Postdoctoral Researchers Available for Hiring and Job Recruitment

Hiring or recruiting highly trained scientists or researchers? To find matches to fill your positions, search and browse NREL's list of current postdoctoral researchers and their expertise.

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Name	Research Area	Research Experience	Doctorate	Metadata	Biology	Chemistry	Computational sciences	Engineering	Materials science	Physics
McIntee, Olivia	Chemical Engineering	Desalination membrane fabrication, atomic force microscopy, membrane separation systems, and polymer thin-film failure mechanisms	Mechanical Engineering	AFM				Engineering, Chemical engineering, Mechanical engineering
Lemon, Mellie	Materials Science	Thin-film growth, X-ray diffraction, X-ray fluorescence, scanning electron microscopy-focused ion beam, optoelectronic properties, materials discovery, and metastable materials	Materials Chemistry	XRD, XRF, SEM		Chemistry, Materials chemistry			Materials science
Chakraborty, Atlanta	Computational Science	Bayesian computational statistics and methods, priors specifications, medical science and epidemiological model applications, climate model calibration, and Bayesian optimal experimental design	Computational Statistics	ABC			Computational sciences
Sartor, Ed	Materials Science	Photovoltaics, cadmium telluride, high-vacuum processing, interface engineering, sputtering, LabView development, COMSOL modeling, organic synthesis, and surface electrochemistry	Chemical Engineering	PV, CdTe				Engineering, Chemical engineering	Materials science
Yang, Bin	Materials Science	Electrochemical energy storage, redox flow batteries, ion exchange membranes, ion separation, and water treatment	Mechanical and Automation Engineering					Engineering, Mechanical engineering	Materials science
Reese, Caleb	Materials Science	Polymer synthesis for high-performance membranes, thiol-ene click chemistry, high-performance thermoplastic synthesis, and degradable or recyclable network polymer synthesis and design	Polymer Chemistry			Chemistry			Materials science
Biyani, Nivedita	Chemical Engineering	Plastic waste modeling for global supply chain and end-of-life flows, and mass spectrometry for metals assessment of sewage sludge	Civil and Environmental Engineering					Engineering, Chemical engineering, Civil engineering, Environmental engineering	Materials science
Pal, Ajinkya	Chemical Engineering	Techno-economic analysis, process modeling and simulation, life cycle assessment, market analysis, and energy efficiency	Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering					Engineering, Chemical engineering, Bioengineering
Yonge, Adam	Chemical Engineering	Heterogeneous catalysis, multi-scale modeling, renewable fuels, material characterization, software development, deactivation kinetics, and uncertainty quantification	Chemical Engineering					Engineering, Chemical engineering
Moon, Hyunjin	Chemical Engineering	Homogeneous/heterogeneous catalysis, plastic deconstruction, biomass valorization, and catalyst synthesis/characterization	Chemical Engineering					Engineering, Chemical engineering
Lamb, Natalie	Biology	CRISPR genome editing, strain development, bioinformatics, functional genomics, molecular biology, and high-throughput screening	Biochemistry		Biology	Chemistry, Biochemistry
Roberts, Jessica	Bioengineering	Synthetic biology and metabolic engineering of microbes for bioconversion of C1 compounds to value-added products and sustainable aviation fuel	Biomolecular Sciences					Engineering, Bioengineering
Lee, Hyewon	Chemical Engineering	Heterogeneous catalysis for C1 conversion value-added chemicals, and material characterization	Mechanical Engineering					Engineering, Chemical engineering, Bioengineering, Mechanical engineering
Dahl, Peter	Biochemistry	Biophysical chemistry, electron transfer, photocatalysis, electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy, electrochemistry, density functional theory, and quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics calculations	Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry	QM/MM		Chemistry, Biochemistry
Mains, Katie	Bioengineering	Synthetic biology, metabolic engineering (genomic integration/gene knockouts), and protein engineering (protein expression, purification, and characterization)	Chemical Engineering					Engineering, Chemical engineering, Bioengineering
Lazarenko, Daria	Chemical Engineering	Molecular dynamics, polymer physics, data science, high-performance materials, rheology, and high-performance computing	Polymer Engineering	HPC				Engineering, Chemical engineering
