Postdoctoral Fellow

About Us

Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high‑quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding and diverse community of learning, discovery, and creation. We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values, as outlined in our Strategic Plan. These values include academic excellence, diversity of thought and experience, inquiry and innovation, collaboration and community, and ethical behavior and stewardship.

Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work‑life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.

Georgia Tech is a top‑ranked public research university situated in the heart of Atlanta, a diverse and vibrant city with numerous economic and cultural strengths. The Institute serves more than 45,000 students through top‑ranked undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs in engineering, computing, science, business, design, and liberal arts. Georgia Tech’s faculty attracted more than $1.4 billion in research awards this past year in fields ranging from biomedical technology to artificial intelligence, energy, sustainability, semiconductors, neuroscience, and national security.

Georgia Tech ranks among the nation’s top 20 universities for research and development spending and No. 1 among institutions without a medical school.

Georgia Tech’s Mission is to develop leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. The Institute has nine key values that are foundational to everything we do.

• Students are our top priority.
• We strive for excellence.
• We thrive on diversity.
• We celebrate collaboration.
• We champion innovation.
• We safeguard freedom of inquiry and expression.
• We nurture the wellbeing of our community.
• We act ethically.
• We are responsible stewards.

Over the next decade, Georgia Tech will become an example of inclusive innovation, a leading technological research university of unmatched scale, relentlessly committed to serving the public good; breaking new ground in addressing the biggest local, national, and global challenges and opportunities of our time; making technology broadly accessible; and developing exceptional, principled leaders from all backgrounds ready to produce novel ideas and create solutions with real human impact.

The Woodruff School graduates high‑caliber mechanical engineers for a demanding profession. Mechanical engineers are the foundation of today’s technological world. To do so, we provide enhanced facilities and laboratories to create the best learning environment and we attract outstanding faculty and students. In this period of rapid technological change, the Woodruff School produces mechanical engineers who are vital to our future.

We also host a vibrant nuclear and radiological engineering program, offering both undergraduate and graduate degrees.

With approximately 3,000 students, 100 faculty members, and 70 staff members, we are one of the largest mechanical engineering programs in the country. We are consistently ranked as one of the top 5 mechanical engineering programs in the U.S. at both the graduate and undergraduate levels and continuously innovate to keep our school at the forefront of engineering education. Our size and resources allow us to offer a diversity of educational and research opportunities that enable us to produce highly sought‑after engineering professionals.

This position is located at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia.

This position is located in the lab of Dr. Susan Thomas. The candidate will lead extensive in‑vivo drug delivery characterization and therapeutic testing as well as engage in multiple collaborative interactions among an interdisciplinary team of researchers.

• Lead in‑vivo validation studies for large‑scale multi‑site translational projects.
• Perform extensive biodistribution studies and imaging.
• Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team (engineering, chemistry, drug delivery).
• Perform and lead grant and project…