91 postdoctoral associate jobs found in Cambridge, MA

Information on MIT’s COVID-19 vaccination requirement can be found at the bottom of this posting. POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE ,  Chemical Engineering (ChemE) , to join an active lab and a project funded by FDA (Development of an Integrated Continuous cGMP Facility for mRNA Manufacturing). Will conduct research in the intersection of mechanistic modeling and systems engineering.  Responsibilities will include designing feedback/feedforward control systems for continuous mRNA manufacturing, including model predictive control of the end-to-end manufacturing system while taking disturbances and model uncertainties into account; and building mechanistic models and control systems for multiphase flow-based nanoparticle formation; and perform other duties as assigned.  The models will be constructed for a process involving multiple liquid streams containing multiple components that impinge on each other in either laminar or highly turbulent flow to create a...

Information on MIT’s COVID-19 vaccination requirement can be found at the bottom of this posting. POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS PROCESSING ,   Materials Science and Engineering (DMSE) , to work in the area of sustainable materials processing as part of the Allanore Research Group. The group recently developed new directions of research in the area of materials recycling and sustainable materials production.  It is putting together a team to further the understanding of those new process conditions and accelerate their demonstration at larger scale and characterize their performances at scale. Materials of current interest include aluminum alloys, K+P fertilizers, e-wastes or iron+copper. The corresponding processes include sulfidation, metallothermic reduction, minerals separation, or electrowinning.   Job Requirements REQUIRED : Ph.D. in materials science or a similar field; familiarity with chemical...

Information on MIT’s COVID-19 vaccination requirement can be found at the bottom of this posting. POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, RAPID PROTOTYPING TECHNOLOGY , Mechanical Engineering, to work on design, manufacturing, and rapid prototyping in a collaborative effort between the Culpepper Lab and MIT Environment, Health and Safety.  This collaboration is researching tools and technologies that enable the safe use of emerging rapid prototyping technologies in university research and innovation activities.  The ever-accelerating rate of new fabrication technologies poses problematic technical (complimentary machining, tooling, fixturing, simulation) and safety (chemical, biological, radiation, etc.) issues.  In the absence of proven means to address these issues, university researchers/innovators are limited in how they may employ these technologies.  Specifically, overly restrictive safety limits may preclude using these technologies when they...

Information on MIT’s COVID-19 vaccination requirement can be found at the bottom of this posting. POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE ,   Center for Transportation & Logistics (CTL)-Age Lab  (two openings), to support a broad range of naturalistic driving research efforts. Will collaborate with senior researchers to explore novel data sets and design and develop new data extraction approaches from telemetry data and video; both lead and contribute to the development of joint publications, participate in conferences, and share results with laboratory partners and industry sponsors; collaborate with the research team on defining research priorities; design, build, and perform analytical experiments on naturalistic driving data; and report on results with an emphasis on developing the foundations of research needed to influence the design and development of vehicle safety systems.  This position offers an opportunity to work with cutting edge...

Information on MIT’s COVID-19 vaccination requirement can be found at the bottom of this posting. POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE ,  Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC) , to work in the area of experimental fusion plasma and stability physics research. The research will primarily focus on the SPARC tokamak, a novel and powerful instrument designed to be the world’s first net-energy fusion experiment.  Will lead the development of data-driven and physics-based modeling for SPARC disruptions from prediction to mitigation and avoidance; and collaborate with a team to optimize potential solutions for real-time deployment.  Emphasis will be placed on the development of alarms to off-normal events or proximity-to-instability algorithms, with a focus on confinement detection and performance optimization and scoping for disruptions on ARC. Will also contribute original research to the PSFC program, produce work for publication and present work at...

Information on MIT’s COVID-19 vaccination requirement can be found at the bottom of this posting. POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE ,  MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) , to join a project investigating ammonia production and utilization.  Will work with MITEI research scientists Dr. Emre Gençer, Dr. Dharik Mallapragada, and Dr. Guiyan Zang.  The project will develop Aspen models to simulate various ammonia production pathways and the utilization of ammonia for power generation. Will regularly present research results in meetings and workshops, prepare quarterly progress reports, and publish papers at international conferences and in peer-reviewed journals.  The position will offer an opportunity to interact and work closely with researchers at MITEI’s Future Energy Systems Center.   Job Requirements REQUIRED :  Ph.D. in chemical engineering or a subject pertinent to the research area; expertise and a...

Information on MIT’s COVID-19 vaccination requirement can be found at the bottom of this posting. POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE ,  Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) , to join the Algorithmic Alignment Group.  Will work alongside collaborators at DeepMind and the Cooperative AI Foundation to lead the design and implementation of a large-scale Cooperative AI contest to take place next year at a major AI conference. The work is expected to be highly important and influential for driving progress in the field.  The postdoc will lead innovative research on these problems, specifically through the lens of multi-agent reinforcement learning. Specific goals of the research include the design and launch of a contest to standardize approaches and infrastructure for cooperation research; leading novel research on the incentives for cooperative behaviors; and leading a contest summary paper, along with the participants and senior...

