Post-Doctoral Research Associate - Nuclear Engineering Department

Focus: Studying the Behavior of High Entropy Materials under Extremes

Description: The University of Tennessee has an opening of a postdoctoral position in investigating the behavior of high entropy materials under extreme conditions. This position resides in the Department of Nuclear Engineering (NE) at the University of Tennessee (UT), as part of a multidisciplinary project aimed at developing new alloys and ceramics for extreme environment applications. The postdoctoral research associate will be supervised by Steven Zinkle and Maik Lang in the NE Department at UT and will work collaboratively with a team of faculty and students in NE, Materials Science and Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, as well as scientists at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The initial appointment is a temporary full-time assignment of 12 months with the possibility of extension for another two years.