Borrely, Thales	Materials Science	Solar cells, epitaxy, nanostructures, processing, metallization, photolithography, scanning electron microscopy, and ion beam analysis	Physics	SEM					Materials science	Physics
Acharya, Sailesh	Data Science	Multimodal transportation, travel behavior analysis, travel demand modeling, mobility and equity, and transportation decarbonization	Transportation Engineering					Engineering
Montgomery, David	Mechanical Engineering	Computational fluid dynamics, high-performance computing, carbon capture, combustion, and reacting flows	Computational and Applied Mathematics	HPC, CFD			Computational sciences	Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
Pompetti, Nicholas	Materials Science	Organic chemistry, spectroscopy, solar energy conversion, electrochemistry, water splitting, optoelectronics, and catalysis	Materials and Nanoscience						Materials science
Seraj, Sabet	Computational Sciences	Computational fluid dynamics, design optimization, reduced-order modeling, and numerical methods	Aerospace Engineering	CFD			Computational sciences	Engineering, Aerospace engineering
Pei, Yu	Chemical Engineering	Fuel cell, water electrolyzer, lithium-ion battery, and zinc-air battery	Chemical and Biological Engineering					Engineering, Chemical engineering
Appleby, Ben	Chemical Engineering	Particle-polymer suspension rheology, drying, coating, and wettability and permeation	Chemical Engineering					Engineering, Chemical engineering
Amaraibi, Rarosue	Chemical Engineering	Techno-economic analysis, process modeling and simulation, life cycle assessment, market analysis, energy efficiency, bioenergy, and sustainability	Chemical Engineering	TEA, LCA				Engineering, Chemical engineering
Lee, Seung Eun (Emma)	Chemical Engineering	Membrane separations for plastics chemical recycling	Mechanical Engineering					Engineering, Chemical engineering, Mechanical engineering
Ouellette, Erik	Chemical Engineering	Biomass valorization, plastics deconstruction, homogeneous catalysis, organic synthesis, and inorganic synthesis	Inorganic Chemistry	Metadata		Chemistry, Inorganic chemistry		Engineering, Chemical engineering
Brady, Nate	Biosciences - Director's Fellowship	Protein purification, protein biochemistry/biophysics, analytical chemistry, fluorescence microscopy/spectroscopy, trace metals analysis, and biohybrid devices	Biochemistry and Cellular and Molecular Biology	SMALPs	Biology	Chemistry, Biochemistry
Muzzio, Ryan	Materials Science	Surface science, X-ray photoemission spectroscopy, scanning auger microscopy, and cadmium telluride	Physics	CdTe					Materials science	Physics
Tran, Phu Thanh	Chemical Engineering	Water (photo)electrolysis, carbon dioxide reduction, nitrogen oxide reduction, plastic and biomass reforming, in situ Raman and X-ray absorption spectroscopies, and flame spray pyrolysis	Engineering	CO2, NOx				Engineering, Chemical engineering
Kumar, Adarsh	Chemical Engineering	Heterogenous catalysis, catalyst synthesis characterization and evaluation, sustainable aviation fuel, biomass and waste valorization, hydrogenation and hydrodeoxygenation chemistry, and high-pressure-temperature continuous flow and batch reactors	Chemical Science	SAF				Engineering, Chemical engineering
Bayles, Aaron	Chemical Engineering	Heterogeneous catalysis, nanomaterial synthesis, surface chemistry manipulation, electron microscopy, and spectroscopy	Chemistry			Chemistry		Engineering, Chemical engineering
Komp, Evan	Bioengineering	Deep learning/artificial intelligence for molecular systems, data science, software engineering, computational chemistry, and protein engineering	Chemical Engineering Data Science	AI				Engineering, Bioengineering, Chemical engineering
Lee, Minjung	Chemistry	Plastic recycling technologies, polymer processing, non-isocyanate polyurethanes foams, phase change materials, and carbon sequestration	Polymer Science and Engineering	NIPU, PCMs		Chemistry		Engineering
Murphy, Natasha	Bioengineering	Biocatalytic recycling, biochemistry, biophysics, peptide chemistry, process optimization, and polymers	Biochemistry	Metadata		Chemistry, Biochemistry		Engineering, Bioengineering
Bangalore Ashok, Rahul Prasad	Chemical Engineering	Techno-economic analysis, process simulation, process modeling, process/plant design, and life-cycle assessment	Chemical Engineering	TEA, LCA				Engineering, Chemical engineering
Kiani, Daniyal	Chemical Engineering—Director's Fellowship	Heterogeneous catalysis, reaction kinetics, reaction engineering, operando spectroscopy, DRIFTS, Raman, ultraviolet-visible diffuse reflectance, and X-ray absorption spectroscopy	Chemical Engineering	UV-VisDR, XAS				Engineering, Chemical engineering
