18 Postdoctoral Fellowship at University of Maryland, United States
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University of Maryland, United States invites online Application for various Postdoctoral Fellowship in their different Departments. We are providing a list of Postdoc Fellowship positions available at University of Maryland, United States.
Eligible candidate may Apply as soon as possible.
(01) Postdoctoral Fellowship Position
Postdoc Fellowship Position summary/title: Postdoctoral Associate
The Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park, announces multiple open postdoctoral positions focused on the development of novel materials and systems for thermal management of power and microelectronic systems, energy storage, cryogenic systems, wideband gap materials, and Machine Learning based electrothermal analysis of devices. The Postdoctoral Associate will perform research under the direction of PIs – Dr. Samuel Graham and Dr. Damena Agonafer.
The project objectives include the development of a novel thermal management system for high power electronic devices employing evaporative cooling technology, evaporative membrane design for low surface tension dielectric coolant and the development of a revolutionary composite metal/organic phase change material for transient thermal management, novel ALD/CVD/PVD surface coating and structures for immersion boiling enhancement. In addition, we will be deploying physics informed neural network modeling to predict the electrothermal behavior or high power rf devices.
Anticipated responsibilities include the assembly and/or modification of specialized test equipment and facilities, the development and application of novel measurement techniques, the performance of detailed measurements and analyses, and interactions with collaborators. Also, duties will include the development of a PINN modeling framework for electrical and thermal response under various bias conditions. Familiarity with neural network modeling and GaN rf-devices will be important.
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Postdoc Fellowship Position summary/title: Post-Doctoral Associate
The Planetary Surfaces and Spacecraft Lab at the University of Maryland, College Park is hiring multiple postdoctoral researchers. We are looking for experimentalists with experience working with vacuum systems, plasma physics, and/or granular materials and an interest in developing technology to remove lunar regolith from spacesuits and solar panels. The goal of this project is to demonstrate the functionality of a specialized lunar “lint roller” that uses synthetic gecko skin to remove dust, rather than a traditional adhesive. Additionally, we will be developing a cleaning appliance to make the gecko roller reusable. One investigator will build and operationalize a new UHV chamber system and test the gecko roller at lunar-relevant pressures. Other investigators will design, build and test the efficacy of the cleaning appliance. The postdoctoral investigators will work with Dr. Christine Hartzell and other team members (postdocs, grad students, and undergrad students) to mature this technology, and present research results (via conferences and journal publications) to the wider planetary science and exploration community.
Postdoc Fellowship Position summary/title: Post-Doctoral Associate
The Center for Health Information and Decision Systems (CHIDS), an academic research center in the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland at College Park invites applications for a postdoctoral associate position starting in the Spring 2022 semester and continuing for up to two years. Ideal scholars are those working on health services, healthcare analytics, health IT, and health equity. We especially welcome candidates with strong data skills. The postdoctoral associate will join an active research community, have ample opportunities to connect with new collaborators and mentors, and present and obtain feedback on their own research. Especially, the postdoc will have access to multiple industry partners with EHR, claims, and mobile health data, as well as the AIM–AHEAD network resources including large datasets and computing infrastructure.
Postdoc Fellowship Position summary/title: Post-Doctoral Associate
The postdoctoral researcher will have a key role in an ongoing project to model ridership across the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) railway system (i.e., D.C., Maryland, & Virginia) using survey data, smart card trip data, and an array of factors related to travel, transit ridership, land use, the built environment, urban form, and transport infrastructure. A key task will be to develop an enhance ridership model using new data sources and through the application of geospatial analytical techniques and machine learning. A primary task of the post-doctoral researcher will be to lead model development and enhancement efforts within the UMDNCSG–CGIS team. The goal of this project is to construct models capable of capturing how ridership trends have evolved over time as the transit system has expanded. At the same time, new built environment and ridership-related variables have become available as well as new machine learning-based approaches for modeling space-time trends. As a result, the postdoctoral researcher will assist with: (1) collect and manage a database of diverse variables; (2) create new variables based on the transportation network, points-of-interest, and neighborhood characteristics; (3) construct ridership models using regression techniques, geospatial analytical techniques, and machine learning techniques; (4) employ these ridership models to understand the factors responsible for generating ridership across different types of stations and forecasting future scenarios; and (5) draft progress reports & scholarly manuscripts for publication. The postdoctoral researcher will work closely with the project team and partner organizations on model integration, scenario development and analysis, and testing. The project will provide a unique opportunity to work in a truly multi-disciplinary and multi-organizational team composed of transportation and urban planning researchers, geospatial information scientists, local planners, and technologists.
