicit requirement (although it is helpful), and more importance will be placed on the applicant's expertise in understanding contemporary electronic structure methods and/or methodological development with first-principles quantum methods.
The candidate can also work with collaborators at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories (LBNL) on our jointly-funded exascale/TD-DFT project: https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2021/07/20/using-light-control-materials. Depending on the candidate's interest, visits and working at LBNL are also possibilities.
The postdoc/staff scientist will:
Develop and run calculations using standard and non-standard ab initio and quantum codes.
Write journal articles on developed methods, calculations, and results.
Assist in the mentoring of graduate students.
Attend conferences and present work.
Salary will be commensurate with experience level (to be determined by the University of California pay scale)
To apply, please send a full CV and concise description of your expertise to Prof. Bryan Wong at bryan.wong (at) ucr.edu