Pereira, Drew J.	Materials Science	Battery safety, battery electrode and electrolyte development, modeling electrochemical systems, and separator and current collector development	Chemical Engineering					Engineering, Chemical engineering	Materials science
Sagar, Srikrishna	Chemistry and Nanoscience	Memristors, neuromorphic devices, thin-film transistors, electrical transport analysis, 2D materials, and organic semiconductors	Physics	TFTs		Chemistry				Physics
O'Donnell, Shaun	Materials Science	Solid-state synthesis, photocatalysis, magnets, and X-ray diffraction	Chemistry			Chemistry			Materials science
Truong, Thien	Chemistry and Nanoscience	Silicon solar cells, spectroscopy, 2D materials, metallization, and (photo)electrocatalysis	Engineering			Chemistry		Engineering
Oh, Kiseok	Chemistry and Nanoscience	Photoelectrochemistry, solar hydrogen production from water, solid-state electrolyte, lithium batteries, and scanning electrochemical microscopy for carbon dioxide reduction	Physical Chemistry/Theoretical Chemistry	PEC, HER/OER		Chemistry, Physical chemistry
Carvalho, O. Quinn	Materials Science	Heterogeneous (photo)electrocatalysis, soft ambient-pressure X-ray photoelectron, and absorption spectroscopy	Chemical Engineering					Engineering, Chemical engineering	Materials science
Saenz, Theresa	Materials Science	Epitaxy, III-V solar cells, semiconductor processing, metalorganic vapour-phase epitaxy , laser ablation, and metallization	Materials Science	ECCI, X-ray diffraction, cleanroom, electrodeposition, reactive ion etching, photolithography, SEM, MOVPE					Materials science
Quadir, Shaham	Materials Science	Photovoltaic absorber and device fabrication, thin-film growth, spectroscopy, and catalysis	Physics	Photoluminescence, SEM, XRD, XAS, defect analysis, Neutron scattering, CVD, PVD					Materials science	Physics
Mahatara, Sharad	Materials Science	Perovskite oxides interfaces, two-dimensional electron gas, and topological materials	Physics	Self consistently calculated Hubbard-U, Density Functional theory, thermoelectric materials, interfaces, surfaces, 2DEGs					Materials science	Physics
Lott, Hongling	Materials Science	Semiconductor materials, epitaxial growth, photovoltaics, thin film, quantum dots, and nanowires	Materials Science and Engineering	Energy, Solar cells, Materials Science, Material Synthesis, Nanomaterials, Thin Film Growth, Ultra High Vacuum system, Engineering Education, PV				Engineering	Materials science
Kluherz, Kyle	Chemistry	Semiconductor nanomaterials, structure of dopants, X-ray scattering, transmission electron microscopy, and X-ray absorption fine structure	Chemistry	TEM, XRD, pair distribution function, XAFS, Jupyter, Python, GSAS-II, Demeter, Athena, Artemis, nanomaterials synthesis, crystal structure, nanocrystal structure, chiral nanomaterials, optical characterization		Chemistry
Hassan, Noor Ul	Chemistry	Polymer electrolyte fuel cells and water electrolyzer, electrode engineering and optimization, and porous transport layers structural design	Chemical Engineering	Electrochemical performance evaluation, Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy, SEM/STEM, XRD / XRF, fuel cell / electrolyzer degradation		Chemistry		Engineering, Chemical engineering
Dugu, Sita	Materials Science	Thin-film growth, multiferroics, resistive random-access memory, magnetometry, and diffractometry	Material Science	Ferroelectric, ALD, PLD, ellipsometry, Raman spectroscopy, UV-visible spectroscopy, AFM, PFM, Plasma etching, RRAM					Materials science
da Costa, Edgard Winter	Materials Science	III-V solar cells epitaxy, semiconductors, photovoltaics, thin films, and scanning electron microscopy image analysis	Electrical Engineering	HVPE, MOVPE, ECCI, AFM, SEM, XRD, photoluminescence, chatodoluminescence, spectroscopy, ellipsometry, materials growth, germanium, defects analysis, imaging, x-ray diffraction, nanomaterials, high efficiency, PV				Engineering, Electrical engineering	Materials science
Thodika, Mushir	Materials Science	Computational materials science, electronic resonances, computational photochemistry, quantum dynamics, and electronic structure method development	Chemistry	GW theory, magnetic proximity effects		Chemistry			Materials science
Smeaton, Michelle	Materials Science	Electron microscopy, in situ characterization, electron energy loss spectroscopy, oxide perovskites, and neuromorphic materials	Materials Science and Engineering	scanning transmission electron microscopy				Engineering	Materials science
Nguyen, Minh Duong	Materials Science	Perovskite solar cells, space applications, nanocrystals, patterning, and synthesis	Material Chemistry	solar cell devices, space applications		Chemistry, Materials chemistry			Materials science
