PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Materials Science in South Korea

서울대학교 이차전지혁신연구소 is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to join its battery computational science and simulation research program. The institute was established as an Innovation Research Center (IRC) supported by Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT and the National Research Foundation of Korea. Its mission is to strengthen R&D capacity, train talent, and build a world-class research hub in battery science. The advertised position is centered on computational science for next-generation batteries...

Yeungnam University in South Korea is seeking a Research Professor / Postdoctoral Researcher to work on advanced materials and electrochemical technologies for energy storage and hydrogen production. The research focuses on supercapacitors and MXene aerogel/perovskite hybrid materials . The successful researcher will contribute to the fabrication of supercapacitor electrodes, electrochemical characterization, and the synthesis of functional materials designed for energy-related applications. The...

Gyeongsang National University in Jinju, South Korea, is offering one fully funded PhD opportunity in hydrogen energy and electrocatalysis. The research focuses on developing advanced electrocatalytic materials and innovative electrochemical technologies for sustainable hydrogen production and clean energy conversion. The doctoral researcher will work on electrocatalyst design and development for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and hydrogen evolution reaction (HER), with applications in anio...

Seoul National University in South Korea is hiring postdoctoral researchers to join a growing AI for Science research program led by Professor Yousung Jung. The initiative focuses on using artificial intelligence to accelerate scientific discovery. Research areas include scientific foundation models , LLM-based AI agents, multi-agent systems, agentic scientific discovery, self-driving laboratories, autonomous experimentation, and generative AI for molecular and materials discovery. The group aim...

Yerevan State University’s Computational Materials Science Laboratory is inviting applications for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in atomistic modelling and computational materials science, based in Armenia. The successful candidate will contribute to computational discovery of crystalline and amorphous materials for battery applications, 2D materials for energy applications, and AI-accelerated materials discovery. Research activities may include density functional theory calculations, phase sta...

Postdoctoral position at Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), South Korea in 2D superconductors, topological materials, and superconducting quantum devices . The Quantum Materials Interfaces and Nano Devices Lab in the Department of Semiconductor Engineering is recruiting one postdoctoral researcher to work on Josephson junctions, Josephson diodes, transmon qubits, gatemon qubits , van der Waals heterostructure interface engineering, device process optimization, low-temperature tr...

Postdoctoral Researcher Position in Functional Polymers and Sustainable Energy Materials at Sunchon National University This is a postdoctoral opening at Sunchon National University in Korea, focused on functional polymers and sustainable energy materials . The position is aimed at researchers with backgrounds related to chemistry, physics, engineering, or technology, and it is explicitly advertised as a postdoc opportunity. The role sits at the intersection of polymer science and energy-related...

Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in experimental quantum physics at the Department of Physics, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) , South Korea, within the QuantERA-funded ENTUNE project: Entangled and Tunable Nanomechanical Quantum Systems . The position is in the Hybrid Quantum Device group led by Prof. Junho Suh . The research focuses on a new class of superconducting device, the vacuum-gap Josephson junction (vJJ) , where mechanical motion tunes ...

Dongguk University in Seoul, South Korea is recruiting 2–3 PhD students for Spring 2027 admission (March 2027) in a research group led by Professor Sungjun Kim. The opening focuses on AI / Computer Engineering and Semiconductor Devices . Research topics include deep learning, neural networks, hardware-aware AI, AI accelerators, edge AI, neuromorphic computing, in-memory computing, computer architecture, hardware/software co-design, modeling and simulation, as well as RRAM, FeFET, FTJ, device fab...