Job listings

Job announcements relevant to people interested in electronic structure calculations…

Due to the large number of posts recently, there is currently a delay of several weeks between posts being submitted and the corresponding emails being distributed to all users. Please bear with us while we try to improve this. In the meantime – and until this notice is removed – it would assist us considerably if you could submit only important and/or urgent posts and thus help to reduce the size of the mail queue. Under no circumstances should you resend posts multiple times when you find the emails are not distributed immediately.

In light of the Russian military offensive in Ukraine, we request that announcements relating to events, jobs and other activities associated with institutions supported by the Russian and Belarusian states are not posted to the Psi-k forum.

Postdoctoral Appointee in Computational Heterog ... (No replies)

jzador
2 years ago
jzador 2 years ago

A postdoctoral fellowship is available immediately to work under the supervision of Dr. Judit Zádor at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, California. The work is part of the Exascale Catalytic Chemistry (ECC) project (https://ecc-project.sandia.gov/), which focuses on fundamental aspects of heterogeneous catalysis. We seek talented applicants with experience using periodic DFT calculations to create microkinetic mechanisms. The postdoctoral  associate will be contributing to the development of our code “pynta” (https://github.com/zadorlab/pynta), which enables large-scale kinetics calculations for heterogeneous catalytic systems using high performance computing. The work involves coding mostly in Python, hands-on experience with current peta- and upcoming exascale machines, and exploration of the mechanistic details of catalytic processes on surfaces. The project involves strong collaboration with members of our interdisciplinary and multi-institutional team.

 

Salary:  $91,000 USD / year, with full benefits

US Citizenship is NOT required for this position.

 

QUALIFICATIONS WE REQUIRE

A PhD in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Physics, Material Science, or related fields conferred within the past five years.
Substantial expertise in an area of computational heterogeneous catalysis.

Working knowledge for periodic DFT calculations.

Solid knowledge of Python.

Strong publication record matching the current career stage.

 

QUALIFICATIONS WE DESIRE

Good presentation, writing, and communication skills.

Knowledge of the theoretical and modeling aspects of heterogeneous catalysis.

Experience with plane wave quantum chemistry codes NWChem and Quantum Espresso.

Experience with high-performance computing.

Familiarity with machine learning techniques.

 

To Apply:
•       go to http://www.sandia.gov/careers/students_postdocs/postdocs.html
•       click 'View All Jobs'
•       search for Job ID: 682407




Back to Job listings...

Leave a Reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Ab initio (from electronic structure) calculation of complex processes in materials