Are you a PhD holder interested in Postdoctoral Fellowships? University of Maryland, Maryland is offering Postdoctoral Fellowships in various research fields. Apply today to pursue your research interests in a stimulating academic environment!
1. Postdoctoral Position
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
The Postdoctoral Associate will work at the University of Maryland (College Park) in the Shahoveisi’s lab and will work on applied and basic research projects related to turfgrass disease identification and management. The postdoctoral associate will be expected to be an independent and collaborative team member in research and extension activities. Candidates should have background and expertise in one or both of the following fields:
Plant and Pathogen Genetics:
Skills including conducting PCR and qPCR tests, bioinformatic tools for variant calling, genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and bi-parental mapping analysis.
Machine Learning and Statistical Analysis:
Proficient in conducting and troubleshooting machine learning analysis using large image or numerical datasets for disease identification and prediction via software such as Python and R. Also, background in field design and statistical data analysis in the context of agriculture and applied plant pathology.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
2. Postdoctoral Position
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
Our NASA CMS projects are focused on combining GEDI and interferometric SAR (InSAR) data to map high-resolution biomass and its changes, in collaboration with partner institutions including the German Aerospace Center (DLR), alongside activities utilizing these data to drive ecosystem and diversity models. Our mature and old-growth forest work is in partnership with the U.S. Forest Service, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), and Harvard Forest. This research is developing methodologies for the assessment and monitoring of mature and old-growth forests using a comprehensive range of EO data, modeling, and in situ national forest inventory data. These projects have significant engagement with stakeholders at the local, national, and international levels.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
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3. Postdoctoral Position
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
A Post-Doctoral Associate position is available in the Liu lab at the Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research (IBBR) of the University of Maryland College Park in Rockville, MD. The research project focuses on the molecular understanding of chaperone-mediated protein folding and translocation using cryo-EM, biochemistry, and computational modeling. The postdoc will carry out daily research tasks in the lab, including maintaining cell culture, protein expression, and purification, running biochemical/biophysical assays, protein structure determination with cryoEM, training undergraduate and graduate students, and writing research proposals and publications.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
4. Postdoctoral Position
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
The Maryland Robotics Center (MRC) in the Institute for Systems Research at the University of Maryland, College Park, is seeking candidates for the 2024-2025 MRC Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. Candidate research interests should fit into one or more of the following research areas:
● Multi-Robot Systems: robotic swarms, robotic cooperation under limited communication, distributed robotics, long-distance collaborative autonomy;
● Autonomous Unmanned Systems: aerial robotics, robot motion planning, digital twin development, robot navigation of complex terrain, and simulation-based verification for autonomous systems; field robotics;
● Cognitive Robotics: explainable artificial intelligence, perception-based interaction, and meta-reasoning to improve team performance;
●Human-Robot Interaction: Human-robot collaboration, human behavior modeling, human-robot communication, learning and cognition, planning and re-planning, management of trust and its effects on collaboration, and forensics for human-machine teaming.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
5. Postdoctoral Position
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
A Postdoctoral Associate position is available in the Tiwari Lab at the University of Maryland, College Park to work on wheat breeding and genetics. The position will focus on developing improved cultivars of wheat by deploying novel genes and alleles by combining genomics and high-throughput phenotyping tools. The incumbent will get opportunities to work in a collaborative environment with molecular biologists, data scientists, and plant pathologists in the department and beyond. Applicants must have a Ph.D. in, plant breeding, genetics, genomics, molecular biology, or a closely related field at the time of hiring. The applicants who have a strong background in wheat breeding and genetics and skills in plant molecular biology, and genomics analyses are highly desired.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
6. Postdoctoral Position
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
Post-doctoral researchers will collaborate with faculty members affiliated with the center to work on research projects with Finance Area Professors Vojislav Maksimovic and Liu Yang and DOIT Professor Kislaya Prasad. The focus of the research will be financing and business dynamism in the U.S., analyzing both small and entrepreneurial businesses and large incumbent firms. The postdoc will also help faculty produce white papers related to U.S. business dynamism issued by the Center for Global Business. The principal duties include collecting data, maintaining databases, conducting statistical analysis, and providing other research support.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
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7. Postdoctoral Position
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
The Center for Mathematics Education (CfME), housed in TLPL, is a nationally prominent center for research and teaching addressing the improvement of mathematics education in K-16 and informal settings. The Center’s tenure- and professional-track faculty promote innovation in teacher preparation programs and focused outreach efforts to local school districts. CfME faculty are committed to furthering increased access and opportunities for historically marginalized populations in mathematics education. CfME currently leads professional partnerships with local school districts including the Middle School Mathematics Outreach and CITE programs with Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) and Terrapin Teachers with both MCPS and Prince George’s County Public Schools (PGCPS).
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
8. Postdoctoral Position
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
The Postdoctoral Research Associate will work in the Bioenergy and Biotechnology Laboratory, led by Dr. Stephanie Lansing (https://agnr.umd.edu/about/directory/stephanie-lansing) at the University of Maryland in the Department of Environmental Science & Technology researching fermentation and microbial fuel cell (MFCs) technology from in oceanic environments. The marine MFC system will be fed with marine organic matter (OM) that is collected, concentrated, and fermented in a separate chamber, with the resulting metabolites, i.e., volatile fatty acids (VFAs), passing directly from the fermentation chamber to the MFC to provide energy to the exoelectrogenic microbes.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
9. Postdoctoral Position
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
The Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering is seeking a Postdoctoral Associate who will take a leading technical role in an exciting project funded by DOE Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy to develop carbon molecular sieve (CMS) hollow fiber membranes for alkane dehydrogenation membrane reactors. The position will be in Professor Chen Zhang’s research group in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Maryland.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
10. Postdoctoral Position
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
This postdoctoral fellow position is in the Nanoscale Assembly and Electron Microscopy group in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. The fellow will report to Prof. Taylor Woehl, the PI of this group. This position will be the primary experimentalist on a project aiming to image chemical and microstructural transformations during the pyrolysis of pre-ceramic polymers. The goal of this project is to elucidate the polymer-to-ceramic transformation mechanisms for several model polymer-derived ceramic systems and to establish how these mechanisms impact the final ceramic structure, bonding, and properties. The postdoctoral fellow will plan and lead in situ gas cell electron microscopy experiments using an aberration-corrected STEM.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
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11. Postdoctoral Position
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
The Maryland Language Science Center (MLSC) seeks to recruit an outstanding postdoctoral researcher for our inaugural Fellowship for Postdoctoral Scholars. The goal of the fellowship is to support early-career researchers as they establish their own research program, and develop new, innovative, interdisciplinary connections within our community. Fellows are expected to pursue collaborative relationships with faculty in multiple departments and disciplines at the University of Maryland. These collaborations may take different forms: engaging in research projects with multiple faculty independently, generating new collaborative research that brings multiple faculty together, and/or contributing to interdisciplinary discussion and reading groups.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
