Postdoc Opportunities in High Performance Computing in Norway

This postdoctoral position is centered on the MATURATION ANR project and on the numerical study of plasmas using sparse grids coupled with the Particle-In-Cell (PIC) approach. The recruited researcher will work on bringing an existing 3D sparse-PIC simulation code to exascale architectures , with a strong emphasis on scalability and performance across modern heterogeneous systems. The project combines algorithmic and software-engineering challenges. The researcher will contribute to distributed-...

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Joint Genome Institute (JGI) is seeking a Microbiome Postdoctoral Fellow to develop computational, statistical, and machine-learning approaches for understanding why some microorganisms can be cultivated while others remain uncultivated. The project will integrate large-scale isolated genomes, metagenomic abundance profiles, metagenome-assembled genomes, functional annotations, and environmental data through JGI’s Data Lakehouse. The fellow will investigat...

Los Alamos National Laboratory is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate to join the XTD-DO Theoretical Design organization in Los Alamos, New Mexico. XTD is the nuclear weapons design division at LANL, supporting national security through advanced multiphysics simulations on high-performance supercomputers. The postdoctoral researcher will work with XTD scientists in areas including hydrodynamics, nonlinear fluid dynamics, plasma physics, and dynamic material properties . The research involv...

Aarhus University’s Department of Agroecology is offering a postdoctoral position in computational genomics within a research environment focused on computational genomics, bioinformatics, and AI-driven plant research. The project centres on the development of computational methods that integrate pangenomic information and large language model (LLM)-based approaches . The appointed postdoc will work on targeted long-read sequencing and high-resolution gene-space assembly in complex plant genomes...

Idaho National Laboratory is seeking a Computational Materials Modeling Postdoctoral Researcher for its National Security Solutions organization in Idaho Falls, Idaho. The researcher will join an interdisciplinary research and development team developing a hybrid experimental and computational framework for evaluating material performance in engineered systems. The project will connect material behavior across scales, from microstructure measurements to performance predictions for full-scale sys...

KTH Royal Institute of Technology is seeking a postdoctoral researcher in high-performance data management and artificial intelligence within the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. The role is connected to Plasma-PEPSC 2, a European Centre of Excellence in high-performance computing and plasma physics funded by EuroHPC and coordinated by KTH. The research focuses on scalable methods for managing and analysing the large datasets produced by scientific simulations. The postdoct...

The University of Edinburgh’s Roslin Institute is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher in disease transmission genetics and modelling. Based at the Easter Bush Campus in Scotland, the project sits within Quantitative Biology and is funded by a prestigious research grant on the genetic and immune determinants, and evolutionary constraints, underlying individual variation in host infectiousness. The researcher will use Drosophila melanogaster as a model system to study infection, immunity and beha...

KTH Royal Institute of Technology is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to advance solar energy solutions suited to Scandinavian climates. The project focuses on photovoltaic-thermal (PVT) systems and air-based heat recovery, combining experimental investigation with advanced computational modelling. The researcher will use high-performance computing, computational fluid dynamics and system-level energy simulations to study and optimise PVT system configurations and operation under Nordic conditi...

RIKEN’s Center for Computational Science is recruiting a Research Scientist or Postdoctoral Researcher for the Materials Science Application Interface Platform Development Unit within the AI for Science Platform Division. The work is based at the RIKEN Kobe Campus in Japan and is supported by the JST ARiSE project, “Development of Materials-AI Platform for ‘AI for Materials.’” The project focuses on developing molecular software and theory through foundation models. The researcher will contribut...