The focus of these positions will be electrochemical modeling of high-energy cells. A particular emphasis will be on high-rate charging of this cell, at several temperatures. The successful applicant will develop detailed physics- and chemistry-based transient mathematical models for cell charge and discharge, based on the coupled thermodynamic, kinetic, and transport processes taking place in the cell.
In addition, the successful applicant may contribute to the design of experiments for parameterization of material-level (e.g., electrolyte transport properties) and cell-level (e.g., separating electrode- and particle-scale) processes. Methods such as EIS, GITT, pulsing, and others may be used.
The position will be in the Albertus research group in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Maryland. Professor Albertus has extensive experience developing electrochemical models and simulating battery performance. Relevant publications are available at his Google Scholar page.
Postdoc Fellowship Position summary/title: Post-Doctoral Associate
The Postdoctoral Associate will work at the University of Maryland (College Park) in the Shahoveisi’s lab and will work on applied and basic research projects related to turfgrass disease identification and management. The postdoctoral associate will be expected to be an independent and collaborative team member in research and extension activities.
Postdoc Fellowship Position summary/title: Postdoctoral Associate/Assistant Research Professor
The Department of Geographical Sciences at the University of Maryland, College Park, is currently looking to fill several Professional Track Research Faculty positions. These non-tenure opportunities are open at the levels of Postdoctoral Associate or Assistant Research Professor, based on the successful candidate’s qualifications and experience. We offer highly competitive salaries and benefits packages. The roles encompass a broad spectrum of activities including but not limited to supporting projects linked to the Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) [https://gedi.umd.edu], NASA’s Carbon Monitoring System (CMS) [https://carbon.nasa.gov/cms/], and development of methods for mapping and monitoring mature and old-growth forests.
The GEDI mission focuses on biomass estimation, biodiversity, habitat characterization, forest complexity, and prognostic ecosystem models, and is slated to resume operations in late 2024 for a minimum of three years. An important aspect of our current initiatives focuses on the integration of GEDI data with other Earth Observation (EO) data such as from passive optical/stereo and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) technologies. The latter includes data from TanDEM-X, ALOS-2 and Sentinel-1 as well as the forthcoming NISAR and BIOMASS missions. Successful candidates will participate in diverse aspects of GEDI-related science analyses and projects. This participation includes refining and validating science algorithms, post-flight calibration and validation, developing field observation databases, science data product development and the fusion of multi-sensor data. There is also the opportunity to utilize these remote sensing data in science investigations within the candidate’s areas of interest.
Our NASACMS projects are focused on combining GEDI and interferometric SAR (InSAR) data to map high-resolution biomass and its changes, in collaboration with partner institutions including the German Aerospace Center (DLR), alongside activities utilizing these data to drive ecosystem and diversity models. Our mature and old-growth forest work is in partnership with the U.S. Forest Service, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), and Harvard Forest. This research is developing methodologies for the assessment and monitoring of mature and old-growth forests using a comprehensive range of EO data, modeling, and in situ national forest inventory data. These projects have significant engagement with stakeholders at the local, national, and international levels.
Postdoc Fellowship Position summary/title: Post-Doctoral Associate
A Post-Doctoral Associate position is available in the Liu lab at the Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research (IBBR) of the University of Maryland College Park in Rockville, MD. The research project focuses on the molecular understanding of chaperone-mediated protein folding and translocation using cryo-EM, biochemistry, and computational modeling.
The postdoc will carry out daily research tasks in the lab, including maintaining cell culture, protein expression, and purification, running biochemical/biophysical assays, protein structure determination with cryoEM, training undergraduate and graduate students, and writing research proposals and publications.
IBBR is a joint research enterprise of the University of Maryland, College Park, the University of Maryland, Baltimore, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
IBBR leverages state-of-art integrative methods for bioanalytical, biophysical and structural characterization of biomolecules: cryo-electron microscopy, nuclear magnetic resonance, x-ray crystallography, small angle neutron and x-ray scattering and mass spectrometry.
Postdoc Fellowship Position summary/title: Post-Doctoral Associate
The Maryland Robotics Center (MRC) in the Institute for Systems Research at the University of Maryland, College Park, is seeking candidates for the 2024-2025 MRC Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. Candidate research interests should fit into one or more of the following research areas:
● Autonomous Unmanned Systems: aerial robotics, robot motion planning, digital twin development, robot navigation of complex terrain, and simulation-based verification for autonomous systems; field robotics;
● Cognitive Robotics: explainable artificial intelligence, perception-based interaction, and meta-reasoning to improve team performance;
●Human-Robot Interaction: Human-robot collaboration, human behavior modeling, human-robot communication, learning and cognition, planning and re-planning, management of trust and its effects on collaboration, and forensics for human-machine teaming.
