Postdoctoral Associate, Materials Design and Innovation
About the role
The Department of Materials Design and Innovation at the University at Buffalo invites applications for a full-time Postdoctoral Associate in the Peng Research Group. The successful candidate will conduct research at the intersection of scientific AI, atomistic simulation, computational catalysis, and data-driven materials discovery.
The position will primarily support a U.S. Department of Energy Genesis Mission project developing closed-loop and agentic AI workflows for chemical-manufacturing research. The associate will also contribute to an American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund project focused on the data-driven discovery of intermetallic alloy catalysts with unusual electronic structures.
The research will combine first-principles atomistic simulations, scientific machine learning, reaction modeling, and integration of computational and experimental data. The associate will develop reproducible computational workflows, collaborate with researchers across multiple institutions and disciplines, and communicate research findings through publications, presentations, technical reports, software, and research datasets.
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