Colorado: Open Research Assistant/Associate Positions

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Open Research Assistant/Associate Positions
(Updated on September 15, 2006)

   The Nanoscale and Ultrafast Thermal Sciences and Applications lab (NUTS) in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder, directed by Professor Ronggui Yang, is looking forward to recruit one highly motivated post-doc associate ASAP with strong research experiences and interests in one of the following areas or their combo:

            1). Pump-and-Probe measurement system.

            2). Atomic modeling of materials and devices, especially molecular dynamics and/or Monte Carlo simulations.

            3). Transport phenomena in organic materials and hard-soft interfacial materials.

         Highly motivated candidates with strong backgrounds are invited to send a copy of CV, a 2-page of research statement summarizing the candidate’s past research and his/her vision of the collaborative research in NUTS, representative work (paper or report), and the contact information of three references to Ronggui Yang (Ronggui.Yang@Colorado.Edu)

            This lab will recruit 2-3 Ph.D students annually. High-motivated students with solid scientific strength in one of the following areas or their combinations should apply through the graduate admission office: Mechanical Engineering (Thermal/Fluids), Applied Physics, Physical Chemistry, Material Science and Engineering, MEMS/NEMS and Nanoelectronic Devices, Optics, Polymer Science and Bio-Engineering. The priority will be given to the students who have strong experiences and interests in the above identified areas, preferably with a master’s degree. General inquiries for a Ph.D position will not be answered.   



            Sitting in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, NUTS is an interdisciplinary center that merges mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, material science, chemistry, and physics, to understand fundamentals of energy transport and conversion in micro/nano and ultrafast scales, and to develop novel applications of nanoscale and ultrafast thermal sciences to advance information, energy conversion, micro/nanofabrication, and biomedical technologies. NUTS is affiliated with the NSF Extreme Ultraviolet Engineering Research Center (NSF EUV ERC), the DARPA Focus Center for Micro/Nano Integrated Transducers (DARPA MINT Center), the Colorado Nanotechnology Initiative, and the Colorado Energy Initiative. The research and the training of students in NUTS emphasize theoretical understanding, experimental characterization and implementation, and applications. Research team members have great opportunities working together with world-leading physicists, chemists, and frontiers in nanosciences and nanotechnologies.   



            The ongoing research projects are currently supported by DoD-AFOSR, DARPA, NSF, and the University of Colorado.



Short Bio of Ronggui Yang:



            Ronggui Yang is an assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering directing the Nanoscale and Ultrafast Thermal Sciences and Applications Lab (NUTS) at the University of Colorado at Boulder from January 2006. Ronggui Yang received his Ph.D degree focusing on Nanoscale Heat Transfer in Mechanical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in December 2005. Prior to MIT, he had a master’s degree in MEMS from UCLA in 2001, a master’s degree in Engineering Thermophysics from Tsinghua University in Beijing in 1999, and a Bachelor’s degree in Thermal Engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong University in 1996. His research interests are on nanoscale and ultrafast thermal sciences, and their applications in energy and information technologies and biomedical engineering. He is the winner of the Best Paper Award in Research category of ASME InterPACK 2005 (MIT News), the winner of the 2005 Goldsmid Award for Research Excellence in Thermoelectrics from the International Thermoelectric Society (ITS News), and a recipient of the NASA Tech Brief Award for a Technical Innovation in 2004. He is an active member of ASME, IEEE, MRS, APS, and Sigma Xi. He regularly serves as a referee for a dozen of prestigious academic journals including Physical Review Letters, Physical Review B, Nano Letters, Applied Physics Letters, Nanotechnology, ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, AIAA Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, and IEEE Transactions, a track or symposium co-organizer for a few nanotechnology conferences, and a referee of many technical conference manuscripts.  He has been invited to serve as a review panelist for NSF Nanoscale Interdisciplinary Research Teams (NIRT) proposals, a reviewer for NSF proposals and American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund proposals, a co-Guest Editor for a special issue on “Nanoscale Heat Transfer” in the Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience, and a book proposal reviewer for John Wiley & Sons. He currently holds three pending patents and has published a number of journal and conference papers on nanoscale energy transport and energy conversion.

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