Postdoc Fellowship Position summary/title: Post-Doctoral Associate
A Postdoctoral Associate position is available in the Tiwari Lab at the University of Maryland, College Park to work on wheat breeding and genetics. The position will focus on developing improved cultivars of wheat by deploying novel genes and alleles by combining genomics and high-throughput phenotyping tools. The incumbent will get opportunities to work in a collaborative environment with molecular biologists, data scientists, and plant pathologists in the department and beyond. Applicants must have a Ph.D. in, plant breeding, genetics, genomics, molecular biology, or a closely related field at the time of hiring. The applicants who have a strong background in wheat breeding and genetics and skills in plant molecular biology, and genomics analyses are highly desired.
Postdoc Fellowship Position summary/title: Post-Doctoral Associate
The Finance Department at the University of Maryland’s Smith School of Business offers a two‐year postdoctoral fellowship for recent graduates with a Ph.D. in Finance, Economics, or other Social Science disciplines with research interests in public policy.
Post-doctoral researchers will collaborate with faculty members affiliated with the center to work on research projects with Finance Area Professors Vojislav Maksimovic and Liu Yang and DOIT Professor Kislaya Prasad. The focus of the research will be financing and business dynamism in the U.S., analyzing both small and entrepreneurial businesses and large incumbent firms. The postdoc will also help faculty produce white papers related to U.S. business dynamism issued by the Center for Global Business. The principal duties include collecting data, maintaining databases, conducting statistical analysis, and providing other research support.
Postdoc Fellowship Position summary/title: Post-Doctoral Associate
The Department of Teaching and Learning, Policy and Leadership(TLPL) is one of three departments within the College of Education at UMD. TLPL programs encourage thoughtful and responsive explorations of education practices, practices, and related social issues. The Department includes three divisions: Science, Technology, and Mathematics Education (STME); Educational Policy and Leadership (EPL), and Language Literacy, and Social Inquiry (LLSI).
The Center for Mathematics Education (CfME), housed in TLPL, is a nationally prominent center for research and teaching addressing the improvement of mathematics education in K-16 and informal settings. The Center’s tenure- and professional-track faculty promote innovation in teacher preparation programs and focused outreach efforts to local school districts. CfME faculty are committed to furthering increased access and opportunities for historically marginalized populations in mathematics education. CfME currently leads professional partnerships with local school districts including the Middle School Mathematics Outreach and CITE programs with Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) and Terrapin Teachers with both MCPS and Prince George’s County Public Schools (PGCPS).
The successful Fellow will be appointed for a one-year 12-month term beginning July 1, 2025, with the expectation of renewal for a second one-year term contingent on review. The Fellow will receive a starting stipend of $67,000, health benefits, and $10,000 for research startup. In addition, the Fellow will have access to office space with computer, library access, and other privileges at the University. During the term of appointment, the Fellow will be expected to focus primarily on research. In addition, the Fellow will teach one course (one semester only) per year. Dr. Andrew Brantlinger will serve as the Fellow’s primary mentor with support from other CfME and TLPL faculty. These faculty will meet with the Fellow regularly to provide guidance on developing a pedagogically sound teaching philosophy and plan, and improving the skills needed to pursue an academic research career, including proposal and manuscript writing, and technical presentation skills. The Fellow will also participate in professional development opportunities developed by the College of Education and the university’s Office of Postdoctoral Affairs and the Office of Faculty Affairs.
Postdoc Fellowship Position summary/title: Post-Doctoral Associate
The University reserves the right to rescind offers of employment or otherwise decline or terminate employment if the information reported by the background check is deemed incompatible with the position, regardless of when the background check is completed.
Offers are contingent on providing proof of employment eligibility in the United States no more than 3 days after the initial start date. If this proof is not provided within this timeframe, the offer may be rescinded or employment terminated.
Postdoc Fellowship Position summary/title: Post-Doctoral Associate
The Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering is seeking a Postdoctoral Associate who will take a leading technical role in an exciting project funded by DOE Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy to develop carbon molecular sieve (CMS) hollow fiber membranes for alkane dehydrogenation membrane reactors. The position will be in Professor Chen Zhang’s research group in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Maryland.
The A. James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland serves as the catalyst for high-quality research, innovation, and learning, preparing our students to create innovations that will addressthe 21st century Grand Challenges (e.g., energy, environment, security, and human health) and improvethe human condition. The Clark School is dedicated to leading and transforming theengineeringdiscipline and profession, to accelerating entrepreneurship, and to transforming research andlearning activities into new innovations that benefit millions.