Information on MIT’s COVID-19 vaccination requirement can be found at the bottom of this posting. POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE ,  Media Lab-Camera Culture Group , to join a highly collaborative team of faculty and researchers focusing on computational vision and machine learning in the broad areas of 3D imaging, NERF, high level vision, supervised learning, reinforcement learning, health imaging, and novel computational sensors.  Will perform independent research in areas that include computer vision, machine learning, medical imaging, LiDAR, non-line-of-sight imaging, and 3D imaging modalities (e.g., tomography); publish, present, and disseminate research to the computer vision communities; collaborate with professors from other institutions in their research; work with private, industry, and/or government research sponsors to apply for research grants; help identify projects; mentor graduate students; and supplement a team of...

Information on MIT’s COVID-19 vaccination requirement can be found at the bottom of this posting. POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE ,  Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC) , to conduct research in the area of impurity transport at the DIII-D tokamak. Will perform research on DIII-D in the areas of impurity transport, plasma turbulence, and core/edge transport modeling as part of the ongoing collaboration between MIT and General Atomics; operate the laser blow-off (LBO) system at DIII-D to perform cutting-edge research and lead experiments on DIII-D to achieve research goals; make original research contributions to the PSFC program; produce peer-reviewed publications; and present research findings at national and international conferences.  Job Requirements REQUIRED :  a Ph.D. in plasma physics or related area, proficiency with programming for scientific analysis, experience in tokamak research, and ability to effectively communicate and...

Information on MIT’s COVID-19 vaccination requirement can be found at the bottom of this posting. POSTDOCTORAL SCHOLAR ,  Earth Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences , to join the Bottom Boundary Layer Turbulence (BLT) project, a multi-institutional team of theoretical, numerical, and observational oceanographers spanning MIT, Whole Hole Oceanographic Institution, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and National Oceanographic Center in Southampton UK.  The MIT group argued that the waters that sink into the abyss at high latitudes rise back toward the surface along thin boundary layers that develop along sloping and corrugated ocean boundaries. This hypothesis is now being tested in the BLT field study. The study consists of three cruises off the coast of Ireland in the Rockall Trough and includes the deployment of turbulent profilers and moorings to sample boundary layer turbulence and the release of tracers to follow the upwelling of the bottom waters....

Information on MIT’s COVID-19 vaccination requirement can be found at the bottom of this posting. POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, DISRUPTION RESEARCH ,  Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC) , to work in the area of computational fusion plasma and stability physics research. The research will primarily focus on the SPARC tokamak, a novel and powerful instrument designed to be the world’s first net-energy fusion experiment.  Will lead the development of a root cause analysis workflow for plasma instabilities and disruption precursors, with a strong emphasis on data-driven, physics-based models and their integration. Knowledge of database development and curation is required to help assemble dedicated databases for SPARC and become a subject matter expert guiding collaborators’ work. Will collaborate with a team to optimize potential solutions for real-time deployment. Emphasis will be placed on benchmarking different data-driven predictive...

Information on MIT’s COVID-19 vaccination requirement can be found at the bottom of this posting. POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE ,  Political Science , to join a National Science Foundation-funded computational social science research project with Professor In Song Kim.  The project focuses on using computational methods to examine special interest group politics and trade politics in the U.S.  Responsibilities include analyzing lobbying and campaign donation data and developing/maintaining a large-scale money-in politics database.  The team is currently developing novel computational methods for social science research such as community detection and graphical neural network methods to infer political networks; and natural language processing (NLP) methods to investigate congressional bill writing and entity disambiguation.  The position offers an opportunity to engage in independent research projects according to the candidate's...

Information on MIT’s COVID-19 vaccination requirement can be found at the bottom of this posting. POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE ,  Aeronautics and Astronautics , to conduct independent research on wavefront control for high-contrast imaging.  Responsibilities will include advancing the state of the art in exoplanet direct imaging by developing and testing new techniques for wavefront sensing and control for future NASA flagship missions; performing simulations and statistical analyses of these new methodologies; publishing research results in leading journals and conferences in the fields of astronomical science and instrumentation; helping to supervise graduate students at the S.M. and Ph.D. levels; regularly engaging with project sponsors from government and industry; taking on roles of project leadership, program development, and management; and performing duties as needed.   Job Requirements REQUIRED :  expertise with...

Information on MIT’s COVID-19 vaccination requirement can be found at the bottom of this posting. POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, CLIMATE-SYSTEM MODELING WITHIN INTEGRATED HUMAN-EARTH SYSTEM MODEL FRAMEWORK ,  Center for Global Change Science , to work in the area of climate and Earth-system modeling within the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change.  Will join a multidisciplinary team of researchers studying environmental impacts as well as physical and transition risks of global-to-regional mitigation and adaptation policies. The primary responsibility will include the operation, development, and analyses with the MIT Earth System Model (MESM) as well as its linkages and coupling to models of socio-economic systems, managed resources (i.e., water-energy-land), and air pollution within the MIT’s Integrated Global Systems Model (IGSM) framework.   Job Requirements REQUIRED :  a Ph. D. in...

