DMSE Job Opportunities
DMSE occasionally hires for a wide range of positions. Opportunities include faculty positions for people with a PhD in materials science and engineering; research scientists or postdoctoral fellows or associates for recent PhD graduates or experienced researchers who want to pursue advance research in the field; lecturers and technical instructors; and administrative and support staff positions.
Please note that the availability of these positions varies over time and depends on the department’s specific needs, ongoing projects, and funding opportunities. To browse all open positions at MIT, visit MIT Human Resources’ Careers page.
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Postdoctoral Associate in Maritime Transport Decarbonization
The Department of Materials Science and Engineering (DMSE) in Cambridge, MA, seeks candidates for a postdoctoral associate to play a pivotal role in studying the supply chain viability and environmental impacts of low-carbon fuels to decarbonize the global maritime transport sector. The role involves collaborative work with researchers at the MIT Climate and Sustainability Consortium and the MIT Energy Initiative, along with industry experts and NGOs. Key responsibilities may include: developing sustainability metrics to compare impacts of maritime transport activities across a range of environmental and social dimensions; performing regional well-to-wake assessment of costs, emissions, and feedstock requirements for low-carbon maritime fuels; assessing theoretical best-case performance of processes and technologies involved in alternative fuel production, distribution, and end-use; adding novel functionality to maritime fleet models to represent alternative powertrains (fuel cell, battery electric, etc.); and assessing the impacts of low-carbon fuel adoption on global maritime transport networks and bunkering activities.
Postdoctoral Associate
The Department of Materials Science and Engineering (DMSE) in Cambridge, MA, seeks candidates for a postdoctoral associate to join an interdisciplinary research team investigating low-energy nuclear reactions in an ARPA-E research program. This research effort investigates reports of purported nuclear binding energy release in metal hydrogen systems from low-energy stimuli (e.g., laser pulses and induced phase transitions). Key responsibilities will include: leading replication efforts of experimental reports in the literature; working collaboratively to design novel experimental setups and protocols guided by recent theoretical insights and simulation results; and working at the intersection of quantum dynamics, nuclear physics, radiation diagnostics, and materials science and characterization. Accompanying theoretical efforts focus on the acceleration of hydrogen isotope fusion rates in metal hydrides as a result of collective superradiant effects (i.e., Dicke enhancement), which have been demonstrated to accelerate chemical reactions and nuclear decay.
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