Hight-Huf Nicholas	Materials Science	Time-resolved spectroscopy, Kelvin probe force microscopy, 2D materials, polymers, and interfaces	Chemistry	optoelectronic characterization, nanomaterials, mentorship		Chemistry			Materials science
Griffin, Kevin	Computational Sciences	Computational fluid dynamics, turbulence, optimization, and machine learning	Mechanical Engineering	C++, Python, uncertainty quantification, modeling, simulation, multifidelity, CFD			Computational sciences	Engineering, Mechanical engineering
Deak, Nicholas	Computational Sciences	Computational fluid dynamics, low-temperature plasmas, granular flows, high-performance computing, and numerical methods	Aerospace Engineering	Reactive chemistry, mechanism reduction, GPU acceleration, C++, CFD, HPC			Computational sciences	Engineering, Aerospace engineering
Davis, Melissa	Materials Science	Mechanical modeling of perovskite films, in-situ scanning electron microscope imaging, perovskite solar cells, and synthesis	Industrial Engineering	STEM outreach, mentorship, space applications, SEM				Engineering, Industrial engineering	Materials science
Cline, Peyton	Materials Science	Density functional theory, Green's functions, computational materials science, nanomaterials, and theoretical modeling	Chemical Physics	GW theory, unconventional superconductivity, DFT					Materials science	Physics
Alherech, Manar	Chemical Engineering	Liquid-liquid chromatography, lignin conversion and characterization, and nuclear magnetic resonance	Organic Chemistry	NMR		Chemistry, Organic chemistry		Engineering, Chemical engineering
Aromolaran, Wale	Bioengineering	Biomass valorization to fuels and chemicals, and bioprocess development	Environmental Engineering					Engineering, Bioengineering, Environmental engineering
Bell, Elizabeth	Bioengineering	Enzyme engineering, biocatalysis, variant library generation, laboratory automation, protein expression and purification, liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry, liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry , high-performance liquid chromatography, assay development, polymerase chain reaction, and polymer deconstruction.	Directed Evolution of PET Degrading Enzymes	LC-MS, LC-MS/MS, HPLC, PCR				Engineering, Bioengineering
Chen, Xiaolin	Chemical Engineering	Transportation fuels production, cohydroprocessing bio-oil, and upcycling commingled municipal solid waste	Mechanical Engineering					Engineering, Chemical engineering, Mechanical engineering
Dell’Orco, Stefano	Chemical Engineering – Director's Fellowship	Non-thermal plasma, plasma catalysis, hydrogenation; sustainable aviation fuels, catalytic fast pyrolysis, heterogeneous catalysis, and techno-economic analysis	Industrial Engineering	CO2, TEA				Engineering, Chemical engineering, Industrial engineering
Deshpande, Arnav	Biochemistry	Algal biofuels and biochemicals, metabolic engineering, metabolomics, flux analysis, and multiomic approaches	Chemical Engineering			Chemistry, Biochemistry		Engineering, Chemical engineering
Dong, Yifan	Materials Science	Ultrafast spectroscopy, semiconductor photophysics, charge and energy transfer, charge transport, perovskite, and organic photovoltaics	Physical Chemistry	PV		Chemistry, Physical chemistry			Materials science
Egbo, Kingsley	Materials Science	Ultra-wide bandgap semiconductors, optoelectronic properties, magnetotransport, semiconductor devices, thin-film epitaxy, and materials discovery	Physics						Materials science	Physics
Eichstaedt, Casey	Chemistry	Unconventional superconductivity, Wannier orbitals, ab initio theory, spectroscopy, electronic structure, and phonons	Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics			Chemistry				Physics
Epps, Robert	Materials Science	Automation, machine learning, data science, perovskites, and chemistry	Chemical Engineering					Engineering, Chemical engineering	Materials science
Febba, Davi	Materials Science	Autonomous experimentation, sputtering, machine learning, instrumentation, data science, automation, electrical characterization, and solar cells	Electrical Engineering					Engineering, Electrical engineering	Materials science
Fulk, Emm	Bioengineering	Metabolic engineering for production of fuels and chemicals, upgrading C1 compounds to metabolic products, and development of genetic tools for industrially relevant microorganisms	Systems, Synthetic, and Physical Biology		Biology			Engineering, Bioengineering
Ghoshal, Debjit	Materials Science	2D materials, optoelectronics, epitaxy, chemical vapor deposition, and thin films	Chemical Engineering					Engineering, Chemical engineering	Materials science