Postdoc Fellowship Position summary/title: Post-Doctoral Associate
Work on a project focusing on the development of advanced multifunctional macromolecules for use in biomaterials, vaccine and drug delivery applications. The successful candidate will investigate mechanisms of interactions and self-assembly between biologically active molecules and biodegradable nano-scale delivery vehicles, design systems with modulated release and targeting capabilities, identify critical biophysical parameters of supramolecular assemblies, which affect their interactions with cellular targets and in vivo performance. The successful candidate will design, plan, and execute in vitro experiments, summarize and interpret analytical data, contribute to the structure-activity relationship analysis and interpretation of in vitro and in vivo biological performance; work with internal and external teams to optimize formulations for specific biological applications, and generate research reports and presentations for both internal and external use. The postdoctoral fellow will work as part of a multidisciplinary and highly collaborative team of investigators, will participate in NIH-funded research projects and get comprehensive training in drug delivery, biomaterials and controlled release applications.
Postdoc Fellowship Position summary/title: Post-Doctoral Associate
This postdoctoral fellow position is in the Nanoscale Assembly and Electron Microscopy group in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. The fellow will report to Prof. Taylor Woehl, the PI of this group. This position will be the primary experimentalist on a project aiming to image chemical and microstructural transformations during the pyrolysis of pre-ceramic polymers. The goal of this project is to elucidate the polymer-to-ceramic transformation mechanisms for several model polymer-derived ceramic systems and to establish how these mechanisms impact the final ceramic structure, bonding, and properties. The postdoctoral fellow will plan and lead in situ gas cell electron microscopy experiments using an aberration-corrected STEM.
Primary responsibilities include performing in situ transmission electron microscopy experiments, including imaging and electron and x-ray spectroscopy, to elucidate the evolution of microstructure and chemistry during pyrolysis of pre-ceramic polymers. Key duties include maintenance of in situ sample holders, preparation of MEMS samples, bulk characterization of polymer pyrolysis, atomic resolution imaging and spectroscopy of ceramic microstructure, and in situ gas cell experiments. The postdoctoral fellow will analyze and summarize results in regular meetings with the PI and will prepare manuscripts and presentations for submission to academic journals and conferences. Other duties include mentoring and training of undergraduate and graduate researchers.
The A. James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland serves as the catalyst for high-quality research, innovation, and learning, preparing our students to create innovations that will address the 21st century Grand Challenges (e.g., energy, environment, security, and human health) and improve the human condition. The Clark School is dedicated to leading and transforming the engineering discipline and profession, to accelerating entrepreneurship, and to transforming research and learning activities into new innovations that benefit millions.
Postdoc Fellowship Position summary/title: Post-Doctoral Associate
The Maryland Language Science Center (MLSC) seeks to recruit an outstanding postdoctoral researcher for our inaugural Fellowship for Postdoctoral Scholars. The goal of the fellowship is to support early-career researchers as they establish their own research program, and develop new, innovative, interdisciplinary connections within our community. Fellows are expected to pursue collaborative relationships with faculty in multiple departments and disciplines at the University of Maryland. These collaborations may take different forms: engaging in research projects with multiple faculty independently, generating new collaborative research that brings multiple faculty together, and/or contributing to interdisciplinary discussion and reading groups.
The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland. Founded in 1856, UMD is the flagship institution of the University System of Maryland. It is also the largest university in both the state and the Washington metropolitan area, with more than 41,000 students representing all fifty states and 123 countries, and a global alumni network of over 360,000. Its twelve schools and colleges together offer over 200 degree-granting programs, including 92 undergraduate majors, 107 master’s programs, and 83 doctoral programs. UMD is a member of the Association of American Universities and competes in intercollegiate athletics as a member of the Big Ten Conference.
The University of Maryland’s proximity to the nation’s capital has resulted in many research partnerships with the federal government; faculty receive research funding and institutional support from agencies such as the National Institutes of Health, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Department of Homeland Security. It is classified among “R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity” and is labeled a “Public Ivy”, denoting a quality of education comparable to the private Ivy League. UMD is ranked among the top 100 universities both nationally and globally by several indices.
In 2016, the University of Maryland, College Park and the University of Maryland, Baltimore formalized their strategic partnership after their collaboration successfully created more innovative medical, scientific, and educational programs, as well as greater research grants and joint faculty appointments than either campus has been able to accomplish on its own. According to the National Science Foundation, the university spent a combined $1.1 billion on research and development in 2019, ranking it 14th overall in the nation and 8th among all public institutions. As of 2021, the operating budget of the University of Maryland is approximately $2.2 billion.
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