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
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
Hasan, Syed Mohammad Najib	Materials Science	Semiconductor materials, epitaxial growth, thin film, optoelectronics, quantum dots, and nanowires	Electrical and Computer Engineering	Epitaxy, MBE, thin film, Selective-area epitaxy, SEM, E-beam lithography, Device Processing, PECVD, LPCVD, ALD, Wet chemistry, Metallization, Reactive Ion Etching, AFM, XRD, TEM Photoluminescence Spectroscopy, Electroluminescence Spectroscopy, Material characterization, ellipsometry, materials growth, germanium, defects analysis, imaging, x-ray diffraction, nanomaterials				Engineering, Electrical engineering	Materials science
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
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
Cordell, Jacob	Materials Science	Technoeconomic analysis, Monte Carlo simulations, photovoltaics, optoelectronic properties, and density functional theory	Materials Science	thin film growth, nanomaterials, LEDs, mentorship, cost models, tandems, data visualization, latex, python, TEA, PV, DFT					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
Blair, Sarah	Chemistry	Non-aqueous lithium-mediated nitrogen reduction, electrochemical nitrate reduction, proton exchange membrane water electrolysis, and mentorship	Chemical Engineering	in-situ characterization, electrolysis, neutron reflectometry, synchrotron XRD, PEM		Chemistry		Engineering, Chemical engineering
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
Athaley, Abhay	Chemical Engineering	Techno-economic analysis, process modeling, life cycle assessment, market analysis, bioenergy, and sustainability	Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering	TEA				Engineering, Chemical engineering
Bell, Elizabeth	Bioengineering	Biotechnology, biocatalytic recycling, enzyme engineering, and plastic degradation and upcycling	Directed Evolution of PET Degrading Enzymes					Engineering, Bioengineering
Berninghaus, Ashley	Bioengineering	Anaerobic co-digestion, microbial community analysis, biochemical processes, waste-to-energy, and bioinformatics	Environmental Engineering	WTE				Engineering, Bioengineering, Environmental engineering
Caglayan, Mustafa	Chemical Engineering	Heterogeneous catalysis, reaction engineering, and biomass valorization	Chemical Engineering					Engineering, Chemical engineering
Chen, Xiaolin	Chemical Engineering	Transportation fuels production, cohydroprocessing bio-oil, and upcycling commingled municipal solid waste	Mechanical Engineering					Engineering, Chemical engineering, Mechanical engineering
Chen, Yian	Bioengineering	Downstream separation for biofuels, membrane-based separation, liquid-liquid extraction, and volatile fatty acid purification using distillation	Chemical Engineering	VFA				Engineering, Bioengineering, Chemical engineering
Clarke, Ryan	Chemistry	Polymer sciences	Materials Chemistry			Chemistry, Materials chemistry
Curley, Julia	Chemical Engineering	Homogeneous catalysis, plastic chemical recycling, and sustainable aviation fuels	Inorganic Chemistry			Chemistry, Inorganic chemistry		Engineering, Chemical 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
Dutta, Nikita	Materials Science – Director's Fellowship	Electron microscopy, energy storage, batteries, photovoltaics, and in-situ characterization	Materials Science and Mechanical Engineering	science communication, energy justice, PV				Engineering, Mechanical engineering	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	Sputtering, ternary nitrides, solar cells, instrumentation, and electrical characterization	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
Garcia, Lizzette Moreno	Bioengineering	Bioprocess development and scaling, biorefinery systems from microalgae and bacteria, and bioprocess analysis, modeling, and optimization	Bioresource Engineering					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
Kim, Seul-Gi	Chemistry	Perovskite, interface engineering, stability, and hysteresis	Chemical Engineering			Chemistry		Engineering, Chemical engineering
Kreider, Melissa	Chemical Engineering	Electrocatalysis, materials characterization, materials synthesis, and anion exchange membrane water electrolysis	Chemical Engineering					Engineering, Chemical engineering
Leahy, Ian	Materials Science	Topological semimetals, electrical transport, thermoelectrics, spintronics, and materials characterization	Physics						Materials science	Physics
Lee, Minjung	Chemistry	Plastic upcycling, process engineering, and polymer characterization	Polymer/Plastics Engineering			Chemistry		Engineering
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
McGott, Deborah	Materials Science	Thin-film photovoltaics, cadmium telluride, surface passivation, physical vapor deposition techniques, and time-resolved photoluminescence	Materials Science	PV, CdTe					Materials science
McGraw, Michael	Chemistry	Polymer synthesis and organic chemistry	Chemistry			Chemistry
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
Paul, Goutam	Materials Science	Scanning probe microscopy, device physics, and photovoltaics	Physics	PV					Materials science	Physics
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	Ultra-wide bandgap semiconductors, molecular beam rpitaxy, gallium oxide, ternary nitrides, materials discovery	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
Tancin, Ryan	Chemical Engineering	Ultrafast spectroscopy, absorption spectroscopy, lithium-ion batteries, laser processing, and fluid dynamics	Aeronautics and Astronautics	Li-ion				Engineering, Chemical engineering
Toporek, Yael	Biology	Molecular microbiology, microbial C1 carbon capture and conversion, genetic tool development for non-model microbes, and microbial anaerobic respiration	Biology		Biology
Uličná, Soňa	Chemistry	Photovoltaics, reliability, glass/glass modules, polymer characterization, and perovskites	Electrical Engineering	PV		Chemistry		Engineering, Electrical engineering
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
Witteck, Robert	Materials Science	Solar cells, solar modules, photovoltaics, optoelectronic devices, and solid-state physics	Physics	PV					Materials science	Physics
Yazawa, Kei	Materials Science	Thin films, ferroelectrics/piezoelectrics, semiconductors, optoelectronics, and imaging devices	Materials Engineering					Engineering, Materials engineering	Materials science