Haque, Md Azimul	Materials Science	Halide perovskite, charge transport, optoelectronics, thermoelectrics, and materials discovery	Materials Science and Engineering					Engineering	Materials science
Hill, Alex	Chemistry	Heterogeneous catalysis, renewable energy, carbon capture and conversion, transmission electron microscopy, material characterization, and reaction engineering	Chemical Engineering			Chemistry		Engineering, Chemical engineering
Jeong-Potter, Chae	Chemical Engineering –Director's Fellowship	Reactive carbon capture, carbon dioxide upgrading, renewable energy integration in carbon capture and carbon upgrading schemes, and alkali-based carbon capture	Earth and Environmental Engineering					Engineering, Chemical engineering, Environmental engineering
Leahy, Ian	Materials Science	Topological semimetals, electrical transport, thermoelectrics, spintronics, and materials characterization	Physics						Materials science	Physics
Lubert-Perquel, Daphné	Materials Science – Director's Fellowship	Quantum information science, spintronics, thin films, molecular compounds, and 2D materials	Materials Science						Materials science
Martinez, Marissa	Materials Science	Quantum dot synthesis, quantum dot thin films, ligand exchange, femtosecond spectroscopy, and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy	Materials Chemistry			Chemistry, Materials chemistry			Materials science
Palacios, Alejandra Hermosilla	Materials Science	Ultrafast sepectroscopy, charge delocalization and transport, transition metal dichalcogenides, and single-walled carbon nanotubes	Physical Chemistry			Chemistry, Physical chemistry			Materials science
Preimesberger, Juliane	Chemistry	Lithium batteries, materials characterization, mechanical energy harvesters, neutron diffraction	Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science	Li-ion		Chemistry		Engineering, Mechanical engineering	Materials science
Puente-Urbina, Allen	Chemical Engineering	Biomass conversion, heterogeneous catalysis, thermochemical processing, and instrumental analysis	Chemistry			Chemistry		Engineering, Chemical engineering
Rom, Chris	Materials Science	Solid-state batteries, solid-state synthesis, and X-ray diffraction	Chemistry	nitrides, semiconductors, XRD		Chemistry			Materials science
Rosetto, Gloria	Chemistry	Polymer chemistry, biomass valorization, and plastic recycling	Inorganic Chemistry			Chemistry, Inorganic chemistry
Schaefer, Stephen	Materials Science	Emerging materials discovery and synthesis, ultra-wide bandgap semiconductors for power conversion, and novel ternary metal nitrides	Electrical Engineering					Engineering, Electrical engineering	Materials science
Schichtl, Zebulon	Materials Science	Photoelectrochemistry, carbon dioxide reduction, electrocatalysis, water splitting, and alternative oxidation reactions	Chemistry	CO2		Chemistry			Materials science
Selvidge, Jennifer	Materials Science	Photovoltaics, thermophotovoltaics, and epitaxial integration	Materials	PV					Materials science
Swart, Reuben	Bioengineering	Biological carbon capture, bioprocessing and process optimization, process modeling, metabolic modeling, and metabolic flux analysis	Chemical Engineering					Engineering, Bioengineering, Chemical engineering
Tan, Jeiwan	Materials Science	Photoelectrochemistry, solar energy, water splitting, and carbon dioxide reduction	Materials Science and Engineering	CO2				Engineering	Materials science
Toporek, Yael	Biology	Molecular microbiology, microbial C1 carbon capture and conversion, genetic tool development for non-model microbes, and microbial anaerobic respiration	Biology		Biology
Vansuch, Gregory	Chemistry –Director's Fellowship	Physical-(bio)inorganic chemistry, infrared spectroscopy, photochemistry, EPR spectroscopy, core/shell nanoparticles, electrochemistry, electrochemistry, proton transfer, and electron bifurcation	Chemistry			Chemistry
Wilder, Logan	Chemistry	Nanomaterials, electrochemistry, catalysis, microfluidics, and materials	Chemistry			Chemistry
Wiley, Seth	Biochemistry	Bioinorganic chemistry, anaerobic enzymology, infrared and visible spectroscopy, electron transfer and bifurcation, redox chemistry, transient absorbance, and electrochemistry	Chemical Biology	EPR	Biology	Chemistry, Biochemistry
Wilkes, Rebecca	Bioengineering	Synthetic biology tools for optimized production of value-added products, multi-omics analyses of bacterial metabolic pathways, and lignin and waste valorization	Biological and Environmental Engineering					Engineering, Bioengineering, Environmental engineering
Yazawa, Kei	Materials Science	Thin films, ferroelectrics/piezoelectrics, semiconductors, optoelectronics, and imaging devices	Materials Engineering					Engineering, Materials engineering	Materials science