10 Postdoctoral Fellowship at University of Texas at Austin, United States

As a top-10 engineering school with the No. 1 program in Texas, the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin has been a global leader in technology innovation and engineering education for over a century. With 11 undergraduate and 13 graduate programs, over 20 research centers and a faculty community that boasts one of the highest numbers of National Academy of Engineering members among U.S. universities, Texas Engineering has launched some of the nation’s most accomplished leaders and pioneered world-changing solutions in virtually every industry, from space exploration to energy to health care. Situated in the heart of Austin — named “America’s Coolest City” by Expedia and “The Best Place to Live in the U.S.” by U.S. News and World Report — the Cockrell School embodies the city’s innovative spirit. Major companies with Austin campuses, such as Dell, National Instruments, Apple, IBM, Samsung, Google and many others, continue to recruit Cockrell School students at a remarkable rate, launching thousands of successful careers and developing Texas Engineers into industry leaders.

At UT Austin, we say “What starts here changes the world.”  As a member of the university community, you will be part of an organization that is internationally recognized for our academic programs and research. Your work will have meaning and make a difference not only in the lives of our faculty, staff, and students, but also those who are impacted by our first-class academic and research programs.

The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) is seeking an enthusiastic and self-motivated early career scientist for a one-year, full-time Postdoctoral Researcher position studying the role of anthropogenic aerosols in near-term climate risk. The postdoctoral researcher will work closely with Dr. Geeta Persad at UT Austin in Austin, TX.

The Postdoctoral Researcher will contribute to a set of cutting-edge projects focused on understanding and projecting hydroclimate extremes, particularly multivariate and compound events, in the context of rapidly evolving anthropogenic aerosol emissions. Using earth system multi-model large ensemble datasets under the Regional Aerosol Model Intercomparison Project (RAMIP), the Researcher will help quantify the role of aerosols—relative to greenhouse gases—in shaping historical and future hydroclimate extremes. The work will involve developing new theoretical frameworks and methodologies for attributing aerosol-driven hydroclimate hazards, analyzing the confounding effects of structural uncertainty and internal variability, and informing more robust, aerosol-aware climate projections for decision-making and climate resilience. This position offers the opportunity to contribute to high-impact, interdisciplinary climate science at the intersection of modeling, attribution, and policy-relevant research.

The Texas Institute for Electronics (TIE) is a University of Texas at Austin-supported semiconductor consortium of state and local government, preeminent defense electronics and semiconductor companies, national labs and nationally recognized academic institutions. Our mission is to develop and execute a state-of-the-art 3D Heterogenous Integration manufacturing technology roadmap, and to provide critical pilot manufacturing capabilities to address national security needs and catalyze domestic economic growth.

Join the Texas Institute for Electronics (TIE) and help us push the boundaries in critical semiconductor domains, including advanced packaging, with the aim of reestablishing U.S. prominence in semiconductor manufacturing.

With over $1 billion in funding from the US DoD and the state of Texas, we’re at the forefront of creating cutting-edge semiconductor manufacturing equipment and processes that will set the course for future advancements in semiconductor logic, memory, heterogeneous integration, chip cooling and more. Situated in the heart of Austin — named “America’s Coolest City” by Expedia and “The Best Place to Live in the U.S.” by U.S. News and World Report — the Texas Institute for Electronics embodies the city’s innovative spirit.

The high-energy physics group at UT-Austin encourages applications for a Research Associate to provide technical and scientific support for our work on the ATLAS Experiment, one of the main experiments at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. Responsibilities will include managing the installation and commissioning of the LAr sub-detector upgrade at the ATLAS experiment and managing the subsequent operations program of the LAr sub-detector during the upcoming run of the Large Hadron Collider. This will involve leading hands-on technical and scientific work with the real-time, electronic readout and triggering system, as well as the analysis of data from the detector.

For general information about this position, please contact Professor Tim Andeen at [email protected].  

For questions on the required application materials, please email [email protected] and reference this job posting.

Planet Texas 2050 is a UT Austin initiative addressing the “grand challenge” of building resilience in the face of climate change and rapid population growth. Our teams include interdisciplinary researchers working alongside community-based and municipal partners to develop solutions for mitigating climate threats and adapting to present and future challenges. 

Compounding the impacts of the climate crisis, by 2050, Texas’s population is expected to reach 40 million, creating unprecedented demands on resources and infrastructure. Our program’s mission is to advance collaborative research on resilience and co-design adaptive strategies with stakeholders and communities across Texas. The solutions we develop will have applications extending far beyond our region, serving as a model for communities worldwide facing similar 21st-century challenges.