General Description

Salary: $84,000-$86,000 a year

PREP Research Associate
CHIPS Funded Project.

This position is part of the National Institute of Standards (NIST) Professional Research Experience (PREP) program. NIST recognizes that its research staff may wish to collaborate with researchers at academic institutions on specific projects of mutual interest and thus requires that such institutions be the recipients of a PREP award. The PREP program requires staff from a wide range of backgrounds to work on scientific research in many areas. Employees in this position will perform technical work that underpins the scientific research of the collaboration.

Research Title:

Advancing Critical Materials Recovery from Electronic Waste Sources: Development of Essential Phase-based Data

The work will entail: 

This work will support the development of new processing methods to extract critical materials from microelectronic waste streams and identify potential applications for recovered materials for re-use in the semiconductor industry. Initially, this project will focus on the recovery of critical elements such as In, Ge, and Sb from microelectronic waste.   Essential thermodynamic and kinetic measurements will be conducted to improve the efficiency of vacuum distillation efforts to recover critical materials.  These data will be used to improve existing computational thermodynamic and kinetic databases.  The experimental measurements will be used in conjunction with available literature data to enable extrapolation to multicomponent systems.  This work will include development of new methods to integrate the measured experimental uncertainties with the available literature reported uncertainties.  

Evaluation of the critical industry needs and analysis of existing extraction processing and material criticality will provide the foundation for identifying potential applications to reuse extracted materials. A systems design approach, which employs a variety of mechanistic models, will be used to develop prototype alloys.   The prototype alloys will be characterized to evaluate the properties

Key responsibilities will include but are not limited to:

• Measure and analyze thermodynamic and kinetic data for key critical material system, In-Ge-Sb. 
• Determine methods for integrating experimental and literature data into computational thermodynamic and kinetic phase descriptions. 
• Analyze heterogeneous data sources.
• Determine methods to evaluate public data sources.

§  Presenting results at internal meetings, and occasional meetings with external stakeholders.

§  Ensuring that results, protocols, software, and documentation have been archived or otherwise transmitted to the larger organization.

Qualifications

§  A PhD in Materials Science and Engineering, Manufacturing, or a related field.

§  4 years of relevant experience

§  Experience with phase transformations in metallic systems

§  Strong background in data analysis, statistical analysis and design of experiments

§  Familiarity with CALPHAD methods and thermodynamic and kinetic phase-based data

§  Familiarity with machine learning tools and python and R scripting

§  Strong oral and written communication skills.

Application Instructions

Please upload the following with your application:

-         CV/Resume

*Please limit C.V to 3 pages only and ONLY include a valid email address for your contact info. Please DO NOT include telephone numbers, home address or photos on your resume. 

Privacy Act Statement

Authority:  15 U.S.C. § 278g-1(e)(1) and (e)(3) and 15 U.S.C. § 272(b) and (c)

Purpose:  The National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) hosts the  Professional Research Experience Program (PREP) which is designed to provide valuable laboratory experience and financial assistance to undergraduates, post-bachelor's degree holders, graduate students, master's degree holders, postdocs, and faculty.  

PREP is a 5-year cooperative agreement between NIST laboratories and participating PREP Universities to establish a collaborative research relationship between NIST and U.S. institutions of higher education in the following disciplines including (but may not be limited to) biochemistry, biological sciences, chemistry, computer science, engineering, electronics, materials science, mathematics, nanoscale science, neutron science, physical science, physics, and statistics. This collection of information is needed to facilitate the administrative functions of the PREP Program.

Routine Uses:  NIST will use the information collected to perform the requisite reviews of the applications to determine eligibility, and to meet programmatic requirements. Disclosure of this information is also subject to all the published routine uses as identified in the Privacy Act System of Records Notices:  NIST-1: NIST Associates. 

Disclosure:  Furnishing this information is voluntary. When you submit the form, you are indicating your voluntary consent for NIST to use of the information you submit for the purpose stated. By applying to a CHIPS-funded PREP opportunity, you also acknowledge that participation in the project requires signing a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) prior to beginning any work.

About Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University remains committed to its founding principle, that education for all students should be grounded in exploration and discovery. Hopkins students are challenged not just to learn but also to advance learning itself. Critical thinking, problem solving, creativity, and entrepreneurship are all encouraged and nourished in this unique educational environment. After more than 130 years, Johns Hopkins remains a world leader in both teaching and research. Faculty members and their research colleagues at the university's Applied Physics Laboratory have each year since 1979 won Johns Hopkins more federal research and development funding than any other university. The university has nine academic divisions and campuses throughout the Baltimore-Washington area. The Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, the Whiting School of Engineering, the School of Education and the Carey Business School are based at the Homewood campus in northern Baltimore. The schools of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing share a campus in east Baltimore with The Johns Hopkins Hospital. The Peabody Institute, a leading professional school of music, is located on Mount Vernon Place in downtown Bal...timore. The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies is located in Washington's Dupont Circle area.

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