Idaho National Laboratory and our Mineral and Molecular Separations and Analysis Department is hiring creative and innovative early-career science investigators to engage with a nationally recognized team of research scientists pursuing development of critical materials separations technologies. Our team works a 9x80 schedule located out of our Idaho Falls facility with every other Friday off. You will join a competitive, multi-disciplinary team that is currently funded to pursue critical materials Research & Development through INL, Department of Energy and Department of Defense programs with R&D efforts ranging from fundamental to applied separations science and engineering. Project Areas Include: - Study of advanced electrochemical separations processes. - Study of redox reactions of advanced metal leaching and dissolution from environmental media and eWaste. - Metallization mechanisms and reactions in non-aqueous electrolytes. - Electrophoretics for separations, Magnetoelectrophoretics, pyroelectrometallurgy, hydrometallurgy, chromatography, solvometallurgy, membrane solvent extraction, ion exchange, advanced beneficiation methodologies, development of novel solvent extraction contactors, next generation metal extraction ligands, Development of advanced porous sorbent materials, Crystallization, Hybrid techniques... and MORE! Successful candidates will be mentored and trained how to ideate and mature ideas to a competitive level within a National Laboratory system, how to identify and capture funding, how to craft winning research proposals, research execution strategies, and how to publish for maximum audience impact. Jump-start your research career with a research team that is advancing separations sciences across the entire list of critical materials and publishing research results in high-impact factor journals. Candidates applying for this postdoctoral research position may have skills in any of the above-mentioned discipline areas. Experience in multiple areas such as electrochemistry and chromatography by way of example is highly desirable. Ability to think outside the box and not be bound by conventional paradigms is preferable. The candidate is expected to be a strong asset to our interdisciplinary R&D team and to work effectively either alone or as a team member. The candidate must be self-motivated but also take direction from other team members and peers. The position involves pursuing funding opportunities, research execution, and publishing/presenting results at national and international conferences and meetings or in peer-reviewed journals.
