Postdoctoral Fellow (PREP0004388)

Job Details

Johns Hopkins, founded in 1876, is America's first research university and home to nine world-class academic divisions working together as one university.

Salary: $82,000-$85,000 a year

Johns Hopkins University: Whiting School of Engineering: Office of Research and Translation

Description

PREP Research Associate
CHIPS Funded Project.

This position is part of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Professional Research Experience Program (PREP). ... The position will be highly interdisciplinary, requiring regular communication between chemists, computer scientists and mathematicians working on modelling these compounds using experimental as well as data from chemistry/physics calculations/simulations.

U.S. Citizen Preferred

Key responsibilities will include but are not limited to:

• Developing novel algorithms for the prediction of physical and chemical properties, infrared and mass spectra, and ionization cross sections using data derived from experiment and computation.
• Implementing algorithms to study the performance of classification models.
• Assessing uncertainty in prediction and classification of experimental data as well as data sets derived from quantum chemistry and physics calculations and simulations.
• Computationally testing models with respect to accuracy and uncertainty quantification.
• Developing software to implement the goals stated above (most likely in Python or R).
• Disseminating results through posters/seminars at international meetings and university seminars.
• Ensuring that all results, findings, data, software, etc. are correctly archived and transmitted through appropriate channels

Qualifications

§ An advanced degree in a scientific/mathematical/statistical area.
§ Familiarity with applied science and numerical work
§ Ability to work with a multi-disciplinary research team
§ Strong oral and written communication skills.