Information on MIT’s COVID-19 vaccination requirement can be found at the bottom of this posting. POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE ,  Center for Global Change Science , to join an international team of experimentalists and theoreticians in the Advanced Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment (AGAGE) and a large atmospheric chemistry group at MIT.  The work will focus on interpretation of AGAGE observations of greenhouse and ozone-depleting gases using models, measurements, and inverse methods. Additional information about MIT Atmospheric Chemistry and Professor Prinn is available at http://atmoschem.mit.edu and http://mit.edu/rprinn.   Job Requirements REQUIRED : a Ph.D. in some area of atmospheric physics and chemistry; experience in three-dimensional atmospheric chemical transport modeling.  PREFERRED :  experience using the noted models together with observations to optimally estimate trace gas sources...

Information on MIT’s COVID-19 vaccination requirement can be found at the bottom of this posting. POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE ,  Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC) , to work in the area of experimental fusion plasma and stability physics research. The research will primarily focus on the DIII-D tokamak, a cornerstone element in the U.S. fusion program strategy and in view of advanced ITER operations.  Emphasis will be placed on the analysis of model and data uncertainties for real-time applications, with a preference for the development of probabilistic frameworks for time-to-event predictions.  Will continue the development of real-time models for DIII-D disruption prediction to be employed as alarms to off-normal events or as proximity-to-instability monitoring; lead the integration of such algorithms with the Disruption Free Protocol at DIII-D to qualify relevant solutions for ITER scenarios; contribute original research to the PSFC program,...

Information on MIT’s COVID-19 vaccination requirement can be found at the bottom of this posting. POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE ,  Mechanical Engineering (MechE) , to join the research group of Professor Domitilla Del Vecchio.  Professor Del Vecchio’s group is developing a number of bacterial genetic controllers for a variety of applications, including bacterial co-culture stabilization, growth rate regulation, and neutralization of competition in CRISPRi/a systems.  Seek a self-motivated experimentalist with a predominantly theoretical background who can effectively communicate and collaborate with students in order to: design and build the genetic controllers in bacterial cells, design appropriate positive and negative controls to assess performance, analyze data using proper statistics, and interpret the results.  Will co-author a number of manuscripts stemming from the collaborations with a few Ph.D. students, assist with grant...

Information on MIT’s COVID-19 vaccination requirement can be found at the bottom of this posting. POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE ,  McGovern Institute for Brain Research and Brain and Cognitive Sciences-Gabrieli Lab , to be responsible for conducting neuroimaging research in cognitive neuroscience and computational psychiatry. Responsibilities include the design, implementation, and analysis of a multi-modal MRI project aimed at understanding brain predictors of response to treatment for social anxiety disorder; publishing research results in leading journals and conferences in the fields of psychology, neuroscience, and psychiatry; collaborating with graduate students working on related research projects; assisting with leading group projects; and assisting lab leadership with sponsor communications.   Job Requirements REQUIRED : a Ph.D. in psychology, neuroscience or related field; background and experience in functional magnetic...

Information on MIT’s COVID-19 vaccination requirement can be found at the bottom of this posting. MIT POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, BRAIN STIMULATION AND RECORDING IN-VIVO IN MICE ,  Media Lab  (multiple openings), to develop extremely miniaturized micro-nano-devices that probe and modulate our biological system especially the brain  Will configure and implement these devices for brain stimulation and recording, characterize and validate the devices in cultured neurons, inject or implant the devices in mouse brain or peripheral nervous system (PNS), characterize and validate the devices in-vivo in mice, and perform brain stimulation and/or recording. Additional information is available at https://web.mit.edu/deblina-sarkar/brainstimulationandrecording.html. A full job description is available at https://www.media.mit.edu/about/job-opportunities/.   Job Requirements REQUIRED :  Ph.D. in bioengineering, neuroscience,...

Information on MIT’s COVID-19 vaccination requirement can be found at the bottom of this posting. POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, BIOMECHATRONICS ,  Media Lab , to conduct research into the mechatronic design of computer-controlled leg prostheses, including ankle-foot and knee prostheses. Will conduct research on the design, development, and evaluation of novel prosthetic leg technologies, including mechanical, electrical, control, and industrial design aspects; design and implement research projects, gathering and analyzing data, designing research protocols, documenting research results, and publishing research outcomes; assist with the preparation of patent documents, reports to sponsors, and grant proposals; attend Biomechatronics Group research meetings and invite relevant speakers to present to the group; support/mentor Ph.D. and master’s graduate students; and engage in discussions and be available for questions.  A full job description...