Postdoctoral Associate, Materials Design and Innovation

The Department of Materials Design and Innovation at the University at Buffalo invites applications for a full-time Postdoctoral Associate in the Peng Research Group
. The successful candidate will conduct research at the intersection of scientific AI, atomistic simulation, computational catalysis, and data-driven materials discovery.

• The position will primarily support a U.S. Department of Energy Genesis Mission project developing closed-loop and agentic AI workflows for chemical-manufacturing research.
• The associate will also contribute to an American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund project focused on the data-driven discovery of intermetallic alloy catalysts with unusual electronic structures.
• The research will combine first-principles atomistic simulations, scientific machine learning, reaction modeling, and integration of computational and experimental data.
• The associate will develop reproducible computational workflows, collaborate with researchers across multiple institutions and disciplines, and communicate research findings through publications, presentations, technical reports, software, and research datasets.

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As an Equal Opportunity / Aff