14 postdoctoral research associate jobs found in Knoxville, TN

Requisition Id 14997 Overview: We are seeking a postdoctoral fellow to help develop world-class capabilities related to manufacturing science and technology associated with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and Department of Energy (DOE) mission. Selection will be based on qualifications, relevant experience, skills, and education. This position resides in the Manufacturing Robotics and Controls Group in the Manufacturing Sciences Division of the Energy Science and Technology Directorate at ORNL. In this position, you will be a part of teams working toward achieving both the overall mission of Oak Ridge National Laboratory and those goals specific to the Manufacturing Science Division through advanced research in robotics, automation, and controls, including flexible/agile industrial automation, machine learning, mobile robotics, process control, sensor processing, machine vision, and/or human machine interaction. This position will require working with external...

Requisition Id 14977 Overview: The Manufacturing Energy Efficiency Research & Analysis (MEERA) Group, housed within the Manufacturing Science Division (MSD), Energy Science and Technology Directorate (ESTD) at ORNL is currently seeking to fill a position for a Postdoctoral Research Associate. This role entails contributing to MEERA group's mission of disseminating knowledge on energy, carbon, water, and material efficiency in the manufacturing sector and develop, deploy, and promote impactful practices, tools, and technologies. You should have a strong background in mechanical engineering, industrial energy systems, energy efficiency of manufacturing industry, or other related fields. You will play a crucial role in the planning, execution, and optimization of our technical assistance program for energy intensive industries (iron & steel, food, pulp & paper, chemicals, nonferrous metals, and nonmetallic minerals). The primary objective of the Energy-Intensive...

Requisition Id 14269 Overview: Oak Ridge National Laboratory is the largest US Department of Energy science and energy laboratory, conducting basic and applied research to deliver transformative solutions to compelling problems in energy and security. We are seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate who will support the Manufacturing Energy Efficiency Research & Analysis (MEERA) Group in the Manufacturing Science Division (MSD), Energy Science and Technology Directorate (ESTD) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to work in the areas of life cycle energy impacts analysis, technoeconomic analysis, and industrial energy efficiency analysis research under the Strategic Analysis and Industrial Energy Efficiency Programs. The MEERA Group conducts techno-economic, value chain, trade, patent, and global analyses relevant to advanced energy and manufacturing technologies. MEERA is currently supporting a multi-laboratory DOE Geothermal Technologies Office (GTO) project to...

Requisition Id 15003 Overview: Oak Ridge National Laboratory is the largest US Department of Energy science and energy Laboratory, conducting basic and applied research to deliver transformative solutions to compelling problems in energy and security. The Discrete Algorithms Group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is seeking a postdoctoral researcher for a two-year position specializing in sparse algorithms. The successful candidate will contribute to advancing secure, trustworthy, and efficient AI solutions for scientific applications. Key responsibilities include developing state-of-the-art sparse algorithm in matrices, tensor and networks for large-scale numerical, scientific and AI models and disseminating findings through publications and presentations in top-tier peer-reviewed journals and conferences. This role provides a unique opportunity to work with the world's first exascale system, Frontier, and collaborate with leading experts in machine learning,...

Requisition Id 14981 Overview: Oak Ridge National Laboratory is the largest US Department of Energy science and energy laboratory, conducting basic and applied research to deliver transformative solutions to compelling problems in energy and security. We are seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate who will support the Manufacturing Energy Efficiency Research & Analysis (MEERA) Group in the Manufacturing Science Division (MSD), Energy Science and Technology Directorate (ESTD) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to work in the areas of renewable energy and the implementation of such technologies on-site, along with their associated supportive technologies (such as solar photovoltaics, solar thermal systems, wind power, renewable fuels, geothermal solutions, battery storage, thermal storage, and industrial heat pumps). The role also involves research and analysis of technologies and practices for increasing the energy efficiency of the industrial sectors. The primary...

Requisition Id 14757 Overview: Oak Ridge National Laboratory is the largest US Department of Energy science and energy laboratory, conducting basic and applied research to deliver transformative solutions to compelling problems in energy and security. We are seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate who will support the Fuel Cycle Chemical Technology (FCCT) Research Group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). This position will focus on the application of your knowledge to the chemistry of advanced nuclear fuel cycles. In this position, you will develop processes that convert products and byproducts from used fuel reprocessing and recycling to stable and reusable forms. The work will involve wet chemistry, analytical characterization techniques, and flow sheet development. The FCCT Research Group investigates uranium process chemistry, alternative processing methodologies for used fuel recycling, waste form development, and off-gas treatment in support of advanced reactor...

Requisition Id 14936 Overview: We are seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate who will reside in the Powder Diffraction Group in the Neutron Scattering Division (NSD), Neutron Sciences Directorate(NScD) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). NScD operates the High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR), the United States' highest flux reactor-based neutron source, and the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS), the world's most intense pulsed accelerator-based neutron source. Together these facilities operate 30 instruments for neutron scattering research, each year carrying out more than 1,000 experiments in the physical, chemical, materials, biological and medical sciences. HFIR also provides unique facilities for isotope production and neutron irradiation. To learn more about Neutron Sciences at ORNL, please go to this link: http://neutrons.ornl.gov As part of a team, you will explore the complicated coupling between the local structure and various degrees of freedom (orbital, spin,...

