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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.

NREL's postdoctoral opportunities are very competitive, attracting applicants from around the world for a limited number of positions at the only national lab dedicated to advancing clean energy.

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Name Research Area Research Experience Doctorate Metadata Biology Chemistry Computational sciences Engineering Materials science Physics
Alexeenko, Polina Director's Fellowship Power systems, transportation, advanced powertrain technologies, energy markets, optimization, statistics, and machine learning Electrical and Computer Engineering ML Engineering, Computer engineering, Electrical engineering
Jarvey, Nathan Chemical Engineering Proton exchange membrane fuel cells, fuel cell durability, multicomponent ion transport, and transport phenomena Chemical Engineering PEM Engineering, Chemical engineering
Taylor, Ian Computational Science Bayesian statistics, record linkage, network statistics, Markov chain Monte Carlo, optimization, and machine learning Statistics ML Computational sciences
Wang, Xin Mechanical Engineering Human-robot interaction, construction automation and robotics, artificial intelligence in construction, and building decarbonization and resilience Civil and Environmental Engineering AI       Engineering, Civil engineering, Environmental engineering, Mechanical engineering    
Resendiz, Erick Moreno Mechanical Engineering Phase-change, boiling water desalination; heat transfer; and solar energy Mechanical Engineering         Engineering, Mechanical engineering    
Porter, Justin Director's Fellowship Nonlinear vibration, bolted connections, friction, and finite element analysis Mechanical Engineering FEA       Engineering, Mechanical engineering    
Li, Siqi Chemical Engineering Low-temperature water electrolysis, electrolyzer degradation, (photo)electrocatalytic alcohol oxidation, material chemistry, inorganic chemistry, and perovskite solar cells Chemistry     Chemistry   Engineering, Chemical engineering    
He, Rong Chemistry Lithium-ion batteries, water electrolysis, electrode material development, and electrochemical microscopy Chemical Engineering Li-ion, LIBs   Chemistry   Engineering, Chemical engineering    
Stiles, Joseph Director's Fellowship X-ray spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, electrochemical characterization, solid-state synthesis, and materials characterization Chemistry and Materials XRS, XRD, SEM, TEM   Chemistry     Materials science  
Bourgeois, Briley Director's Fellowship Photocatalysis, electron microscopy, Python, process automation, materials science, COMSOL modeling, optics, microwave engineering, plasma chemistry, and nanoparticle synthesis Materials Engineering         Engineering, Materials engineering Materials science  
De Florio, Mario Computational Sciences Physics-informed machine learning, dynamical systems identification, time series analysis, and uncertainty quantification Systems and Industrial Engineering       Computational sciences Engineering, Industrial engineering    
Hirschey, Jason Mechanical Engineering Thermal energy storage, concentrated solar power, building thermal, heat pumps, long-duration energy storage, and heat exchangers Mechanical Engineering CSP, TES, LDES       Engineering, Mechanical engineering    
Xiao, Zhiying Mechanical Engineering Advanced building thermal equipment, phase change materials, thermochromic materials, and machine learning applications Civil Engineering         Engineering, Civil engineering, Mechanical engineering    
Shabara, Mohamed Mechanical Engineering Applied mechanics, optimal control, hydrodynamics, engineering optimization, estimation, low-order modeling, computational fluid dynamics, and finite element analysis Aerospace Engineering CFD, FEA       Engineering, Aerospace engineering, Mechanical engineering    
Kim, Junyoung Mechanical Engineering Thermodynamics, cooling and heating systems, energy conversion devices, and HVAC in buildings Mechanical Engineering         Engineering, Mechanical engineering    
Jeong, Shin Young Mechanical Engineering Concentrated solar-thermal power, thermal energy storage, granular flow, fluidization, heat transfer, and thermophysical properties Mechanical Engineering CSP, TES       Engineering, Mechanical engineering    
Wu, Ivy Chemical Engineering Electrochemistry, electrodialysis, ion exchange membranes, mineralization, and molten salt Chemical Engineering         Chemical Engineering    
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 peoperties, materials discovery, and metastable materials Materials Chemistry XRD, XRF, SEM   Chemistry, Materials chemistry     Materials science  
Chakraborty, Atlanta Computational Science Bayesian computational statistics, uncertainty quantification, machine learning, and optimal experimental design Computational Statistics ML     Computational sciences      
Sartor, Ed Materials Science Photovoltaics, cadmium telluride, high-vacuum peocessing, 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, peocess modeling and simulation, life cycle assessment, market analysis, and energy efficiency Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering         Engineering, Chemical engineering, Bioengineering    
Moon, Hyunjin Chemical Engineering Homogeneous/heterogeneous catalysis, plastic deconstruction, biomass valorization, and catalyst synthesis/characterization Chemical Engineering         Engineering, Chemical engineering    
Lamb, Natalie Biology CRISpe 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 peoducts 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 peotein engineering (peotein expeession, 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, peocessing, 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, peocess 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 peotein purification, peotein 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
Kumar, Adarsh Chemical Engineering Heterogenous catalysis, catalyst synthesis characterization and evaluation, sustainable aviation fuel, biomass and waste valorization, hydrogenation and hydrodeoxygenation chemistry, and high-peessure-temperature continuous flow and batch reactors Chemical Science SAF       Engineering, Chemical engineering    
Komp, Evan Bioengineering Deep learning/artificial intelligence for molecular systems, data science, software engineering, computational chemistry, and peotein engineering Chemical Engineering Data Science AI       Engineering, Bioengineering, Chemical engineering    
Murphy, Natasha Bioengineering Biocatalytic recycling, biochemistry, biophysics, peptide chemistry, peocess optimization, and polymers Biochemistry Metadata   Chemistry, Biochemistry   Engineering, Bioengineering    
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 peoduction 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-peessure X-ray photoelectron, and absorption spectroscopy Chemical Engineering         Engineering, Chemical engineering Materials science  
Quadir, Shaham Materials Science Photovoltaic absorber and device fabrication, thin-film growth, optoelectronics, and materials discovery 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        
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  
Thodika, Mushir Materials Science Computational materials science, electronic resonances, computational photochemistry, quantum dynamics, and electronic structure method development Chemistry GW theory, magnetic peoximity 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 peobe force microscopy, 2D materials, polymers, and interfaces Chemistry optoelectronic characterization, nanomaterials, mentorship   Chemistry     Materials science  
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 biopeocess development Environmental Engineering         Engineering, Bioengineering, Environmental engineering    
Bell, Elizabeth Bioengineering Enzyme engineering, biocatalysis, variant library generation, laboratory automation, peotein expeession 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 peoduction, cohydropeocessing 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 appeoaches 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  
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  
Fulk, Emm Bioengineering Metabolic engineering for peoduction of fuels and chemicals, upgrading C1 compounds to metabolic peoducts, and development of genetic tools for industrially relevant microorganisms Systems, Synthetic, and Physical Biology   Biology     Engineering, Bioengineering    
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    
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 peocessing, 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, biopeocessing and peocess optimization, peocess 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          
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 Epe Biology Chemistry, Biochemistry        
Wilkes, Rebecca Bioengineering Synthetic biology tools for optimized peoduction of value-added peoducts, 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  

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