Postdoc Opportunities in Energy Engineering in United States

The DOE Fusion Energy Sciences Postdoctoral Research Program offers recent and future doctoral degree recipients an opportunity to conduct research supporting the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science Fusion Energy Sciences mission. Postdoctoral fellows develop a proposed research project in collaboration with a suitable hosting facility and mentor. Research may address structural materials science and technology, plasma-facing components, plasma-material interactions, advancing confinem...

Northeastern University is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Alternative Fuels for its Boston, Massachusetts Main Campus. Under the direction of a Principal Investigator, the researcher will develop alternative fuels and advance energy-innovation technologies through catalysis and reaction-engineering approaches. The research addresses low-carbon fuel pathways including hydrogen, ammonia, synthetic and electro-fuels, sustainable aviation fuel, and fuels derived from biomass, waste pla...

Oak Ridge National Laboratory is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to advance lifecycle analysis and technoeconomic analysis for major U.S. industries. The position is based in the Sustainable Manufacturing Technologies Group within the Manufacturing Science Division of ORNL’s Energy Science and Technology Directorate. The researcher will contribute to two major efforts. One focuses on identifying cost-effective emerging and industrial-scale technologies for recycling critical minerals from elec...

This postdoctoral fellowship is based in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS) in Madison, Wisconsin, and is hosted within the Environmentally Integrated Dairy Management Research Unit of the U.S. Dairy Forage Research Center. The project sits at the intersection of dairy agroecosystem sustainability, soil-plant-nutrient interactions, and quantitative modeling. The fellow will work closely with USDA-ARS research soil scientists on a process and statistical mode...

This postdoctoral associate position is part of an NSF DISES-funded collaborative project on socioecological outcomes of restoration in dryland forest-grassland landscapes. The project examines how biophysical, socioeconomic, and institutional dimensions interact in restoration settings, with field and data contexts in Malawi and South Africa . The successful candidate will work within a broad international research team spanning Penn State , the University of Minnesota , Duke University , the U...

This postdoctoral research opportunity is hosted by the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, within the Research Innovation Center and under the mentorship of Greg Lackey. The project focuses on subsurface simulation for unconventional energy systems and is carried out on-site with NETL federal and contract staff. The selected researcher will work on an overarching effort tied to unconventional enhanced oil recovery, natural gas storage, and produced water di...

This postdoctoral research associate position at the New Jersey Institute of Technology focuses on fundamental studies of the ignition of reactive materials, with an experimental emphasis on processing and synthesis by emulsion-assisted milling (EAM) . The successful researcher will work in a grant-funded project centered on the design, setup, and execution of laboratory experiments, along with detailed analysis of synthesized materials and their ignition and combustion behavior. The work includ...

Purdue University’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences is seeking a postdoctoral researcher in geodynamics and Arctic tectonics for an NSF-funded collaborative project. The researcher will contribute to the geodynamic simulation component of a project investigating deformation and the forces driving tectonic behavior along the Arctic margins of Russia, Alaska, and Canada. The work will draw on rich geophysical datasets, including GNSS velocity fields, ridge spreading rates,...

This postdoctoral research associate position at Texas A&M AgriLife Research in Uvalde, Texas focuses on monitoring and modeling evapotranspiration (ET) and improving irrigation management for field and high-value crops, including cotton, spinach, onions, and corn. The successful researcher will work in a team environment using eddy covariance ET sensors, root-zone soil moisture sensors, and computer modeling tools to predict crop ET under field conditions. The project combines field measurement...