Requisition Id 14934 Overview: As a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science national laboratory, ORNL has an impressive 80-year legacy of addressing the nation's most pressing challenges. Our team is made up of over 7,000 dedicated and innovative individuals! Our goal is to create an environment where a variety of perspectives and backgrounds are valued, ensuring ORNL is known as a top choice for employment. These principles are essential for supporting our broader mission to drive scientific breakthroughs and translate them into solutions for energy, environmental, and security challenges facing the nation. We are seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate who will support the Quantum Sensing and Computing Group in the Computational Science and Engineering Division (CSED), Computing and Computational Sciences Directorate (CCSD) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Major Duties/Responsibilities: Participate in new and ongoing research on quantum integrated...

Requisition Id 14907 Overview: The Data and AI Systems Research Section/Workflow systems Group within the Computer Science and Mathematics Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is seeking a postdoctoral researcher with expertise in distributed intelligence, reasoning models, LLMs, workflow management, and distributed systems to contribute to the development of advanced decentralized intelligence techniques for scientific workflows deployed across heterogeneous computing resources. As a postdoctoral fellow at ORNL, you will join a dynamic team of researchers specializing in workflow management machine learning, distributed computing, and resource optimization leveraging the unique computational resources available at ORNL, including the Frontier supercomputer-the world's first exascale system. In this role, you will collaborate with leading scientists to design and implement distributed intelligence solutions tailored for large-scale scientific workflows in DOE...

Requisition Id 14834 Overview: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is the largest US Department of Energy (DOE) science and energy laboratory, conducting basic and applied research to deliver transformative solutions to compelling problems in energy and security. Within ORNL, the Building Envelope Materials Research (BEMR) Group develops and deploys affordable building envelopes for new construction and retrofits to enable DOE's goals. Our synergistic research areas include building science, material and system development, and advanced construction. With the support from the U.S. DOE Building Technologies Office, we have the most extensive building envelope research portfolio in the nation. We are seeking to add to our team an energetic and creative postdoctoral research associate. Major Duties/Responsibilities: Collect and analyze data from past weather-related natural gas supply disruptions and study their impacts. Perform modeling and simulations to assess...

Requisition Id 14827 Overview: We are seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate who will focus on the synthesis of quantum materials aimed at understanding their novel properties. This will be a highly collaborative position residing in the Quantum Heterostructures Group in the Materials Science and Technology Division (MSTD), Physical Sciences Directorate (PSD) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). As part of our research team led by Dr. Matthew Brahlek and Dr. Rob Moore, you will focus on the growth of thin film and heterostructure quantum materials utilizing molecular beam epitaxy, and probing the crystalline, electronic, and magnetic properties. Your emphasis will be on the development and characterization of new material platforms to understand and control emergent phenomena in heterostructures of strongly correlated phases, Dirac materials, Weyl semimetals, topological insulators, etc. This will include preforming characterization in a unique state of the art...

Requisition Id 14808 Overview: We are seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate who will contribute to the development of modeling framework and support process development for advanced manufacturing (AM) processes. This position resides in the Computational Sciences and Engineering Division (CSED) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). CSED focuses on transdisciplinary computational science and analytics at scale to enable scientific discovery across the physical sciences, engineered systems, and biomedicine and health. It provides foundations and advances in quantum information sciences to enable quantum computers, devices, and networked systems. It develops community applications, data assets, and technologies and provides assurance to build knowledge and impact in novel, crosscut-science outcomes. The candidate will be a postdoctoral researcher within the Multiscale Materials (MsM) group for Physical Sciences Section in CSED. The MsM group is focused on delivering...

Requisition Id 14702 Overview: Oak Ridge National Laboratory is the largest US Department of Energy (DOE) science and energy laboratory, conducting basic and applied research to deliver transformative solutions to compelling problems in energy and security. We are seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate who will support the Particle Fuel Forms (PFF) Group in the Nuclear Fuel Development (NFD) Section within the Nuclear Energy and Fuel Cycle Division. The PFF Group is a global leader in coated particle fuel research for advanced reactors (e.g., tristructural isotropic (TRISO) coated particle fuel) and emerging nuclear technologies. The PFF group supports activities related to both fabrication and post-irradiation examination of coated particle fuel and fuel forms. This position would primarily support the US DOE's Office of Nuclear Energy's Advanced Gas Reactor Fuel Development and Qualification (AGR) Program's post-irradiation examination (PIE) activities at ORNL. The...

Requisition Id 14566 Overview: We are seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate to advance the synthesis and characterization of novel quantum and functional materials. The position combines condensed matter physics approaches with cutting-edge AI/ML methods to gain deep fundamental understanding of new materials. The successful candidate will develop new materials systems including thin films, 2D materials, and hybrid architectures using advanced synthesis techniques (PLD, CVD, Sputtering). Your emphasis will be on the development and characterization of phenomena in novel crystalline materials relevant to applications in microelectronics, quantum information, ion transport, catalysis, etc. A key focus is leveraging in situ and operando characterization methods, particularly optical and electron spectroscopy, to understand fundamental physical mechanisms governing material properties and growth. The position offers unique opportunities to develop automated synthesis platforms...